How is OnSource different from SaaS Management Platforms?

SaaS Management Platforms like Vertice, Najar, and Tropic focus on SaaS, price negotiation, and renewals. They intervene after supplier arbitration is done. OnSource intervenes before: we cover all IT segments (software, services, telecom, hardware) and determine whether a contract should be challenged, replaced, or terminated. If the initial decision is wrong, optimizing the price is pointless.

Decision Brief or Portfolio Hub, which one to choose?

Decision Brief is designed for one-shot decisions. You test it on a critical sourcing or renewal, you get a structured, versioned recommendation. Portfolio Hub is designed to govern an IT portfolio continuously: permanent re-scoring, overlap detection, deadline alerting. Most of our clients start with a Brief and move to the Portfolio when the value of cumulative memory becomes evident.

How does OnSource handle migration costs?

OnSource never recommends an alternative without calculating the net transition ROI. Real costs of integration, training, and security are factored in. If the gains don't cover the cost of change, the recommendation is to stay.

How long until we see first results?

A Decision Brief delivers a decision-ready recommendation in minutes. You can test it today on the contract of your choice. For Portfolio Hub, portfolio onboarding takes a few days and the first alerts arrive as soon as contracts are loaded.

What data is required?

At minimum: your IT contracts (vendor, amount, renewal date). OnSource then enriches with market data, pricing benchmarks, and usage signals to produce qualified recommendations.

OnSource, the Decision Layer for IT Contracts

I. The problem

Five times more decisions to make. No tool built to guide them.

In ten years, IT contracts per company have tripled. Recurring models force a renewal every two to three years. Meanwhile, procurement tools have not moved.

Result: 80% of contracts are renewed by default. Lack of time, lack of market visibility, requestor bias. The decision is locked before it is even asked.

×5

Decisions to make

Contracts multiply, tooling stays still.

+8%

IT OPEX / year

Cost drift since 2020. Tech productivity gain: +2%.

80%

Renewed by default

The decision is locked before it is even asked.

II. Why now

For the first time, challenging every contract is economically rational.

Three recent shifts have changed the equation. More credible alternatives than ever. Transition costs divided by AI. Near zero cost market monitoring. Re-asking the question at every renewal is finally scalable.

28K

More credible alternatives

Tech startups founded in the EU in 2025, a decade record.

−30%

Transition costs collapsing

Development, migration, and training cost with AI.

−90%

AI market monitoring near zero cost

Cost of market monitoring with AI vs human only work.

III. How it works

From existing contracts to a decision-ready portfolio, in five steps.

No exotic connectors. No three-month setup. You load your existing contracts, OnSource produces an actionable recommendation, and the portfolio moves into continuous surveillance.

Import

Your IT contracts loaded from Excel or ERP export. The portfolio builds in minutes.

Analyze

Credible alternatives, exit costs, technical dependencies, usage signals. The economic lever surfaces, contract by contract.

Recommend

For each line, a decision among RETAIN, REPLACE, STOP. Auditable reasoning, net transition ROI computed.

Close the gaps

When a decision hits missing data, OnSource points to exactly what's needed to call it.

Monitor

New acquisitions join the portfolio. Continuous market re-scoring, renewal alerting.

IV. The product, act one

Decision Brief

A structured decision. Six possible outcomes.

For every IT contract or need, a reasoned recommendation among six possible decisions. OnSource maps the technical dependencies, computes the true exit cost, and surfaces the economic leverage before any negotiation.

Acquisitions: SHORTLIST / REFRAME / NO-GO
Renewals: RETAIN / REPLACE / STOP
Technical dependencies and exit costs built into the scoring
Versioning and 6 months of unlimited rescoring
Auto-stored in organization memory

Decision Brief, vendor landscape across viability and performance axes

V. The product, act two

Portfolio Hub

Your IT portfolio under continuous control.

A governed view of all your IT contracts. Continuous market re-scoring, vendor overlap detection, deadline alerting. Brief memory activates retroactively when the Portfolio opens.

Continuous market re-scoring across contracts
Overlap detection across vendors and BUs
Renewal calendar and alerting
Decision Brief allowance included

Portfolio Hub, continuous monitoring dashboard for IT contracts

VI. Why it compounds

Each IT decision makes the next one sharper.

The opposite of a one-shot tool. Your sourcing intelligence accumulates instead of restarting from scratch at every renewal. Portfolio Hub retroactively activates the memory of every past Brief.

Decide

Every decision is traced: context, alternatives evaluated, net transition ROI, argued recommendation.

Capitalize

Every Brief automatically feeds your organization's memory. Vendors seen, arbitrations, retained signals.

Compose

Continuous re-scoring and overlap detection across the portfolio. Decisions inform one another.

VII. The outcome

What changes, measured on your decisions.

Three levers observed on contracts analyzed through OnSource. Measured on actual product usage, not projected from marketing decks.

Economic leverage

10–20%

Savings on challenged contracts

Credible alternatives surface upstream. The lever becomes a number, no longer an argument.

Beforea few percent shaved off in final renegotiation.

Decision time

2–3 months

Saved per IT decision

Search, comparison, validation. What used to take a quarter, delivered in one analysis.

Beforea full sourcing cycle for every critical contract.

Portfolio coverage

100%

Of the portfolio under surveillance

Every IT contract tracked continuously, not just the top twenty. Blind spots disappear.

Before20% monitored, the rest renewed by default.

VIII. Positioning

Decision intelligence, upstream of the transaction.

Three layers in the IT sourcing chain. Gartner informs. OnSource decides. Ariba executes. The missing middle layer is what produces the 80% renewed by default.

Market intelligence

Gartner, Forrester, IDC

Produce market opinions. Decision support, not decisions.

Decision layer

OnSource

Determines the action: SHORTLIST, REFRAME, NO-GO, RETAIN, REPLACE, STOP.

Contract execution

Ariba, Coupa, Ivalua

Execute purchase orders, signature, and payment.

Gartner provides information. OnSource provides the decision. Ariba handles the transaction.

IX. Questions

What IT buyers ask first.

En quoi OnSource se différencie des SaaS Management Platforms ?

Les SaaS Management Platforms (Vertice, Najar, Tropic) se concentrent sur le SaaS, la négociation de prix et les renouvellements. Elles interviennent après que l'arbitrage fournisseur est fait. OnSource intervient avant : nous couvrons tous les segments IT (logiciels, services, télécom, hardware) et déterminons si un contrat doit être challengé, remplacé ou résilié. Si la décision initiale est mauvaise, optimiser le prix ne sert à rien.

Decision Brief ou Portfolio Hub, lequel choisir ?

Decision Brief est conçu pour les décisions ponctuelles. Vous testez sur un sourcing ou un renouvellement critique, vous obtenez une recommandation structurée et versionnée. Portfolio Hub est conçu pour gouverner un portefeuille IT en continu : re-scoring permanent, détection des recoupements, alerting sur les échéances. La plupart de nos clients commencent par un Brief, puis passent au Portfolio quand la valeur de la mémoire cumulative devient évidente.

Comment OnSource gère-t-il les coûts de migration ?

OnSource ne recommande jamais une alternative sans calculer le ROI net de transition. Les coûts réels d'intégration, de formation et de sécurité sont intégrés. Si les gains ne couvrent pas le coût du changement, la recommandation est de rester.

Combien de temps avant de voir les premiers résultats ?

Un Decision Brief produit une recommandation prête à décider en quelques minutes. Vous pouvez tester dès aujourd'hui sur un contrat de votre choix. Pour le Portfolio Hub, l'onboarding du portefeuille prend quelques jours et les premières alertes arrivent dès que les contrats sont chargés.

Quelles données sont nécessaires ?

Au minimum : vos contrats IT (fournisseur, montant, date de renouvellement). OnSource enrichit ensuite avec des données de marché, des benchmarks de prix et des signaux d'usage pour produire des recommandations qualifiées.

80% of IT contracts are renewed by default. We change that.