A collaborative format to co-build the future of our VMS
On January 21st, 2025, Eleven VMS brought together a group of clients in Paris for a product workshop dedicated to our product. The goal : imagine, test, and improve tomorrow’s features, with a focus on smart dashboards, AI-powered fixed-price offer analysis, and a co-creation approach that places clients at the heart of innovation.
The topics covered were not chosen at random. The subject of the smart dashboard is a continuation of the developments made to our reporting module in November 2024, with a view to further optimizing it. As for the analysis of flat-rate offers, it is part of a process that began during our March 2024 workshop and will come to fruition in February 2025 with the release of our flat-rate management module.
In addition to being a unique opportunity to discuss developments in VMS, this day is fully in line with Eleven VMS’s co-creation strategy, which places its customers at the center of product development.
Let’s look at the key takeaways from this collaborative workshop.
Interactive workshops to shape the future of VMS
The event on January 21 took place in a small group, promoting rich and constructive discussions. The day began with a Live Vision 2025 session, allowing us to review our product strategy. This was followed by two interactive workshops focused on process optimization through artificial intelligence.
Workshop 1 – Smart dashboards for smarter decisions
This session explored the next evolution of the Eleven VMS dashboard, from a static reporting tool to a real-time, conversational assistant.
Today, the dashboard offers centralized data and an intuitive interface. But tomorrow, it will integrate a conversational UI, allowing users to interact with their dashboard through natural language queries.
Participants worked on :
Writing requests addressed to the AI to query the dashboard.
Interpreting the AI agent's responses, including appropriate visualizations.
Intelligent recommendations that AI could provide, going beyond simple numerical indicators.
Thanks to these advances, the VMS will become a proactive tool, alerting buyers to budget variances or emerging market trends.
Workshop 2 – Fixed-price offers, AI-powered analysis
The second workshop explored the potential of artificial intelligence in analyzing and selecting fixed-price bids.
In a context where fixed-price contracting is becoming increasingly important, Eleven VMS's AI will enable:
Analysis of RFP responses based on company-specific criteria.
Receive specific recommendations based on the analysis of the criteria.
Instantly compare responses to RFPs and receive guidance in decision-making.
Participants tested in real time the AI's ability to automatically rank and compare multiple bids based on predefined criteria such as cost, quality of service, and sustainability criteria.
Integrating AI into the fixed-price bidding module not only allows proposals to be analyzed, compared, and summarized more quickly, but also ensures precise alignment with specific company criteria, far beyond market standards.
Integrating AI in our fixed-price module allows for faster, deeper analysis, tailored to your company’s strategic goals, well beyond market standards.
Co-creation, the driving force behind our product innovation
This workshop is part of a broader agile and collaborative development process, where customers play a key role in designing features.
An innovation cycle structured around listening to customers
Eleven VMS uses an iterative methodology based on several steps:
Collecting feedback : via dedicated tools and regular interactions with our Customer Success Managers.
Testing solutions : our beta testers test product developments before they go into production.
Evaluation and continuous improvement : even after deployment, we adjust our features based on feedback.
We don’t just build a tool. We co-build a strategic partner with our clients.
Towards a new era of the Future of Work with AI
By integrating artificial intelligence into Eleven VMS, we’re redefining the standards of the Future of Work
Our priorities are clear :
Turning data into a strategic lever via proactive AI
Automating complexity and simplifying sourcing operations
Creating hyper-personalized procurement experiences
More broadly, AI makes it possible to combine standardization and customization, offering the benefits of a scalable SaaS solution while adapting to the specific needs of users. This observation confirms our ambition : to evolve Eleven VMS from SaaS to AIaaS (Artificial Intelligence as a Service), for increasingly intelligent, proactive, and strategic management of intellectual service purchases.
With these advances, Eleven VMS continues to innovate to effectively connect large companies with their external partners, providing them with ever greater performance and transparency.
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