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Spend Matters Releases Fall 2025 SolutionMap Rankings Featuring 115 Procurement Technology Providers

Data-driven assessment adds nine new vendors across 16 source-to-pay categories

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT), a leading Gen AI consultancy and executive advisory firm, today announced the release of Spend MattersFall 2025 SolutionMap and TechMatchSM procurement technology rankings, spotlighting 115 procurement technology vendors.

"Through its rigorous methodology, SolutionMap offers unmatched clarity and transparency in a crowded procurement technology market. The addition of new vendors this cycle highlights just how dynamic and competitive the landscape has become."

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Recognized as the industry’s most rigorous capability assessment of procurement technologies, SolutionMap evaluates vendors against 500+ detailed functional and capability assessments across 16 source-to-pay (S2P) categories, mandatory demos, and impartial, anonymized customer ratings.

SolutionMap evaluates both new and established vendors, combining rigorous requests for information – technical assessments with verified customer ratings. Updated every six months, this methodology ensures transparent, evidence-based comparisons that help organizations identify the right technology partners with confidence.

This cycle introduces nine new vendors in the following capability categories:

  • AP Automation/Invoice-to-Pay: Procurify, Unimarket
  • e-Procurement: Procurify, Unimarket
  • Procure-to-Pay: Procurify, Unimarket
  • Contract Management: Docusign, Unimarket
  • Sourcing: LightSource, ProcureForce, Unimarket, Zumen
  • Direct Sourcing: LightSource, Zumen
  • Spend Analytics: Unimarket
  • Supplier Management: Unimarket
  • Source-to-Contract: Unimarket
  • Source-to-Pay: Unimarket
  • Expense Management: Procurify
  • Intake and Orchestration: ConvergentIS, Omnea, Spendflo

In addition, four existing vendors expanded into new capability categories:

  • AP Automation/Invoice-to-Pay: Pivot, Raindrop
  • e-Procurement: Raindrop
  • Procure-to-Pay: Raindrop
  • Intake and Orchestration: Coupa, Ivalua, Raindrop

“SolutionMap sets itself apart by blending rigorous functionality assessments with real-world customer feedback,” said Carina Kuhl, principal and Market Intelligence program leader at The Hackett Group®. “Through its rigorous methodology, SolutionMap offers unmatched clarity and transparency in a crowded procurement technology market. The addition of new vendors this cycle highlights just how dynamic and competitive the procurement technology landscape has become.”

Launched in 2017 and published twice annually, SolutionMap has become the gold standard for procurement technology evaluation. Thousands of procurement leaders, consultants and investors rely on Spend Matters™ Insider and TechMatchSM for deeper data insights and sharper vendor intelligence to drive procurement technology selection decisions.

The Spend Matters™ website and Insider technology comparison tool allow solution providers, practitioners, consultants, and investors to directly compare vendor features, functions and customer scores on a case-by-case basis, allowing for the most informed technology decision-making.

Acquired by The Hackett Group® in 2025, Spend Matters™ started as one of the first blog and social media sites in the procurement and supply chain sector and has since grown into one of the leading sources for data-backed technology and solutions intelligence. Serving private and public sector organizations, consultants, private equity, and services and solution providers, the company drives strategic technology purchasing decisions and superior marketing and sales, product, and investment outcomes for clients. Spend Matters™ is the only tech-enabled, proprietary data platform with exclusive intellectual property that serves the global procurement, finance and supply chain technology ecosystem.

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About The Hackett Group®

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