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Our Vendor Enablement Program helps vendors like you stand out from the pack and gain visibility with potential buyers. Our insights – curated from many years of measuring top performance – identify the decision factors most important to your buyers.
Understand the market and your ability to drive growth
Our program identifies what decision-makers in your market segment really value and how you can deliver that value better than the competition. Combining empirical, data-driven insights and a cutting-edge evaluation method, The Hackett Group better positions you to accelerate sales.
Members of the Vendor Enablement Program have access to:
Featured Insights
Digital World Class Matrix™: Contract Life-Cycle Management and Intelligence Software Provider Research – Summary Report
This research evaluates and ranks 21 top software providers in AI-powered contract life-cycle management (CLM) and intelligence on market presence, capability range, and value creation. Download The Hackett Group’s summary report to identify potential solutions that meet your organization’s requirements.
Business Excelleration® Podcast
Provider Perspective: HCM Software Digital World Class Matrix™
In this episode of the Business Excelleration® Podcast, Andy Warzecha, Harry Osle, and Matt Merker share insights from The Hackett Group’s Digital World Class Matrix™ for human capital management (HCM) providers. They explore how advanced HCM technology can streamline processes, deliver actionable insights from precise data and bridge productivity gaps.
A first-of-its-kind objective rating of performance impact
Digital World Class Matrix™ reports are grounded in real-world, empirical data gathered through our benchmarking studies and market research.
The Digital World Class Matrix™ represents a paradigm shift in evaluating technology solutions
With in-depth process knowledge and an understanding of what it takes to become Digital World Class®, we measure the degree to which vendors and offerings help companies generate return on investment and achieve better business outcomes.
We group offerings based on particular business or functional process areas – for example, a particular customer-to-cash process or third-party risk management. Then, we assess offerings based on two dimensions: capability breadth and value realization.
Which software and outsourcing solutions are covered?
Includes rating reports on software and outsourcing solutions that cover cash application, collection and dispute management, order and contract management, and other related areas.
Includes rating reports on software and outsourcing solutions that support the hire-to-retire process and other related areas.
Includes ratings reports on software and outsourcing solutions that support the source-to-pay process and related areas.
How we build Market Intelligence Reports
For each vendor participating in a particular study, we gather the following information:
Vendor survey
Features, functions and market breadth/depth of implementation
Vendor strategy session
Articulated strategy and unique points of strength
Buyer reference checks
Interviews with selected end users
End-user survey
Questions designed to assess clients’ experience and satisfaction, as well as the offering’s performance impact
We know what to measure … and why it matters
The Hackett Group knows how the world’s best businesses achieve peak performance. Based on our unmatched data, we have crafted a practical approach that focuses on what differentiates Digital World Class® performance – and how to target those areas.
How we evaluate performance impact
We compare aggregated client survey responses against our benchmarking data to measure performance relative to that of Digital World Class® organizations.
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