Before the Vendor Shortlist: How to Structure the Decision Intelligence Market

A Decision Intelligence shortlist should not begin with vendor demos. Providers are arriving from planning, optimization, visibility, risk, networks, enterprise suites, orchestration, and AI-native architectures, and without a category framework a shortlist can become a collection of impressive but fundamentally different products.
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