IQNavigator is a vendor that specializes in services procurement solutions through its Vendor Management System

Vendor Management System

A vendor management system is an Internet-enabled, often Web-based application that acts as a mechanism for business to manage and procure staffing services – temporary, and, in some cases, permanent placement services – as well as outside contract or contingent labor...

 (VMS) and Managed Services

Managed services

Managed services is the practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibility as a strategic method for improved effective and efficient operations inclusive of Production Support and lifecycle build/maintenance activities...

 offerings.
In 2010 IQNavigator was recognized as the leading services procurement software vendor by Forrester Research, Inc.

Forrester Research

Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Forrester Research has five research centers in the US: Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York; San Francisco, California;...

 in The Forrester Wave™: Services Procurement, Q3 2010 (September 2010). Forrester indicated that “IQNavigator provides an all-around excellent solution.”

Company Overview

Privately funded, IQNavigator, Inc was founded in April 1999 and focuses on helping companies achieve competitive advantage through talent management

Talent management

Talent management refers to the skills of attracting highly skilled workers, of integrating new workers, and developing and retaining current workers to meet current and future business objectives. Talent management in this context does not refer to the management of entertainers...

. The company has headquarters in Denver, Colorado and London, England, along with satellite locations throughout Europe and Asia. IQNavigator’s Vendor Management System is a Software-as-a-Service

Saas

SAAS is an abbreviation for* Social Accountability Accreditation Services* Software as a service * Student Awards Agency for Scotland* Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences* South Australian Ambulance Service...

 platform.

Awards

2010 – Finalist CSIA Apex Awards’ Titan of Technology

2009 – Finalist American Business Awards (Fastest Growing Company and Best New Service categories)

2009 – Winner Red Herring 100 Award

2009 – Finalist Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year

2009 – Winner Denver Business Journal’s Outstanding Business Woman of the Year

Customers

Home Depot

Alcatel-Lucent

Accenture

CUNA Mutual Group

Dell

Nike

Sony

Northrup Grumman

Xcel Energy

Xcel Energy

Xcel Energy, Inc. is a public utility company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. Primary services are electricity and natural gas...

 

See also

• VMS

Vendor Management System

A vendor management system is an Internet-enabled, often Web-based application that acts as a mechanism for business to manage and procure staffing services – temporary, and, in some cases, permanent placement services – as well as outside contract or contingent labor...

 

• Software as a Service

Saas

SAAS is an abbreviation for* Social Accountability Accreditation Services* Software as a service * Student Awards Agency for Scotland* Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences* South Australian Ambulance Service...

 

• Procurement

Procurement

Procurement is the acquisition of goods or services. It is favourable that the goods/services are appropriate and that they are procured at the best possible cost to meet the needs of the purchaser in terms of quality and quantity, time, and location...

 

• Contingent Labor 

• Cloud Computing

Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....

 

• Business Intelligence

Business intelligence

Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....

 

• Permatemp

Permatemp

A permatemp is an employee whose status is somewhere between a temporary employee and a permanent employee. The word is a portmanteau of the words permanent and temporary.There are two types of permatemp employment relationships...

 

• Contingent Workforce

Contingent Workforce

A contingent workforce is a provisional group of workers who work for an organization on a non-permanent basis, also known as freelancers, independent professionals, temporary contract workers, independent contractors or consultants...

 

• Independent Contractor

Independent contractor

An independent contractor is a natural person, business, or corporation that provides goods or services to another entity under terms specified in a contract or within a verbal agreement. Unlike an employee, an independent contractor does not work regularly for an employer but works as and when...