Provade: An Innovative Developer Creating Quality Contigent Workforce Solutions

The Silicon Review

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

Incorporated in 2004, Provade is a contingent workforce management and procurement solutions provider. Provade’s Vendor Management System (VMS) application has been breaking the typical mold of VMS application platforms for large and medium-sized businesses for over a decade. Provade VMS is built on Oracle’s enterprise platform. The company is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has other offices in the U.S, India and Australia.

Provade Vendor Management System
The company’s VMS system platform helps its customers to analyze, manage and control their contingent workforce and statement of work (SOW) spend. A customer’s services procurement process is made visible in one country or around the world with the help of the VMS platform. It can be used as a stand-alone SaaS solution or integrated into the existing procure-to-pay infrastructure. The contingent workforce can be managed with a Managed Service Provider (MSP) or the customer’s own program office. Provade VMS can be configured to meet a customer’s unique requirements so that it can focus on increasing efficiency and generating savings.

The Provade Advantage
With an Oracle-powered platform and strong financial backing, Provade VMS is a sound option to manage a customer’s contingent workforce and services procurement program. Provade’s team has deep ERP, MSP and staffing industry experience which is applied to everything from product development to help desk assistance. They have strategic partnerships with leading MSPs to deliver a world-class solution combining people, process and technology to exceed your expectations. They listen to their users, understand the industry and deliver tailored solutions to suit their customer’s requirements. Provade’s VMS uptime performance of over 99.99% for the last 10 years is unmatched in the industry.

Provade VMS offers deep configuration flexibility; an intuitive user interface and robust, enterprise security for effective global workforce spend management.

Oracle Partnership – Provade is currently the only Oracle VMS partner in its “BPS powered by Oracle” program.

Security & Architecture – Sophisticated security, permissions and organizational configuration options are provided to customize user experience and keep its customers’data secure.

Integration – It provides out of the box, seamless integrations with Oracle, PeopleSoft, JDE, SAP, Ariba and other systems for a closed-loop services procurement process.

Globalization – It also providesmulti-language, currency, tax and legislative capabilities to enable compliant global workforce spend management.

Services Offered
Provade combines their deep industry expertise with their VMS product knowledge to develop and deliver the right communications, advice and tools from implementation through to daily operations.The company is dedicated to speedy deployments, effective change management and ongoing successful operations of its VMS technology for contingent workforce management. The various service offerings are:

Identity Management – Is a self-service module for superior on/off-boarding and comprehensive labor management, including non-billable personnel.

Implementation – Fast and accurate configuration and deployment support for partners and customers.

Training – Learning materials and experiences to ensure effective end-user adoption and understanding.

Support – Proactive communications on system enhancements, efficient help desk response and issue resolution.

Managed Services – Provade works with strategic MSP partners to manage outsourced contingent workforce programs for joint customers.

Provade has delivered VMS solutions to leaders in high technology, financial services and manufacturing sectors for over ten years. Their implementation and support experts architect solutions that fit, transfer knowledge and help build their customer’s expertise. Their MSP partners can manage their customer’s programs and processes.

Awards & Recognitions
Provade has won awards and recognitions for their contributions to the workforce management industry.
Won the HRO TekTonic Award in 2012
Was included in the Spend Matters Almanac “50 to Watch List” in 2014

Knowing the Masters
Hans Bukow, President Hans brings more than 25 years of executive management and entrepreneurship experience leading venture-backed technology companies to Provade. As President, Hans drives continued business growth to broaden Provade’s technology footprint as an integrated VMS vendor. Prior to joining Provade, he founded publicy traded eWork, which is a widely respected and innovative leader of Web-based flexible workforce management offerings. Prior to his contributions at eWork, Hans helped grow, then sold and incorporated WorldPlay (aka ImagiNation Network) with AOL’s Studios and Games. His first company founding and leadership role was FASTech, an international firm that created the category of Manufacturing Execution Software (MES).
He holds a BSME degree from Union College and a MSME degree from Purdue.

Peter Parks, COO
Peter is responsible for overseeing Provade’s daily operations, customer support and professional services as well as the development of product features and roadmaps. Peter is also directly involved in sales, using his interaction with prospective Provade’s customers as valuable input to product roadmap. Originally holding the position of Vice President of Development, Peter is a founding employee of Provade and brings over 20 years of staffing, MSP and VMS experience to the job. Prior to joining Provade, Peter spent 10 years at Manpower where he started his career in field operations managing the Spanish-speaking labor force, and then moving into front office and VMS system design. He was instrumental in the development of Manpower’s first VMS platform in 1999 and served the next five years dedicated to VMS development.