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The State of VMS in 2026, Part I: The AI Paradox

Earlier this month, Ardent Partners and the Future of Work Exchange held an exclusive LinkedIn Live event focused on both the state of the Vendor Management System (VMS) market and the findings from our latest VMS Technology Advisor landscape study. If there was one takeaway from last week’s event, it was this:

VMS platforms are both the nexus and the future of extended workforce management due to progressive innovations that push its strategic value.

Ardent’s Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, opened the event by emphasizing the rising importance of VMS and the talent technology ecosystem, stating that the “size and strategic impact of the extended workforce continues to grow, making the underlying processes and the tools that manage them that much more critical each passing year.”

This level of urgency is reflected in the VMS Tech Advisor’s core findings, which evaluate the industry’s leading VMS platforms across a series of critical criteria, such as functionality, depth of AI, execution of strategy, level of innovation, and overall customer impact.

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