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Prime Numbers to Add Credit Card & Expense Data to Analytics Tool

By Adam Perrotta / January 30, 2019 / Contact Reporter
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Corporate travel analytics specialist Prime Numbers Technology plans to integrate payment card and expense data into its Prime Analytics reporting and benchmarking suite, the company told BTN. Integrating that data gives corporate travel buyers a complete picture of trip spend in one place. Previously, the suite captured only spending that took place through Prime Numbers' travel management company partners, such as air and hotel bookings.

Prime Numbers is building a beta version of the service with several corporations that have signed on to connect corporate card and expense flows to Prime Analytics, according to Prime Numbers general manager and VP Mark Bresnahan. Full rollout of the service is planned for the second half of 2019, he said. "We saw this as an evolution of the [Prime Analytics] tool that we had to have. Without integrating credit card and expense data, you don't offer a full picture of a trip because you're not getting visibility into anything booked outside of a TMC," noted Bresnahan. As an example, he cited a hotel booking made through a TMC. While the room cost would be captured via the TMC integration, any room service or other costs paid with an employee's credit card wouldn't flow into the reporting tool, meaning the total cost would have to be reconciled manually from multiple sources.


Without integrating credit card and expense data, you don't offer a full picture of a trip because you're not getting visibility into anything booked outside of a TMC."

Prime Numbers' Mark Bresnahan

Other TMCs and reporting providers recently have made strides to integrate card and expense data into their data flows. Last year, FCM Travel Solutions began incorporating card spend data from AirPlus International into FCM's ClientBank reporting platform for mutual clients of the two firms. Meanwhile, American Express Global Business Travel and American Express share data for reporting, while Carlson Wagonlit Travel's Travel Consolidator tool captures corporate credit card spending and expense reporting data flows.

Four Prime Analytics TMC partners have signed on to resell the card and expense integration tool to their travel buyer clients, but Prime Numbers also is targeting direct sales to corporates to provide more flexibility, Bresnahan said.

"We don't want to penalize a corporation that invests in integrating their credit card, expense and TMC data into one tool, should they decide to switch TMCs. Therefore, we're not positioning the product specifically as a TMC resell," Bresnahan noted. "However, the corporation will likely want the TMC to continue to administer the tool and analyze the program for them, which is a substantial value-add."

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