11. Software for managing supplier intelligence, the software being embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable media and when executed by one or more processing units operable to: collect procurement data regarding a procurement process from a plurality of data sources, the procurement data including information regarding a plurality of business divisions of a business entity; for each business division, generate a set of spend formulas for determining spending associated with that business division; generate a set of supplier intelligence business rules based on a variety of business parameters, each supplier intelligence business rule interrelating at least one spend formula associated with a first one of the business divisions with at least one spend formula associated with a second one of the business divisions; and perform an analysis of at least a portion of the procurement data based on one or more of the set of supplier intelligence business rules to determine the financial effects of a decision made by the first business division on the second business division; generate a visual output indicating the results of the analysis of the at least a portion of the procurement data.
11. Software for managing supplier intelligence, the software being embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable media and when executed by one or more processing units operable to: collect procurement data regarding a procurement process from a plurality of data sources, the procurement data including information regarding a plurality of business divisions of a business entity; for each business division, generate a set of spend formulas for determining spending associated with that business division; generate a set of supplier intelligence business rules based on a variety of business parameters, each supplier intelligence business rule interrelating at least one spend formula associated with a first one of the business divisions with at least one spend formula associated with a second one of the business divisions; and perform an analysis of at least a portion of the procurement data based on one or more of the set of supplier intelligence business rules to determine the financial effects of a decision made by the first business division on the second business division; generate a visual output indicating the results of the analysis of the at least a portion of the procurement data. 12. The software of claim 11 , wherein the procurement data includes information automatically extracted from a plurality of electronic contracts based on a set of linguistic rules.