the DataWeb is coming…MasterCard has services

I found this in a MasterCard Croporate Solutions Advertisement in the Economist Technology Quarterly:

Could you stand to lose some of the headaches associated with your global travel management program? Then consider MasterCard. Not only our Multinational Corporate Card Program let you manage global information (like enhanced hotel folio and airline data) straight from our Global Data Repository into your expense management system. But our Smart Data OnLine(tm) lets you seemlessly organize, consolidate, and analyze spend data — anytime, anywhere in 13 languages and virtually every currency — to cut costs and increase productivity. That gives you added leverage in negotiations with suppliers, plus better compliance control, expense reporting and analysis. And since MasterCard is accepted at over 21 million locations worldwide, you’ll never get panicked phone calls from your associates abroad.