In the area of procurement, the new technologies currently considered to have the greatest medium-term impact on processes are those of "data analysis and visualization," whose descriptive and predictive capacities have various degrees of complexity.#Among the 618 digital procurement projects investigated in the study Digital Procurement. The State of the Art in Italy , conducted by the SDA Bocconi School of Management, the ones with the greatest relative share are the Expand projects, those whose goal is to increase efficacy in part due to innovation in operational procurement models.#The difficulties encountered by many organizations in digital procurement projects are principally due to a business culture that is often not very advanced, the difficulties of calculating the return on investments, and the efforts necessary to integrate and properly manage traditional and digital technologies.