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James Holincheck
Managing VP
8 years at Gartner
22 years IT industry

Jim Holincheck is a managing VP in Gartner Research, where he manages the team that covers finance, human capital management (HCM) and procurement. He specializes in the HCM systems market. In this role, he helps provide a bridge between… Read Full Bio

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Market Landscape for Contingent Workforce Management Solutions

by Jim Holincheck  |  December 28, 2005  |  2 Comments

I sometimes get questions from clients about solutions for contingent workforce management. We have not done a MarketScope or Magic Quadrant on this market at this point. However, it is an area that we are monitoring and I will be publishing a more detailed note in 2006. In the interim, I thought I would post a listing of vendors that have solutions in this space. There are five main categories of vendors in the market:

Procurement-Focused Vendors — These niche vendors really target the procurement organization with their solutions and are evolving into platforms for broader services procurement.

Agile-1   Covendis   eLance   eWork   Fieldglass   IQNavigator   nextSource   WorkforceLogic   ZeroChaos

HR-Focused Vendors — These vendors come from an HR-background (recruitment) and have either built their own solution or have acquired a procurement-focused vendor.

PeopleClick   Recruitmax   Taleo   VirtualEdge

Subsidiaries of Staffing Firms — These providers offer vendor-neutral software and service solutions but are separate entities from their staffing service parents.

Beeline  CHIMES

Staffing Firms — Some of the large staffing firms offer software and managed services for contingent workforce management.

ProcureStaff (Volt)   UltraSource (Manpower)   Workcard (Adecco)

Enterprise Application Vendors — These vendors offer broader ERP solutions.

Oracle   Oracle PeopleSoft   SAP

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  • 1 Harsha Raghavan   July 11, 2006 at 10:07 am

    Hi Jim: Good post in breaking down the vendor categories. We think the industry is headed in this direction and I wanted to help add a few more names to this list.

    1. Comensura
    2. Hyrian
    3. Rose Intl
    4. ProUnlimited

  • 2 Interested   December 5, 2006 at 1:51 pm

    Does anyone have any experience of the Ariba offering in this space – Ariba Category Procurement?