SAP Concur's blog explains why organizations choose its travel and expense management platform over competitors like Navan, Ramp, and Coupa. It highlights proven ROI, unified T&E, strong ERP integration, and scalability. Citing IDC research, it reports annual staff-time savings of $77,600 and travel-related savings of $1.18 million, along with efficiency and compliance gains.
SAP Concur announced that its travel and expense management product has again been recognized as a 2026 G2 Best Software Award winner in Enterprise Travel and Expense Management, and earned multiple Leader designations across small-business, mid-market and enterprise categories. G2's quarterly Grid Reports are powered entirely by real, verified user feedback. SAP Concur said the recognition reflects continued customer confidence in its product's integration, ease of use and performance at scale.
SAP Concur highlights four key benefits of Concur Expense: cash flow visibility, risk minimization, streamlined workflows, and scalability. By automating data imports and integrating with ERP and other systems, Concur Expense improves efficiency, enhances compliance, and supports multiple currencies and complex regulations.
The first article in the SAP Concur and Financial Times series explores how innovation trends in enterprise software design and user experience can accelerate company growth. It notes that AI is creating opportunities to personalize work, psychology and behavioral science are making software more intuitive, and a human-centric approach leads to better design. Jen Moyse, VP of Product and Head of UX at SAP Concur, says great user experience helps users get through tasks easily, accurately, and quickly. The article also discusses AI adapting processes, behavioral science shaping interactions, and fostering productivity through research.
SAP announced that as of July 15 its GROW with SAP premium subscription will include access to SAP Sales Cloud and Concur Expense. Concur Expense offers automated expense management from receipt capture to report approval, supports compliance needs, and includes a mobile app; SAP Sales Cloud provides AI-powered sales automation. SAP says the combination delivers a complete lead-to-cash process on cloud-native, user-centric UX.
SAP Concur's CFO Insights Series article 'Solving the ROI Puzzle' combines research and finance-leader input on how businesses can measure and maximize AI returns. It says 51% of finance leaders are investing in AI, and measuring ROI requires understanding the challenges of defining returns, using nontraditional performance indicators, and recognizing long-term human benefits. It cites McKinsey's estimate that about 75% of generative AI's total value comes from customer operations, software engineering, R&D, and marketing and sales.
A SAP Concur blog post argues that hybrid and flexible work, combined with increasingly sophisticated enterprise applications, has made digital adoption platforms (DAPs) a key tool. A DAP is a codeless software addition that simplifies processes within an enterprise application via in-interface guidance and tool tips. The post cites IDC research showing 87% of surveyed line-of-business respondents are automating their own work, and an IDC prediction that by 2025 CIOs investing in DAPs and automated learning technologies will see a 40% productivity increase. It also notes that more than 170 countries operate VAT systems, with regimes such as the UK's Making Tax Digital and the EU's SAF-T evo…
A SAP Concur blog post announced that as of the beginning of 2018, Concur is now SAP Concur, unifying its brand with SAP. Concur had a successful three years as part of the SAP family. As SAP Concur, the company will continue to simplify expense, travel, and invoice management for greater visibility and control. It promises deeper R&D investment, a broader network of app providers, partners, and communities, and the ability to manage all spend in the cloud for businesses of all sizes.
A SAP Concur blog post notes that the nature of corporate spending has changed significantly over the past five to ten years and continues to evolve, making tracking and managing spending more complex. Citing IDC research, it says many organizations still have shortcomings: accounts payable teams cannot effectively direct spending if they only orchestrate manual processes; budget managers are not truly managing budgets if they only track what is spent; and finance managers cannot ensure payment terms and negotiated rates on every transaction without the right tools. IDC created a five-stage maturity model, from manual processes and spreadsheets at the lowest stage to integrated solutions an…