The IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Talent Intelligence evaluates vendors using the IDC MarketScape model, which incorporates quantitative and qualitative factors to assess vendors’ current capabilities and future road maps for delivering value to customers seeking talent intelligence. According to the report, 麻豆原创 was recognized for strengths in 鈥渦nified and integrated skills framework, embedded AI and analytics, and an open data ecosystem.鈥�

Chasing innovation: powering the skills-based enterprise

At 麻豆原创, we have made consistent and strategic investments in skills, talent intelligence, and AI-driven workforce planning.

The talent intelligence hub is a unified skills framework embedded across the entire . It empowers HR with an AI-driven, consistent skills foundation to help optimize talent processes, enrich personalized employee learning experiences, and accelerate skills development鈥攅nabling organizations to build an agile, future-ready workforce.

Building on this foundation, skills and intelligence capabilities can be leveraged across multiple product areas. helps transform career growth, internal mobility, and success into a single, AI-powered, skills-based solution, helping to give leaders clear visibility into workforce capabilities while guiding employees to personalized opportunities, so you can build, retain, and deploy the talent your strategy needs to win. (generally available in 1H 2026) can enable optimized shift planning in manufacturing and production by helping to ensure the right people with the right skills are in the right place at the right time to help prevent the costly impacts of understaffing or overstaffing.  And the can bring together people, skills, and business data, from 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions and beyond, into actionable insights that help leaders make more informed people and business decisions.

We are also accelerating innovation with new Joule Agents to help automate repetitive tasks, guide employees with real-time, context-aware support, and enable accuracy across core HR processes, so that HR can focus on strategic people initiatives. The , now generally available, and the upcoming Career and Talent Development and People Intelligence Agents (both planned for 1H 2026) will deliver AI capabilities to help manage performance reviews, compensation planning, skills distribution, retention, personalized development, and succession. And with 麻豆原创鈥檚 acquisition of SmartRecruiters, we are strengthening our talent acquisition capabilities to deliver an even more unified, intelligence-driven hiring experience.

These innovations help organizations close skills gaps and empower employees with meaningful, data-driven growth opportunities, helping them thrive in an ever-changing workplace.

Customer insights: real outcomes from skills transformation

Our customers say it best when it comes to the impact of our skills-based innovations.

• , a global business and technology partner, is building a skills engine to support the employee lifecycle. 鈥淪kills are at the core of our company, as they support both clients and employees. Our promise to 鈥榞et the future you want鈥� means thinking about future client needs and employee skills and career development. 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors HCM is key in our skills-first approach to our people experience transformation,鈥� Jihane Baciocchini, vice president and head of Talent Acquisition, Capgemini, said.
• , one of the world鈥檚 leading pump and water solutions companies, is utilizing the talent intelligence hub functionality of 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions to create a single source of skills information, enabling it to connect people and business needs in new ways. 鈥淭here鈥檚 a consensus that what got us here won鈥檛 get us there: we need new skills and capabilities. And that鈥檚 where the talent intelligence hub in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions comes in. It鈥檚 helping us build one skills foundation that feeds into critical decisions on talent鈥攁nd transform skills into something we live and breathe every day,鈥� Mads Kidmose, head of HR Technology and Data Foundation, Grundfos Holding A/S, said.

What鈥檚 next

This is a critical moment for HR leaders, as talent intelligence platforms are transforming how organizations hire, develop, and retain their workforce. Looking ahead to 2026, our focus remains on expanding skills-based capabilities and delivering AI solutions that can empower every organization to grow with confidence and thrive.

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Lara Albert is chief marketing officer for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors.

That鈥檚 why I鈥檓 super proud to share that 麻豆原创 has been named a Leader in .* This marks the second time 麻豆原创 has received this recognition, following our position as a Leader in the 2023 IDC MarketScape.**

We believe this distinction reflects the strength of 鈥攐ur entry in the MESCCN space鈥攁nd the trust placed in the solution by companies around the world. It鈥檚 a milestone that underscores our commitment to helping businesses navigate complexity and build more connected, intelligent supply chains.

A legacy of collaboration

麻豆原创 Business Network is the world鈥檚 largest B2B trading partner platform, supporting more than US$6.5 trillion in annual transactions. It can modernize how procurement and supply chain processes connect across companies, helping build stronger, more resilient supply chains and deliver on the customer promise.

The network traces its roots back to the Ariba Supplier Network, founded in 1996. Over the years, it has evolved to support a broad range of supply chain processes. In 2021, we unified our capabilities under the 麻豆原创 Business Network brand, bringing together logistics, asset management, finance, sustainability, and talent-based networks into a single, comprehensive platform.

Today, millions of companies across 190 countries rely on 麻豆原创 Business Network to digitalize transactions, share information, and discover trading partners. By leveraging AI and configurable business rules, the network helps close break points between buyers and suppliers鈥攅nabling greater visibility, operational efficiency, and compliance across the supply chain.

What the IDC MarketScape recognized

According to the IDC MarketScape, 麻豆原创 Business Network鈥檚 positioning as a Leader is supported by several competitive strengths:

• Comprehensive product features and road map: 麻豆原创 Business Network offers an extensive range of features and functionality, covering all major B2B collaboration categories, including indirect and direct materials, MRO, logistics, finance, services, and sustainability. The network’s robust future road map enables continuous innovation, empowering businesses to stay ahead in a dynamic landscape.
• Seamless integration and extensibility: The network demonstrates capabilities in integration, connecting 麻豆原创 ERP, procurement, and supply chain modules while extending to other ERPs, customer applications, and cutting-edge technologies such as machine learning, AI, and blockchain.
• Global reach and real-time collaboration: 麻豆原创 Business Network enables trading partners to collaborate in real time across the globe across a wide breadth of business processes.
• Automation through configurable business rules: 麻豆原创 Business Network empowers businesses to automate essential processes by working to define and customize rules tailored to their specific needs. These configurable rules can streamline workflows, enforce compliance, and boost operational efficiency, reducing manual intervention.
• Robust foundation and ecosystem: 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP), combined with the broader 麻豆原创 ecosystem, can provide a scalable and extensible secure foundation for seamless integration across procurement, supply chain, and finance processes.

We believe these strengths, as recognized by the IDC MarketScape, reinforce the value 麻豆原创 delivers to organizations seeking to extend their business processes across the entire value chain.

Continuing to innovate on 麻豆原创 Business Network

We believe this recognition by the IDC MarketScape reflects not only the strength of 麻豆原创 today but also our commitment to ongoing innovation. We鈥檙e continuously enhancing the network to help companies collaborate more effectively, respond faster to change, and unlock new sources of value across their supply chains.

At 麻豆原创 Connect, we shared how 麻豆原创 Business Network is evolving to meet the demands of increasingly dynamic and interconnected business environments. Built on 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform, the network now offers a scalable data foundation, seamless integration with 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP capabilities and third-party systems, and enhanced workflow customization through 麻豆原创 Build solutions. This has enabled many innovative initiatives to incorporate Joule across the network, reimagining analytics, automation, and approvals with intelligent capabilities that will be continuously released starting in 2026. 

We鈥檙e also further expanding integration with 麻豆原创 Cloud ERP, 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions, 麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions, and 麻豆原创 Transportation Management to support end-to-end value streams. These enhancements can help streamline supplier onboarding, accelerate issue resolution, and improve sustainability tracking, empowering businesses to operate with greater agility and confidence.

Empowering businesses to realize the full value of collaboration

As multi-enterprise collaboration continues to evolve, we see tremendous opportunity to help organizations unlock new levels of agility, visibility, and efficiency. At 麻豆原创, we鈥檙e focused on making this journey as seamless and rewarding as possible.

Across industries, customers are already seeing the impact. , a leading aerospace manufacturer, is using 麻豆原创 Business Network Supply Chain Collaboration to improve visibility and responsiveness across its supplier ecosystem. Similarly, , one of the world鈥檚 largest aircraft manufacturers, is leveraging 麻豆原创 Business Network to streamline procurement and supply chain processes, enhancing operational agility and supplier engagement.

We鈥檙e investing in education, enablement, and intuitive user experiences to support companies as they expand their collaborative networks. Whether you鈥檙e a manufacturer, services provider, or supplier, our goal is to empower you to connect, collaborate, and grow with confidence鈥攍everaging the full potential of 麻豆原创 Business Network to help drive strategic outcomes across your value chain.

A strategic choice for the future

If you鈥檙e looking for a partner that offers both a robust multi-enterprise network and deep supply chain and procurement capabilities, 麻豆原创 is the clear choice. Our unmatched integration with core 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 applications, combined with our strategic vision and global reach, makes us uniquely positioned to support your transformation.

As I shared in my recent article, we鈥檙e entering a new era of supply chain management鈥攐ne defined by connected ecosystems, intelligent automation, and sustainable growth. 麻豆原创 Business Network is at the heart of this transformation, helping businesses turn complexity into opportunity.

To our customers, partners, and the entire 麻豆原创 community, thank you for your trust and collaboration. We believe this recognition from the IDC MarketScape is a shared achievement, and we鈥檙e excited to continue building the future of supply chain commerce together.

To learn more, visit  and read the IDC MarketScape excerpt .

Dominik Metzger is president and chief product officer for 麻豆原创 Supply Chain Management.

*Source: , November 2025, IDC #US53010225.
**Source: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network 2023 Vendor Assessment, December 2023, IDC #US49948423.

The IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier鈥檚 position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures supplier product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of supplier strategies with customer requirements in a three to five year timeframe. Supplier market share is represented by the size of the icons.

According to the IDC MarketScape, 鈥淎I-enabled tools are revolutionizing field service management, transforming reactive operations into predictive excellence.鈥�

麻豆原创 was recognized for the following strengths:

• End-to-end field service management offering as part of the full enterprise suite: 麻豆原创 Field Service Management is a fully integrated component of the 麻豆原创 Business Suite, enabling end-to-end business process execution across planning, logistics, operations, finance, and customer service. It connects seamlessly with core 麻豆原创 solutions such as 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, customer experience, asset management, and supply chain management, ensuring that service delivery is fully aligned with enterprise-wide processes. This deep integration eliminates silos, enables real-time collaboration across departments, and supports consistent, efficient service execution across the entire value chain.
• AI innovations and generative AI capabilities: 麻豆原创 Field Service Management is infused with AI and generative AI to simplify and accelerate service delivery. 麻豆原创 is able to support generative summaries of equipment history, work orders, and past service activities. 麻豆原创 has established an embedded AI copilot for field service that enables users to execute commands, automate actions, and retrieve context-aware insights using conversational language with the benefit of boosting productivity and responsiveness across the service life cycle. 麻豆原创 also has a robust auto-scheduling engine designed for complex, high-volume service operations.

Commitment to continuous innovation

Field service organizations face growing complexity, workforce shortages, and rising customer expectations that demand smarter, faster, and more connected service delivery. 麻豆原创 continues to lead the market by integrating AI-driven insights, intelligent automation, and end-to-end connectivity across its portfolio.

麻豆原创 remains focused on enabling customers to:

• Boost technician and dispatcher productivity
• Drive customer-centric and revenue enabling operations
• Reduce operational costs and accelerate complex workflows via intelligent automation and AI
• Provide a connected and extensible platform for field service

麻豆原创 is proud to be recognized by the IDC MarketScape as a Leader in AI-enabled field service management. We remain committed to helping our customers run their service operations smarter, safer, and faster 鈥� combining data, applications, and AI to deliver measurable business outcomes and exceptional customer experiences.

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In today鈥檚 fast-changing world of work, hiring the right talent has never been more critical鈥攐r complex. HR and talent acquisition leaders are under growing pressure to deliver fast results, navigate rising uncertainty, and keep up with rapidly evolving skills needs in their business.

According to the World Economic Forum鈥檚 , 63% of employers cite skills gaps in the labor market as the primary barrier to business transformation, while 86% expect AI to significantly transform their business over the next five years. The study also reports that talent availability is declining, making it harder for organizations to find the right talent with the right capabilities needed for the future. At the same time, organizations are rethinking their approaches to hiring, embracing AI and moving toward more agile, skills-based strategies to compete for talent in a dynamic and evolving job market. 

That鈥檚 why selecting the right technology partner matters now more than ever. Organizations need a solution that can help them stay ahead of change, drive smarter hiring, and fuel growth and long-term business success. 鈥淭alent acquisition priorities are changing, leading to evolving concentrations and points of entry in an increasingly diversifying vendor space in the market,鈥� says Zachary Chertok, senior research manager, Employee Experience at IDC. 鈥淚ncreased pressures to reduce the time to place qualified talent in roles that fill persistent and evolving skills gaps are leading talent acquisition buyers to rethink their approaches to hiring and the tools that support them.鈥�

麻豆原创 SuccessFactors is proud to be named a Leader in the . 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions can empower organizations of all sizes to address the ever-changing challenges of hiring in today鈥檚 complex, skills-driven world of work.

The report analyzes the expansive talent acquisition ecosystem, evaluating 22 vendors for user experience, native solution capabilities, future development pipelines, and company criteria, including size, scope, geographic reach, and future growth targets. We believe 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors鈥� position as a Leader reflects visionary product strategy, continuous innovation, comprehensive solution functionality, and demonstrated customer value and satisfaction. The IDC MarketScape states, 鈥溌槎乖� SuccessFactors Recruiting is part of the 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors HCM suite and provides AI-enabled tools, resources, and services to support recruiters and talent teams to source and align talent to their best-fit connection points within the organization.鈥� Highlighting 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors鈥� strengths, the report mentions, 鈥溌槎乖� SuccessFactors customers find that the solution provides them with deep insights drawn from across the existing and modeled workforce. 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors鈥� AI and analytical capabilities support clients to tie candidate-centric hiring practices into the evolving and modeled skilling and position needs of the organization.鈥�

Helping companies hire smarter and faster

Hiring today isn鈥檛 just about filling open roles. It鈥檚 about building strong talent pipelines, finding people with the right skills and potential, creating exceptional candidate experiences, and aligning every hire to overall HR and business goals. and offer comprehensive, AI-enabled solutions that can simplify global hiring to help organizations attract, engage, and hire top talent with the right skills needed today and in the future.

The IDC MarketScape notes, 鈥溌槎乖� SuccessFactors Recruiting helps recruiters maintain fluid and flexible organizational talent pipelines that retain and progressively match high-performing talent to where they are best fit within the evolving organization.鈥� The report continues, 鈥淥verall, recruiters and talent acquisition teams find that 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors鈥� recruiting and talent acquisition capabilities are feature rich, support dynamic and evolving compliance and sourcing needs, and support custom and AI-informed workflows and candidate progression.鈥� 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions can enable organizations to accelerate hiring with AI-enabled talent acquisition capabilities, including AI-enhanced job descriptions, AI-assisted applicant screening, AI-recommended interview questions, AI-driven skills-based job recommendations, AI-assisted onboarding and offboarding, AI-assisted writing, and AI-driven interview summarization.

Adopting the right AI-enabled talent acquisition strategy is what puts innovative businesses ahead. , a large and diversified holding company in Brunei turned to 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions to transform HR鈥檚 impact on its business, increasing productivity and efficiency to over 30 subsidiaries across 14 industries. 鈥淲ith 麻豆原创 Business AI technology embedded in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions, we鈥檝e seen significant benefits such as reducing our overall recruitment time from months to weeks. The AI features have streamlined processes for generating and updating job descriptions and creating competency-based interview questions, making our recruitment process more efficient and standardized,鈥� shares Salehin Basir, human capital development manager at Darussalam Assets. The company has seen significant benefits, such as four-times more efficient hiring processes, a 75% reduction in recruitment time, and deeper insights into important HR metrics that improve data-driven decision-making and reduce bottlenecks.

Powering a skills-based, AI-driven talent strategy

With a talent landscape defined by continuous change, the future of hiring relies on taking a skills-based approach to identifying, securing, and growing the right talent. The reports that 70% of organizations plan to hire for emerging, in-demand skills, while 51% intend to reskill or upskill existing employees to fill growing skills needs. Whether an organization is focused on developing talent from within or bringing in new capabilities to keep their business ahead, 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions can help talent teams stay agile, efficient, and aligned to business needs.

According to trusted HCM Industry Analyst Josh Bersin鈥檚 , talent acquisition leaders state a growing priority to implement skills throughout their talent functions and strategies鈥攆or both hiring and internal mobility. The factbook shares, 鈥淎I plays a key role in deploying skills in a scalable and sustainable way, particularly as in-demand and job-specific skills are constantly changing. It can help match skills to jobs, identify skill adjacencies, pinpoint where talent with specific skills is located, uncover learning opportunities, and more.鈥�

Our latest finds growing workforce confidence around the potential value of AI, with 70% of managers agreeing that using AI technology for skills-based decision-making would be somewhat or very valuable, and an overwhelming majority of employees () feeling positively about skills-based decision-making. The IDC MarketScape highlights how 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors users can quickly see value from implementing skills-based hiring strategies, noting: 鈥淪implified application processes help candidates apply from any device and leverage AI to parse skills from their resumes to match those with the company鈥檚 evolving skills architecture and talent intelligence.鈥�

Bringing these insights to life, is a powerful example of how leading organizations are building skills-based talent strategies ready for the future. Capgemini, a global business and technology partner with 340,000 employees across more than 50 countries turned to 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions when looking for an HR infrastructure that would allow it to attract, retain, and grow market-leading skills. Capgemini built a skills engine to support the moments that matter across the employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, talent management, compensation and rewards, learning, and succession management. The company is implementing 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors HCM to enable skills-based people management and deliver a highly engaging people experience.

Going beyond talent acquisition, 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions help align hiring to overall HR strategies, with connected, unified ; a single skills foundation; AI-enabled talent intelligence; and advanced, cross-suite capabilities. The IDC MarketScape notes, 鈥溌槎乖� SuccessFactors Recruiting is a natural extension of the 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors environment that gives companies a fully integrated platform for insights-driven, end-to-end candidate and employee lifecycle management.鈥� The assessment further notes, 鈥淭alent acquisition teams can benefit from deep continuous workforce planning insights that guide for and optimize the balance between internal mobility and external hiring for a higher efficacy in talent placement.鈥�

As we look toward the future, organizations that embrace skills-based talent strategies and AI-driven talent acquisition will be best positioned to adapt, grow, and lead in an ever-changing world of work. Learn more about why we were named a Leader in the and discover more about and .

According to the IDC MarketScape, “The company鈥檚 ability to cover end-to-end operations and integrate planning within a core system comes ready to implement.” The report also noted that “麻豆原创鈥檚 size and scope is globally expansive, and the company鈥檚 client base in supply chain planning is extensive.”

Other key strengths recognized include:

• Analytics and dashboarding with both web-based and Excel-based interfaces
• Ready-to-implement and business-tested sets of algorithms across planning
  functions
• Synchronized planning integrating finance, supply chain planning, and execution
• AI and machine learning demand planning enabling what-if scenario modeling, demand sensing, analytics, new product introduction, and more
• Inventory optimization integrated with SIOP and S&OP processes

麻豆原创 was also positioned in the remaining supply chain planning vendor assessments:

• A Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Process Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment
• A Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Life Sciences Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51047123, November 2024)
• A Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Distribution Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment
• A Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Discrete Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment
• A Major Player in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning in Spare Parts/MRO 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51541424, December 2024)

麻豆原创鈥檚 composable approach to providing planning solutions for its customers coupled with native integration between those composable elements and ERP systems allows companies to orchestrate their supply chain to help meet their specific needs. That same composability can allow companies to extend and expand their solutions at their own rate with minimal disruption to existing processes.

Native connectivity with 麻豆原创鈥檚 ERP and additional extended function applications can provide the data foundation for multiple artificial intelligence use cases. AI use spans advanced algorithmic machine learning, generative AI for analysis of complex structured and unstructured data, and, soon, agentic AI to analyze data, initiate actions, and ultimately recommend and execute planning decisions. Since supply chain orchestration requires multi-enterprise collaboration, 麻豆原创 helps provide trading partner connectivity through its best-in-class business network, which can not only connect trading partners for business transactions but also for end-to-end, collaborative, and continuously interactive planning processes.

Supply chain business needs to go far beyond distant promises of what could be and requires solutions that solve real problems today, leveraging the right technology in the right place for the right purpose. 麻豆原创鈥檚 strategy is to provide data, applications, and AI that help keep the business running while continually evaluating evolving technologies that can be practically applied.

麻豆原创 is delighted to be recognized by the IDC MarketScape in supply chain planning. We remain committed to being a trusted partner, providing reliable software solutions that help meet the evolving needs of our customers. We will continue to incorporate new and cutting-edge technologies where they offer clear business value, helping our customers to excel and be their very best.

Sources: IDC Marketscape: Worldwide Supply Chain Planning Overall 2024 Vendor Assessment, November 2024, IDC #US52694624e; IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Process Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment, October 2024, IDC #US51273023e; IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning for Distribution Industries 2024 Vendor Assessment, October 2024, IDC #US51272924e; IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Supply Chain Planning in Discrete Manufacturing 2024 Vendor Assessment, October 2024, IDC #US51272724e

Jay Foster is global product marketing director for Supply Chain Planning at 麻豆原创.

Advanced software solutions have become indispensable tools that facilitate the procurement of essential raw materials and components and help teams manage supplier relationships while managing costs.

As the recognized market-share leader in the overall procurement applications space*, 麻豆原创 consistently sets benchmarks within the industry. I鈥檓 excited to share that 麻豆原创 was recently named a Leader in the .** The report is based on IDC MarketScape鈥檚 comprehensive assessment of 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions and feedback from our customers.

What Makes 麻豆原创 a Leader?

The IDC MarketScape report noted, 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba solutions are strongly positioned to help companies administer spend that spans complex events, direct and indirect, services, and capex.鈥�

The report also identifies several key strengths that make 麻豆原创 a Leader:

• 麻豆原创 has gained an expansive and impressive roster of enterprise client wins across a variety of industries as a result of being a mature, established, and trusted provider of direct sourcing functionality, particularly in the automotive and industrial manufacturing sectors.
• An industry-first category management offering illustrates 麻豆原创’s innovation that is focused on value-added capabilities for its users.
• 麻豆原创 provides a platform that places an emphasis on collaboration via structured, workflow-driven tools that facilitate collaboration across procurement, quality management, logistics, and R&D and engineering.
• Strong industry-leading sourcing optimization and PO collaboration capabilities provide business value and significantly improve operating efficiency.

The report notes 麻豆原创 should be considered when, 鈥淐lients in need of a trusted, enterprise-ready direct sourcing solution that comes with expansive industry-specific expertise and the ability to administer the most complex direct sourcing challenges and offer broad optimization capabilities are well-served by 麻豆原创.鈥�

Vision for the Future of Procurement

The procurement landscape is continuously evolving, with trends like AI integration, automation, and sustainability reshaping how organizations approach direct spend management. With 麻豆原创鈥檚 ongoing investments in innovation and a commitment to addressing customers鈥� most pressing needs, we are leading this transformation. Procurement is a strategic enabler of cost management, risk reduction, and compliance and 麻豆原创 solutions are designed to empower organizations to make strategic, data-driven decisions that optimize their spend and operations.

At  in October, we announced innovations and new capabilities that will  revolutionize the spend management landscape. These include:

• : Our newest solution, which is planned to be available in early 2025, is designed to offer an intuitive and simple user experience. It is planned to automate procurement request creation, routing, and support by orchestrating processes across multiple systems.
• : We鈥檝e begun integrating our generative AI copilot Joule across 麻豆原创 Ariba, 麻豆原创 Business Network, and 麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions. This will enable organizations to complete complex workflows and manage important tasks quickly and accurately.
• : This innovation can help suppliers receive recommendations to improve discoverability and access to advanced search results, supplier profile verification, and network catalog APIs. The Promote subscription will be available in early 2025 to help suppliers identify sales opportunities based on regional search data, and generative AI tools deliver advanced insights that make it easy to track business growth on the network.

The Exciting New Era Ahead

The future of procurement and direct spend will be defined by groundbreaking technologies to help organizations adapt to an increasingly complex and dynamic global environment.

We believe recognition as a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape Direct Spend Assessment underscores 麻豆原创鈥檚 commitment to driving innovation and enabling businesses to thrive in today鈥檚 competitive environment. By delivering AI-powered innovation, fostering collaboration, and ensuring operational excellence, 麻豆原创 empowers organizations to achieve procurement success on a global scale.

Learn more about .

Baber Farooq is senior vice president of Market Strategy for Procurement Solutions at 麻豆原创.

*IDC Worldwide Procurement Applications Market Shares, 2023: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, doc #US52580824, September 2024
**IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Direct Spend 2024 Vendor Assessment, #US52734424e, December 2024

Now, I鈥檓 thrilled to share that 麻豆原创 was the only company that was positioned in the Leaders category of all three IDC MarketScape reports 鈥� (doc #US51740824, July 2024); IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Accounts Payable Automation Software for Midmarket 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52378624, July 2024); and (doc #US52378824, July 2024). 麻豆原创鈥檚 accounts payable solutions, built with AI-first principles, continue to enable the accounts payable function to embrace its strategic role as it becomes a top priority for business operations in today鈥檚 challenging macro environment.

IDC analyst Kevin Permenter adds: 鈥溌槎乖�’s performance in the IDC MarketScape for Accounts Payable Automation Software reports across all three market segments is a testament to the breadth, depth, and reach of 麻豆原创 Ariba and 麻豆原创 Concur accounts payable offerings. 麻豆原创鈥檚 accounts payable offerings infused with AI-first principles, complemented with a strong ecosystem and the unique value proposition of 麻豆原创 Business Network as a frictionless mechanism for buyer and supplier collaboration, show 麻豆原创鈥檚 strength in this market. 麻豆原创 Ariba and 麻豆原创 Concur invoicing offerings help enable companies of all sizes to move to autonomous processing and enable accounts payable and procurement teams to leverage invoices as a strategic asset for growth and profitability.鈥�

Why 麻豆原创 Is a Leader

The IDC MarketScape reports are divided by market size, evaluating for large enterprise and upper midmarket and for small business and lower midmarket. I believe 麻豆原创鈥檚 positioning speaks for itself 鈥� this recognition showcases our role as a leader in the accounts payable automation space as we work to help our customers modernize critical business processes to transform the way they approach financial management. Here鈥檚 why I believe IDC MarketScape positioned 麻豆原创 as a Leader across all three markets:

Strong Ecosystem and Seamless Integration

The IDC MarketScape Worldwide Accounts Payable Automation Software for Large Enterprises report notes that vendors should 鈥渃onsider 麻豆原创 if you are looking for a well-established provider with a robust ecosystem of financial management products that can fit needs of any size business in virtually any industry.鈥�

麻豆原创 Business Network Is a 鈥淭rue Differentiator鈥�

Additionally, the report highlights as a 鈥渇rictionless mechanism鈥� for buyer-supplier collaboration. Our robust network of trading partners helps make it easier than ever for businesses to ensure invoicing accuracy and compliance while staying connected to their trading partners through our extensive network. The report further notes that, 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba source-to-pay suite combined with the network provides accounts payable teams an effective, intelligent, and near-touchless way to manage the invoice-to-pay cycle, helping buyers and suppliers digitize and modernize their source-to-pay processes.鈥�

麻豆原创 Helps Accounts Payable Run Better

The accounts payable function finds itself in a complex landscape of rising interest rates, tightening monetary policies, and supply chain disruptions. Among these challenges, many companies have become accustomed to curveballs that threaten their agility and future success. 麻豆原创 offerings can help accounts payable teams address core pain points:

• Reduce lengthy invoice approval times. With 麻豆原创鈥檚 AI-infused, end-to-end business processes across source-to-pay and ERP solutions, our customers can cut through cycle times with autonomous processing 鈥� from invoice submission to reconciliation. can capture header and line item data fields, finding patterns from historical data to help increase accuracy with each invoice capture.
• Minimize high percentage of exceptions. With global e-invoicing mandates on the rise, customers can reduce exceptions upfront while ensuring compliance. 麻豆原创鈥檚 business rules can validate invoices in real time against local government portals as needed. With 麻豆原创 Business Network, suppliers can submit invoices electronically, streamlining the process and reducing costs.
• Avoid late supplier payments. With working capital management and our early payment offerings within the portfolio, accounts payable teams can pay suppliers on time while leveraging invoices as a strategic asset for growth and profitability, strengthening their relationships with suppliers.

Customers Report Incredible Outcomes

Here are a few examples highlighting what customers have achieved after using 麻豆原创 Ariba and 麻豆原创 Concur solutions to help improve accounts payable processes:

• looked to 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions to reduce its average invoice approval cycle time to just 1.5 days with 50% of supplier invoices transacted electronically in the first year.
• achieved an 84% first-pass invoice-matching rate.
• processes 99% of invoices automatically for over 9,000 vendors.
• achieved 75% invoice-count compliance for 48,000 annual invoices.
• now completes its end-to-end invoice management process in half the amount of time.

I believe this recognition as a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape reports for Worldwide Accounts Payable Automation Software for Small Business, Midmarket, and Large Enterprise markets emphasizes our commitment to driving a new era in redefining accounts payable automation.

Learn more about our accounts payable solutions at .

Baber Farooq is senior vice president for Market Strategy Procurement Solutions at 麻豆原创.

A once nascent market, carbon accounting and management is experiencing a significant transition in the number, type, and capability of solutions available. The landscape formerly comprised of startup and niche vendors has expanded to include large independent software vendors (ISVs) and hyperscalers, all battling for market share.

Organizations are under increasing pressure to track and disclose carbon emissions data to stakeholders including investors, partners, clients, customers, employees, and regulators. Many are collecting data and reporting on Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Scope 3 remains a challenge due to the complexity of reliable data collection and reporting.

Fines and litigation will create a new impetus for reporting as well. Regulations will add a new element of complexity to how companies report. Disclosure of decarbonization initiatives will require unique data analysis and scenario planning tools. The IDC report points to data integration as a principal challenge for carbon accounting vendors.

麻豆原创 Carbon Accounting & Management: Rising to the Challenge

麻豆原创 is well-positioned to provide organizations with data-driven, purpose-specific carbon management solutions that are ERP centric, cloud based, and AI enabled. These include 麻豆原创 Sustainability Footprint Management, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Control Tower, 麻豆原创 Sustainability Data Exchange, the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud solution for EHS environment management, and 麻豆原创 Green Ledger, which all help to enable carbon accounting and management on a transactional level and transform emissions tracking processes.

Our carbon management solutions are best suited for organizations currently using or planning to use 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud and looking to capture the value of sustainability, as well as manage sustainability-related business risks. Customers can address these objectives by embedding sustainability into their end-to-end business processes, leveraging ERP and supplier data, and using the metrics to inform business processes and financial reporting.

Having the ability to assess carbon and financial data on the same transactional level adds a new dimension to the way organizations address carbon budgets, make capital allocation decisions, and cascade and scale change management. This transformation allows for targeted sustainability actions and more precise financial decisions.

麻豆原创 can leverage its ERP-centric sustainability approach of supporting both corporate and transaction-level product carbon footprints as a differentiator. Integration with other financial applications 鈥� procurement, supply chain, risk, and compliance management 鈥� is a standard feature of the 麻豆原创 Sustainability portfolio.

Staying ahead of carbon taxes, penalties, and upcoming regulatory requirements will also play a key role in how organizations report. Alignment between CFOs and CSOs will become more frequent due to the overlapping responsibilities and sustainability management component, as they affect both corporate risk and cash flow.

According to the IDC MarketScape, 鈥渢he portfolio of sustainability offerings is built on a foundation of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, limiting adoption to the universe of users. Furthermore, while modular in design, much of the solutions鈥� value is dependent on the adoption of multiple system elements, thus commanding a higher price point.鈥� 麻豆原创 is responding with the speed and agility of cloud delivery combined with integrated sustainability data within the core enterprise resource planning system. This will be critical in helping to optimize customers鈥� sustainability and financial performance and become the very foundation of their future business success.

By unifying sustainability and financial data, 麻豆原创 customers can unlock carbon emissions insights, positively impacting decision-making and forecasting on all hierarchical levels. With end-to-end carbon management and the added transactional-level carbon emissions data, organizations can improve operational efficiency, foster emissions transparency, and comply with developing regulations. Achieving a sustainability transformation 鈥� one that benefits the bottom line and the planet 鈥� is truly within reach. Find out more .

The IDC study provides a comprehensive analysis of carbon management platforms, highlighting the increasing need for organizations to track, manage, and report carbon emissions amid evolving regulatory landscapes and stakeholder pressures. It evaluates vendors based on their capabilities and strategies to meet future customer needs, focusing on innovation, customer satisfaction, and the ability to support organizations in their decarbonization efforts. “In an era of escalating environmental scrutiny, mastering carbon accounting is not just compliance, but a strategic imperative for future-proofing businesses,” said Amy Cravens, research manager, ESG Reporting and Management Applications at IDC.

Alicia Lenze is global head of Sustainability Marketing at 麻豆原创 SE.

provides a unified, intelligent work experience for the modern workforce.

2024 IDC MarketScape: Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces Recognition

麻豆原创 has been recognized as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc # US49741923, January 2024), based on IDC analysts and customer feedback. We believe this recognition acknowledges 麻豆原创鈥檚 ongoing dedication in delivering a modern, robust digital workplace solution to optimize user engagement and productivity, and to drive overall business agility.

IDC defines an intelligent digital workspace as a well-organized system of tools working together to enhance end users鈥� overall productivity and experiences. This system integrates intentional design, engineering, and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide a customized and seamless view of tools for user tasks. It ensures secure access to resources from any location or device and enables IT and security professionals with complete oversight.

As stated within this IDC MarketScape report, 鈥淐lient organizations we interviewed noted that 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone reinforced the importance of collaboration and knowledge management.鈥�

Here are the additional highlights on strengths of 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone noted in the report:

• A unified digital workspace: 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone supports building blocks of content, user interface (UI) integration cards, and home page widgets to embed and display 麻豆原创 or third-party business data in one workspace. Guided experiences sit on top of workflows to guide the user journey.
• Streamlined user tasks: 麻豆原创 Task Center is used within 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone to act as a unified inbox to provide one place for all approvals and to dos. Global announcements can be tracked for reads and to check length of time spent on content items with native 麻豆原创 analytics, or with third-party tools such as Google Analytics or Qualtrics. Customers have noted that 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone provided a friendly UI and access to all functionality on the mobile app.
• Seamless connection to a comprehensive product suite: 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone is used to connect the 麻豆原创 suite of capabilities — including 麻豆原创 S/4 HANA, 麻豆原创 Success Factors, and 麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning solutions — to handle workflow and collaboration of tasks across multiple IT and business users. 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone offers pre-built workspace templates with public, private, or external access and an impersonation feature to preview workspaces in-context of specific audience segments.

Evolving the Digital Workplace with 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone  

Unify Experiences Enterprise-Wide

Business users gain centralized access to 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 business applications, processes, and information, including custom-built apps and extensions, from desktop to mobile using 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone. The solution offers a personalized, role-based user experience, for example, allowing business users to quickly search for applications or information they need, promptly manage tasks and notifications through the integrated inbox, and stay updated on content, apps, workflows, and processes that are seamlessly integrated across the business landscape without constantly switching around applications or leaving their desktops.

Build Workspaces Simpler and Faster with Low-Code

Business users are empowered to build and customize business sites visually. They can build branded sites, pages, and workspaces for different purposes and complexity. Our pre-built line-of-business content — including home pages, workspaces, integrations, and guided experiences — dramatically accelerates their time-to-value. For example, HR users can create pages for benefits announcements and design workspaces for learning academies. With the flexibility to design a tailored digital experience, business users can organize their work intuitively by bringing together their favorite business applications and unstructured content side-by-side, within a unified environment.

UI integration cards is a powerful widget to visualize data from back-end systems, allowing business users to quickly gain business insights into, for example, purchasing trends, account receivable overview, or compliance checklist. In addition, guided experiences streamline complex, difficult processes that span multiple systems, transforming them into simple, fast, and error-free experiences. This empowers business users to self-service their way through cross-application processes such as onboarding, returning to work, or submitting parental leave requests with ease and confidence.

麻豆原创 Build Work Zone is part of that enables the people closest to the business problems to create and augment enterprise applications, automation processes, and design workspaces and business sites visually.

Optimize Team Effectiveness Within and Beyond the Enterprise

麻豆原创 Build Work Zone is also designed to amplify team effectiveness across internal employees, external customers, partners, and suppliers. Business users can visually create workspaces to facilitate better team engagement through knowledge sharing, streamlined business processes execution, content management, and implementing best practices. They can also leverage surveys, polls, and interactive Q&A sessions to gather valuable feedback, improving communication and work synergy.

Many 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone customers have created purpose-built business sites to actively engage with their external customers, partners, and suppliers. For example, a supplier business site is created for suppliers to self-service various business operations, including supplier onboarding, accessing policies, managing account payables and invoicing processes, and obtaining product knowledge along with Q&As. By empowering suppliers to address their requirements and needs, not only enhances their engagement and efficiency but also saves internal teams鈥� time for more impactful, high-value activities. 聽

Unlock the Future of Digital Workplaces

Like many customers and partners, chose 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone and 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP) to improve more than 5,000 business assistant鈥檚 user experience and productivity across more than 1,700 dental practices within the national dental network. Since its initial rollout in 2023, it has been reported that 33 hours per day have been saved across the initial 200 supported offices.

Looking ahead, 麻豆原创 remains dedicated to delivering the best-in-class innovations to our customers to enable their business success, such as injecting business AI capabilities by enabling 麻豆原创 Joule as the digital assistant for intelligent interactions within 麻豆原创 Build Work Zone.

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Sid Misra is vice president for Product Marketing and Solution Management at 麻豆原创.

About IDC MarketScape Experience-Centric Intelligent Digital Workspaces
This IDC research explores the intelligent digital workspace environment, offering further insights on the pace of adoption, the potential success of technology, and the level of market excitement. This aims to empower IT and business decision-makers to evaluate investments based on their own judgments.

That鈥檚 why we鈥檝e built our industry-leading suite of spend management solutions that span direct and indirect procurement, external workforce, and travel and expense management. These solutions help you gain visibility into your supply chains, procure what鈥檚 critical to get the job done, and protect your bottom line 鈥� whether you鈥檙e simplifying expense, travel, and accounts payable processes, or finding the right talent to ensure your company鈥檚 profitability.

With our core commitment to 麻豆原创 Business AI, we are focused on applying generative AI technology to all categories of spend. Like my colleague says, we鈥檙e 鈥渄riving efficiency, quality, and insight into processes that cut across spend management.鈥� Here are we鈥檙e hard at work on.

Our spend management and business network solutions continue evolving and improving with time 鈥� and 2024 will be no different. But before I get ahead of myself, let鈥檚 reflect on the incredible last half of 2023, which has laid the foundation for all the amazing innovation to come in 2024.

Enhancing Your Control over Company Spend 

New enhancements to 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions, 麻豆原创 Concur solutions, and 麻豆原创 Business Network can take spend management from the most mundane part of your day to the most strategic. Here are a few enhancements we announced late last year:

• Region-specific strategy and planning for category management: Different regions of the world require different procurement strategies. The ability to in 麻豆原创 Ariba Category Management is now a reality. With its advanced analytics, AI-driven insights, and integrated frameworks and tools, users of 麻豆原创 Ariba Category Management can reap the benefits of data-driven decision-making, identification of strategic sourcing opportunities, and mitigation of risks.
• The biggest Concur Travel release to date: As we continue rolling out the globally, the new end-to-end booking experience became available for customers whose travel management companies use the Sabre GDS from the U.S. point of sale for air, hotel, and car rental bookings. Congratulations to all our customers that made the strategic switch.
• Supplier catalogs within 麻豆原创 Business Network: With the newly released , suppliers can upload a catalog that is publicly searchable and viewable by buyers on the network. With a network catalog, suppliers can maintain a single list of all the products they offer, creating high-quality buyers looking for the exact items listed. More improvements to the catalog and user demos are coming your way soon.

Customer Love

With Valentine’s Day coming up, it鈥檚 only right to brag about all the customer love we鈥檝e been receiving. Words of affirmation is our love language.

• 麻豆原创 Fieldglass is the .
• 麻豆原创 Ariba is the .
• 麻豆原创 Concur is the in Expense, Travel & Expense, and Invoicing.

To top it off, , , and swept the 2023聽鈥淏est Of鈥� Awards from TrustRadius! TrustRadius, the most trusted review site for business technology, also released more wins for our spend management solutions:

• is Top Rated in Workforce Management, Contractor Management, Freelance Management, and Vendor Management Systems (VMS).
• is Top Rated聽in Procurement, Expense Management, and Supply Chain Management.
• is Top Rated in Expense Management, Travel Management, and Accounts Payable.

麻豆原创 Recognized by IDC MarketScape

I am also thrilled to announce that 麻豆原创 was positioned as a Leader in the聽IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network 2023 Vendor Assessment.*

According to the assessment report, 鈥溌槎乖� Business Network is a comprehensive B2B collaboration platform that connects people, processes, and systems across multiple enterprises, digitizing transactions and creating transparent, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.鈥�

The report highlights these 麻豆原创 strengths:

• Depth and breadth of product features, functionality, future road map covering all major B2B collaboration categories (indirect, direct material, MRO logistics, financial, services, sustainability), and scenarios in an end-user, persona-based manner
• Integration and extensibility capabilities including integration between 麻豆原创 ERP, 麻豆原创 procurement modules, and other applications (other ERP, SCAM, and customer applications) and technologies (machine learning, AI, blockchain) through 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform
• Global adoption and breadth of collaboration among the industry’s largest, highly adopted B2B collaboration platforms, enabling trading partners to collaborate in real time
• Ongoing efforts to harmonize commerce, asset intelligence, and logistics continue to enhance the power of the connected economy.

Thank you to our customers and my colleagues for collaborating on this fantastic win.

Customer Success Stories

Al Dahra, one of the world鈥檚 largest agribusiness logistics companies, manages food and animal feed supply chains from its home in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to countries around the globe. to gain greater visibility into daily operations and as its digital solution to connect the company with its partners and clients.

Building material manufacturer Heidelberg Materials AG knew that visibility across its supplier base was key to enabling the smart decision-making that would help it improve financial performance while meeting sustainability goals. See how it achieved this by .

Watch how Chobani, America’s top Greek yogurt brand, uses to fully automate its expense processes.

BT Group aims to be the world鈥檚 most trusted connector of people, devices, and machines. Read how it to deliver a modernized, connected colleague experience.

Register for 麻豆原创 Concur Fusion

If you鈥檙e lucky enough to attend this year, don鈥檛 miss my colleague Etosha Thurman, chief marketing & solutions officer for 麻豆原创 Intelligent Spend and Business Network, presenting in the keynote. She will be demonstrating transformative AI in 麻豆原创 Concur travel, expense, and invoicing solutions, and how we鈥檙e creating a world where travel and expenses can practically manage themselves.

Jeff Collier is chief revenue officer for 麻豆原创 Intelligent Spend and Business Network.

*Source: 鈥�,” by Simon Ellis, December 2023, IDC #US49948423.

Why 麻豆原创 Is a Leader

In an increasingly digitalized world, it is imperative that companies stay connected via a business network. I believe 麻豆原创 was selected as a Leader because 鈥� our entry into the Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network space 鈥� can successfully drive buyer-supplier collaboration across procurement, supply chain, logistics, and asset management by providing a digital platform for trading partners to collaborate externally and exchange data just as, if not more, efficiently as their own internal processes.

The IDC MarketScape report notes these competitive strengths of 麻豆原创 Business Network:

• Depth and breadth of product features and functionalities, as well as a future road map covering all major B2B collaboration categories (indirect, direct material, MRO logistics, financial, services, and sustainability) and scenarios in an end user, persona-based manner.
• Integration and extensibility capabilities include integration between 麻豆原创 ERP, 麻豆原创 procurement modules, other applications like ERP, SCAM, and customer applications, and technologies such as machine learning, AI, and blockchain through 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP).
• Global adoption and breadth of collaboration makes 麻豆原创 among the industry’s largest, highly adopted B2B collaboration platforms enabling trading partners to collaborate in real time. Ongoing efforts to harmonize commerce, asset intelligence, and logistics continue to enhance the power of the connected economy.

The IDC MarketScape report notes, 鈥淢anufacturers and retailers looking for a vendor of both a multi-enterprise network and supply chain procurement application should consider 麻豆原创,鈥� citing the 鈥渂readth and depth of [its] business network capabilities, strategic road map vision, and unmatched integration with core 麻豆原创 and non-麻豆原创 supply chain and procurement applications,鈥� making 麻豆原创 a strong choice.

Charting the Evolution of 麻豆原创 Business Network

I鈥檓 so pleased that as a pioneer in business networks, we continue to be recognized for our commitment to executing our vision. As we鈥檝e continued to evolve our road map, I鈥檓 reflecting on how far we鈥檝e come and paved the way for the future of intelligent business networks. From the founding of Ariba Supplier Network in 1996 to what we鈥檝e become today, 麻豆原创 Business Network touches US$4.9 trillion in commerce annually across many business processes and industries and has over 2 million active users on the network.

Recent years have shown us that intelligent, digital business networks are essential to supporting an agile supply chain. 麻豆原创 Business Network is a comprehensive platform that helps connect people, processes, and systems across multiple enterprises, ultimately creating transparent, resilient, and sustainable supply chains that can span the globe and be tailored to each line of business, helping to drive partner collaboration beyond a company鈥檚 own four walls and spanning the entire value chain.

I鈥檓 proud to say that 麻豆原创 Business Network can provide best-in-class supply chain collaboration, helping companies adhere to legal mandates, scale with confidence, and automate repetitive tasks, leaving more time for strategic decision-making informed by patterns gleaned from vast amounts of data. Our vision 鈥� what so many talented people at 麻豆原创 are working towards every day 鈥� is to create the world鈥檚 best and largest B2B marketplace to help our customers meet their business goals.

Recent Advancements Continue to Revolutionize B2B Collaboration

If you know 麻豆原创, you know about our commitment to continuous innovation. In 2023, we announced many exciting innovations around 麻豆原创 Business Network, including:

• Build on artificial intelligence in 麻豆原创 Business Network. My colleague Muhammad Alam to further integrate generative AI in spend management at 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live. Customers can look forward to enriched supplier responses to 麻豆原创 Business Network Discovery postings, helping to facilitate more transparent communication between buyers and suppliers. Generative AI improvements can give suppliers the ability to generate clear, concise catalog descriptions, as well as summarize common errors for users so buyers can find exactly what they鈥檙e looking for.
• Tackle industry-specific challenges with 麻豆原创 Business Network for Industry. We鈥檝e combined our more than 50 years of industry knowledge with the power of business networks to help customers address industry-specific supply chain challenges. Take a look at to help predict and respond to disruptions, comply with industry regulations, and meet sustainability goals.
• Learn more with trading partner insights. Account managers struggle with obtaining comparative measures to assess the performance of trading partners. New KPIs and benchmarks, presented in a streamlined dashboard, can allow suppliers to evaluate customer transaction performance of orders, invoices, and payments with automatically generated KPIs and 麻豆原创 Business Network community benchmarks. These insights can support collaborative dialogues with customers to help reduce transaction costs and mitigate business risk. .
• Draw insights from data with component planning collaboration. With component planning collaboration, buyers and suppliers can view the forecast planning data for a finished good together with its components. Armed with this visibility, buyers and suppliers can respond to material shortages and adjust production accordingly, making supply more predictable. .

Stay tuned for more exciting innovations this year. Stay up-to-date about recent and upcoming innovations and explore road maps .

Transforming the Future of Business Networks

I am proud that 麻豆原创 is being recognized as a leader in delivering solutions that connect people, processes, and systems, enabling trading partners to collaborate effectively. I can鈥檛 wait to see our road map continue to come to life as we collaborate with our customers to develop innovations that help them achieve their business objectives by automating tasks, scaling efficiently, and operating sustainably.

To learn more, visit and read the full IDC MarketScape report .

Tony Harris is senior vice president and chief marketing and solutions officer for 麻豆原创 Business Network.

*IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor鈥檚 position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles. Vendor year-over-year growth rate relative to the given market is indicated by a plus, neutral or minus next to the vendor name.

Based on an IDC analysis and customer feedback, 麻豆原创 has been positioned in the Leaders Category of the .*

For those of us at 麻豆原创 who have been working to deliver that help organizations work more strategically and efficiently, this is another milestone as we continue to advance up the leader board. More significantly, it is gratifying to know that this positioning is not just based on the IDC MarketScape鈥檚 detailed examination of our solutions. It鈥檚 also based on the word of our customers.

According to the IDC MarketScape鈥檚 assessment report, 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba is a mature, established, and trusted brand鈥sers expressed that the integration with 麻豆原创 ERP and SCM products is a compelling feature.鈥�

The report highlights these 麻豆原创 strengths:

• Integrated sourcing functionality leverages capabilities across spend analytics, supplier identification, 麻豆原创 Business Network, analytics/reporting dashboards, and contract management to serve as a “force multiplier” and provides a view to total cost impact of sourcing decisions.
• Milestone/project view extends functionality beyond simple sourcing events and provides all impacted stakeholders with the ability to follow progress, achieve milestones, assess the sourcing strategy, and provide input.
• Complex sourcing capabilities are strong, providing the ability to plan and execute large and compliant global sourcing events that come with a myriad of deliverables and complex pricing. Client references noted and appreciated the ability to scale and support sourcing events often involving many thousands of line items.

The IDC MarketScape report says, 鈥淐onsider 麻豆原创 when you need a trusted, enterprise-grade sourcing application that can be utilized for large, complex, and global sourcing activities while also leveraging the capabilities of the full 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions.鈥�

Continuing Our Commitment to Customer-Focused Innovation

I believe one of the reasons 麻豆原创 continues to advance its leadership position is our commitment to steady innovation. However, this is not just innovation for innovation鈥檚 sake. We carefully study the day-to-day role that sourcing and procurement professionals play today and, importantly, how that role is evolving. With these insights, we build solutions that are designed to help sourcing and procurement teams play an increasingly valuable role within their organizations.

In just the past year, we have introduced a slew of innovations:

• empowers category managers to use data insights strategically to help identify trends, develop and implement strategies, and evaluate success relative to tangible business metrics. Just a few weeks ago at 麻豆原创 Spend Connect, we announced enhancements to 麻豆原创 Ariba Category Management with the power of generative AI to help procurement professionals build comprehensive and effective category strategies faster. We also highlighted Joule, which will be embedded across the 麻豆原创 portfolio and available in 麻豆原创 Spend Management solutions in 2024. Integration with large language models through 麻豆原创 Business AI empowers procurement professionals to jump-start category strategy development and planning. Generative AI enables us to enhance our market analysis tool, offering valuable, visual insights into supply and demand, risk, opportunity, and top suppliers. .
• The next evolution of the guided buying capability in 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions provides a personalized buying experience for today鈥檚 professional and casual buyers. It leverages AI to offer suggestions for specific work roles, and intelligent recommendations to help weigh the sustainability and environmental impact of a purchase. Much of this functionality is available today with more to come in future releases. .
• 麻豆原创 Spend Control Tower delivers comprehensive spend analysis capabilities. To make it easier for procurement professionals to make timely, informed decisions, new dashboards in 麻豆原创 Ariba Sourcing and 麻豆原创 Ariba Buying embed near real-time insights where they are most useful — within key process workflows. These capabilities are available today and built on a new architecture that helps create the foundation for future innovation. Beginning in the first quarter of 2024, can help uncover cost-saving opportunities with advanced AI features and the ability to see across all spend — in cloud ERP, 麻豆原创 Ariba, 麻豆原创 Fieldglass, and 麻豆原创 Concur solutions.
• With risk-aware procurement with AI-infused risk assessment in source-to-settle solutions, 麻豆原创 has embedded AI-powered supplier risk assessment capabilities into its source-to-settle solutions to help business users make smarter decisions faster. This can make it possible to assess risk profiles within the sourcing, contracting, and buying solutions as an integral part of these processes to determine third-party risk. Supplier risk assessment capabilities are available today in 麻豆原创 Ariba Sourcing, 麻豆原创 Ariba Contracts, and 麻豆原创 Ariba Buying.
• Supporting the future of supplier management, at 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live we provided a sneak preview of a feature we refer to as “the new supplier 360,鈥� which can deliver instant access to risk data, AI-powered sustainability information, and operational evaluation to help track metrics like price variance. .

Want to read more about these innovations? Check out our announcement from 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live 2023 that provides additional detail.

Why 麻豆原创 is a Leader

With our steady stream of innovations designed to help businesses solve their biggest sourcing challenges, I am not surprised that 麻豆原创 is once again a Leader in the . Of course, we don鈥檛 intend to stop here.

Looking ahead, we know that sourcing professionals are looking for an intuitive user experience that allows them to focus on strategic, value-added tasks. And as we have seen recently, they are eager to use generative AI, analytics, and to support them.

Of course, AI is only as effective as the quality and availability of data. A huge amount of data and transactions run through 麻豆原创鈥檚 and . This makes us uniquely qualified to help organizations — large and small — access the data they need, interpret it, and take decisive action.

As we have already shown, 麻豆原创 is in the best position to deliver the broad-based use cases that businesses will need to stay competitive as conditions evolve.

Baber Farooq is senior vice president and head of Market Strategy for 麻豆原创 Procurement Solutions.

*鈥淚DC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Sourcing Applications 2023 Vendor Assessment鈥� November 2023, IDC #US51215923e

Finance leaders worldwide have witnessed dramatic changes in their operations over the last few years 鈥� ranging from unforeseen vulnerabilities and stricter regulations to wide swings in market volatility. In response to those experiences, most of them have intensified their focus on digitalizing their treasury and risk management practices to protect their company鈥檚 liquidity and cash management position.

The of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-enabled enterprise treasury and risk management applications vendors notes the rising interest in treasury and risk management solutions. According to the report, 鈥淭reasury management solutions are finding themselves in the spotlight. Common features of treasury management systems include liquidity and cash management, proving them invaluable to businesses struggling to maintain an accurate picture of their cash flow and current liquidity ratios.鈥�

But the IDC MarketScape also forewarns that 鈥渨hile these features are extremely useful, they can fall under scrutiny if not updated and streamlined according to the current needs of users.鈥�

Build Confidence with Continuous Innovation in the Cloud

Finance organizations have hundreds of to consider. However, according to the IDC MarketScape, the right investments circulate data originating from treasury operations across all finance areas and outside them to investors, lenders, government agencies, banking and financing partners, suppliers, and customers.

Cloud technologies 鈥� like those from the 麻豆原创 solution portfolio 鈥� are proving to be real difference makers in achieving this goal for companies willing to adopt them.

The IDC MarketScape report recognized 麻豆原创 as a Leader among SaaS and cloud-enabled enterprise . The report noted that companies should consider 麻豆原创 鈥渋f you are looking for a well-established vendor with a platform with extensive integration and all-in-one capabilities.鈥�

麻豆原创 solutions help deliver a unified platform for end-to-end business processes with a broad portfolio 鈥� which includes treasury management, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management, supply chain management, and business intelligence 鈥� to manage cash, risk, and treasury-related transactions. And this ecosystem can be further integrated and extended through 麻豆原创 Business Technology Platform (麻豆原创 BTP) and supported by the 麻豆原创 Analytics Cloud solution and 麻豆原创 Business Network.

鈥淭he solution provides organizations with a centralized platform for managing their financial transactions and cash positions and helping optimize cash flow, reduce risk, and improve financial decision-making,鈥� the report states.

As a result, 麻豆原创 customers worldwide are benefiting from two critical strengths when using our treasury and risk management technologies in either a public or private cloud environment:

• A single source of truth based on streamlined processes and enterprise-wide integration of transactional and master data
• Smoother access to cash-flow sources to help optimize working capital requirements and processes more effectively

For example, leverages these advantages to automate its treasury function and gain a real-time view of its cash management position across 27 countries. This approach allows the airline to use straight-through processing, upload bank statements automatically, and eliminate the need for manual intervention.

Now that 85% of the transactions in its main general operating account are automated, JetBlue no longer needs to access individual banking portals to oversee cash management. Instead, it has a central repository of all bank account details.

Transform the Treasury to Drive Financial Resilience

As finance leaders face an ever-evolving landscape of vulnerabilities, regulatory tightening, and market volatility, the urgency to digitalize treasury and risk management practices will continue to grow. And as evidenced in the 2023 IDC MarketScape report, this growing interest emphasizes the value placed on liquidity and cash management for cash-flow accuracy.

By providing a unified platform, we believe finance organizations have the end-to-end processes and real-time insights they need to optimize cash flow, reduce risk, and enhance decision-making.

To learn more, download a complimentary excerpt of the .

Ido Shamgar is senior director of Cloud ERP Product Marketing at 麻豆原创.

In March, 麻豆原创 was named a Leader in the (Doc #US48785722, March 2023). 麻豆原创 Ariba was named a Leader in the 2021 vendor assessment for this same market.

The IDC MarketScape noted, 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba is a mature, established, and trusted brand. Brand perception is high, and users expressed that the integration with 麻豆原创 ERP and supply chain management (SCM) products is a compelling feature.鈥� The report also noted that 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba solutions are strongly positioned to help companies administer spend that spans complex events, direct and indirect, services, and capex.鈥�

But this progress didn鈥檛 happen overnight. My colleague Baber Farooq said it best in his piece: 鈥淲e鈥檝e worked hard to evolve our vision, focusing on delivering a complete suite of solutions that enables our customers and their trading partners to manage spend with total visibility 鈥� while never losing sight of the people who use these solutions.鈥�

麻豆原创 was also named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled P2P Applications 2023 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US50464223, March 2023) and a Major Player in the (Doc #US48785822, March 2023).

The IDC MarketScape for Buy-Side Contract Life-Cycle noted, 鈥淐onsider 麻豆原创 when you need a robust contract management platform that supports the full contract life cycle, collaboration, and audit trails and that drives more efficient negotiations, provides an intuitive interface, and delivers reduced administrative costs and time.鈥�

Over the past couple of years, our commitment to delivering the most complete set of procurement solutions, from sourcing and supplier networks to supplier relationship management, contract lifecycle management, spend analytics, procure-to-pay, and sustainability, has only grown stronger. And we鈥檙e seeing that commitment pay off with more recognition for our extensive capabilities within 麻豆原创鈥檚 procurement suite.

High Honors from Customers

麻豆原创 customers continue to see the quality and value of our solutions. In January, TrustRadius, which bases its awards on customer reviews, conferred its 2023 Winter 鈥淏est Of鈥� awards on several 麻豆原创 solutions, including , , and .

Each of these solutions took first place in the Best Feature Set, Best Value for Price, and Best Relationship award categories.

And if that wasn鈥檛 enough, our customers rated us as Spring 2023 Leaders on G2 in the following categories:

• 麻豆原创 Concur 鈥� Leader in , , and
• 麻豆原创 Fieldglass 鈥� Leader in
• 麻豆原创 Ariba 鈥� Leader in and

Recognizing Our People

I鈥檝e said this many times, but the people are the best part about working at 麻豆原创. My colleagues are some of the smartest, most committed, and kindest people around. Two of our leaders, Val Blatt and Muhammad Alam, have been named . Blatt is the global head of 麻豆原创 Business Network Customer Success & Go-to-Market; Alam is the president of 麻豆原创 Intelligent Spend and Business Network and general manager of 麻豆原创 Business Network.

Etosha Thurman, chief marketing & solutions officer for 麻豆原创 Intelligent Spend and Business Network, came in at No. 12 in the . She is blazing a new trail in the procurement space, and I couldn鈥檛 be prouder to work together with her every day.

Award-Winning Customers

This time, the celebration isn鈥檛 exclusive to 麻豆原创. We recently named the to celebrate our customers whose innovation achievements exemplify positive economic, environmental, and social impact, help the world run better, and improve people鈥檚 lives. To my delight but not to my surprise, customers using 麻豆原创 spend management solutions were well represented in the winner鈥檚 circle.

Here are a few of their stories:

• is one of America’s leading transportation companies with over 10,000 customers, providing a critical link in the global supply chain. It chose 麻豆原创 Concur solutions to help streamline employee travel and expense management for over 20,000 impacted employees. This implementation was a puzzle piece in its larger journey to the cloud.
• is a leading international bank, headquartered in London and listed on the Stock Exchanges in London and Hong Kong, with a presence in 59 markets. 麻豆原创 Fieldglass solutions were integrated into 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Employee Central to provide a total workforce management solution for 85,000 employees and 20,000 contingent workers, replacing a more than 20-year-old legacy platform.
• Less than 1% of the US$3 trillion of spend was directed to women-owned businesses. So, it decided to work with 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions to give WECommunity buyers a solution that makes it easier to find and do business with women-owned suppliers in over 135 countries.
• When the pandemic hit, fluctuations in supply and demand significantly increased and transportation resources were limited and unreliable for and much of the world. To optimize its planning and logistics functions for the cooperative鈥檚 $300M supply chain, it deployed 麻豆原创 Business Network for Logistics to help provide deep insights into the transportation and logistics aspects of the business, allowing Blue Diamond Growers to meet demand, address supply gaps, and identify transportation bottlenecks.

If you missed my recent piece on the five lessons learned from Royal DSM when it utilized 麻豆原创 Business Network and 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions to enhance the sustainability of its global indirect procurement, give it a read.

Join Us In Person at 麻豆原创 Sapphire and 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live

If you鈥檙e a spend management professional or someone who wants to optimize their total spend management platform, make coming to 麻豆原创 Sapphire or 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live a priority this year.

麻豆原创 Sapphire starts May 16 with a live experience in Orlando and virtual sessions and events that meet you wherever you are. Visit the event page to learn more.

麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live is in Vienna, Austria, October 9-11 鈥� and there鈥檚 so much to look forward to. It鈥檚 the must-attend event for leaders and practitioners in procurement, supply chain, sustainability, 鈥媐inance, logistics, and operational risk. to get the latest updates for 麻豆原创 Spend Connect Live 2023 and save on registration.

Jeff Collier is chief revenue officer for 麻豆原创 Intelligent Spend and Business Network.

Long a leader in facilitating the transformation of procurement, 麻豆原创 has also been named a Leader in the .*

What鈥檚 most gratifying about this latest report is that 麻豆原创 is being recognized for the significant progress we鈥檝e made since the last IDC MarketScape for procurement applications, released in 2021. We鈥檝e worked hard to evolve our vision, focusing on delivering a complete suite of solutions that enables our customers and their trading partners to manage spend with total visibility 鈥� while never losing sight of the people who use these solutions.

From sourcing and supplier networks to supplier relationship management, contract lifecycle management, spend analytics, procure-to-pay, and sustainability, 麻豆原创 provides a that help businesses solve problems at every point in the procurement process. And, as noted within the IDC MarketScape report, 鈥溌槎乖� Ariba solutions are strongly positioned to help companies administer spend that spans complex events, direct and indirect, services, and CAPEX.鈥�

The report also cites these strengths:

• 麻豆原创 Ariba is a mature, established, and trusted brand. Brand perception is high, and users expressed that the integration with 麻豆原创 ERP and supply chain management products is a compelling feature.
• The guided buying capability and the guided sourcing capability for 麻豆原创 Ariba Sourcing were cited by all reference clients as extremely useful. One client reference even referred to the capabilities as “lovely.” 麻豆原创 has continued to innovate in this space with multiple enhancements and next-generation offerings currently in the works.
• 麻豆原创’s exceptional industry expertise, particularly in fields such as energy and natural resources, banking, chemicals, and automotive, is cited as a differentiator by multiple client references. 麻豆原创’s experience and offerings in the direct sourcing space drives significant buyer interest.

True to Our Roots

Procurement transformation is nothing new to 麻豆原创. It鈥檚 in our DNA. The electronic catalogs and material requirements planning processes that changed the game started here. Additionally, has revolutionized the way goods are bought and sold. It is used by more buyers and sellers to connect and collaborate across procurement, supply chain, logistics, and asset management than any other network on the planet.

Committed to Innovation

For 麻豆原创, innovation is about assessing the business environment and listening to our customers, then responding with powerful tools to help them combat their business challenges. Building on an established, trusted product portfolio and clear road map, we continue to deliver innovations that help organizations address the procurement challenges of today and prepare for tomorrow.

Here are two procurement innovations we鈥檙e introducing this year, along with a sneak preview of an innovation we have in the works:

• The next evolution of guided buying: The guided buying capability in 麻豆原创 Ariba solutions is the gold standard for purchases of goods and services. Its next evolution provides a buying experience that is personalized for today鈥檚 professional and casual buyers and their roles. It is predictive, leveraging artificial intelligence to offer suggestions for specific work roles as well as intelligent recommendations to help them make the right decisions and weigh the sustainability and environmental impact of their decisions. Many of the capabilities will be included within the guided buying capability this year, as well as in future releases.
• A new category management solution: Today, category management consists of highly manual processes, leaving almost no time for category managers to develop or implement effective strategies. Our new category management solution, which we鈥檒l roll out this year, provides actionable market intelligence and category insights. It empowers category managers and procurement professionals to make strategic category decisions for direct and indirect spending. Additionally, it offers intuitive scenario analysis to help visualize opportunities.
• Total spend reporting: While we can鈥檛 reveal too much right now, stay tuned to hear more about what we have in store to enable total spend visibility for your business.

Focused on Users

Every person across the procure-to-pay process has a different role to play. We鈥檝e made it our mission to understand the needs and priorities of every user persona and to deliver unique, intuitive tools that each can use to reach their goals. For example, an employee doing material requirements planning (MRP) for the procurement of direct materials will have a different experience than someone purchasing a laptop or managing contingent labor.

Risk Management and Sustainability

Given the supply chain disruptions of the past few years, business leaders understand the importance of risk management. In fact, in a 2022 sponsored by 麻豆原创, respondents said risk reduction was the second most important area to focus on to deliver increased value in procurement. In the same survey, nearly a quarter of the executives identified sustainability and environmental, social, and governmental (ESG) concerns among the top priorities for organizational risk.

Social responsibility legislation is only adding to the pressure. For example, Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz (LkSG) is an act that took effect in Germany this year. It requires companies to report on the ability of their risk management system to address violations in their supply chain to the German government no later than April 2024.

Businesses need a single source of truth across the entire supply base to support risk-aware core processes. 麻豆原创 innovations can help facilitate risk management and sustainability requirements with the newly enhanced solution and , along with additional extensions to address company-specific requirements.

Delivering Solutions for the Future

Procurement has changed significantly in the last two decades. 麻豆原创 is pleased to be recognized as a leader in driving this change, and we remain committed to delivering next-generation applications that help our customers transform their business for continued success.

Baber Farooq is senior vice president and head of Market Strategy for 麻豆原创 Procurement Solutions.

*鈥淚DC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Procurement Applications 2023 Vendor Assessment鈥� March 2023, IDC #US48785722

Having received this news on the eve of 麻豆原创 Sapphire 2022, it highlighted once again that we are doing the right thing by our customers in delivering innovative solutions in the cloud and enabling them to transform their businesses effectively, efficiently, and intelligently.

Manufacturing ERP

In times of unanticipated events and sudden demand shocks such as COVID-19, competition has never been higher in manufacturing. There are more companies competing for the same customer base and this makes differentiation a challenge. The commoditization of products impacts a manufacturer’s ability to grow revenue or move into new markets.

For manufacturing companies, a solution to issues such as agility, sustainability, the right product-service mix, customer experience, modular and integrated systems, continuous focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, and an anywhere, anytime access is key.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud is a complete, modular cloud ERP software designed for every business need 鈥� powered by AI and analytics. With 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud, customers can run mission-critical operations in real time from anywhere, introduce new business models in their industry, and expand globally with a trusted partner. For 50 years, 麻豆原创 has been proudly helping enterprises of all sizes 鈥� in all industries and geographies 鈥� run at their best with ERP software.

is based on a thorough evaluation of 麻豆原创鈥檚 strengths and capabilities and lists them as follows:

Manufacturing Footprint and Expertise
麻豆原创’s expansive footprint and experience working across the manufacturing industry is a clear strength. Customers that have been interviewed backed up this sentiment, stating that they can’t think of a vendor with more expertise than 麻豆原创 when it comes to automotive and engineering-to-order type industries as an example, and it allows a lot of best practices to be adopted. This is also reflected in the customer base, as customer references noted that all major companies in their industry use 麻豆原创 or are at least familiar with the company, which makes finding employees experienced with the system much easier.

Innovation
麻豆原创 continues to evolve its products with innovation, combining technological expertise with its industry expertise. 麻豆原创’s focus on AI and machine learning was cited by multiple manufacturing customers as an area they are very excited about. Automation is another area mentioned by manufacturers as an important focus that 麻豆原创 is helping with. One reference shared how over the next few years the company expects to generate a lot of additional efficiencies by reducing efforts through process automation.

Level of Value Delivered
麻豆原创 continues to deliver value for clients, from innovation to best practices to additional insights. Customers have mentioned that the best practice use cases and additional insights provided are bringing substantial value as they reset their businesses to new business processes and the use of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.

Operational ERP

Demand for cloud-based ERP applications continues to grow because of the ability to access and analyze massive amounts of data in near real time and with anywhere, anytime access. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-enabled ERP systems enable growing businesses to quickly expand into new regions around the globe without making major investments into their technology infrastructure because they are extremely adaptive to accelerated rates of change. SaaS and cloud-enabled systems are adaptive to dynamic operations environments,聽which is why this is extremely important as a technology vendor guide for today’s COOs, CFOs, CIOs, and IT buyers.

The IDC MarketScape evaluated criteria important to using technology as a competitive edge for discrete manufacturing companies, recognizing that manufacturers are looking for technology that can be an innovation accelerator. Operational ERP includes product-centric organizations in industries such as manufacturing, high-tech, engineering, and consumer products. These organizations鈥� ERP systems incorporate operational modules, including order management, finance, procurement, enterprise asset management (EAM), manufacturing, and supply chain, to maximize operational efficiencies. According to the report, the following issues were top of mind:

• Key metrics: Improvements in productivity are key.
• Manual processes: Organizations still use error prone manual processes.
• Visibility issues: Resources need to spend extra time to report and verify transactions.
• Resource constraints: Employees are asked to do more with less and, in many cases, the use of legacy systems add to the workload instead of reduce it.
• Lost money: Companies with inefficient operational and financial processes often lose opportunities to take advantage of cost-effective and efficient processes.

As part of digital transformation initiatives, operational workflows are changing fast. Characteristics such as robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning, embedded intelligence, predictive analytics, modular and integrated systems, and anywhere, anytime access were most commonly found in the IDC MarketScape research.

麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud offers the following strengths:

• Level of value delivered: From innovation to best practices to additional insights, 麻豆原创 continues to deliver value for clients. Customers reported that the best practice use cases and additional insights provided are bringing substantial value as they reset their businesses to new business processes and use 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud.
• Innovation: 麻豆原创 continues to evolve its products with innovation. One reference said, “Our operations and finance areas have been enhanced with artificial intelligence and machine learning, helping us generate more in operational efficiency with greater automation of processes.”
• Pricing models and terms: Customers told IDC they find the flexibility of pricing, including units as a component of the pricing, appealing, supportive, and customer friendly. In addition, organizations noted the opportunity to migrate is much more palatable with this aspect of pricing.

麻豆原创鈥檚 recognition by IDC MarketScape is a testament to our steadfast dedication to pushing the envelope and developing cutting-edge solutions for customers that leverage the greatest enterprise systems for manufacturing customers and customers aiming to increase the efficiency of operational processes. We believe that this evaluation is a superior measure of the competitive position of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud in the market and shows that our solutions and innovations prove our underlying commitment to our customers. Our teams have worked day and night to successfully navigate the challenging environment of COVID-19 and other disruptions to deliver on our promises to our customers and help them confidently take yet another step in the right direction.

For the report excerpts, please visit: and .

*IDC MarketScape Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Operational ERP Applications 2022 Vendor Assessment, and IDC MarketScape Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Manufacturing ERP Applications 2022 Vendor Assessment by Mickey North Rizza and Reid Paquin from International Data Corporation (IDC), 2022

Jan Gilg is president of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA at 麻豆原创.

Every company is feverishly working to update its processes. However, for organizations to sustain such rapid evolutions, their workforce must consistently sharpen their skills to match developing technological needs. To remain at the forefront of industry change in the coming years, it鈥檚 essential that employees are provided access to continual training and career growth to achieve both the retention of essential talent and a company culture of continuous innovation.

To overcome these challenges, many organizations and people are turning to to help bridge the skills gap. in both the IDC MarketScape U.S. IT Training 2021 Vendor Assessment and the IDC MarketScape European IT Training 2021 Vendor Assessment. This research includes analysis of the most well-known IT training firms with portfolios that are appropriate to organizations considering “significant transformation initiatives.鈥�

麻豆原创 Courses Enable Innovative Skill Sets聽

The portfolio helps meet individual educational needs and boost technology aptitude across organizations. 麻豆原创 sees a growing necessity of training and certification resources in today鈥檚 working environment. According to the IDC MarketScape U.S. IT Training Vendor Assessment, 麻豆原创鈥檚 strengths include:

• Clients appreciate additional training services.
• Clients appreciate its certification test preparation offering.
• Clients say they will use it more often next year.
• It can help clients customize content or paths.
• It has a strong point of view regarding how much training is helpful.
• It has a strong refresh and update process for its content.
• It has examples of how it improves client operations.
• It integrates labs into a range of its content.
• It offers a range of pricing and packaging approaches.
• Students appreciate the use of quizzes to support learning.

Take Neils Wijsbeek, specialist lead at Deloitte Consulting B.V, for example. Despite having seven years of 麻豆原创 solution experience under his belt, Wijsbeek continues to build his profile of certifications by becoming an in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors solutions. Wijsbeek finds that continuing to grow his certifications benefits his career and ultimately provides a visible way of demonstrating his expertise. 鈥淭he certification process, particularly the preparation for it, forces you to deep-dive into the content and quickly build up your knowledge,鈥� he says. At a time when it鈥檚 never been so crucial to stay at the forefront of industry evolution, he also expressed that 麻豆原创 certification鈥檚 mandatory delta-content requires users to stay up-to-date on new developments, in turn demonstrating growth of individual and company expertise to customers.

Our team at 麻豆原创 is dedicated to creating fulfilling learning experiences like Wijsbeek鈥檚 that enable employees to sharpen their skill sets easily and often. Hiring managers are facing current retention challenges that are greatly limiting business growth. With such immense technological advancement, strong talent is quickly snatched up, leaving skills gaps and overworked employees. For example, though most organizations have become multi-cloud, believe a lack of these skills will slow down cloud projects.

At 麻豆原创 Learning, we work to ensure organizations can easily reskill and upskill talent, providing employees with motivation and opportunities for career growth. To support companies with this task, and to meet individuals at every point of their learning journey, we鈥檝e launched a new 麻豆原创 Learning site to create a simple, one-stop shop of learning materials.

麻豆原创 Training Available to Learners of All Levels

麻豆原创 Learning can provide opportunities for all to upskill, reskill, and validate their 麻豆原创 skills. For example, with our recent release of the , we provide access to various free content for upskilling with , including a brand-new learning journey focused on . This helps ensure that learners of all levels, ranging from aspiring developers to those already in development roles, can easily gain 麻豆原创 skills in core innovation areas and prepare for an 麻豆原创 certification at no cost.

As organizations work to support an innovative labor force, 麻豆原创 works to provide the resources for employees of all levels to upskill and increase the overall competitiveness of their business. The provision of 麻豆原创 trainings and certification in an organization has become an essential component to achieving strategic goals.

麻豆原创 Learning solutions help validate users鈥� 麻豆原创 abilities and experience and allow lifelong learners such as Wijsbeek to remain on top of evolving industry developments and continually showcase themselves and their organization as an innovative leader. 鈥淭he way training programs have evolved over the years makes it very easy to find the needed materials, particularly for keeping your certifications up-to-date through the delta-content,鈥� says Wijsbeek.

As 麻豆原创 Learning continues to evolve with the needs of learners everywhere, I鈥檓 more energized than ever by our devoted team as we kick off another year of supporting individuals in their journeys to advance their skills and career without barrier.

Jan Meyer is head of Learning Systems for 麻豆原创 Learning.

*IDC MarketScape; U.S. IT Training 2021 Vendor Assessment (doc #US47541121, December 2021)
^**IDC MarketScape: European IT Training 2021 Vendor Assessment (doc #EUR148400521, December 2021)

Using the IDC MarketScape鈥檚 comprehensive assessment framework and customer feedback gathered through online surveys and phone interviews, the report analyzed nine vendors serving the specific needs of retail companies worldwide across industry segments (food and nonfood retail) and named 麻豆原创 a leader based on strategies and capabilities.

The report noted, 鈥淐ustomer data for personalization is collected from location and device data (such as shopping cart content, past purchases, commercial metrics, sites visited, and purchase propensity) and aggregated into a unique repository. Moreover, 麻豆原创 Commerce Cloud enables personalization to anonymous visitors.鈥�

The 麻豆原创 Commerce Cloud solution supports business-to-consumer (B2C) use cases and complex business-to-business (B2B) scenarios through a unified platform, which offers the sourcing, consignment, complex ordering, delivery options, products, services and pricing that companies require. 麻豆原创 Commerce Cloud enables organizations to securely identify and connect with customers across channels and manage their profiles, preferences and consent settings throughout an engagement.

鈥淭he retail industry is faced with the significant challenge to offer 鈥榗ommerce everywhere鈥� to customers who may use any unique channel to shop, from web to social to in-store,鈥� said Nuno Pedro, head of commerce at 麻豆原创 Customer Experience. 鈥溌槎乖粹�檚 retail commerce platform on 麻豆原创 Commerce Cloud offers capabilities including personalization and merchandizing, order management for commerce, data integration, target promotions and pricing, which all serve to meet this demand while .鈥�

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About IDC MarketScape: IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor鈥檚 position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

*鈥淚DC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Commerce Platform Software Providers 2020 Vendor Assessment,鈥� doc #US46038320, November 2020.
**”IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Retail Commerce Platform Software Providers 2018 Vendor Assessment,鈥� doc #US43380018, January 2019.

Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as 鈥渁nticipate,鈥� 鈥渂elieve,鈥� 鈥渆stimate,鈥� 鈥渆xpect,鈥� 鈥渇orecast,鈥� 鈥渋ntend,鈥� 鈥渕ay,鈥� 鈥減lan,鈥� 鈥減roject,鈥� 鈥減redict,鈥� 鈥渟hould鈥� and 鈥渨ill鈥� and similar expressions as they relate to 麻豆原创 are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. 麻豆原创 undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The factors that could affect 麻豆原创’s future financial results are discussed more fully in 麻豆原创’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including 麻豆原创’s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.
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Using the IDC MarketScape鈥檚 comprehensive assessment framework and customer feedback gathered through online surveys and phone interviews, the report analyzed 18 vendors offering business-to-business digital commerce platforms and named 麻豆原创 a leader based on 麻豆原创鈥檚 strategies and capabilities. The report noted, 鈥淐ustomers we interviewed rated 麻豆原创 above average when asked whether 麻豆原创 Commerce Cloud is 鈥榖uilt for the future.鈥� One customer commented, 鈥楾his is where 麻豆原创 is really good. They were a bit late to market here but have gotten ahead.鈥欌��

The report further noted: 鈥淐onsider 麻豆原创 if you are an enterprise looking for an all-in-one digital commerce platform that can handle complex enterprise requirements and can support both and B2C business models or you use 麻豆原创 for other CX applications. Consider it if your organization is primarily focused on differentiating by building a unique and highly customized commerce experience with a platform offering deep functionality.鈥�

The 麻豆原创 Commerce Cloud solution supports with a unified platform that offers the sourcing, consignment, complex ordering, delivery options, products, services and pricing that modern companies require. The 麻豆原创 Commerce Cloud solution enables organizations to securely identify and connect with customers across channels and manage their profiles, preferences and consent settings throughout an engagement.

鈥淏2B commerce is undergoing a tremendous shift in parallel to what we鈥檙e seeing in B2C commerce,鈥� said Bob Stutz, president, Customer Experience, 麻豆原创. 鈥淐onsumers and now businesses are in control of their e-commerce experience, and they expect the best. With 麻豆原创 Commerce Cloud, organizations courting business buyers can be sure they are offering a top-notch digital commerce experience and building lasting relationships.鈥�

To read an excerpt of the September 2020 report, please visit (doc # US45741520).

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*鈥淚DC MarketScape: Worldwide B2B Digital Commerce Platforms 2020 Vendor Assessment,鈥� doc # US45741520, International Data Corporation, October 2020.
**鈥淚DC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled B2B Digital Commerce Platforms 2018 Vendor Assessment,鈥� doc #US43262518, International Data Corporation, September 2018.

Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as 鈥渁nticipate,鈥� 鈥渂elieve,鈥� 鈥渆stimate,鈥� 鈥渆xpect,鈥� 鈥渇orecast,鈥� 鈥渋ntend,鈥� 鈥渕ay,鈥� 鈥減lan,鈥� 鈥減roject,鈥� 鈥減redict,鈥� 鈥渟hould鈥� and 鈥渨ill鈥� and similar expressions as they relate to 麻豆原创 are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. 麻豆原创 undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The factors that could affect 麻豆原创’s future financial results are discussed more fully in 麻豆原创’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including 麻豆原创’s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.
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Using the IDC MarketScape鈥檚 comprehensive assessment framework and customer feedback gathered through online surveys and phone interviews, the study analyzed 15 vendors offering implementation services for 麻豆原创 with a focus on next-generation 麻豆原创 products. The study indicated an increase in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA adoption. It noted, 鈥淎ll vendors have dedicated offerings and joint go-to-market strategies with 麻豆原创 in place to help enterprises transition to 麻豆原创 S/4HANA.鈥� Two primary categories, capabilities and strategies, served as key measures of short- and long-term success. 麻豆原创 was named a leader.

鈥淲ith each of our offerings, including next-generation implementation services, 麻豆原创 prioritizes our customers鈥� innovation and digital transformations to help them achieve critical business objectives,鈥� said Shane Paladin, president, Services, 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淎s 麻豆原创 aims to support customers in their journeys to becoming intelligent enterprises, we are honored to be recognized as a leader among next-generation implementation service providers.鈥�

According to the study: 鈥溌槎乖� utilizes its services, support and tools to help its customers deliver the valuable experiences to their own end customers.鈥� The study noted under 麻豆原创鈥檚 strengths, 鈥淏uyers rate 麻豆原创 highly for providing appropriate and high-quality resources for 麻豆原创 projects and for utilizing proven 麻豆原创 services delivery methodologies/tools. Similarly, IDC values 麻豆原创鈥檚 client adoption strategy and the company鈥檚 next-generation tools/IP strategy.鈥�

As the study states: 鈥淭o meet 麻豆原创 customers鈥� unique needs, 麻豆原创 services are delivered holistically by 麻豆原创 Services and Support or as a complement to the services of 麻豆原创 ecosystem and partners.鈥�

麻豆原创 offers expert support at every step of each customer鈥檚 digital transformation journey.

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About IDC MarketScape: IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor鈥檚 position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as 鈥渁nticipate,鈥� 鈥渂elieve,鈥� 鈥渆stimate,鈥� 鈥渆xpect,鈥� 鈥渇orecast,鈥� 鈥渋ntend,鈥� 鈥渕ay,鈥� 鈥減lan,鈥� 鈥減roject,鈥� 鈥減redict,鈥� 鈥渟hould鈥� and 鈥渨ill鈥� and similar expressions as they relate to 麻豆原创 are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. 麻豆原创 undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The factors that could affect 麻豆原创’s future financial results are discussed more fully in 麻豆原创’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including 麻豆原创’s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates.
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The report states that 麻豆原创 offers leading-edge financial technology, machine learning, Big Data and analytics and cites 麻豆原创鈥檚 strength in technology investment, noting that the 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Finance solution includes innovations such as machine learning, continuous close features and automation through robotics processing. The IDC MarketScape also cited 麻豆原创鈥檚 rapid implementation methodology as a strength, with 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Finance implementation possible within a month using 麻豆原创 Activate methodology where standard best practice processes, localized for 43 countries, can be used out of the box.

Globalization was also listed as a key strength, making 麻豆原创 particularly attractive for large multinational, multientity organizations for which localization can be cumbersome and costly. The report states that 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud Finance is adept at supporting even the most complex globalization demands including local legal guidelines and reporting standards.

“The ground underneath the feet of today’s financial professional is rapidly shifting to digital,鈥� said Kevin Permenter, research manager, IDC’s Enterprise Applications. 鈥淚t will be the companies with the right mix of talent and software tools that will be best able to thrive within these changing conditions. Software vendors that prioritize features that provide enhanced visibility, flexibility and agility will find themselves well positioned for future growth.”

With its industry-leading financial solutions and global approach, 麻豆原创 is poised for accelerated adoption as the finance industry worldwide continues its record pace of digitalization.

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About IDC MarketScape: IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor鈥檚 position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

*IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Enterprise Finance and Accounting Applications 2020 Vendor Assessment 鈥揇oc #US45837320, May 2020.

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• ¹聽鈥� This report noted the ability of 麻豆原创 S/4HANA to effectively manage complexity and promote sustainability by providing a clear view into business challenges with innovations like machine learning and artificial intelligence.
• ² 鈥� This assessment of ERP for professional services organizations highlights innovation in user experience in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA and the visibility that this software provides across the business from pursuit to engagement closeout.
• ³ 鈥� This assessment of ERP for midmarket businesses recognizes the critical capabilities 麻豆原创 S/4HANA provides to help ensure effective organizational navigation and market growth.

麻豆原创’s leadership position in these reports is due in part to its strengths in technology investment in 麻豆原创 S/4HANA, including innovations in integrated ERP, which incorporates intelligence into the fabric of the design with machine learning, continuous close features and automation through robotics processing. IDC MarketScape also indicated globalization as a critical strength in the reports, making 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud highly attractive to large multinational, multientity organizations for whom localization can be cumbersome and costly. In addition, 麻豆原创 was also recently named a Leader in .⁴

鈥淪ervice organizations, midmarket businesses and large enterprises are modernizing and transforming their enterprise application profiles, and ERP is at the top of their list,鈥� said Mickey North Rizza, IDC program vice of enterprise applications and digital commerce. 鈥淪aaS and cloud-enabled ERP systems like 麻豆原创 S/4HANA are in high demand because they deliver a timely and holistic view into business operations and processes. This is more critical than ever as many navigate turbulent markets.鈥�

With its industry-leading PSA, midmarket business and large enterprise ERP applications, 麻豆原创 is positioned to meet the needs of digital businesses and enterprises of all types while empowering them to be more resilient.

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About IDC MarketScape: IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor鈥檚 position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

1. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Large Enterprise ERP Applications 2020 Vendor Assessment 鈥� Doc #USUS45971820, July 2020.
2. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled PSA ERP Applications 2020 Vendor Assessment 鈥� Doc #US45971920, July 2020.
3. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Medium-Sized/Midmarket Business ERP Applications 2020 Vendor Assessment 鈥� Doc #US45972120, July 2020.
4. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Enterprise Finance and Accounting Applications 2020 Vendor Assessment 鈥� Doc #US45837320, May 2020.

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In those reports, IDC stated that 鈥溌槎乖� Business ByDesign is easy to navigate, with over 500 standardized reports, dozens of prebuilt KPIs and real-time analytics.鈥� They also wrote: 鈥淩eferences noted this is one of the best technology companies communicating their future direction and road map.鈥�

With SMEs accounting for about 80 percent of its customer base, 麻豆原创 understands their need to optimize and simplify IT processes. 麻豆原创 Business One is 麻豆原创鈥檚 flagship small business software to streamline and add intelligence to business processes, including financials, without burdening an IT team. 麻豆原创 Business ByDesign is a single cloud ERP solution for bringing intelligence and automation to fast-growing, midmarket businesses. It enables nimble management of financials, logistics, procurement, shipping and human resources. In the IDC reports, both solutions were recognized for driving digital transformation and customer service.

At the recent , 麻豆原创 announced 12 months of free access for partners to test and demo systems on 麻豆原创 Business ByDesign and 麻豆原创 S/4HANA Cloud to help partners accelerate their customers鈥� journey to recovery.

鈥溌槎乖� believes that the most successful business outcomes should always drive software strategy, not the other way around,鈥� said Subhomoy Sengupta, global head, go-to-market, SME solutions, 麻豆原创 SE. 鈥淥ur role in that is delivering intelligent solutions that meet our SME customers鈥� specific needs for agility and flexibility to achieve those outcomes. Our intelligent solutions further enable SMEs to grow into market leaders who are driving innovation, disrupting entire industries and delivering unique experiences, even in times of uncertainty.鈥�

MarketScape provides detailed quantitative and qualitative assessments in a variety of technology markets based on several criteria that impact a vendor鈥檚 market success. Each IDC MarketScape issue is informed by IDC鈥檚 global research assets and rigorous scoring methodology.

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*鈥�,鈥� Doc #US46635120, IDC, July 2020.
**鈥�,鈥� Doc #US45972120, IDC, July 2020.

According to the report: 鈥溌槎乖�’s mission is to enable the company’s customers to achieve competitive advantage and advance in planning maturity in the world of the modern digital supply chain, a world of highly variable demand and complex supply networks. This is achieved by providing a seamless, user-friendly planning platform (麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning) to enable low-latency planning and re-planning across supply chain functions.鈥�

麻豆原创 Integrated Business Planning helps customers optimize their businesses for productivity, and recent updates include the infusion of machine learning throughout the solution. This enables real-time, continuous, event-driven and automated planning, and close interoperability with finance, execution and business networks.

鈥溌槎乖� Integrated Business Planning helped us improve forecast valuation process speed and frequency including the decrease in manual workload and increase in valuation accuracy. It鈥檚 bridging the gap between supply and financial communities,鈥� said R茅my Cointreau Group Applications Manager Julien Lecacheur.

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About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor鈥檚 position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

*鈥淚DC MarketScape: Worldwide Overall Supply Chain Planning 2019 Vendor Assessment,鈥� doc #US45863417, January 2020
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