When it comes to services spend, many organizations find it difficult to manage. CPO Innovation reports that “services spending can range from almost 50% to 80% of what firms buy from outside vendors.”

A competitive analysis on Xeeva is difficult because the source-to-pay provider doesn’t just compete against the handful of players trying to bring machine learning and AI to the S2P space. It also takes on all of the traditional source-to-pay vendors who offer modern sourcing experiences, especially if they are augmented with market intelligence, best practices, community intelligence or other modern “guided” capabilities that can help a buyer make a better decision. That’s basically what buyers...