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Emburse Optimizes Travel and Expense Analytics to Help Organizations Spend Smarter

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AI-powered dashboards analyze corporate spend in the context of compliance, supplier agreements, and peer benchmarking

Emburse, whose innovative travel and expense solutions power forward-thinking organizations, today announced the launch of its new Emburse Travel and Expense Analytics solution, designed to help finance and travel leaders optimize spend, enforce compliance, and unlock insights that drive smarter decision-making. The first release includes a series of AI-powered dashboards that go beyond visibility, empowering teams to understand not just how money is spent, but whether it’s spent effectively.

Emburse Travel and Expense Analytics helps uncover hidden savings, negotiate better supplier rates, increase policy alignment, and analyze behavior patterns that affect cost and compliance. The new tools are part of Emburse’s broader mission to transform finance into a strategic advantage, enabling teams to take the lead with actionable insights and intelligent automation.

Built on one of the industry’s most robust datasets—encompassing more than $100 billion in expenses and $200 million in receipts and folios—Emburse Travel and Expense Analytics provides full visibility across TMC channel and non-TMC channel spend, and negotiated supplier rates. The result: a unified, data-rich platform that enables intelligent policy refinement and operational efficiency.

“It’s long been a holy grail for finance departments to spot spending inefficiencies at the intersection of travel and expense in real-time and to act decisively,” said Paul Nagy, Chief Product Officer of Emburse. “With complex data flowing in from fragmented sources, most solutions offer an incomplete view. Emburse Travel and Expense Analytics surfaces the metrics that matter, making it easier for finance teams to make strategic decisions that shape better business outcomes.”

AI-Powered Precision from Receipt to Report

The effectiveness of any analytics tool depends on the quality of the data behind it. Emburse Travel and Expense Analytics uses AI behind the scenes to normalize and structure complex travel and expense data, ensuring it’s consistently categorized, merged, and ready for meaningful analysis. Vendor normalization resolves naming discrepancies, while category normalization standardizes spend types. A key differentiator is our system-agnostic approach: we support the tools our customers have already determined are the best fit for their needs, bringing that data together into a single, consolidated view.

Previously, manual expense entry made spend analysis difficult—now, insights are easier to access and analyze. Customers have tried to conduct this level of analysis using homegrown solutions, but without Emburse’s real-time booking and receipt data, generating rich insights by merging data points was a challenge. End-to-end travel data visibility and AI capabilities now result in cleaner, more reliable data, giving finance and travel teams the confidence to act on accurate, comprehensive insights.

Driving Strategic Value Through Insight

By integrating data from fragmented travel and expense sources, Emburse Travel and Expense Analytics provides a unified view that empowers teams to:

Uncover New Savings Opportunities

  • View total spend, including direct bookings and TMC-managed travel
  • Identify overspending vs. negotiated rates, and quantify recoverable costs

Understand Who Drives Spend

  • Pinpoint top spenders by individual or department
  • Enable personalized coaching or targeted policy adjustments

Improve Compliance and Hotel Program Value

  • Track hotel bookings by vendor, location, and channel
  • Uncover rate discrepancies and identify whether leakage stems from user behavior or program gaps

Benchmark Spend Against Peers

  • Compare rates across cities, hotel brands, and markets
  • Gain contextually relevant insights that support strategic negotiations and smarter vendor decisions

“Gaining full visibility into travel spend—especially with so many bookings happening outside of traditional channels—has become a critical challenge,” said Paul Nagy, Chief Product Officer of Emburse. “With these dashboards, organizations can finally connect the dots between behavior, policy, and outcomes to power actionable insights that result in real spend savings.”

The connected dashboards provide a cohesive view across travel and expense data, allowing users to navigate between high-level metrics and detailed insights. With built-in drill-down capabilities, users can explore underlying data points, uncover root causes, and gain a deeper understanding of spending patterns—all within one unified, intuitive experience. The new dashboards will be available this summer through the Travel Analytics portal, and additional dashboards will launch throughout the year, further strengthening the platform’s ability to streamline processes, eliminate friction, and elevate finance as a strategic pillar.

About Emburse

Emburse delivers Expense Intelligence—transforming reactive expense management into forward-thinking financial confidence. Expense Intelligence harnesses AI to orchestrate corporate spend across travel booking, procurement, reimbursements, and payments, embedding dynamic policy controls and predictive insights directly into workflows. This real-time approach empowers organizations with the agility to adapt, control risks, and strategically optimize spend.

Trusted globally by more than 12 million finance leaders, travel managers, and professionals, Emburse serves over 20,000 organizations in 120 countries—including Global 2000 enterprises, SMBs, public sector agencies, and nonprofits.

By proactively managing and accurately validating spend, Emburse ensures robust financial governance, enhanced compliance, and unsurpassed visibility into spend behaviors—all while dramatically streamlining the process for every employee.

At Emburse, Expense Intelligence is more than a feature—it’s a framework for transformation, reshaping the role of finance teams from administrators to strategic drivers of organizational success.

To learn more about Emburse, visit www.emburse.com and check out our social channels @emburse

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