

These are API-based integrations, not punchouts to each platform.

As we note in Part 2 of our Vendor Snapshot series on Beeline, “A unique feature of Beeline Self-Sourcing is the integration with external platforms.

This solution comes on the heels of Beeline’s initiatives to expand the value proposition of the core VMS in a similar direction. (Stay tuned for a Spend Matters PRO research brief on this new offering in the coming weeks.) In addition to the SOW/services management comment above, we can now add independent/freelance workforce and online marketplaces, as SAP Fieldglass recently introduced its new digital services offering, which preconnects popular independent/freelance workforce and online marketplaces directly into its core application. A range of VMS solution providers have, to greater or lesser degree, begun to address those requirements, in particular, SOW/services management.” The VMS as Hub, Not Island And that’s because the stage itself is changing.Īs we note in a Spend Matters PRO research brief, The Venerable VMS: A Situation and SWOT Analysis of the VMS Solution Category, “Business requirements have begun to expand beyond contingent workforce management to the management of SOWs/services, directly sourced independent/freelance workforce and online marketplaces. Yet, if you excuse the musical analogy, the traditions might not be as important as, say, those in Fiddler on the Roof. But if so, we’ve got to treat the two main actors, Beeline and SAP Fieldglass, differently from the rest, given the duopoly position that the two find themselves in within the traditional VMS market. Is it time to shine a new type of spotlight on the contingent workforce and vendor management system (VMS) stage? Perhaps.
