Best-of-Breed or Suite? All-in-One or Phased Rollout? Here’s How to Choose your deployment strategy:

So you’re looking to adopt a new tool - here’s when two critical decisions shape your digitalisation journey:

1. Solution Architecture: Do you go with a Best-of-Breed approach or a full Suite?
   
   
2. Deployment Strategy: Do you implement everything All-in-One-Go, or roll it out Step-by-Step?
   

These choices are related, but distinct - and are important contributing factors to the overall success of your project.

You could select a Suite and deploy it gradually. Or, you could go for a Best-of-Breed provider and roll out multiple modules at once. There’s no single “correct” route - it all depends on your business context, maturity, resources, and appetite for change.

Below, we break down both decision points. Each matrix highlights the trade-offs to help you make an informed, realistic call:

Best-of-Breed vs Suite

Choosing the right type of solution for your organisation:

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All-in-One-Go vs Step-by-Step

Choosing the right deployment strategy for your maturity and resources:

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Conclusion

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Whether you choose Best-of-Breed or Suite, All-in-One-Go or Step-by-Step, the right path depends on your organisation’s maturity, resources, and appetite for change. What matters most is aligning technology choices with the business problems your stakeholders care about, so that your investment in eSourcing and Source-to-Contract technology delivers lasting impact.

Start small, scale from there

DeepStream delivers best-of-breed eRFx software with supporting source-to-contract modules, delivering the essential features that empower procurement teams to mature, step by step. We prioritise usability, ensuring our solution is the simplest, cleanest, and most user-friendly in the industry, backed by our dedicated customer success team.

The procurement tech space is filled with hype, overselling, and mis-selling of sweeping, end-to-end digital transformation initiatives. Yet these projects fail because teams are sold overly-complex solutions they’re expected to ‘grow into’. This leads to tech overwhelm, low adoption, and wasted investment.

Our customers start by implementing the least amount of tech needed to achieve their immediate goals, helping them ensure rapid value realisation. Want to benchmark your procurement maturity?

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