Analytics8 SpendView: Vendor Snapshot (Part 2) — Product Strengths and Weaknesses [PRO]

Since Zycus pioneered spend classification technology less than two decades ago, the spend — and now broader “supply” — analytics market has transformed considerably. It used to be difficult to decouple spend visibility offerings from vendors: all that organizations could purchase was integrated data acquisition, classification, enrichment, visualization and analytics capability from a single vendor. But now it’s possible to get different elements from different providers — and even to work with new vendors like Analytics8 that have built their solutions around existing business intelligence ecosystems such as Qlikview and have designed their capabilities from the ground up to enable “self-service” for classification and visualization. Moreover, these newer-generation solutions often do not come with a high price tag, and they can bet set up in weeks, not months, while allowing frequent data refreshes at little or no additional cost to an organization.