Travel and expense management solutions provider Emburse has introduced a new solution for travel and expense analytics, designed to help businesses optimize spend, enforce compliance, and unlock insights that drive smarter decision making.
Emburse Travel and Expense Analytics’ first release includes a series of artificial intelligence-powered dashboards, enabling finance teams to understand not just how money is spent, but whether it’s spent effectively.
The new solution helps uncover hidden savings, negotiate better supplier rates, increase policy alignment, and analyze behavior patterns that affect cost and compliance, Emburse said.
“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,” Paul Nagy, chief product officer of Emburse, said in a statement. “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.”
The Dallas-based company said its travel and expense solution uses AI behind the scenes to normalize and structure complex travel and expense data, ensuring it’s consistently categorized, merged, and ready for analysis. Vendor normalization resolves naming discrepancies, while category normalization standardizes spend types.
By integrating data from fragmented travel and expense sources, Emburse Travel and Expense Analytics provides a unified view that enables finance teams to:
- View total spend, including direct bookings and travel management company-managed travel.
- Identify overspending versus negotiated rates, and quantify recoverable costs.
- Pinpoint top spenders by individual or department.
- Provide personalized coaching or targeted policy adjustments.
- Track hotel bookings by vendor, location, and channel.
- Uncover rate discrepancies and identify whether leakage stems from user behavior or program gaps.
- Compare rates across cities, hotel brands, and markets.
- Gain contextually relevant insights that support strategic negotiations and smarter vendor decisions.
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, according to Emburse.
“Gaining full visibility into travel spend—especially with so many bookings happening outside of traditional channels—has become a critical challenge,” Nagy said. “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 new dashboards will be available this summer through the Travel Analytics portal, and additional dashboards will launch throughout the year.
More information can be found here.
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