7EB V1 Edition (c) 2026-09-27
Still totally useless, but still slightly less useless than every other logo map that clogs your feed!
1. Every vendor url still valid and active as of 3 days ago! (w.r.t. posting date)
2. Every vendor logo is clickable and takes you to a live site (as of 3 days ago w.r.t. posting date)!
3. Every vendor is mapped to a meaningful category as of the last date of analyst investigation!*
So what’s the point? Click here for the full explanation that has been moved to the end of the post (as it’s the same as last time).
In summary, let this be proof that there are a lot of logos in our ProcureTech+ space and that, if you want logos, you got logos!
888 of them!
Enjoy!
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| Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) |
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| Supplier Management (SXM) |
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| Invoice-to-Pay (I2P) / Accounts Payable (AP) |
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| Intake-Manage-Orchestrate |
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| Contingent Workforce Management |
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To again make it utterly clear you can’t select a vendor based on a random grouping of logos on a map, even if they are categorized! (And especially if the solution has not been human reviewed and verified!)
Not even if the map categorizes the vendors by market size, industry, and/or geography. Those are just proxies for organizational spend, solution needs and cultural requirements. Not every mid-market manufacturing plant in the USA is the same.
The only way to select a good vendor is to follow a proper assisted process and engage an expert who understands what vendors are out there to identify the right vendors to invite to the RFP process once your true needs have been identified.
Especially considering the true number of vendors out there is many times more than what an average big analyst firm will tell you, especially when they restrict their recommendations to their paying clients in their maps, and multiples of what an average big consultancy will tell you, especially when that consultancy only knows their partner solutions (that they need to maintain significant focus on to maintain their preferred partner status).
So, what’s the value?
As we explain in detail in the real value of the sourcing innovation mega map, it shows you
- why you need proper proper assisted solution selection (and we can’t stress this enough)
- how dynamic the space is:
- 2 more companies are gone in just 8 months
- 8+ companies have been acquired or renamed
- there are just too many options for an average buyer to make sense of
- quite a few vendors ARE NOT GOOD (for you at least) by statistics alone
P.S. Generally, logo size means nothing — logos were scaled to be readable. However, in this 7EB V1 preliminary version of the 2027 Mega Map, new vendor logos are 25% larger. (These new vendor logos will be scaled back in size 25%, or all the other logos scaled up 25%, in the final version, likely released in January after the annual culling when walking dead vendors typically go into liquidation or shutdown or acquired vendors get full absorbed into the acquiring company.)
* Some vendors haven’t been reviewed in a few years, so offerings may be more extensive than what was originally offered, or may have changed focus. (One analyst can only review so many vendors a year!)
