It doesn't matter who built your spend cube or how it was built. Just load its data into Spendata, and our smart algorithms will create new, easy-to-understand Commodity mapping rules that produce the same outcome as your old cube, but in a brand new Spendata cube.

How do spend cubes lose relevance and value?

• Your spend analysis system isn't living up to expectations, but there's no budget and no time to start over.
• Your spend analysis vendor has lost interest, left the business, or has been acquired by another company that has sidelined the old product.
• You're spending a lot of money on data refreshes, and you're tired of it — and you probably should be, because most refreshes are easy and you can do them yourself.
• You hired a third party to help with a sourcing effort. They left you with a spend cube, but you've no idea how they built it, how they mapped it, or how to maintain it, and now it's out-of-date and useless.

We got tired of hearing these stories, so we built some very cool technology to help out. We call it "Reverse Engineering of Rules," or RER. It's pretty simple: you load your existing data into Spendata, and use our technology to deduce a new set of mapping rules. Through RER, Spendata captures the IP baked into your existing cube, making it accessible to you, and making it easy for you to move forward and control your own destiny.

Why does RER work? It works because almost all spend cubes can be mapped accurately based on their existing data dimensions. Spendata figures out how to create mapping rules that mirror 100% (worst-case, nearly 100%) of your existing mappings, leaving you in control of those new rules. Your Spendata cube, unlike your old cube, now contains easy-to-understand mapping rules that you can maintain and enhance on your own. Best of all, new transactions added to the cube will be automatically mapped as well, so your old cube is now up-to-date, maintainable, and useful.

It doesn't matter how your cube was mapped originally. Spendata doesn't care, and neither should you. Our technology creates solid rules that you can understand, leaving you in control. No more dependence on a third party, and no more mysteries around "why was this mapped here" or "why wasn't that mapped there."