Expensify announced a native integration with Rillet, an AI-native ERP, enabling automatic sync of expenses, corporate card spend, and reimbursements to the general ledger. The integration supports two-way sync, including categories, dimensions, and tax rates, reducing manual work and errors.
SAP Concur's blog argues that businesses rely on multiple systems for travel, expense, and invoice management, but lack of integration leads to data silos, manual reconciliation, and inconsistent reporting, slowing decision-making. It advocates intelligent integration tools for automated data sync and workflow automation to improve efficiency and visibility.
SAP Concur published a blog comparing standalone expense tools, highlighting advantages of native integration with SAP ERP, including real-time data flow, embedded AI, automated expense reporting, and payment management.
SAP Concur introduces the 'Beyond the Balance Sheet' series, a thought-leadership series for modern finance leaders. Each 20-minute episode covers trends shaping finance, including growth strategy, AI, and the evolving role of business travel. Episodes include 'Vision for Growth', 'AI — Hype or Game-Changer?', 'The Role of Business Travel', and 'Integrations: Making Every Connection Count'.
SAP Concur has enhanced its integration with Uber for Business, enabling automatic employee directory sync, smart filters, and preview-before-invite. Admins can sync employee data directly from SAP Concur, filter by team, region, department, etc., reducing manual upkeep. SAP Concur remains the system of record, ensuring alignment across travel, meals, and expense data.
SAP Concur recaps 2025 innovations, including general availability of Joule AI assistant, Receipt Analysis Agent, Complete unified solution with Amex GBT, Microsoft Teams integration, enhanced Uber for Business integration, new NetSuite connector, support for over 90 languages, and more. These updates aim to improve travel and expense management efficiency, compliance, and user experience.
SAP Concur launched a new NetSuite connector, replacing the legacy version with enhanced functionality, faster setup, and better reliability. The new connector features real-time data synchronization, automatic retry of failed API calls, detailed error messages, and an audit trail. It is currently available to U.S. small business and enterprise customers with Concur Expense; Concur Invoice support will be added in Q3 2025, and an international release is planned for Q4 2025.
This SAP Concur article compares its solutions with Zoho Expense, highlighting five considerations: AI-powered automation, advanced integrations, seamless user experience, industry reviews, and innovation. SAP Concur beats Zoho Expense across all G2 user satisfaction categories and ranks #1 in market share. The article also mentions that integrated platforms can increase policy compliance by 26% and double processing efficiency.
A SAP Concur blog post summarizes business travel trends and challenges. Research shows 42% of travel managers anticipated company directives to cut travel costs within the year; 88% of travelers reported significant travel disruptions and 74% felt unsafe on a trip; 61% of businesses without integrated travel and expense solutions are likely to move to a connected system within two years; and 34% of travel managers need better training to benefit from AI-powered tools. The article also notes 44% of travelers would refuse a trip over safety concerns, and 95% of travelers are open to using AI-fueled technology for business travel booking.
A SAP Concur blog post argues that meaningful productivity gains happen at the organizational level through efficient systems and the right tools, not by focusing on individual employees. It cites McKinsey data that more than half of surveyed employees say they are relatively unproductive, potentially costing a company $228 million to $355 million a year. The post outlines how T&E tools boost organizational productivity through digitization (ExpenseIt receipt capture), automation (Concur Request approvals, Verify audits), and integration to eliminate data silos.
This SAP Concur blog post emphasizes the importance of integrating ERP with travel, expense, and accounts payable data to gain full spend visibility and transform data into actionable insights. It highlights two benefits: greater visibility and increased efficiency, and presents SAP Concur's integration options including pre-built integrations, hosted custom solutions, and client web services.
SAP Concur blog notes that SMBs waste millions annually on travel and expenses due to hidden spend, inconsistent booking processes, and manual expense reports. Adopting managed travel solutions that are integrated, ecosystem-based, secure, and workflow-automated can save an average of 122 hours per week and $40,000 per year.
SAP Concur and Brex have launched an integration that automatically flows Brex card transactions into Concur Expense expense reports within 24 hours, reducing data entry errors, providing more granular spend reporting, and enabling automatic reconciliation across multiple systems.
SAP Concur announces the integration of AvidXchange's AvidPay with Concur Invoice, providing cloud-based accounts payable automation. This integration allows Concur Invoice customers to pay suppliers efficiently through the AvidPay Network, including virtual card and AvidPay Direct (ACH+ product). Customers benefit from fast and secure payments, reduced check processing costs, lower fraud risk, and support from a supplier services team.
Lyft Business integrates with SAP Concur's Concur Expense to help travel managers reduce ground transportation costs and improve traveler satisfaction. The integration automates expense reporting, and travelers can earn rewards with Lyft's airline and hospitality partners. Currently available only in the U.S., it has already enabled over 20,000 end-users. Lyft Business can result in 30% savings on company-wide travel spend, and travelers earn $5 in personal ride credit for every 5 business rides.
SAP Concur celebrates the 10th anniversary of its open platform, which has grown to over 75 APIs and 250+ partner applications since 2011. The article highlights progress in accelerating integration, simplifying development, boosting compliance, and expanding the partner ecosystem, including new scenarios like Travel to Reimburse.
SAP Concur announced a new Amazon Business Integration for Concur Expense. Available for free via the SAP Concur App Center, the integration reduces the time and effort required for employees to create expense reports from Amazon Business purchases and increases data accuracy. Amazon Business purchases automatically appear in an employee's available expenses, eliminating the need to upload or track down receipts. The integration is easy to set up with just a few clicks from administrators and is available for U.S.-based Amazon Business spend.
SAP Concur article emphasizes the importance of automation and integration. Automation saves costs, but without integration with finance systems, efficiency is limited. SAP Concur offers pre-built connectors supporting various ERPs, automatically syncing data to reduce manual entry and errors.
SAP Concur announced that Concur TripLink customers can now connect their SAP Concur account with Hyatt via the Hyatt App Center or by enrolling their World of Hyatt loyalty account. Over 120,000 World of Hyatt member accounts are connected, allowing travel managers to capture booking data from Hyatt.com or mobile apps, providing spend visibility and policy monitoring.
A SAP Concur blog post notes that cloud technology brings intelligence and automation to small and midsize companies, and T&E automation saves time, cuts costs, and supports expansion. According to AMI Partners, 76% of firms that automated T&E tools use cloud solutions, and finance teams see an average 15% time savings. The article highlights integration, mobility, and intelligence as key adoption drivers, and notes six in ten employees have filed at least one incorrect expense report.