Apps Purchases: 10+ Million Software Purchases
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Our global team of 50 researchers has been studying the digital transformation initiatives being undertaken by 2 million + companies including technographic segmentation of 10 million ERP, EPM, CRM, HCM, Procurement, SCM, Treasury software purchases, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions and perhaps the rise and fall of certain vendors and their products on a quarterly basis.
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Smiths News | Distribution | 1574 | $1.4B | United Kingdom | PTV Group | PTV Smartour | Fleet Management | 2016 | n/a | In 2016, Smiths News implemented PTV Smartour as its Fleet Management planning and scheduling engine, establishing a purpose built route planning capability for newspaper and magazine distribution. The deployment underpinned a 364 day per year delivery operation serving 25,000 customers through a 38 depot network and a 1,250 contractor base, and it was positioned to support centralized planning for both final mile and primary trunk logistics. The PTV Smartour implementation focused on route optimization, vehicle scheduling, and automated daily plan generation, configured to model depot to customer flows and enable scenario based route consolidation. Functional capabilities emphasized planner workbench workflows, timetable and slot assignment, and cost constrained routing logic to align with strict magazine publication windows and contractor scheduling requirements. Operationally the implementation was embedded within a Central Planning Team responsible for optimizing a £38m Final Mile Spend and controlling a £3.7m Primary Transport budget for magazine distribution. The PTV Smartour Fleet Management environment was used to drive supplier and route consolidation efforts that supported reductions in trunk miles and enabled tighter control of primary transport spend. Governance and process changes accompanied the rollout, with the Central Planning Team leading network rationalisation and hub consolidation projects that reduced magazine hubs from 6 to 4 and accelerated network right sizing due to managed trunk costs. Sourced and implemented as a planning tool upgrade, PTV Smartour directly supported cost out targets, with primary trunk spend reduced to £2.0m and Final Mile annual cost out targets of £1.5m met or exceeded, and hub consolidation delivering reported savings of £3.5m. | |
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City of York Council | Government | 3000 | $3.5B | United Kingdom | PTV Group | PTV Optima | Traffic Management | 2018 | n/a | In 2018, City of York Council implemented PTV Optima as a citywide Traffic Management real-time modelling platform. PTV Optima provides a rolling live prediction of traffic conditions, combining offline dynamic transport models with live traffic data to produce a network-wide forecast for the council control room. The deployment fuses offline dynamic transport modelling with streaming telemetry and scenario simulation. The live model ingests data from over 100 traffic flow sensors and more than 100 live signal controllers, it also consumes live speed data across the network from TomTom and up-to-date information about roadworks and other network changes, consolidating these feeds into a single view and a single ground truth. Integrations explicitly implemented include the sensor and signal controller feeds, TomTom speed data, and roadworks network change feeds, all orchestrated into PTV Optima's live model. Operational coverage is citywide and centered on the traffic control room, enabling visibility beyond locations with sensors or CCTV and providing network-wide situational awareness for traffic operations. Governance and operational use emphasize the control room as the primary decision environment, with PTV Optima used to test alternative scenarios for the next hour, next day, or weeks ahead. The city retains the implementation as an operational road modelling asset for monitoring current conditions, planning near-term operations, observing how plans play out, and using those observations to improve future traffic strategy. | |
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Professional Services | 3000 | $500M | United Kingdom | Aptean | Aptean Paragon | Fleet Management | 2017 | n/a |
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Professional Services | 2006 | $238M | United Kingdom | PTV Group | PTV Visum | Transportation Management | 2020 | n/a |
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Professional Services | 3000 | $450M | United Kingdom | PTV Group | PTV Route Optimiser | Fleet Management | 2020 | n/a |
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Manufacturing | 10 | $1M | United Kingdom | PTV Group | PTV Route Optimiser | Fleet Management | 2018 | n/a |
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Distribution | 350 | $100M | United Kingdom | Infor | Infor WMS | Warehouse Management | 2023 | n/a |
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Manufacturing | 1411 | $8.5B | United Kingdom | SAP | SAP IBP | Advanced Planning and Scheduling | 2020 | n/a |
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Professional Services | 2005 | $275M | United Kingdom | IBM | IBM Call Center for Commerce | Order Management | 2020 | n/a |
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Consumer Packaged Goods | 2300 | $2.0B | United Kingdom | Blue Yonder | Blue Yonder Luminate Planning | Supply Chain Management | 2017 | n/a |
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