Spend Analytics

by Mike Harrison

SPEND ANALYTICS The Visibility Imperative Achieving much improved visibility of spend on goods and services has helped our largest customer deliver $1.8 billion in savings. Another customer identified more than $5 million in procurement savings within a day of...

Improved spend and contract visibility at City of Tucson, AZ

by Mike Harrison | Case Studies, Data Transformation, Observatory

City of Tucson used our services deliver improved spend and contract visibility. We talked to Marcheta Gillespie, Interim Director of Procurement, about her experience to date. “So someone like Spikes Cavell comes along, and whether it’s transforming our data for...

Business Case For Spend Analysis

by Mike Harrison

Spend Analysis The Business Case for Spend Analysis Thank you for attending the Business Case for Spend Analysis webinar.  Below you will find the presentation PowerPoint, accompanying Microsoft Word version of the Business Case and the recorded webinar. Download the...

Big Data, Analytics, & Cooperative Purchasing: The Search for Hidden Insight

by Mike Harrison | Data Transformation, Spend Analytics

Luke Spikes, our founder & CEO, speaking at the 2014 California Public Higher Education Collaborative Business and Administrative Services Conference at the CSU’s East Bay Campus in August 2014. If you’ve ever wondered how to incorporate a small rodent, the moon,...

Observatory Case Study: Homes for Haringey

by Mike Harrison | Case Studies, Data Transformation, Observatory, Spend Management

Homes for Haringey first commissioned Spikes Cavell to deliver spend analysis via the Observatory in 2009 to deliver improved spend and contract visibility and have been a constant subscriber ever since. Having been asked to create a procurement strategy in 2009,...

Step 2: Identification of opportunities for savings and efficiencies

by Mike Harrison | Articles, Data Transformation, Observatory, Spend Management

A guide to identifying procurement savings   You may have already seen step 1 of the process where we covered how understanding the current procurement situation is an important first step towards generating procurement savings for public bodies. The second step...

Step 1: Understanding the current situation

by Mike Harrison | Articles, Data Transformation, Spend Management

Guide to Procurement Savings To know where money can be saved, you need to know where it’s spent. But, the reality for the majority of public and education sector procurement teams is that finding the answer to questions is much more difficult than it ought to be....

Baltimore County Public Schools, MD implement transparency solution spotlightonspend to deliver meaningful spend transparency

by Mike Harrison | Articles, Data Transformation, Transparency

Herndon, VA – 15 January 2013  – Baltimore County Public Schools have deployed Spikes Cavell’s spotlightonspend transparency platform to enable citizens in the County and beyond to better understand where Baltimore County Public Schools spends taxpayers’ money on the...

Spend Analysis is what you do to the data

by Mike Harrison | Articles, Data Transformation

Exporting data from an accounts payable system expecting it to deliver immediate, meaningful, business intelligence is quite unrealistic.  Spend Analysis is what you do to your data to make it fit for purpose and useful for Spend Management. To create your set of...

Spikes Cavell Analytic becomes part of G-Cloud supplier community

by Mike Harrison | Data Transformation, Spend Management

Newbury, Berkshire – 1st Novermber 2012 – Spikes Cavell Analytic Ltd., providers of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications designed for business users to access cleansed and enhanced spend management information, has been awarded a framework (RM1557II) agreement...