A field guide to the
procurement technology
market, mapped with care.
The independent, expert map of procurement technology. Every vendor assessed against one consistent framework — built by people who've run, advised and scaled this market — so you can see past the marketing and decide with confidence.
The procurement tech landscape, mapped.
Not what vendors sell. What a procurement system relies on them for.
The traditional way of categorising procurement technology no longer works. Historically, the market was organised by capability (sourcing, contracting, etc.). But in a world of AI and converging platforms, those boundaries have blurred. Most vendors now span multiple capabilities, making category-based models increasingly unclear and ineffective. This model instead classifies vendors by their primary role within the procurement platform, not the total set of features they offer.
Outside-in signals — supplier risk, ESG, market and price intelligence.
risk blind
Where transactions happen — sourcing events, contracts, P2P.
work stops
Intake, orchestration and policy that route work end-to-end.
requests go nowhere
Analytics, AI copilots and agents that turn data into decisions.
flying blind
The clean, classified, connected data layer everything else relies on.
nothing has clean data
Three ways to use the Market Map.
Search and filter 950+ vendors by market map layer, capability, geography and industry vertical. Find vendors you didn't know existed.
Compare vendors across 96 digital capabilities and four evaluation dimensions — enterprise readiness, market signals, analyst recognition and technology signals.
Use the AI Procurement Advisor to describe your situation and get capability-matched vendor recommendations with reasoning — grounded in our data, not general knowledge.
Your analyst team, on demand.
The work of an analyst, at the speed of a search — grounded in our proprietary framework and data, never the vendor's marketing. And when an executive summary isn't enough, go deeper: full analyst mode, with the depth of a briefing note you'd normally wait weeks for.
Every vendor, briefed as if your own team wrote it with an analyst at their side. What they do, who they serve, where they're strong and where they're not — drawn entirely from our proprietary framework and data. An executive summary in seconds.
Pick the vendors you're weighing up and get a written verdict. Not a feature checklist — an experienced operator's read on where they genuinely differ and which fits your situation.
Ask the questions you'd put to a top-tier consultant. An adviser drawing on a framework built by people who've run global procurement at BT and Maersk and led consulting at Proxima, answering in plain English.
Find vendors by describing what you need in plain English — not by filtering categories. Describe the problem, and let the search surface the vendors that fit.
Two questions every procurement leader is actually asking.
You've got three vendors that all claim to do the same thing. Compare them side by side — not just on capabilities, but on enterprise-readiness, technical maturity and market signals. See past the pitch decks to which one you can actually deploy, and which is right for you.
Overlay the vendors you already own on the capability radar. See exactly where the gaps are — the capabilities nobody you own actually covers — then find the vendors that fill them precisely. Stop buying overlap; start buying what's missing.
Built by practitioners, for practitioners.
Every vendor in procurement technology says they're the best. We're the ones who actually checked — through one consistent framework, built by people who've operated on every side of this market. No vendor writes their own scorecard. We have no commercial relationships with any vendor listed; every classification, every score, every recommendation is based on evidence, not relationships.
Digital procurement leader, BT & Maersk · 15+ years
Co-founder of Proxima (acquired by Bain & Company) · 25+ years
CEO of Oxygen Finance · procurement fintech
CEO/CRO at Simfoni, SpendHQ & Determine (NASDAQ)