In the last half of 2006, spend analytics vendors started to understand that their products, while providing an environment to extract, cleanse, and classify data, had not yet delivered on their collective promise of actionable and execution-oriented information. Here we take a detailed look at spend analytics, some successful implementations, and a few vendors that have recently enhanced their products to meet the broader visions of users.

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