Rosslyn Analytics, a SaaS based spend analytics company, announced its partnership with D&B. According to the company, “ today’s announcement is unique because for the first time a third-party data feed from the likes of D&B has been integrated into a system agnostic, web-based automated spend analytics platform.  This technological advancement in coding gives multiple users one complete and immediate view of all supplier performance information in context to a customer’s internal spend data such as key suppliers, which is presented as actionable intelligence in customizable dashboards, scorecards and alerts.“

This announcement shows that SaaS solutions are starting to take their offerings to the next level.  Rosslyn Analytics is using D&B information to expand the type of information they can provide customers.  When looking at broader SaaS solutions, providers such as Birst are now providing full BI feature and functionality sets and InetSoft is offering free dashboard and charting access online.  What all of these companies have in common is the expansion of SaaS based functionality. 

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