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While most organizations have business continuity plans in place to navigate crisis situations, the unknowns surrounding COVID-19 and its duration are...

As recently reported by the Center for Audit Quality, organization leaders must partake in proactive and regular assessments of corporate culture to m...

In the age of digital transformation, the role of the CFO and other finance leaders is changing drastically.

Virtually all companies struggle with some level of fraud and non-compliance in their organization.

In a recent Gartner survey, 82% of CEOs reported having a digital transformation initiative underway in their business.  What does that mean for Finan...

With the Tax Day deadline just a week away, you can’t escape the buzz of people either celebrating or lamenting their tax returns. It seems you’re eit...

Where is your risk? For most large, global companies with thousands of employees disbursed across locations, this question is hard to answer.

Frankly, it’s not easy coming up with a short list of the most bizarre business expenses for all of 2018. Oversight analyzes more than $2 trillion in ...

The most wonderful time of year doesn’t just bring lots of nice holiday parties, gifts, and good cheer. Like the Grinch who stole Christmas, it also b...

The world of corporate finance is rife with the potential risk for fraud, erroneous payments, and a whole slew of employee behaviors that add up over ...

[in]sight 2018 brought together customers from some of the world’s largest, most innovative companies for Oversight’s first-annual user conference at ...

Watch out for the kids in costumes on the streets of your neighborhood tonight. It’s Halloween, the one night of the year for plenty of treats and a f...

From left: Neha Wood and Manish Singh, Oversight Systems; Todd DiPietro, Fidelity Investments; Kimberly Simpson, Fidelity Investments; Karen Irish, In...

The key to making finance process automation successful at your company is not just the analytics but what actions you take based on that analysis. Yo...

Now that school is back in session, millions of parents are starting to see their back-to-school purchases show up on their monthly credit card statem...

The adoption of artificial intelligence systems in the world of corporate finance has many benefits, among them the ability to spot issues before they...

Artificial intelligence is slowly taking over roles once reserved for humans. AI can now diagnose pneumonia more accurately than radiologists. In 20 y...

In this week’s blog, Oversight Systems account manager Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile discusses how she works with clients to optimize their travel and ...

A once prominent physician fraudulently charges the same trip to Japan to three different employers, including two universities and a private firm. Ov...

Earlier waves of travel and expense (T&E) audit technology largely automated elements of the manual review. For example, audit functionality would fla...

We’re living in exciting times. Digital transformation has made tremendous advances in how we submit, approve, and pay expense reports over the last d...

We have seen a thing or two from working with hundreds of Fortune 2000 companies helping them transform their T&E audit process from a transactional e...

Men, white-collar managers and staff, and younger employees are far more likely to commit expense fraud, according to new survey of 1,200 business tra...

The latest Report to the Nations: 2018 Global Study on Occupational Fraud and Abuse from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners is full of inter...

When you mention robots, most people think of Star Wars or those car-manufacturing assembly lines where giant, agile machines move heavy parts, make s...

There are two distinct mindsets when it comes to work travel: Business travelers who skimp when someone else is picking up the tab and those who splur...

$62.30. That’s the average amount that companies save per transaction with their corporate purchase card programs, according to the 2017 Purchasing Ca...

Everywhere you look these days, artificial intelligence is changing our world – from self-driving cars to smart speakers like Alexa and Google Assista...

Gift cards can offer a convenient raffle prize for team outings. We see them handed out for a job well done, on special occasions, and birthdays. Unfo...

Whenever details are overlooked, problems arise. As the saying goes, “The devil is in the detail.” This idiom holds true in travel and expense (T&E) p...

Double dippers are everywhere. They lurk at your backyard barbecue and at your neighbor’s Super Bowl party. You know the type – like George Costanza i...

Fueled by a strong global economy, business travel spending is expected to grow by a healthy 6.8% in 2018, according to the Global Business Travel Ass...

What do a hang glider, toilet paper, and a massage all have in common?

On Valentine’s Day, your Facebook page is bound to be riddled with photos of your coupled friends taking off on romantic getaways to popular destinati...

When is the last time you updated your travel policy? Many companies write their travel policy once and then forget about it. Despite the seemingly en...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently received a lot of ink regarding the impact the technology will have on the workplace and the jobs we do.

Every company has a few employees who violate company travel policy repeatedly. It seems no matter how many times you remind them, they repeat policy ...

When he’s on the road, Joe frequents gentlemen’s clubs on the company dime. Before she leaves on a business trip, Melissa boards her dog and later sub...

It’s said, “Good things come in pairs.” In the case of travel and expense (T&E) and purchase card (P-Card) transactions, this bit of wisdom could not ...

The most wonderful time of the year is upon us. An expected 100 million Americans will travel during the holidays, taking time off to focus on family ...

It’s not unusual that your travelers need to buy things for the company out of their own pocket. From my last trip, I can think of a handful of out-of...

As a significant operating expense for most entities, travel and entertainment (T&E) is an easy target for any CFO wanting to drive cost reductions ac...

Travelers have less confidence in airlines than ever before. IT meltdowns bring flights across the country to a halt. Oversold flights regularly ruin ...

Influencing and changing behavior can be tricky in the workplace, particularly when it comes to getting employees to alter their spending habits. Savi...

Businesses from every industry are in a frenzy about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming how we work, and where we apply our human reason...

Bring out the candy corn; Halloween is just around the corner. It’s a time for frights and spooks, treats and, yes, one too many tricks. Thankfully th...

Expense report auditing remains a highly manual, difficult process for many organizations. So much so that many just skip it. Aberdeen reports that le...

In any travel program, you have compliant travelers and non-compliant travelers. People who almost always spend within policy and people who push the ...

Bleisure travel rose 1 percentage point last year to 37 percent of business travelers, according to the latest stats from GBTA. This number jumps to 4...

Spending on global business travel is expected to reach $1.6 trillion by 2020. While business travel budgets are expected to increase, your CFO would ...

You’ve probably said it before: “We don’t have a fraud problem.”

As summer winds down, do you know whether your corporate cards have been going on vacation with employees? It’s a valid question.

The Economist had an interesting read on corporate travel and the sharing economy. The article looks at a Global Business Travel Association’s (GBTA) ...

We’re big fans of travel and expense management software. Solutions like Concur, Certify, and Workday have enabled companies of all sizes to streamlin...

The ACFE found that 75% of employees who commit expense report fraud are engaged in another form of occupational fraud. These bad apples—employees who...

What does that mean? Leading analyst firm Gartner recognized Oversight as a “Cool Vendor” in the Procurement and Sourcing Technology report. Of course...

We have discussed in recent blogs that spending on global business travel is breaking records and is expected to continue rising – reaching $1.6 trill...

There’s been a lot of lip-service paid to “operationalizing compliance” since the Department of Justice’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs ...

Most of the companies we talk to recognize that manager approval of expense reports is a very ineffective control. It’s easy for managers to just clic...

Spending on global business travel is on the rise and expected to reach $1.6 trillion by 2020. That’s a 23% increase over last year. In the United Sta...

To uncover fraud, waste and misuse in your company’s T&E program, you need only focus on a fraction of your travelers. Oversight’s third annual Spend ...

Employees and managers have been given many wonderful tools to streamline the expense reporting process. Because of technology, employees have the mea...

Imagine this…you walk out of a business meeting on Friday. Instead of rushing to the airport with your carry-on in tow, you leisurely stroll to your h...

In 2017, most road warriors expect to travel for business about the same amount as they did this year, which is good for business. Business travel imp...

More frequently we read news alerts about cyber attacks. The scary notion is that the cyber world has become a dangerous arena where most anything goe...

Millennials now make up the majority of the U.S. workforce and by 2020 will account for 50 percent of all business travel spending. But millennials vi...

Ever heard of the project management triangle? It basically states that whenever you’re building something it can either be two of these three things ...

Our awesome technology partner, Concur, recently released a study that reveals how manual expense management is harming employees and companies. While...

The Global Business Travel Association and American Express Global Business Travel teamed up recently to release a report on overall traveler satisfac...

I got very excited reading this great article, “Five Business Travel Fraud Schemes Tech is Dismantling,” because each of the five schemes mentioned is...

I love this article by Tom Fox for Compliance Week. In the piece he states that ‘Tone at the Top’, while effective, is one of the most clichéd terms i...

Recently the Wall Street Journal published an article on how modern companies are using analytics to better assess risk and combat fraud. Although the...

I recently read this article in Computer Weekly about making fictional expense claims a thing of the past, and I enjoyed it.

I know, I know. I’m raising a big question in the title of this blog. I’m asking the question because I recently read an article about how a thoughtfu...

Oversight has spent the last 13+ years analyzing the travel and expense transactions for many of the largest business organizations in the world. Afte...

A recent survey of 1,000 business travelers revealed that business travel fraud is costing businesses up to 2.8 billion per year. 

Travel and expense management has traditionally fallen into one of three categories.

May is one of my favorite months. Summer is almost here, the long Memorial Day weekend, and also Towel Day. Held on May 25th, Towel Day honors the wor...

We loved seeing this Information Week Article by Lisa Morgan on the “8 Reasons to Consider Insights-As-A-Service.” While some of the reasons given are...

When researching what a company is all about online, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the amount of information available. Particularly with a compa...

The Insights On Demand Travel and Expense (T&E) module leverages a broad spectrum of sophisticated analytics to review 100% of a company’s travel-rela...

The 2016 Concur Fusion conference was held in Las Vegas, NV at the Venetian Hotel. The week-long event was filled with gatherings related to the most ...

Nearly a year ago a Delaware media outlet published a story on state workers and their astronomical fast food spending. State employees of Delaware ap...

Some believe that they only have two choices to improve compliance within their disbursement processes:

Since 2015, many exciting things have happened at Oversight Systems, including the launch of a handful of new Insights in the T&E module. Let’s take s...

Whether or not you believe that Valentine’s Day is a money-suck, chances are you’ll buy flowers for that special someone in your life. To cover the ba...

During the week of January 11th, Oversight took part in Ignite, Concur’s annual sales kickoff event. Ignite attendees traveled from all over the globe...

2015 has come to an end. Can you believe it? If you’re like us at Oversight, you’re probably wondering where the year went. It seems like the days wen...

What feels like Christmas every month?

Prospects always want to know why our clients have selected Oversight Insights On Demand™, but rather than just the “why,” it’s nice to show them the ...

Last week, Oversight debuted the second annual Spend Analysis Report, a compilation of data gathered from an analysis of 16 million purchase card tran...

After many months of hard work, Oversight is proud to announce the release of its second annual Spend Analysis Report, on the state of spending within...

Earlier this month, I was able to attend a Concur Fusion event in Washington, D.C.. Aside from the usual benefits to this event, like meeting customer...

It’s that time of year again. You know the one—with the bird and the cinnamon and football. It’s time for friends and family and thankfulness. Unfortu...

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, everyone is likely preparing for a big meal and time off with friends and loved ones. Also around this time ...

On Tuesday, October 27th 2015 Oversight’s CEO Patrick Taylor participated in a joint webinar with the Anti-Fraud collaboration. The webinar featured M...

As most of you know, Oversight offers a free trial run of our software to qualified prospective customers. I’ve always been curious as to why any comp...

After twelve years of monitoring over 2 trillion transactions, you can bet we have uncovered a few ghosts and goblins. In fact, some of the charges ar...

During the trial process many of our prospects like to ask us this question: “Why did your clients select you?” This is an excellent question, and whi...

For any prospective client, an important step in evaluating the value of Oversight Insights On Demand is taking advantage of our Free Test Drive. This...

Darkness falls. The hairs stiffen on the back of your neck. Fog ensues. These are familiar horror movie tropes, but I think they can also apply to a c...

Below is a hypothetical conversation that may take place in a company experiencing issues with expense fraud and misuse. (Heather, a sales manager is ...

This month I attended my first conference representing Oversight along with my colleague, Sam Haase. I was able to attend the Concur event at the McCo...

Coming just after Payroll, T&E is the second largest controllable expense for most companies, and it’s pretty standard practice now for companies to h...

I recently started to think about risk management in the context of T&E and P-Card compliance and monitoring solutions. Having traveled extensively in...

An outsider not in the corporate finance world may have never heard of a purchase card (or “P-Card” for short.) Similar to a corporate credit card, P-...

In our culture of increasing technical and social complexity, new technologies that are supposed to make our lives easier can actually create more wor...

Here are three of the most common objections I hear to people declining the FREE trial of our software.

My favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger movie is Kindergarten Cop (Twins is a close second). If you haven’t seen the movie (do so immediately), it’s about a...

It’s no secret that Oversight and Concur go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly (see our white paper on this very subject!) We love being a Concur a...

A shocking study by the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business has discovered that non-profit organizations make accounting errors at ...

Amid our recent efforts to become more prescriptive with our clients, we turned an article our CEO, Patrick Taylor, wrote for CMS Wire into a white pa...

Working as an account manager for Oversight Systems, I get a lot of questions from new customers who want to know about the system: Where do we start?...

For a long time, Oversight did things quite differently when it came to helping others monitor their T&E spending for fraud, waste, and misuse. Previo...

What happens if you put your hand into a bag of assorted marbles and pull out a handful? Well, there’s a chance that you’ll grab the red ones, but the...

At Oversight, we’re lucky to have a CEO who takes time out of his busy week to contribute regularly to our blog. Being a thought leader in the data an...

On June 23rd I had the pleasure of co-hosting a webinar with Eric A. Sohn, Director of Business Product for Dow Jones Risk and Compliance. The webinar...

Mike Kenealy, COO of Insiders Integrity, is involved in a project on the Philippines designed to take on ethics at the local level.  The project has f...

Google the phrase “travel manager” or “travel and expense” and a variety of news articles come up on any given day. It seems like in the last two year...

At Oversight, we’re always striving to create a better software platform and user experience for our customers. As such, we continually release update...

We hear a lot about “Compliance 2.0” in our industry, but what does this really mean?

Respondents to Business Travelers News 2015 Expense Manager Survey rated the importance of easing expense report preparation for employees a five on a...

The Financial Review article, “Business travellers use apps like Uber to escape bean counters - but the bosses are still watching” is a great example ...

Is it possible to have a truly global travel program? Business Travel News writers JoAnn DeLuna and Julie Sickel outline the objectives and challenges...

Oversight’s commitment to furthering thought leadership in our industry is evident in the white papers, reports, and blog content produced for both cu...

I love LinkedIn. I think the reason I love the platform the most is because it provides access to groups full of like-minded individuals in the data a...

I recently uncovered a super interesting article about an investigation into Pentagon employee’s spending a reported $950,000 at casinos and close to ...

The indictment of Washington state auditor Troy X. Kelley is a case study in the inter-connected activities of an alleged fraudster. As we have discus...

Each week I’ve been aggregating great pieces of thought leadership we’ve put out on the blog that you may have missed. This week we’re focusing on Big...

My name is Sarah Zoloth—I am team lead for, and a member of, our Demand Generation team at Oversight. This means I have spent most of the last 10 mont...

Did you know that April is Fraud Prevention Month? It snuck up on me too. But it is perfect timing as this week I’m going to highlight some of Oversig...

My name is Tyler Davis, and I started at Oversight over a year ago as a DG rep, then became an Account Executive. As one of the newer members of the O...

Since March 2014, Oversight has published nearly 100 blog posts, the topics running the gamut from fraud prevention, ensuring FCPA compliance, busines...

As the CEO of Oversight Systems, I particularly loved this post on Click Travel about “6 Things Your CEO Wants to Know About Business Travel.” Since O...

In case you missed it last week, I’m highlighting posts from the past year in the hopes of emphasizing topics you may have missed. Last week I covered...

My name is Ashlee and I started with Oversight in January 2014. I spent over a year on the Demand Generation team, driving sales for Oversight Insight...

When I came on board the marketing department at Oversight Systems, a little over a year ago, I was pleasantly surprised by the wealth of information ...

Tnooz recently republished a great infographic by Carson Wagonlit Travel compiling priorities within the TMC world from over 1300 respondents. While O...

Jonny Frank and Rex Homme do a nice job of succinctly addressing why transaction monitoring is the next “must have” anti-corruption tool (http://shar....

With the New Year in full swing and spring just around the corner, Oversight has been busy working a number of projects to make life for our customers...

I recently conducted an interview with The Company Dime on the value of data management and it reminded me of a story I wanted to share with you. For ...

I confess to having grown weary of companies in the data analysis and/or compliance business that scream tales of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (AKA, “...

Oversight had the opportunity to participate in the Concur Ignite 2015 sales kickoff last week in Bellevue, Washington. Concur is a strategic Oversigh...

The Washington Post recently ran an editorial on the difficulties federal workers are facing nearly three years after the spending scandal over a lavi...

Oversight is excited to present our first white paper of 2015, “Expense Management and Transaction Monitoring, the PB&J of Finance.” Written specifica...

Recently a prospective customer asked the question, “Since we are using Concur doesn’t it already do everything that your product does?”  One simple a...

Predictions are traditional at the beginning of the year and the world of fraud and compliance is no different. In this tradition, ACFE Insights blog ...

2014 has been a great year for Oversight. So great, in fact, that we wanted to highlight 10 moments and relive it all again. What a year!

A new study from the GBTA Foundation, the education and research arm of the Global Business Travel Association, shows that while travel managers are p...

It has always been the thought that technology is supposed to help us do more, and do it better and faster than before. Unfortunately the theory and t...

I recently read a great article from CFO.com about how Chief Financial Officers can generate more value in their offices. The article gives great tact...

Original expense receipt requirements are an old school approach to expense control.  In fact, I saw a recent list of the top five reasons why most co...

I recently uncovered a great Entrepreneur article on five ways to reduce expense fraud. Although we have extensively covered this topic in a few of ou...

We don’t talk about the aspects of traveling much here on the blog, but today I wanted to comment on an interesting article on traveller friction. Man...

Football season is in full swing, and you’ve been living under a rock if you haven’t heard about the widely publicized scandal involving the Baltimore...

As a published author, blogger and thought leader in the fraud risk management arena, I’m in the unique position of seeing global fraud trends across ...

Have you ever looked at the dashboards in your business intelligence tool and thought….what stunning conclusion am I supposed to see?

Last week Oversight sponsored the Concur Fusion Exchange in Toronto, Sales VP Mike Harron, and Account Executive Sam Haase and I traveled to the confe...

Last week, (October 22nd and 23rd) Oversight had the opportunity to present at Venture Atlanta. Venture Atlanta, for those who don’t know, is Georgia’...

Oversight recently released our first ever Spend Analysis Report for T&E. For this analysis we studied the behavior patterns of 160,000 travelers and ...

In this great blog by Syncsort, author Mary Hiers posits that there is a dearth of big data going to waste due to the fact that companies do not have ...

Expense management solutions are a necessary component of an effectively managed corporate travel program.  These solutions make it easy for companies...

A few weeks ago, Oversight announced its first-ever Spend Analysis Report. For this compilation of data Oversight analyzed 10 million transactions, a ...

It’s the beginning of the National Football League (NFL) season in the US and the Barclay’s Premier League (BPL) season in England.  At the beginning ...

Last week, Oversight debuted its first-ever Spend Analysis Report, a compilation of data we gathered from an analysis of 10 million transactions. Thos...

With Fall in full swing it has been a very busy season for us here at Oversight. This industriousness is reflected in various initiatives on our front...

It’s here! Oversight has released its first-ever Spend Analysis Report, a compilation of data from 10 million transactions and over $1 Billion in spen...

I remember as a kid watching the TV show “The Six-Million Dollar Man”; the scientists and doctors got together and made the man “better, stronger, fas...

It was with great interest that I read the results of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) recent survey on fraud as reported in Busine...

Last week was a crazy one: The Oversight VP of Sales, Mike Harron, and I were on the road for the two latest Concur Fusion Exchange conferences. The f...

Expenses software giant Concur is always looking for ways to grow their partner network (Oversight is a partner and offers a connector for Concur cust...

In my previous blog post for Oversight, I detailed how Excel no longer cuts it for expense reporting. In the world of reporting and analysis, Excel is...

I just returned from the GBTA Conference in Los Angeles, which was a great time. All last week (July 26-30) myself, our CEO Patrick Taylor, EVP Chris ...

Forrester’s “The Power of Real-Time Insight” survey (done in conjunction with Oversight partner, Concur) is an interesting view of the realities of tr...

If you keep up with the Oversight Blog, you know there are two things we cite regularly: The Hawthorne Effect, or the phenomenon that employees improv...

Concur recently released a survey on the state of T&E spend (conducted in conjunction with Forrester Research.) We at Oversight are very excited about...

I have been following blogs by organizations that perform expense report auditing.  It’s a habit in my line of business, being the “software guy” who ...

One of our customers calls T&E “the window into the soul of a company.”  Viewed from a corporate compliance perspective, particularly through a briber...

Donna Boehme gets it right when she says every company has the exact compliance program it wants (or deserves).  Donna is particularly critical of tho...

Consider this scenario: You are a travel program administrator at a Fortune 500 company. You are tasked with managing the travel program, making sure ...

Pierre Mitchell and Tony Darugar provoke some serious thoughts.  They both observe that “expense management” should really be “spend management” and t...

I recently read a great blog on GTI Travel about how strict travel policies are absolutely necessary in order to save money and prevent waste and abus...

In this infographic by The Beat, 45% of travel managers expect increases in Hotel cost over the next year. While hotels are just one component of the ...

Last week, myself and four other members of the Oversight team attended the Concur Fusion event in New Orleans. The event lasted May 6-9, with the bul...

In the world of reporting and analysis, Excel is a very powerful tool. It is used for many functions, including Travel and Entertainment (T&E) reporti...

Back in March, Business Travel News unveiled their annual Corporate Travel Index. 2014 marked the 30th compilation of the average business traveler pe...

GBTA research has revealed that over half feel they have more control over their company’s hotel spending policy than they did a few years ago. While ...

In this article by Travel Weekly UK, a third of UK travel managers expect the number of business trips to increase in 2014. This of course means that ...

I enjoyed this article from Robert Kugel, and thoroughly agree with its premise: that big data and analytics can be leveraged to make better business ...

Did you know that behind payroll, T&E is your company’s largest discretionary expense? Travel and entertainment spending can represent as much as 6% o...

Today's cloud-based travel and expense systems have significantly advanced since the days of manual report processing. These modern systems promise to...

With the close of fraud prevention month, Oversight wanted to recap our favorite fraud prevention tips. How many of our examples below apply to your o...

I just got back from the Concur Fusion Exchange event in New York, and wanted to share my thoughts on the event.

Did you know it is National Fraud Prevention month? Since preventing fraud, misuse, and compliance violations in T&E, P-Card and AP programs is a main...

The GSA Travel Data Challenge is certainly “novel” as Jay Boehmer relates in his recent blog post on The Beat.

The cost impact of FCPA investigations is less related to fines and more related to internal investigations. These internal costs easily enter the ten...

As noted by Business Travel News, savings are a top travel management priority in 2014. This is no surprise. Since travel is the second-largest contro...

From articles like the one recently published in Buying Business Travel to the topics I hear buzzing in customer conversations, the common denominator...

I used to think that for FCPA, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) lists were “the bomb.” I thought that the lists were both a) required and b) THE key ...

Our business is based on automating the monitoring and analysis of 100% of the transactions in an organization’s business processes. For many of our c...

We recently took part in a great one-day event with one of our strategic partners, Concur, and had a very productive day full of meaningful conversati...

Concur’s CEO Steve Singh was recently featured in an interview with Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money. One of Cramer’s questions for Singh is related to ...

The BCBS of Western New York case study featured in Business Travel News is a nice example of realizing the benefits of “inspecting what is expected”....

Compliance as noted in the recent CFO article “Compliance Mountains to Climb” is interesting because it is a pass/fail endeavor. Either a company is c...

The author of the Paymnts.com article “The New Best Practices for Corporate Travel Spend” raises a great issue – company travel policy is not always f...

A news story earlier this fall – documenting how a Bay Area strip club was suing Oracle after it allegedly refused to pay a $33,540 bill racked up on ...

Concur recently shared advice on how to fix the “top 3 expense report budget burners” on its blog. In our customers’ experience, a fourth budget burne...

Jo Maitland, Research Director for Infrastructure, Cloud Computing with Gigaom Research, invited our very own Patrick Taylor, CEO of Oversight, to tal...

The recent article “How to Make Expense Reports Cool” in Fortune Magazine highlighted insights from the Concur CEO Steve Singh on the future of travel...

Oversight had the privilege to participate in Concur's annual sales kickoff event, Ignite 2014, in Bellevue, WA on October 15. Nearly 40 Concur busine...

There’s an important cultural dimension companies should consider for Open Bookings. Do we have (or do we want to encourage) an empowerment culture? O...

Travel Market Report recently covered a story on how many firms are slow to automate their business travel expense reports. Firms that are slower to a...

No one likes to feel like they’re owed money after a business trip, yet according to a recent survey, only 27 percent of corporate travelers indicated...

A recent survey of U.S. office workers revealed that a concept known as “maverick spending” is costing employers tens of thousands of dollars (and in ...

A survey of corporate travel buyers on combating fraud found, as reported in Business Travel News, that “the most common way corporate travel buyers s...

Thomas Fox recently shared this thought-provoking analogy on his blog: You can fine tune a piano, but you can't ‘tuna fish’; and offered advice on fin...

Our sixth in a series of tips for cutting T&E waste is focused on receipt limits.

Our fifth in a series of tips for cutting T&E waste is focused on lodging and meal outliers.

Travel Market Report recently reported on how open booking demands a shift in the thinking of TMCs. With open bookings, travelers have more discretion...

Our fourth in a series of tips for cutting T&E waste is focused on weekend and holiday purchases.

A recent Fast Company article by Kim Goodwin forecasted what business travel will look like in 2014. The writer keenly noted: “One trend that was abun...

A recent piece in Travel Market Report notes this commentary from Harvard Business School visiting professor Thomas Davenport, Ph.D.: “For travel sell...

Our third in a series of tips for cutting T&E waste is focused on suspicious out-of-pocket expenses.

Our second in a series of tips for cutting T&E waste is focused on identifying and addressing misclassified expenses.

Did you know that T&E is probably your company’s second largest discretionary expense, representing as much as 6% of all corporate expenses? And that ...

I like to run. As I have grown older and slower over the last ten years, I have progressed from 5Ks and 10Ks to half-marathons and marathons. One thin...

A comprehensive and recommended report produced by Concur, the organization’s Concur Expense IQ Report, provides exclusive analysis of the T&E spend f...

Our most popular Insights in the T&E (Travel & Expense) Insights Family are those that analyze employee expense behaviors.  Overwhelmingly, our custom...

A recent Buying Business Travel article noted how big data has become the buzz word of the year. More important than buzz, however, are the important ...

At the recent Concur Fusion conference where Oversight announced its partnership with Concur, I was having breakfast with a group of corporate travel ...

In his opening address to the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) National Leadership Conference, Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the Gove...

On the subject of industry analyst Dr. Robin Bloor’s blog “Operational Intelligence – Is This the End Game for Big Data?”, I would offer that “Busines...

As it regards to the recent Smart Data Collective piece, “Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence and the Mind of Sherlock Holmes”, whether we’re ta...

The election is long over but I find it interesting to look at some of the ways that the Obama Campaign successfully leveraged data. The real trick to...

While perusing a BI demo I was struck by a featured graph with 15 bars showing sales results for various promotions.  The presentation was beautiful a...

Gartner analyst Svetlana Sicular recently wrote on the topic “Big Data is Falling into the Trough of Disillusionment.” It provided much food for big d...

SearchBusinessAnalytics recently published a very timely piece entitled, “Real-time analytics brings BI data directly into business operations”. The a...

The IDC /SAP whitepaper, “Big Data: Trends, Strategies, and SAP Technology". presents a solid case around the emerging shift from the information econ...