Rosslyn: Healthy Growth and Exploiting a Growing Niche in DIY Spend Visibility (Part 1)

By on October 13, 2010

Rosslyn Analytics, like Spend Radar and Vendormate, two other young, upstart providers in the spend analysis and supplier management areas, has been going through a very strong period of growth in the past year. In a recent call with Rosslyn CEO Charles Clark, Spend Matters learned that the firm is up to 35 employees and will cross the 40 threshold by year’s end. In addition, the vendor, which has built a name for itself in the UK market by delivering a strong data acquisition capability and user interface as part of its spend analysis offering, is looking to expand its presence and operations in the US as well (Rosslyn was recently featured at the recent AECSoft event if that is any indication of partnerships to come).

How should we look at Rosslyn in the context of other spend analysis providers? In comparison to SAP’s new Spend Performance Management offering (which leverages Analytics, Inc. decades-old IP base), Spend Radar and Zycus, feedback from Rosslyn users suggests that their cleansing/classification capability while solid, may not be quite capable as the strongest leaders in this area, especially from a self-service perspective. However, I would suggest that their cleansing/classification capabilities — which are often carried out as a service — compare reasonably well to Ariba, Emptoris, BravoSolution, Oracle and others.

Outside of automated cleansing/classification, the application is top notch in terms of analytics and usability…

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Obsessed with how companies manage, spend and save money, Jason writes about procurement, trade and supply chain issues @ Spend Matters. He has significant first hand experience developing and marketing technology and services products, has advised numerous companies on sourcing and related techniques as well as M&A pursuits.  In previous lives before tech, he was a management consultant and merchant banking analyst.

2 responses to “Rosslyn: Healthy Growth and Exploiting a Growing Niche in DIY Spend Visibility (Part 1)”

  1. Spend Analytics
    Spend Analytics October 19, 2010 at 9:54 am |

    Nice article. I think it depends what your requirements are really as to whether Rosslyn are the best option for you. Their website is certainly very cool!

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