Mastercard
Website: www.mastercard.com

MasterCard Worldwide is one of the world's leading payments companies. Through relationships with more than 23,000 financial institutions, MasterCard offers products and solutions that feature state-of-the-art security and convenience. MasterCard payment products are at the Heart of Commerce, bringing innovative solutions and comprehensive benefits and services to consumers, merchants, and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories throughout the world.

As consumers and businesses continue to seek ever faster, more secure and smarter methods of payment for an increasing array of transactions, MasterCard Worldwide is at the centre, providing a sophisticated set of transaction processing and consulting services that enable economic connections, fuel commercial development on a global and local scale and drive business growth for our customers.

Today, MasterCard is essential to day-to-day commerce. From major cities to emerging markets, we are stimulating economies and changing the way the world does business. We are a critical link among tens of thousands of financial institutions, millions of businesses and hundreds of millions of cardholders. What’s more, we are advancing commerce through innovations that benefit everyone, everywhere.

Decideware
Website : www.decideware.com

Decideware is a world-class vendor assessment software company, offering the world’s leading solution for strategic supplier evaluations. Founded and headquartered in Australia, Decideware now supports clients in Australasia, the US and Europe via offices in Sydney, San Francisco and London to assess and manage their strategic suppliers across multiple categories. Working to CMOs and CPOs in a range of larger companies, Decideware provides solutions in the Software-as-a-Service model plus expert services to ensure every deployment is cost-effective and successful. Easy to buy and to deploy, Decideware gives clients the capabilities they need to manage strategic suppliers effectively.

In addition to world-class software, Decideware offers clients access to our expert services. We do this all day so we have unparalleled expertise in helping clients design scorecards, build assessments, optimize response rates, develop reports and manage teams of assessors and assessments records.

Our clients work across the board in industries including energy, banking, FMCG, government, retail, and many others. And we assess vendors across every category of direct and indirect spend including including marketing, building suppliers, flavours, manufacturing inputs, HR and other services, etc etc.

References available on request.

See more information at www.decideware.com or contact sales@decideware.com

Ipro LiVe®
Website: www.iprolive.com

Ipro LiVe® is Australia’s premier online contractor, supplier and employee compliance and verification management system. It is an innovative SaaS (Software as a Service) that allows any individual, partnership, trust or company to provide information to prospective or existing clients so that these clients can determine contractor and supplier suitability for engagement. The system also enables service subscribers to:

• Simplify the collection, management and archiving of contractor and supplier records and documents
• Reduce the operational risks involved in cases of non-compliance, information inaccuracies or paperwork fraud
• Receive instant and accurate third party verification of information ensuring that licences, insurance policies, ABNs, ACNs and other vital business information reflect their legal entities and intended purpose/s
• Keep track of policy/licence expiry dates and receive notification of status changes
• Identify cases of non-compliance regardless of whether the cases occur prior to or during engagement
• Reduce the internal costs of compliance maintenance and management
• Customise the data being required, gathered and verified

With the Ipro LiVe system in place, the management and monitoring of contractor, supplier and employee information and compliance status can be done easily and continuously from almost any location. Only access to the internet and a web browser is needed!

Yarris
Website: www.yarris.com

Yarris provides software that procures and manages services for enterprises and government.

Yaris software products:

• Manage nearly half the Australian market for insurance auto repair claims
• Manage Australia’s leading service delivery system for telecommunication construction and maintenance
• Operate one of the most advanced systems in the world for governments and insurers to procure and manage legal services.

Yarris has successfully managed core business activities for major enterprises for over 10 years. Customers include Telstra, Suncorp-Metway and the Victorian Government. The software is scalable for any volume of business and is protected with enterprise level security.

Xchanging
Website: www.xchanging.com

Xchanging provides procurement, business processing and technology services. Listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:XCH), we have over 7,500 employees in ten countries, providing these services to customers in 48 countries. In Australia Xchanging employs over 450 people servicing customers across Financial, Manufacturing, Defence Government, Education, and Not-For-Profit industry sectors.

To our customers we deliver value from procurement, by managing annual indirect spend of over $5 billion, offering our customers a complete suite of services that span the entire source-to-pay process. We ensure that our customers benefit from the experience and expertise of our procurement specialists, who manage over 100 category streams of indirect procurement. Our services help maximise the value our customers receive from the money they spend and simplify the administration involved in the purchasing process.

Customers choose us when they want to remove complexity from their organisations. We help these customers unburden themselves of the tasks, processes and technologies which are peripheral to their vision and mission but essential to their day-to-day operation. By doing this, we liberate the time and energy of the executives within those organisations so they can focus on the things that really makes a difference to the business.

Our aim is to improve the performance of our customers’ operational processes. In these business relationships, we are not merely suppliers or consultants. We are partners.