

Provide underlying data governance and platform integration to securely orchestrate this broader ecosystem without “application anarchy” and “shadow IT”įor procurement leaders and their peers in supply chain, finance and IT, this means a procurement technology architecture that emphasizes “and” rather than “or” - that is, the ability to combine multiple types of solution into offerings greater than the sum of their parts rather than having lose-lose battles between an ERP-only CIO and a best-of-breed-centered CPO.



The way businesses evaluate and buy software is beginning to evolve, and the vendors positioned to win in this new wave are those that embrace a mantra of customer-centricity, agility and “openness.” They create customer value by building an ecosystem of not just their own proprietary application suites and underlying technology but an integrated ecosystem of other tools.įor decades now, organizations assessing potential technology solutions have restricted themselves to mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive (MECE) categorizations oriented toward functional heads and process owners - process-centric applications and suites that meet strict criteria for being called “S2P,” “P2P” or “SVM” (or whatever your chosen acronym is).
