Bring supplier data into your analytics and AI
Data as a Service (DaaS) gives your team direct, full-scale access to purchase order and supplier data in a managed data warehouse. Build fully customized reporting, combine collaboration data with operational datasets, automate time-consuming processes, and give AI agents the context they need.
What is Data as a Service?
Data as a Service (DaaS) makes application data available in a clean, structured, and reusable format outside the application itself. SourceDay DaaS brings granular purchase order activity, calculated performance metrics, and detected risks—into your own analytics and technology ecosystem.
Turn supplier collaboration data into business-ready insight
Your ERP captures the final record. SourceDay captures the journey behind it: supplier responses, PO changes, milestones, negotiations, messages, root causes, shipment activity, and performance signals. DaaS makes that richer context available for analysis and action across the business.
- Build reports around the unique metric definitions that matter to your business
- Combine SourceDay data with inventory, production, finance, and other datasets
- Reduce manual exports and spreadsheet-based reporting
- Detect supplier and purchase order risk earlier
- Create a trusted data foundation for automation and AI
The Data as a Service workflow from SourceDay to insight
DaaS creates a direct, governed path from supplier collaboration data to the systems your teams use for reporting, automation, and AI.
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Capture the full PO lifecycle
SourceDay records interactions and PO activity including changes, negotiations, risks, and more.
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Data is cleaned and structured
Data is organized into an easy-to-use model, from granular entities to calculated metrics and functional reporting tables.
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Your managed warehouse stays current
SourceDay maintains a dedicated warehouse containing your data, without requiring your team to build or manage new infrastructure.
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Connect the tools your team already uses
Bring the data into your BI platform, query it with SQL or Python, or connect it to other operational systems and datasets.
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Customize metrics and reporting
Use out-of-the-box metrics or adapt definitions, filters, and calculations to match the way your company measures performance.
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Put data to work
Publish dashboards, automate data pipelines, trigger workflows, and give AI agents historical supplier and PO context.
Build procurement analytics around your business
Out-of-the-box reports are useful—until your team requires a different definition, filter, weighting, or data source. DaaS gives analysts control all the way down to the PO action level.
Analysts spend less time collecting and preparing data. Procurement leaders get reporting tailored to their decisions. IT avoids standing up and maintaining another data warehouse.
- Create dashboards for specific teams, plants, suppliers, or categories
- Reduce spreadsheet sprawl, inconsistent calculations, and maintain control over how metrics are defined
- Create a reusable data source for multiple business teams
Give AI the context procurement requires
AI is only as useful as the data behind it. Agents operating without the history of supplier commitments, changes, risks, and negotiations may be working from incomplete assumptions.
DaaS provides the historical and enriched context needed to support more informed automation and agentic workflows. Use SourceDay data to trigger processes, investigate risk, evaluate performance, or provide context to AI tools built by your team.
- Ground AI agents in historical PO and supplier data
- Support open-ended analysis that cannot be handled by a single-purpose API
- Build on a data foundation designed to evolve with your AI strategy
Flexible access without another infrastructure project
SourceDay manages the underlying Snowflake data warehouse so customers can focus on using the data rather than building the infrastructure. Teams can start with familiar tools and expand their use over time.
- Power BI, SQL, and Python quick-start paths
- Data dictionary for tables, fields, and metrics
- A scalable foundation for reporting, automation, and AI
Better AI starts with better procurement data
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Intelligence that ERP data and APIs cannot provide
An ERP is optimized to hold the system-of-record version of a purchase order. A narrow API is optimized to return a specific answer. Neither is designed to provide flexible, large-scale access to the full history of supplier collaboration.
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Frequently asked questions
Anyone able to access a BI tool can get started without deep technical experience. We recommend involving an analyst or IT team member during initial implementation, particularly if you plan to write custom SQL, combine multiple data sources, or build automations.
Customers that are already live with SourceDay can typically be live on DaaS within a week. The initial kickoff is designed to help establish the connection and create the first report.
DaaS includes the data available in the SourceDay application and additional granular and enriched data. This can include supplier and item records, PO lines and actions, emails, proposals, shipments, calculated metrics, functional reporting tables, and detected risks.
Teams can work from ready-to-use reporting tables or go all the way down to individual PO-line actions and primary entities. This layered model makes it possible to start quickly while preserving the flexibility to customize calculations and reporting.
Yes. SourceDay provides a Power BI quick-start path, along with guidance for SQL and Python connections. DaaS can also support other BI tools capable of connecting to the managed warehouse.
No. Your ERP remains the system of record. DaaS complements it by making SourceDay’s supplier collaboration history, calculated metrics, and risk signals available for analysis and downstream use.
An API typically returns a predefined response for a specific task. DaaS provides broad, historical access to the underlying SourceDay dataset so teams can query it at scale, combine it with other data, redefine metrics, and support use cases that were not known when the integration was created.
Yes. Teams can use SourceDay data and risk signals to trigger workflows and provide context to internally developed AI tools or agents. Availability of specific agent actions or conversational integrations may depend on the product roadmap and the systems involved.