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The Forrester Wave: eProcurement Solutions, Q2 2007

Overview eProcurement solutions play a key role in improving purchasing processes in enterprises through automating requisitions and purchase orders for goods and services, decentralizing buying, connecting to suppliers directly, and improving employee compliance with preferred supplier policies. Using a combination of vendor surveys, product demos, and client references, Forrester evaluated 14 leading eProcurement solutions vendors across 118 criteria and found that Ariba, BasWare, Oracle iProcurement (Oracle), Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise eProcurement (PeopleSoft), and SAP established eProcurement leadership for overall goods and services buying and supplier support.

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Publisher	Forrester Research	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2007	Downloads	7
Format	White Papers
Topics	Procurement - Purchasing, E-procurement

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