Today's guest post is from Bernard Gunther of Lexington Analytics. He can be reached at bgunther <at> lexingtonanalytics <dot> com.During the course of my work, I am always surprised at the large number of procurement organizations who still perform their analyses by dumping AP data into Excel or Access and developing their own reports. An analyst spends days or weeks each month maintaining this information. Even more troubling are those who have purchased an analysis tool, but still dump the transaction data into spreadsheets and spend hours or days creating their reports. The expensive analytics system they purchased ...