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Emburse Champion Awards Honors Leaders in Spend Management, United by Commitment to Humanizing Work

LOS ANGELES & PORTLAND, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Emburse, the global leader in spend optimization, has announced the winners of its inaugural Emburse Champion Awards. Winners were recognized across eight categories for their accomplishments in spend management sharing Emburse’s commitment to humanizing work.

Each winning organization realized tangible business results including time savings, cost savings, improved employee experience, and other strategic wins by leveraging Emburse solutions. International Services, Inc., winner of the Analytics Champion award, uncovered substantial cash and time savings over its previous process, all from leaning into the transformative power of real-time data.

In addition, Emburse Champions were nominated for their tenacity in eliminating time-consuming tasks to make work better and easier for everyone. As the winner of the Ultimate Advisor, PizzaExpress is recognized for contributing valuable feedback and insights that helped shape Emburse product innovations, empowering finance leaders worldwide to take the “busy work” out of spend management.

Emburse congratulates all of this year’s Emburse Champion Award winners and honorable nominations.

Emburse Champion Award category winners:

  • Expense Champion: The Beck Group
  • Travel Management Champion: Austin Powder Company
  • Accounts Payable Champion: Dealer Tire
  • Analytics Champion: International Services, Inc.
  • Ultimate Advocate: University of New Mexico
  • Ultimate Advisor: PizzaExpress
  • Spend Optimizer of the Year: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
  • Humanizer of the Year: Hall & Wilcox

Honorable mentions: MediView XR, The Little Potato Company, and Discovery Land Company

“Customers are the heart of all we do at Emburse. We created these awards to shine a spotlight on the incredible teams and individuals whose work makes their colleagues’ lives better and delivers real value to their employers,” said Johann Wrede, Chief Experience Officer at Emburse. “The organizations we’re honoring with this year’s Emburse Champion Awards really showcase how Finance teams can transform the workplace, optimizing spend and eliminating the uncertainty and manual processes that no one really wants to deal with. These winners show us all that humanizing work really does maximize impact.”

About Emburse

Emburse is the global leader in spend optimization. Our expense, travel management, purchasing and accounts payable, and payments solutions are trusted by more than 12 million business professionals, including CFOs, finance teams, and travelers. More than 18,000 organizations in 120 countries, including FORTUNE 100 corporations, high-growth startups, public sector agencies, and nonprofits, count on our intelligent automation, sophisticated analytics, and unmatched spend control to streamline processes, increase spend visibility, enhance compliance, and deliver positive financial outcomes.

We humanize work. We eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks, so our customers and their teams can focus on what matters most in their personal and professional lives.

For more information on Emburse, visit emburse.com, or follow our social channels at @emburse.

Contacts

Maura Lafferty
Firebrand Communications for Emburse
415.848.9175
emburse@firebrand.marketing

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