Following on the heels of Aberdeen Group’s latest report, The Spend Intelligence Benchmark, Spend Matters champion Jason Busch took issue with the title. While aptly applauding Aberdeen’s continued research in this area, Jason took Aberdeen to task for using, in his words, Orwellian double-speak by introducing yet another name for spending analysis. Jason called the term spend intelligence [more]

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Aberdeen Group’s second benchmark on spending analysis, “The Spend Intelligence Benchmark Report, Turning Data into Action“, has just hit the wires. (I oversaw Aberdeen’s first benchmark on this subject back in 2003. I also authored Aberdeen’s spend analysis best practices study in 2004.) I have asked Rod True, president and CEO of Supply Excellence’s newest [more]

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