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  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Embracing Digital Solutions and Engaging Employees

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses the cost control and compliance pressures facing finance teams, as well as employee turnover risk. It notes that digital solutions such as automation, machine learning, AI, and ERP integration can improve employee experience and efficiency. Using SAP Concur solutions can reduce time to fill out an expense report by 43%, time to reimburse expenses by 50%, and increase employees following T&E policies by 32%. The post also poses five key questions to help finance leaders reimagine travel, invoice, and expense management.

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    SAP Concur: Now Is the Time to Digitalize Your Spend Management

    A SAP Concur blog post argues companies should invest in digital spend management. Shari Lava, research director at IDC, says the manual way is not working, and Bryan Ball, director of research at Aberdeen, says visibility into spending information can make a difference in survival. The article notes paper-, email-, and spreadsheet-based processes are untenable under remote work, and digitalization enables automated approvals, faster reimbursement, real-time spend analytics, and ERP integration.

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    How AP Automation Can Help SMBs Gain Better Control Over Spend

    SAP Concur blog cites an Oxford Economics report: 82% of businesses with 1,000 or fewer employees identified new gaps in cash flow management tools and finance processes due to COVID-19. 53% say the pace of digital transformation is speeding up. Among those who digitized invoice management, 43% saw increased organizational agility and resiliency, and 25% saw increased visibility into spending and reduced costs. The article recommends AP automation via solutions like Concur Invoice to gain real-time spend visibility, reduce manual errors, and optimize cash flow.

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    You're Ready for Recovery, But How Are You Going to Get There?

    A SAP Concur blog post states that business recovery requires accurate, real-time spending and budget data. A study found that 93% of global finance, IT, and operations executives agreed that maintaining organizational agility is the only way to navigate uncertainty, and 90% said a scalable, automated T&E management solution is key to controlling policy and protocol. The article emphasizes that digital and automated spend management can improve accuracy, control, and cost savings.

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    Intelligent Global Systems Enable Business Growth and Spend Management

    SAP Concur blog states finance leaders can drive growth by providing real-time visibility, coaching on budgets, managing cash flow, and freeing finance staff. However, most finance departments still work manually, spending 60% to 70% of time gathering information. Without visibility and controls over discretionary spending like travel, expenses, and invoiced purchases, costs can spiral and fraud can occur. IT leaders can support intelligent finance by implementing automation that integrates travel, expense, and invoice management.

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    AspireHR Partners with SAP Concur to Digitize Expense Management for SLED Agencies

    A SAP Concur blog post highlights that AspireHR, an SAP Gold Partner, is helping State, Local, and Education (SLED) agencies in North America kickstart digital transformation with SAP Concur's automated, cloud-based expense management solutions. The article notes that with remote work as the new norm, SLED organizations face pressure to improve efficiency, eliminate manual processes, and make decisions based on complete and accurate data. SAP Concur can accelerate approvals and reimbursements, streamline workflows, enforce spending policies, eliminate manual processes and lost receipts, and enhance productivity and employee experience.

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    Is It Okay to Grow Now?

    The article encourages businesses to seek growth in 2021, emphasizing cost control through investment in travel, expense, and invoice management tools. A whitepaper with Deloitte shows financial leaders using these tools to make decisions and investing in AI and machine learning for spend analytics. They also pursue 100% audit and VAT reclaim.

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    Four Tips to Prepare for Financial AI

    A SAP Concur blog post advises companies to establish a solid spend management process before incorporating artificial intelligence (AI). It offers four steps: understand the importance of spend management, get a 30,000-foot view of current processes, update processes with AI in mind, and get help from experts. SAP Concur CFO Jason Woods emphasizes that a spend management plan is critical to a company's financial health, regardless of industry or size.

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    What Keeps CFOs Up at Night?

    SAP Concur cites a Gartner survey showing that in 2020, CFOs' focus shifted from growth to business continuity, with top priorities including increasing cash positions, reducing costs, and enabling remote work. The article emphasizes digital transformation for spend management.

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    SAP Concur 2022 Predictions

    A SAP Concur blog post shares predictions from its global team of experts for 2022 across business travel, digital transformation, sustainability, and employee experience. Predictions include: settlement replacing expense reports, hybrid spend management, bleisure travel, standardized sustainability reporting, and travel as an antidote to the Great Resignation.

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    Manual to Mobile: The Shift in Business Spend Management

    This SAP Concur blog post discusses the shift from manual paper-based processes to mobile expense management. Citing SMB Group research, it notes that over half of SMBs have employees using mobile devices for business, and mobile solutions are considered critical. The article highlights how mobile technology boosts productivity and flexibility, with millennials driving the mobile-first trend.

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    Aberdeen Research: How Best-in-Class Companies Digitize Spend Management

    SAP sponsored two global Aberdeen research surveys of more than 600 businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees, classifying the top 20% by performance metrics as 'best in class.' The research found 74% of best-in-class companies use an expense management solution to automatically capture receipts and manage reporting workflows; they are 87% more likely to use analytics, and 50% more likely to use spend data for auditing. Best-in-class companies save US$11.71 per expense report on average, spend nearly five fewer days on approvals, and report 26% productivity improvement, 24% profitability improvement, and 17% faster cash-to-cash cycle.

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    GBTA and SAP Concur Poll: Travel Managers Shift Toward Technology Oversight

    A GBTA and SAP Concur poll of 226 travel managers and buyers examined how digital transformation is reshaping corporate travel management. The findings show travel managers' responsibilities shifting from managing people and policies toward overseeing the technology that enables modern business travel management. 72% expect bookings through their online booking tool (OBT) to increase over the next three years, while only 4% expect a decrease; four in ten expect bookings made directly through airline (40%) or hotel (38) websites to decline. 58% of travel managers either already include or expect to include NDC bookings within the next year. Facing airline fees on TMC and GDS channel bookings…

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    SAP Concur Partner Ecosystem: Collaboration Powers Travel and Expense Management

    SAP Concur published an article on how its partner ecosystem helps businesses manage travel and expense programs in the remote work era. The ecosystem includes more than 700 partners spanning platform partners, travel suppliers, distribution partners, financial services, resale and service partners, and travel management companies (TMCs). The article cites an IDC report noting that the pandemic-driven increase in remote work is accelerating digital transformation, with companies expected to spend more on cloud-based solutions.

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    What Is Cloud ERP? From Y2K to Intelligent ERP

    The article reviews ERP history: the Y2K crisis accelerated ERP adoption, with U.S. companies spending $100 billion on Y2K fixes according to a Senate report. IDC data put the ERP market at $25.4 billion in total revenue in 2016, projected to reach $33.6 billion by 2021. It contrasts on-premise and public cloud ERP, noting cloud ERP is typically more affordable, updates faster and forces data standardization that underpins AI and machine learning.

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    SAP Concur: Banks Need to Keep Pace with Customers' Accelerating Demands

    SAP Concur argues that the current economic environment has magnified the need for companies to embrace digital transformation, and that corporate clients expect consumer-like user experiences from their banks. It cites IDC that the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of digital transformation for staying agile. It suggests banks consider three things: co-innovation with SAP Concur, an easy and scalable single spend management platform, and extending reach to improve share of wallet, credit utilization, customer churn, and satisfaction. It says SAP Concur solutions serve more than 46,000 customers globally, helping them realize the full value of commercial cards and other payment s…