FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Data Corporation (IDC) today published an IDC Innovators report profiling three companies that are leveraging cloud and other technologies to address sourcing business processes within the procurement market. The three companies named IDC Innovators are Bonfire Interactive Ltd., Keelvar, and LevaData.
Automation of the procurement process from sourcing to purchase to contracts to supply base management is well established within the procurement function. In the digital age, technology is quickly evolving, changing the way these procurement workflows are utilized in the enterprise. The introduction of cloud, big data and analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and cognitive software into the workstreams has enabled technology to optimize and select the appropriate decision across multiple internal and external data sets, ultimately contributing to better business outcomes. Today the pace of change is as fast as it has ever been, but these technologies are providing procurement professionals with the real-time visibility, productivity gains, and scalability to keep pace.
"The digital economy is changing business resource allocation and business processes significantly. Organizations are turning to innovative technology to bring more autonomy into the sourcing workflow, enabling the procurement professional to improve their business outcomes. Sourcing vendors that want to keep pace must continue to bring artificial intelligence, cognitive, machine learning, deep learning, big data and analytics into their near-term product innovation roadmap," said Mickey North Rizza, program vice president, Enterprise Applications & Digital Commerce at IDC.
Bonfire Interactive Ltd. uses cloud technology to digitize the sourcing process with deep automation workflows, rich data, and simplified team collaboration that brings the necessary data and stakeholders together into one seamless sourcing platform.
Keelvar automates the sourcing process and helps procurement organizations adhere to policy and company objectives by using AI and mechanism design in game theory and machine learning on a cloud platform.
LevaData is a cognitive sourcing platform that utilizes crowd-sourced intelligence, AI, and a SaaS platform purpose built for procurement and sourcing to provide recommendations on when to act and how to optimize negotiations for the maximum savings.
The report, IDC Innovators: Sourcing Technology, 2019 (IDC #US44862219), profiles three vendors in the developing technology procurement area of intelligent sourcing programs.
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