Categories: Analysis, Breaking News, Industry News, M&A, Services Procurement & Contingent Labor Management, Solution Providers, SOW Earlier this week, Beeline, one of the two largest vendor management system (VMS) providers, announced it was acquiring Utmost, a services procurement and total talent management SaaS vendor that is at once both “worker-” and “procurement-”centric, a combination which represents quite an evolutionary shift in the market (whilst making HR a greater stakeholder at the table, alongside procurement). This two-part Spend Matters PRO brief provides a 10,000-foot view of the combination (i.e., what it means to combine a classic VMS and Utmost’s more worker/talent-centric approach) and key takeaways and recommendations for customers, MSPs and the broader market. In the first installment, to set the stage, we explore what comprises the classic elements of a VMS like Beeline, where Utmost approaches things a bit differently and what this will bring to Beeline … |