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        Blue Yonder is Provider of Merit in Workforce Management Basics Buyers Guide

        We are happy to share some insights about Blue Yonder drawn from our latest market research, Ventana Research Buyers Guide: Workforce Management, which assesses how well providers’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.  

        We recently published two Ventana Research Workforce Management Buyers Guides, an assessment of technology providers and products that provide individual and combined VR_BG_WFMBasics_Logo_2024human capital management and workforce management platform support. At Ventana Research, we continue to believe that, for most use-cases, there is a clear choice for workforce management platforms for any use in your enterprise. We developed two technology assessments and buyers guides to focus on Basics and Suite platforms. 

        In all of our Buyers Guides, we utilize a structured research methodology called the Value Index that includes evaluation categories designed to reflect real-world criteria incorporated in a request for proposal (RFP) and provider selection process for workforce management basics and suites. We evaluated Blue Yonder in seven categories, five relevant to the product (adaptability, capability, manageability, reliability and usability) and two related to the provider (TCO/ROI and provider validation).  

        In the Workforce Management Basics Buyers Guide, our analysis classified Blue Yonder as a provider of Merit, receiving an overall grade of B++ with a 79.6% performance. Blue Yonder’sVentana_Research_BG_WFMBasics_Blue_Yonder_2024 best grouped results came in Product Experience at 82.2% performance and an A- grade due in part to its A- in Capability. In Customer Experience, Blue Yonder received a B grade with a 65.0% performance due to its 65.0% performance in TCO/ROI.  

        Blue Yonder’s A- grade in Product Experience was impacted by its A- in Usability, where it could improve accessibility by better use of NLP for text and voice interactions. Customer Experience was impacted by its B grade in Validation, where it could increase the number of references and case studies. 

        Blue Yonder performed best in Product Experience with an A- grade, notably receiving an A- in Usability due to its well-rounded accessibility, with web and distinctive useful features supported. Blue Yonder performed well in Customer Experience with a B grade, notably receiving a B in TCO/ROI due to the usefulness of documentation, quality and resources provided to guide preparation of business case. 

        Blue Yonder did not meet the inclusion criteria for the Workforce Management Suites Buyers Guide and thus was not included. 

        This assessment was based on Workforce Management, v. 2023.2.0, released December 2023.

        This research-based guide is the most comprehensive assessment of the value of workforce management software in the industry. Technology buyers can learn more about how to use our Buyers Guide by clicking here and included software providers that wish to learn more can click here. Click below to read the individual executive summaries: 

        Workforce Management Basics 

        Workforce Management Suites 

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