DeepStream Recognised in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Sourcing Applications

DeepStream has been recognised and named a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Sourcing Applications.

This recognition reflects the direction of the sourcing market more broadly. Gartner describes a market where procurement teams are under increasing pressure to reduce costs, manage risk, improve resilience and move faster - with automation, usability and AI now becoming central to how sourcing technology is evaluated.

For DeepStream, that aligns closely with how we build. Alongside core sourcing capabilities including RFx, supplier discovery, pre-qualification, contract management and eAuctions, DeepStream is enhanced with comprehensive AI capabilities designed to help procurement teams create better events, reduce manual work, improve supplier participation and make faster, more confident decisions.

DeepStream's AI-enhanced capabilities include:

• ‍AI Requirements and Scope Definition: DeepStream turns fragmented stakeholder inputs into clear, structured requirements and scope, helping buyers define needs properly and enabling suppliers to understand, price and respond more consistently.‍
• AI RFx Generation: DeepStream transforms past events, stakeholder documents and draft inputs into structured RFx drafts, accelerating event creation while improving governance, clarity and evaluation readiness.‍
• Virtual Centre of Excellence: DeepStream embeds organisational policy, ESG requirements, risk controls and sourcing best practice directly into RFx creation, helping teams standardise quality and apply governance from the start.‍
• AI Supplier Response Assistance: DeepStream enables suppliers to respond using existing documents, proposals and rate cards, automatically ingesting and structuring content into comparable formats to lower friction and improve response quality.‍
• AI Bid Comparison: DeepStream turns inconsistent supplier submissions into clear, apples-to-apples comparisons, surfacing gaps, differences and stronger or weaker answers to support cleaner evaluation.‍
• AI Analytics: DeepStream provides both RFx-level and cross-RFx analytics, helping teams analyse supplier responses, pricing, risks and trade-offs within events, while also identifying broader patterns, opportunities and governance issues across categories and suppliers.

“We’re pleased to be recognised in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Sourcing Applications,” says Dan Gianfreda, CEO of DeepStream. “Our focus is on helping procurement teams achieve real sourcing outcomes with technology that is intuitive, practical and easy to adopt. We believe this recognition reflects the value of that approach and the progress we’re making in applying AI where it genuinely improves sourcing execution.”

Procurement today

The procurement technology market is crowded with hype, overpromising and complex transformation programmes that many teams are expected to grow into before they ever realise value. DeepStream takes a different approach. We deliver best-of-breed eRFx software that prioritises usability, helping procurement teams start with the least technology needed to achieve their immediate goals. By keeping things simple, clean and practical, we help customers avoid digital overwhelm, accelerate adoption and realise tangible value quickly - while creating a strong foundation for continuous improvement over time.

To see where your sourcing technology fit sits, take our interactive 'Find your Tech Fit' questionnaire. And if you want to talk through your current setup, sourcing priorities or plans for AI in procurement, book a demo with the DeepStream team.

To read the full 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Sourcing Applications on Gartner, click here.

‍About DeepStream

‍DeepStream is a best-of-breed eSourcing platform designed for mid-to-upper-mid-market procurement teams. Built around the principle of delivering tech that fits, DeepStream helps procurement organisations accelerate maturity one step at a time, combining flexible, intuitive workflows with powerful AI-driven analytics. Customers rely on DeepStream to simplify sourcing, cut cycle times, and deliver sustainable value across every sourcing event.

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