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Buy Rating Affirmed for Research Solutions on Robust Growth and Strategic Acquisitions

Analyst Allen Klee of Maxim Group reiterated a Buy rating on Research Solutions ( RSSS – Research Report ), with a price target of $6.00.

Allen Klee has given his Buy rating due to a combination of factors that signal strong performance and potential for Research Solutions. Klee’s analysis points to the company’s impressive third-quarter fiscal year 24 results, which exceeded expectations with a year-over-year revenue increase of 17% and a significant rise in adjusted EBITDA by 72%. This financial health is further bolstered by an expansion in company-wide gross margin and a reduction in one-time charges. The high-margin Platforms segment, in particular, showcased robust growth with a 76% revenue increase and the successful addition of net new customers, cementing its role as a pivotal driver of long-term value for the company. Furthermore, Klee’s confidence in Research Solutions is reinforced by their strategic growth initiatives, including new product launches and the acquisitions of ResoluteAI and Scite, which have enhanced the company’s offerings and financial outlook. The company’s strong cash position with no debt and projections for positive free cash flow suggest a solid foundation for organic growth. Klee also notes the attractive valuation of Research Solutions’ stock, which trades at a multiple significantly lower than the peer group average, offering a compelling investment case for upside potential. This, combined with raised estimates for future fiscal years and a price target based on industry-standard revenue multiples, underpins the Buy recommendation.

In another report released yesterday, Lake Street also reiterated a Buy rating on the stock with a $5.00 price target.

RSSS’s price has also changed moderately for the past six months – from $2.340 to $2.910, which is a 24.36% increase.

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Research Solutions, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of information technology. Its services include Platforms and Transactions. The Platform service offers annual licenses that allow customers to access and utilize certain premium features of cloud based software-as-a-service research intelligence platform. The Transactions services give transactional sale of published scientific, technical, and medical content managed, sourced, and delivered through the platform. The company was founded by Peter Victor Derycz on November 2, 2006 and is headquartered in Encino, CA.

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Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS ) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript May 11, 2024

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Operator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this Research Solutions, Inc. Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode, and later, you will have the opportunity to ask questions during the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please note this call may be recorded. I will be standing by should you need any assistance. It is now my pleasure to turn today's program over to John Beisler with Investor Relations.

John Beisler: Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for Research Solutions' third quarter fiscal 2024 earnings call. On the call today are Roy W. Olivier, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Bill Nurthen, Chief Financial Officer. After the market closed this afternoon, the Company issued a press release announcing its results for the third quarter of fiscal 2024. The release is available on the Company's website at researchsolutions.com. Before Roy and Bill begin their prepared remarks, I would like to remind you that some of the statements made today will be forward-looking and made under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied due to a variety of factors.

We refer you to Research Solutions' recent filings with the SEC for a more detailed discussion of the risks that could impact the Company's future operating results and financial conditions. Also on today's call, management will reference certain non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe provide useful information for investors. A reconciliation of those measures to GAAP measures is included in the earnings release issued earlier this afternoon. Finally, I would like to remind everyone this call will be recorded and made available for replay via a link on the Company's website. I would now like to turn the call over to Roy W. Olivier. Roy?

Bill Nurthen: Roy, you may be on mute.

Roy Olivier: I'm on mute. You think I haven't done this before? Thank you, John, and thank you, Bill. As we've discussed on previous calls, it is our strategy to reimagine and improve the research workflow. Our recent acquisitions are a big part of that journey's success. After a few months of performance from Scite and Resolute, I remain excited and committed to the vision and how Scite and Resolute fits into that. We had strong quarterly results in terms of overall growth, adjusted EBITDA and cash flow from operations. The results are starting to show the ability of the business to scale as we continue this journey. The quarter represents a run rate of more than $48 million in revenue, with $16 million in SaaS platform revenue and approximately $32 million in document delivery or transaction revenue.

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Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:RSSS) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS ) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript May 11, 2024

Research Solutions, Inc. isn’t one of the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds at the end of the third quarter ( see the details here ).

Operator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this Research Solutions, Inc. Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode, and later, you will have the opportunity to ask questions during the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please note this call may be recorded. I will be standing by should you need any assistance. It is now my pleasure to turn today's program over to John Beisler with Investor Relations.

John Beisler: Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for Research Solutions' third quarter fiscal 2024 earnings call. On the call today are Roy W. Olivier, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Bill Nurthen, Chief Financial Officer. After the market closed this afternoon, the Company issued a press release announcing its results for the third quarter of fiscal 2024. The release is available on the Company's website at researchsolutions.com. Before Roy and Bill begin their prepared remarks, I would like to remind you that some of the statements made today will be forward-looking and made under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied due to a variety of factors.

We refer you to Research Solutions' recent filings with the SEC for a more detailed discussion of the risks that could impact the Company's future operating results and financial conditions. Also on today's call, management will reference certain non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe provide useful information for investors. A reconciliation of those measures to GAAP measures is included in the earnings release issued earlier this afternoon. Finally, I would like to remind everyone this call will be recorded and made available for replay via a link on the Company's website. I would now like to turn the call over to Roy W. Olivier. Roy?

Bill Nurthen: Roy, you may be on mute.

Roy Olivier: I'm on mute. You think I haven't done this before? Thank you, John, and thank you, Bill. As we've discussed on previous calls, it is our strategy to reimagine and improve the research workflow. Our recent acquisitions are a big part of that journey's success. After a few months of performance from Scite and Resolute, I remain excited and committed to the vision and how Scite and Resolute fits into that. We had strong quarterly results in terms of overall growth, adjusted EBITDA and cash flow from operations. The results are starting to show the ability of the business to scale as we continue this journey. The quarter represents a run rate of more than $48 million in revenue, with $16 million in SaaS platform revenue and approximately $32 million in document delivery or transaction revenue.

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Reprints Desk and Research Solutions were founded by Peter Derycz in 2006, and he continues to serve as its Chief Executive Officer and President. One of the architects of the “pay-as-you-go” approach to acquiring and delivering scientific information, he built Reprints Desk with a vision to simplify how organizations and individual researchers acquire scientific literature. From our early beginnings of providing full-text reprints simply and quickly, to developing a feature-rich cloud-based SaaS platform, our goal has remained the same — provide our customers with superior service for seamless, integrated and lowest cost literature acquisition.

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The dawn of the FemTech revolution

Women’s healthcare enables better outcomes for women patients and consumers, 1 The authors acknowledge the importance of healthcare to the transgender, nonbinary, and gender-fluid communities and that not all people who identify as women are born biologically female and vice versa. The focus of this paper is on women’s health support as related to a market segment specific to a certain biological sex. We recognize the need for future research into health issues that is inclusive of the transgender, nonbinary, and gender-fluid communities. Indeed, we intend to explore these needs in much greater detail in the months and years ahead. investors and other stakeholders across the value chain, and society at large. We explore many of these opportunities, and the broader context in which they have developed, in a related article, “ Unlocking opportunities in women’s healthcare .” In this article, we focus specifically on FemTech: defining what it means, taking the measure of its already impressive growth, and exploring its potential to help better match resources, talent, and capital to women’s unmet health needs.

Understanding FemTech

The term “FemTech” was first coined in 2016 by entrepreneur Ida Tin. In the course of just a few years, it has grown to encompass a range of technology-enabled, consumer-centric products and solutions.

About the authors

This article is a collaborative, global effort by Emma Kemble, Lucy Pérez , Valentina Sartori , Gila Tolub , and Alice Zheng, representing views from McKinsey’s Healthcare Systems & Services Practice.

For purposes of this research, we analyzed 763 FemTech companies, designated as largely tech-enabled, consumer-centric solutions addressing women’s health, excluding biopharma and incumbent medical devices. We included select nondigital consumer products (with materials science innovations), devices (that are patient friendly), and health clinics (that are consumer-centric). We excluded companies that are more than 20 years old or are not focused exclusively on women’s health (diagnostics, supplements, telemedicine). Companies with both men’s and women’s health solutions were included in the data set but were excluded from funding calculations.

In the course of just a few years, FemTech has grown to encompass a range of technology-enabled, consumer-centric products and solutions.

FemTech provides a wide range of solutions to improve healthcare for women across a number of female-specific conditions, including maternal health, menstrual health, pelvic and sexual health, fertility, menopause, and contraception, as well as a number of general health conditions that affect women disproportionately or differently (such as osteoporosis or cardiovascular disease). While it’s still early days, our research indicates that the dynamics underlying FemTech are accelerating: public awareness, company formation, and funding are surging (Exhibit 1).

FemTech companies are already validating their investment hypotheses. Among others, Progyny, which manages fertility benefits for employers, went public in 2019 at a valuation in excess of $1 billion; its current market capitalization is about $4 billion. And Maven Clinic, a virtual clinic for women’s and family health, was valued at more than $1 billion in a recent Series D investment. In fact, the opportunities for multiple players, including investors, researchers, providers, payers, and legacy pharmaceutical and medical-device companies, are becoming increasingly evident.

A market of opportunity

Depending on scope, estimates for FemTech’s current market size range from $500 million to $1 billion. Forecasts suggest opportunities for double-digit revenue growth. On the digital health front, FemTech companies currently receive 3 percent of all digital health funding . In our scan of hundreds of FemTech companies, we found concentration in maternal health patient support, consumer menstrual products, gynecological devices, and solutions in fertility. Funding reached $2.5 billion by early December 2021. In some cases, FemTech companies are filling gaps not yet addressed by biopharma and device incumbents, such as in the area of maternal health. Yet this is clearly, and promisingly, only the beginning of what FemTech can address. There are still significant white spaces (Exhibit 2).

On the cusp of disruption

FemTech companies could disrupt healthcare in a number of ways. Initial breakthroughs are already being achieved across a range of areas, including the following:

• Improving care delivery: Virtual clinics such as Tia, innovative brick-and-mortar clinics such as Kindbody, and direct-to-consumer prescription delivery services like those of The Pill Club, all enable women to access care in a more convenient, consumer-centric manner.
• Enabling self-care: Trackers and wearables offered by companies such as Bloomlife, and at-home diagnostics like those provided by Modern Fertility, are among the FemTech solutions that are helping women take greater charge of their health and health-related data.
• Improving diagnoses: Clinical diagnostics companies are pushing the scientific frontier to address unmet medical needs in areas such as endometriosis (DotLab) and preterm birth (Sera Prognostics).
• Addressing stigmatized areas: Companies are addressing what had been considered to be stigmatized topics head on, such as menstrual health (Thinx), sexual health (Rosy Wellness), pelvic care (Elvie), and menopause (Elektra Health).
• Delivering culturally sensitive and tailored care: Solutions tailored for subpopulations are emerging for Black women (such as Health in Her HUE), LGBTQ+ populations (FOLX Health), and women in low- and middle-income countries (Kasha).

The categories in which FemTech is having an impact are increasing—and also, in some cases, starting to evolve, overlap, and redefine themselves as FemTech companies begin to scale up and seek new ways to expand. For instance, Maven started in maternity care and then expanded across the reproductive life cycle. Peppy, which was founded to offer a solution for organizations to better support their people once they had brought their new babies home, now also addresses challenges around menopause. Other businesses, among them models that were launched on a direct-to-consumer model , are now seeking to obtain regulatory approval and reimbursement, as they build upon their experiences and real-world data to provide improved solutions for a broader set of stakeholders who benefit from better women’s healthcare.

Looking forward, early movers can stake out opportunities in prominent white spaces, including by leveraging technology to address women’s health issues beyond reproduction, and by helping to meet the needs of underserved populations such as low-income or minority communities. FemTech also presents significant partnership opportunities for legacy players in traditional sectors. Cosmetics leader L’Oréal, for example, recently unveiled a partnership with the period-tracking app Clue to deepen knowledge on the relationship between skin health and the menstrual cycle. As FemTech companies increasingly gain traction and change the competitive landscape, stakeholders within and beyond the healthcare ecosystem could well provide additional momentum.

Moreover, FemTech—and indeed, improved women’s healthcare overall—could help catalyze positive social changes across the healthcare ecosystem and beyond. Consider menopause, which frequently occurs when women are most likely to step into senior roles . Its effects can have an impact on the number of women in top positions and the quality of women’s experiences throughout organizations. 2 Jeneva Patterson, “It’s time to start talking about menopause at work,” Harvard Business Review , February 24, 2020. Deploying technological and consumer-centric solutions to address menopause can serve as a model and an enabler for future female leaders.

Along those lines, FemTech is powered to a significant extent by female entrepreneurs—more than 70 percent of FemTech companies we analyzed had at least one female founder, compared with a 20 percent norm for new companies. Indeed, across the value chain, a more inclusive, gender-aware healthcare system could help support more women to become inventors, investors, physicians, founders—and healthier human beings, solving for the health conditions of other human beings. Research has shown that when inventors set out to solve a health problem, male inventors are more likely to solve for a male-oriented condition; women-led teams solve for both. 3 John-Paul Ferguson, Rembrand Koning, and Sampsa Samila, “Who do we invent for? Patents by women focus more on women’s health, but few women get to invent,” Science , June 18, 2021, Volume 372, Number 6548, pp. 1345–48.

Increasing female representation among researchers, inventors, investors, and founders can create more consumer-centric products and solutions that recognize and target women’s specific healthcare needs. Indeed, the market is not just women consumers but also payers and providers that seek better products and tools to engage more effectively with women end consumers. FemTech solutions are not only achieving commercial success; they are contributing to the conditions for continued innovation. Because women are not just consumers but the primary healthcare decision-makers for themselves and often for their families, better health outcomes for women can lead to better outcomes for society.

As women’s healthcare becomes an increasing priority, FemTech is rising to meet the challenge as it matches capital and talent with unmet needs. In a short period of time, FemTech has already demonstrated impressive early wins. An even greater disruption could be ahead.

Emma Kemble is a consultant in McKinsey’s New Jersey office, Lucy Pérez is a senior partner in the Boston office, Valentina Sartori  is a partner in the Zurich office, Gila Tolub is a partner in the Tel Aviv office, and Alice Zheng is an alumna of the Silicon Valley office.

The authors wish to thank Angie Cui, Arshiya Fazal, Kat Guillen, Prithvi Kamadana, Peter Pfeiffer, Nikhil Sahni, Josh Sternberg, Nicole Szlezak, and Eli Weinberg for their contributions to this article.

References to companies presented as examples in this article do not represent an endorsement from McKinsey & Company.

This article was edited by David Schwartz, an executive editor in the Tel Aviv office.

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Advantage Solutions Inc. ( ADV Quick Quote ADV - Free Report ) could be a solid addition to your portfolio given its recent upgrade to a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). This upgrade primarily reflects an upward trend in earnings estimates, which is one of the most powerful forces impacting stock prices.

The sole determinant of the Zacks rating is a company's changing earnings picture. The Zacks Consensus Estimate -- the consensus of EPS estimates from the sell-side analysts covering the stock -- for the current and following years is tracked by the system.

The power of a changing earnings picture in determining near-term stock price movements makes the Zacks rating system highly useful for individual investors, since it can be difficult to make decisions based on rating upgrades by Wall Street analysts. These are mostly driven by subjective factors that are hard to see and measure in real time.

As such, the Zacks rating upgrade for Advantage Solutions is essentially a positive comment on its earnings outlook that could have a favorable impact on its stock price.

Most Powerful Force Impacting Stock Prices

The change in a company's future earnings potential, as reflected in earnings estimate revisions, has proven to be strongly correlated with the near-term price movement of its stock. The influence of institutional investors has a partial contribution to this relationship, as these big professionals use earnings and earnings estimates to calculate the fair value of a company's shares. An increase or decrease in earnings estimates in their valuation models simply results in higher or lower fair value for a stock, and institutional investors typically buy or sell it. Their transaction of large amounts of shares then leads to price movement for the stock.

For Advantage Solutions, rising earnings estimates and the consequent rating upgrade fundamentally mean an improvement in the company's underlying business. And investors' appreciation of this improving business trend should push the stock higher.

Harnessing the Power of Earnings Estimate Revisions

Empirical research shows a strong correlation between trends in earnings estimate revisions and near-term stock movements, so it could be truly rewarding if such revisions are tracked for making an investment decision. Here is where the tried-and-tested Zacks Rank stock-rating system plays an important role, as it effectively harnesses the power of earnings estimate revisions.

The Zacks Rank stock-rating system, which uses four factors related to earnings estimates to classify stocks into five groups, ranging from Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) to Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell), has an impressive externally-audited track record, with Zacks Rank #1 stocks generating an average annual return of +25% since 1988. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here >>>> .

Earnings Estimate Revisions for Advantage Solutions

For the fiscal year ending December 2024, this company is expected to earn $0.51 per share, which is a change of 368.4% from the year-ago reported number.

Analysts have been steadily raising their estimates for Advantage Solutions. Over the past three months, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the company has increased 2.8%.

Bottom Line

Unlike the overly optimistic Wall Street analysts whose rating systems tend to be weighted toward favorable recommendations, the Zacks rating system maintains an equal proportion of 'buy' and 'sell' ratings for its entire universe of more than 4000 stocks at any point in time. Irrespective of market conditions, only the top 5% of the Zacks-covered stocks get a 'Strong Buy' rating and the next 15% get a 'Buy' rating. So, the placement of a stock in the top 20% of the Zacks-covered stocks indicates its superior earnings estimate revision feature, making it a solid candidate for producing market-beating returns in the near term.

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The upgrade of Advantage Solutions to a Zacks Rank #2 positions it in the top 20% of the Zacks-covered stocks in terms of estimate revisions, implying that the stock might move higher in the near term.

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Solutions for a net zero world the focus of Sydney's newest research flagship

The Net Zero Institute , previously the Net Zero Initiative, brings together more than 150 researchers from across the University to develop solutions across various disciplines, from extracting critical minerals from waste and greenhouse gas removals to net zero health and green computing.

University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor and President Professor, Mark Scott AO, said: “Decarbonising our society and our economy so our kids and grandkids have a liveable planet is one of the greatest global challenges of our time.”

“Our  Sydney in 2032   strategy sets out our aspiration to be in the solutions business, bringing the considerable expertise of our diverse community of researchers together to partner with industry, government and civil society for the common good. I’m delighted that the Net Zero Institute is the first new multidisciplinary initiative to be supported under the strategy and I congratulate all those involved.”

The University’s research flagships, known as  multidisciplinary initiatives  (MDIs), aim to address some of the biggest challenges of our time, from the mental health crisis to reducing inequalities.

Director of the Net Zero Institute, Professor Deanna D'Alessandro. Image: Stefanie Zingsheim, University of Sydney

Professor  Deanna D'Alessandro  from the Faculty of Engineering will lead the Net Zero Institute with a focus on decarbonisation solutions in partnership with government, industry, business and communities; technologies and policies that allow for responsible and rapid adoption and impact.

The Institute already has established industry and scientific advisory boards comprising sector-leading experts from Worley, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Veolia, Origin, HSBC, Hyundai, Arnott’s, and Rio Tinto. Recently announced, the University of Sydney Business School will also offer an  executive Net Zero course  in partnership with HSBC Australia to support Australian corporates preparing for upcoming mandatory sustainability reporting.

Professor Emma Johnston , Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), said Professor D’Alessandro will lead the new multi-disciplinary Institute while continuing to play a direct role in driving the net zero mission forward. 

“Professor D’Alessandro is a world-leading researcher whose team worked with industry partners Southern Green Gas, to develop technology that captures and removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. She is focused on the translation of research innovations to commercialisation and impact, bridging the gap between science and the boardroom to accelerate change.” 

“Professor D'Alessandro is ideally placed to harness the immense breadth and depth of expertise at the University to support the rapid transition the world needs to make towards net zero emissions.” 

Professor D’Alessandro said since the Initiative was first conceived in 2022 as a “grassroots” collective, it has quickly gained momentum.

“We now comprise over 150 researchers and the pace of growth is only quickening with our elevation to Institute. The broadening of the Institute’s scope is integral to developing decarbonised solutions that address climate change drivers across society, spanning the whole decarbonisation puzzle.

“Climate change is a pernicious, whole-of-society issue that requires a whole-of-institution response. It is deeply embedded in every facet of our society, and it is an issue we must tackle on every front.”

“Take, for example, computing. It was initially heralded for reducing paper use. But now we have e-waste, we have data centres that require vast amounts of energy to run.”

Professor Chang Xu and PhD researcher Linwei Tao. Image: University of Sydney

This area is being addressed by Associate Professor Chang Xu who is improving the efficiency of algorithms so that the hardware they run on requires less energy.

"Most of the time when people use large language models like ChatGPT, they are making small queries or asking for help on pretty simple tasks. Yet these models still fire on all cylinders to develop a response, increasing energy use. When you think about a healthy human brain – it doesn't fire all neurons or use all of its brain power at once. It selectively uses neurons from different hemispheres of the brain to perform different tasks or thinking.

"We are developing algorithms that do just that, that bypass the redundant computations they don't need, so they don't automatically go into high gear, meaning far less energy is required."

The Net Zero Institute complements the University’s own push to put sustainability at the heart of campus operations, environments and engagement activities. The University of Sydney is  ranked #1 in Australia for sustainability and #7 in the world . All of our campuses are  powered by 100 percent renewable electricity .

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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Commerce Solutions For B2B, Q2 2024

Joe Cicman , Principal Analyst

The B2B commerce solutions market is no longer “a tale of two cities,” stuck between choosing either cloud architecture or robust features. Collectively, the vendors have closed the chasm: The new-school cloud-native vendors have invested in features — and the stalwarts have invested in modernized architecture. You can breathe a sigh of relief that in your next selection, you won’t have to make the choice of that painful trade-off.

But you’ll still have to make a choice of vendor that has built a feature set for your particular business model. Be mindful of your business model  and what your digital strategy requires. Additionally, look for providers that:

• Have a vision that matches your architectural reality. Don’t conflate a commerce replatforming with an enterprise modernization. Modernization requires a mindset change, and change requires coaching. That’s a tall order. Look for more on this topic in an upcoming report with my colleague Betsy Summers on how a move to MACH needs mentors and coaches .
• Have recruited the right service partners for your sector. In B2B, there exists a wide variety of needs. The needs of a consumer product brand that sells finished goods to its boutique retail partners to keep hipsters looking cool are very different from the needs of a manufacturer of industrial equipment that sells service, maintenance, and spare parts to production plants to keep their shop floors running. Your next commerce solutions vendor should have the service partners that know your needs. Don’t just pick a low-cost contractor. Select a co-innovation partner with a blend of strategy, design, and implementation that gives you a competitive leg up.
• Have the right ISV partners for the interactions that matter for your strategy. The vendors all have different philosophies and strategies about what capabilities to bundle into or leave out of their solution. You need to understand their vision of how enterprises like yours will architect the right platform to engage prospects, customers, and partners. If your digital strategy doesn’t demand a platform of best-of-breed capabilities, then don’t chose a vendor that requires a multitude of third-party solutions.

If you need help understanding how you’ll select your next commerce solution for B2B, let’s talk.

Schedule an  inquiry or guidance session with me   to talk about how you can use our latest Forrester Wave™ evaluation to drive your selection of your B2B commerce provider. I can help you and your teams make sense of this, as well as understand how to be adaptive  as you (re-)align to your customers’ changing needs.

In the meantime, Forrester clients can read ​ The Forrester Wave™: Commerce Solutions For B2B, Q2 2024 .

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