MERCELL HOLDING ASA

MERCELL HOLDING ASA is a procurement and e-sourcing name, so it matters most to public buyers, suppliers and organisations that run tenders or manage purchasing through a digital system. By our assessment, its real strength is the boring one that counts: it sits in the middle of a process many institutions have to do, and it tries to make that process more orderly and traceable. The downside is that procurement software can be procedural and heavy on workflow, which means it is not the sort of service people admire from a distance. In practice it is about forms, approvals, supplier lists and documents, not glamour, and that is exactly the point. Compared with broad business software, it is more specialised and more rooted in the mechanics of buying than in a polished front-end.