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JAGGAER offers cloud-based software for sourcing and purchasing that is designed to organize and manage the processes in which organizations buy goods or services from their suppliers. When those items are used to create an organization’s products or services, it is called direct or strategic spend, while buying things like office supplies and computers needed to operate the organization is called indirect spend. For a business that deals in products, direct spend is a significant element of...

As an organization transitions from being smaller and more informally managed to a larger business, it typically needs formal processes and controls. These ensure accurate financial reporting and protect the organization’s assets. These controls include, for example, systematic reviews and approvals, a second signature for the disbursement of material amounts, supervision when creating and removing customer accounts and three-way matching of invoices.

The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications, as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT.

The use of technology to manage source-to-pay as an end-to-end process beginning with vendor selection has grown significantly over the past five years. (Procure-to-pay is a related process that begins after vendor selection and P2P is a commonly used abbreviation covering both.) Organizations are looking to increase efficiency while promoting greater effectiveness by strategically taking early payment discounts, having more immediate and deeper insight into spend to achieve greater control and...

The use of technology to manage procure-to-pay as an end-to-end process has grown significantly over the past five years as organizations look to increase efficiency while promoting greater effectiveness. Beyond efficiency gains, benefits include strategically maximizing early payment discounts, having more immediate and deeper insight into spend to achieve greater control and optimizing supplier relationships. The related and often interchangeable term, source-to-pay, views the process...

Today, technology has the ability to significantly increase the efficiency with which organizations handle expenditures while simultaneously containing costs, increasing controls and improving visibility into where the money is going. Procure-to-pay software enables organizations to manage the end-to-end process of requesting, procuring, receiving and paying for goods and services. The related and often interchangeable category of source-to-pay software begins with the process of securing the...