2025 marked a major turning point for Eleven VMS.
A transformation of our brand, our product, our technological ecosystem, and our role in the market.
Discover the four key dynamics that shaped the year and are redefining the role of the VMS for Procurement and Business teams.
A new brand to clarify our mission
The creation of Eleven VMS marked a strategic turning point. Our clients had been telling us the same thing for years: the historical coexistence between LittleBig Connection and Eleven VMS did not clearly highlight the distinct value propositions of each offer.
This separation now enables:
a clearer understanding of the VMS functional scope;
a stronger voice in a market that is rapidly structuring itself;
a more transparent relationship between clients and vendors, at the very heart of our promise.
The name Eleven VMS is no coincidence. It comes from the combination of Elevate and Vendor Management.
Our mission is explicit: to elevate the client–vendor relationship by providing Procurement and Business teams with a reliable, measurable, and collaborative framework to manage a category that has become critical, while offering vendors broader and more transparent access to opportunities.
A product evolving to cover 100% of external services
In 2025, our product continued to evolve at pace.
Our Product and Tech teams reinforced a clear ambition: to deliver a VMS capable of managing external services in the most efficient way possible.
IT and non-IT. Time and Materials and Fixed Price. Across all geographies.
One of the year’s key milestones was the launch of our dedicated Fixed Price module.
This module enables organizations to manage fixed-price engagements with the same level of precision, compliance, and control as time-and-materials missions. In practice, flexibility remains at the core of this functionality, with milestones that can be defined either by the client or by the vendor, depending on the use case.
Fixed-price services have become a strategic topic. As TotalEnergies highlighted during our joint session with the CNA, the ability to manage multiple contract types is now a prerequisite to industrialize external services procurement and scale deployments across all entities of an organization.
This product evolution follows a clear principle: simplifying operations for Procurement and Business teams, while increasing control and centralization over a category that has historically been difficult to standardize.
Enhanced connectivity to become the central hub of the digital ecosystem
Organizations are looking for a VMS, but above all for a system that integrates seamlessly into their existing information systems. Integration was therefore a key priority in 2025.
This year, we:
strengthened our dedicated Implementation & Professional Services team;
connected an increasing number of clients with leading ERP, e-procurement, and HRIS solutions;
offered multiple integration options (APIs, middleware, S2P interfaces) to adapt to a wide range of IT architectures.
The objective is twofold: on one hand, generating direct ROI through integration, on the other, improving adoption and easing change management.
A VMS should not be just another tool. It must become the backbone of professional services management.
Embracing our role as the European leader in VMS
Finally, 2025 was the year when Eleven VMS fully took its place at the heart of the ecosystem.
First, through our participation in major events across France and Europe, including Ivalua NOW, the IT Procurement & Sourcing Summit in Amsterdam, Décision Achats morning sessions, and Républik HA events.
Content production that helps structure the market
With the publication of our three white papers (Understanding the VMS, Why implement a VMS, How to implement a VMS), Eleven VMS is laying the foundations for a shared framework across the profession.
These resources bring clarity to a rapidly accelerating market and respond to a growing need for education. They also reinforce our role as a thought leader in a strategic category gaining momentum across organizations.
Beyond content, we also created dedicated moments for exchange and collaboration. From our product workshops designed to co-build the roadmap as close as possible to user needs, to the third edition of our FORWARD event focused on the transformation of the Procurement function, as well as our afterworks, which foster genuine moments of connection and dialogue.
Key partnerships to help structure the Procurement function
Our collaboration with the Conseil National des Achats is another important milestone.
By co-hosting multiple events and webinar series, we have contributed to increasing market maturity around Vendor Management Systems.
The VMS is now a core building block for managing external resources and a strategic lever for Procurement and Business teams.
And 2026 will only accelerate this momentum.
