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Jul 21Mon
  1. Amadeus Newsroom

    Amadeus Cytric collaborates with Globespan to issue first Air Canada NDC booking

    Amadeus Cytric and travel management company Globespan announced an alliance under which Globespan becomes a reseller of Amadeus Cytric, offering the online travel management tool to customers across Canada and the US. Globespan became the first TMC to issue a live NDC booking from Air Canada on an online booking tool via Amadeus in the Canadian market, bringing Air Canada NDC content to corporate travelers. Globespan now has full access to Cytric Easy functionalities, including Microsoft Teams integration.

Jul 17Thu
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur study: business traveler, travel manager and CFO comfort levels with AI

    SAP Concur's seventh annual Global Business Travel Survey found 88% of global business travelers are comfortable using AI-powered automation for some elements of business travel, rising to 94% among U.S. travelers. Gen Z (95%) and millennials (91%) show the highest comfort. 44% are comfortable with AI re-booking before a trip and 39% with AI curating options during initial booking. 67% of CFOs believe employees may use AI to falsify travel expenses, and 55% expect AI approvals to catch more errors and fraud than their teams currently do.

  2. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur launches Booking Agent and consumer-grade travel features at GBTA 2025

    SAP Concur announced new features at the GBTA Convention in Denver, including the Booking Agent conversational booking tool that generates policy-compliant itineraries, available to early adopters in August with general availability planned for Q4. Concur Request adds budget authorization supporting single requests covering multiple trips or employees, plus travel advisories powered by Riskline. Trip Extras offers third-party travel services, initially ground transportation with Groundspan, available to early adopters in August with general availability planned for Q4.

Jul 2Wed
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Corporate Travel Strategies: Costs, Policies, and Employee Experience

    SAP Concur's blog provides corporate travel management strategies covering clear travel policies, data-driven decision-making, enhancing traveler experience, sustainability, risk mitigation, global compliance, automation technology, and cost optimization. It cites survey data: 46% of travel managers have strategies for travel emission budgets; 58% of employees changed travel plans due to safety concerns; 50% of travel managers face significant pricing pressure. Using integrated travel and expense platforms can increase policy compliance by 26%, annual cost savings by 21%, and expense report processing efficiency by 10x.

Jun 13Fri
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Enhance Financial Forecasting with Finance Automation

    SAP Concur published an article advising organizations to use finance automation, AI, and clear strategies to improve financial forecasting, cost control, and agility. It cites data: 41% of finance leaders see worsening economic conditions as their top external challenge; 57% of small business CEOs expect the economy to worsen in the next 12 months. The article suggests strategies such as honing spend management, getting an early grip on costs, and refining metrics, and describes AI applications in travel bookings, receipt management, and expense auditing.

Jun 11Wed
  1. Amadeus Newsroom

    Tourvest Deploys Amadeus Hey! for Real-Time Trip Alerts

    African travel group Tourvest deployed Amadeus Hey! on its corporate travel booking platform Travelit to provide business travelers with real-time flight updates, gate changes, check-in reminders, and weather forecasts. The solution can also present targeted offers for airport lounges, transfers, and activities. Amadeus Hey! delivers communications across multiple channels and works with bookings from any source.

Jun 6Fri
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Cites G2 Report Comparing Itself to Spotnana

    SAP Concur published an article citing the Spring 2025 G2 comparison report, claiming it leads Spotnana in efficiency, predictive analytics, integrations, and cost savings. The report shows SAP Concur rated higher for automating expense management (88% vs 79%), T&E workflows (88% vs 83%), integrations (83 vs 76), and cost savings (81% vs 73%). SAP Concur also cites its benchmarking report claiming 628% ROI.

Apr 7Mon
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: CSR and Business Travel Sustainability

    A SAP Concur blog post examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) in business travel and expense management. It cites a Morgan Stanley survey in which more than 80% of companies see financial opportunities aligned with sustainability goals and 79% expect higher revenue. SAP Concur's 6th Annual Global Business Travelers Research Report found 27% of employees would decline a business trip due to environmental impact or inability to choose sustainable options. The article also notes 36% of travel managers struggle to meet sustainable travel expectations without adequate budgets, and about 27% of business travelers say their company cut back on allowing them to pay more for sustainable opti…

Mar 31Mon
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Business Travel Trends: Adapting Your Corporate Travel Program for Success

    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.

  2. SAP Concur Blog

    Professional Success Requires Leadership Skills and a Growth Mindset

    This SAP Concur blog post discusses leadership skills and a growth mindset for professional success. Citing Cathy Logue of Stanton Chase, it notes that 90% of senior finance leaders agree their key task is to prepare their business for the unexpected. For travel managers, it references the SAP Concur 6th Annual Global Travel Managers Research Report, finding that 99% report a disconnect between expected tasks and tools, support, and budget, and 33% are asked to take on a more strategic role without additional training. The article offers tips for developing leadership, including training, collaboration, communication, tech savvy, and networking.

Jan 15Wed
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Effortless Travel and Expense Management Now Available Within Microsoft Teams

    SAP Concur announced the integration of Concur Travel and Concur Expense with Microsoft Teams. Users can access travel plans and expense approval functions directly within Teams, including sharing travel plans during meetings, sending flight details via chat so colleagues can book directly, and approving expense reports on mobile. SAP Concur says the move aims to embed travel and expense management tools into employees' daily work platform to improve efficiency and employee satisfaction.

  2. SAP Concur Blog

    Concur Travel Becomes the First Booking Tool to Offer ISO 14083-assured Emissions Data

    SAP Concur announced that the new Concur Travel has become the first online booking tool to integrate emissions calculations assured to the ISO 14083 standard, made possible through a partnership with Thrust Carbon. ISO 14083 provides a single, globally recognized framework for calculating greenhouse gas emissions across all transportation modes and aligns with climate initiatives such as the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). CSRD mandates emissions reporting for over 50,000 companies globally starting in 2025. The GBTA 2024 Sustainability Benchmark found an average sustainability maturity score of 1.3 out of 5 across 241 assessed organizations.

Jan 9Thu
Nov 25Mon
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Publishes Guide on Business AI Use Cases in Travel and Expense Management

    SAP Concur published a blog on November 25, 2024, outlining business AI use cases in travel and expense management. It cites survey data showing over half of finance leaders plan to invest in business AI, with 61% aiming to improve efficiency, 64% to automate mundane tasks, and 67% to improve forecasting accuracy; 58% of CFOs admit to understanding very little about AI in finance. The article lists specific use cases in accounts payable, travel booking, and expense reporting, and mentions Concur Expense can achieve 5X efficiency, recoup initial investment in 7 months, and deliver a three-year ROI of 628%.

Nov 19Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Research Shows Public Sector Faces Challenges Modernizing Travel & Expense Management

    SAP Concur published a blog on November 19, 2024, citing Wakefield Research to reveal challenges public sector organizations face in travel and expense management. Data shows 29% of healthcare organizations still rely on manual data entry, higher education institutions spend 64 days processing vendor payments, 38% of state and local government T&E solutions fail to meet regulatory requirements, 99% of aerospace and defense contractors face security mandates but nearly a third of systems fall short, and 100% of energy and utilities organizations face new security mandates but 34% acknowledge current solutions are inadequate.

Nov 15Fri
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Releases 'Before You Go' Checklist for Business Travelers

    SAP Concur has released a 'Before You Go' checklist for business travelers, aiming to help employees with varying levels of experience better prepare for trips. The checklist covers preparation, booking, planning, and packing, and suggests travel managers and HR share it as a company resource. SAP Concur also offers customizable templates and lists, and mentions tools like Concur Travel, TripLink, TripIt Pro, and ExpenseIt. In the past 12 months, more than 30 million flights were booked in Concur Travel.

Nov 12Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur and FT Series: Making Sustainability Progress Measurable

    The second article in the SAP Concur and Financial Times series explores how companies can make sustainability progress measurable through technology. It notes that hundreds of sustainability regulations and initiatives have been established globally, and companies face pressure to shift from a shareholder model to a stakeholder model. According to the 2024 SAP Concur Global Business Travel Survey, around 29% of business travelers and 33% of travel managers said their company is more focused on increasing sustainable travel options than meeting employee flexibility expectations or cutting travel costs. The article emphasizes that data collection and analysis are key to measuring sustainabil…

Aug 19Mon
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Five Principles for Choosing Spend Management Tech

    SAP Concur published a blog outlining five principles for choosing a spend management solution, urging companies to deploy AI-driven tools within six to twelve months to cut costs and lift employee productivity. It cites customer examples from Unisys, New York University, Prison Fellowship and AtriCure, emphasizing spend visibility from integrating travel and expense data. SAP Concur says its solutions serve more than 51,000 businesses and integrate with over 200 ERP, CRM, HR and accounting systems.

  2. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Survey: Safety and Sustainability Shape Business Travel

    SAP Concur released its 2024 Global Business Travel Survey of 3,750 business travelers in 24 markets and 600 travel managers in six markets. 44% of travelers would consider declining a trip over destination safety concerns, 35% over political or social concerns and 33% over transport-mode safety. 39% of travel managers said geopolitical safety concerns will make their job harder over the next 12 months, and 37% said duty of care is hard without full trip visibility. Only 23% of travelers said their company requires use of its booking tool. On sustainability, 27% would decline a trip over environmental impact, up from 23% in 2023.

Jul 17Wed
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Releases Business Travel Management Tools and Survey Data

    SAP Concur released business travel management tools during the GBTA Convention and published results from its sixth annual Global Business Travel Survey of 600 travel managers across six markets. The survey found 99% say their job will be more challenging in the next 12 months, 37% say delivering high-quality programs despite increased stress is difficult, and 31% struggle to remain motivated due to feeling undervalued. 21% are likely to seek a travel manager position at a different company, and 20% may seek a role outside travel management. SAP Concur also released Concur Expense data: average airfare expense was $770 in 2023, up 10% from $698 in 2019; average gasoline expense transaction…

Jul 9Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur survey: how AI could transform business travel

    SAP Concur's Global Business Travel Survey found 88% of business travelers globally took unanticipated steps in the past 12 months due to unexpected challenges, with 38% spending extra time on the road and 36% incurring extra expenses. 64% of travel managers want AI to automate at least some responsibilities, and 95% of business travelers would consider AI-powered automation. The survey also found 95% of Gen Z and 92% of millennial travelers are uncomfortable using AI-enabled booking tools, versus 83% of Gen X and 68% of baby boomers.

Jul 8Mon
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur partners with Amadeus to add NDC content to new Concur Travel

    SAP Concur announced it has added Amadeus' NDC content to the existing NDC content base in the new Concur Travel, making Amadeus' 27 globally NDC-activated carriers available to corporate customers. SAP Concur says business travelers will get a richer booking and flight management experience, while travel managers gain access to new offers including continuous pricing and more retail and merchandising options.

Jun 26Wed
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    The connection between T&E tools and organizational productivity

    A SAP Concur blog post cites survey and IDC analysis data on how travel and expense (T&E) tools affect productivity. IDC's analysis of select SAP Concur customers found the time needed to book a trip fell 54% with Concur Travel, employees completed expense reports 43% faster with Concur Expense, and reimbursement time was cut in half. The post says organizations adopting SAP Concur solutions saw a 48% reduction in user time costs, saving about $777,000 annually in travel- and expense-related costs.

Jun 25Tue
  1. SAP News Concur Search

    SAP Concur research reveals five challenges for business travel in 2024

    SAP Concur's survey of 3,750 travelers and 600 travel managers identifies five challenges for business travel in 2024: 88% of travelers were forced to make last-minute changes due to unexpected delays, cancellations, or re-routing, and 80% add booking buffers; safety and political or social concerns are top reasons travelers decline trips; the trade-off between sustainability and cost; unequal access to travel opportunities; and the need for AI solutions and education.

May 2Thu
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    How AI Travel Planners Are Revolutionizing Business Travel

    SAP Concur describes how AI travel planners are used in business travel. The article says AI travel planners use algorithms and machine learning to analyze large datasets and offer personalized recommendations, continuously learning from real human feedback. Applications include automating flight, hotel, and rental car bookings through AI-powered travel management platforms; maintaining compliance with corporate travel policies while minimizing manual effort; simplifying expense management with AI-driven systems; and using predictive analysis to optimize travel plans, reduce expenses, and provide real-time insights to address security threats or health concerns. The article also notes AI vi…

Apr 8Mon
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Efficiently Using Data Analytics in the Auditing Process

    SAP Concur discusses the use and challenges of data analytics in expense audits. The article says expense audits are essential to control spend and ensure financial health, and integrating data analytics is revolutionizing the task; studies indicate data analytics enhances audit quality by providing deeper insights and identifying potential risks more effectively. It also notes challenges: the need for specialized skills, longer hours spent on analysis, disruption to traditional audit processes, and increased employee workload, exacerbating CPA staffing shortages and raising stress among travel managers. SAP Concur research found 47% of global travel managers say their role is more stressfu…

Apr 5Fri
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Amtrak Goes Live with Concur TripLink Integration

    Amtrak, the U.S. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, has officially joined the Concur TripLink ecosystem. The article says the integration lets business travelers book directly on Amtrak.com and the Amtrak mobile app, connect their Amtrak loyalty program, capture negotiated rates, and automatically sync the itinerary and e-receipt with SAP Concur solutions. Amtrak also features a direct connect integration with Concur Travel, letting travelers book a train reservation the same way they book air, hotel, or car reservations. The article says Concur TripLink serves a growing ecosystem of air, hotel, rail, and car suppliers, is used by over 14,000 customers, and supports more than 11 milli…

Mar 20Wed
  1. SAP News Concur Search

    SAP Concur Unveils Generative AI Travel and Expense Features at Fusion 2024

    SAP announced product and partnership milestones at SAP Concur Fusion 2024 in Las Vegas. SAP Concur, with more than 92 million end users, debuted generative AI capabilities: Concur Request provides intelligent cost estimates, ExpenseIt supports web receipt uploads with automatic expense creation and generative AI hotel folio itemization, and Concur Support adds natural-language search. Concur Travel adds direct hotel and rail integrations (American Express GBT, BCD, CWT RoomIt, FCTG, HRS), UK rail content, Microsoft Teams integration, and emissions viewing and sorting via Thrust Carbon. The new Concur Expense experience partners with Mastercard for automated expense creation.

Mar 14Thu
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    2024 SAP Concur Innovation Award Winners Announced

    SAP Concur announced seven 2024 Innovation Award winners showcasing travel and expense automation. Bechtel piloted Concur Select Access powered by Travelfusion to display NDC content alongside GDS fares, reducing out-of-channel direct bookings and improving Duty of Care reporting. Uber used Concur APIs and automation to save more than 5,000 employee hours, automate resolution of over 70% of expense-related help desk tickets, and drive corporate card adoption above 90%. KUKA made hotel and entertainment expense creation seven times faster. Stellantis unified T&E processes across 30 countries, with 98% of employees covered by Concur Expense, estimating savings of more than EUR1 million. PETRO…

Mar 12Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Delivers Enriched Travel and Expense Experiences at Fusion 2024

    SAP Concur announced product and partnership developments at Fusion 2024. Concur Travel adds in-app emissions data (Thrust Carbon integration), enhanced hotel and rail content (direct integrations with American Express GBT, BCD, CWT RoomIt, FCTG, HRS and UK rail content), Microsoft Teams integration and Concur Request integration. TripIt Pro adds risk alerts covering weather, political unrest, labor action, communication outages and select airline alerts. The new Concur Expense experience partners with Mastercard for automated expense creation, and a new Data Delivery Service provides direct access to expense data for analytics tools. SAP also debuted generative AI features including Concur…

Feb 29Thu
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Outlines Vision for Future of Travel and Expense Management

    At its SAP Concur Fusion customer event, SAP Concur shared its vision for the future of travel and expense management, where these tasks practically manage themselves, removing the need to write expense reports, understand compliance policies, or sacrifice personal preferences. The company said it will develop solutions that are intelligent, predictive, instinctive, and continuously learning, leveraging its position as one of the largest aggregators of travel and expense data to improve efficiency, compliance, and employee satisfaction through generative AI and machine learning.

Jan 2Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Guide: How AI Is Reshaping Corporate Expense Management

    SAP Concur published a guide outlining the value of artificial intelligence in expense management. The article notes that traditional manual expense management is inefficient, especially for large decentralized organizations, where finance managers cannot easily review every expense for compliance and employees spend significant time collecting receipts, filling out forms, and reconciling ledgers. AI expense management can accelerate task completion, ensure policy compliance, and provide more data for finance, HR, and travel professionals. Core tools include machine learning, mobile apps, optical character recognition, and cloud computing. Future trends include paperless expensing, blockcha…

Dec 15Fri
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    How SAP Concur Leverages Generative AI to Revolutionize Travel & Expense Management

    SAP Concur published a video interview transcript in which Rahul Vig, Senior Director of Product Management, explains SAP's AI investment and three core principles: relevance, reliability, and responsibility. The article describes how SAP Concur uses AI to improve expense management, including ExpenseIt using machine learning to extract information from receipts and create expense reports, Verify automating the audit process, and Invoice Capture automatically capturing invoice information. Vig revealed that in the past 18 months, approximately 60 million expense reports were processed through Verify, with only 3% requiring manual auditor review. The future goal is to use generative AI to ma…

Nov 28Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Travel Management Solutions for Small Businesses

    An SAP Concur blog post explains the definition, technology applications and recommendations for small business travel management. Travel management is the disciplined practice of using policies to track and coordinate aspects of business travel, covering policy development, vendor management, reimbursement approval, cost monitoring and reporting. The article recommends small businesses use technology platforms to reduce travel costs, simplify booking and reimbursement, access support, obtain better rates, enable 24/7 access, manage risk and generate consolidated reports.

Nov 3Fri
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Outlines Six Best Practices for CME Spend Management in Healthcare

    SAP Concur's blog outlines six best practices for managing Continuing Medical Education (CME) spend in healthcare, covering fair expense policies, compliance tools, regular budget balance communications, audit plans, visibility into out-of-system bookings, and simplified expense reporting. The article notes CME is critical for healthcare providers' licensure, yet travel and expense management is complex, with about 45% of CME hotel bookings made through direct channels, challenging compliance and duty of care.

Oct 26Thu
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Key Steps for Successful Business Travel Planning

    SAP Concur's blog publishes a business travel planning guide covering cost control and productivity balance, steps to streamline travel processes, useful planning apps, and strategies for delays and cancellations. The article notes 1-2% of flights are canceled and 20-25% are delayed by more than 15 minutes, recommending contingency plans and travel insurance.

Oct 19Thu
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    IDC: SAP Tops 2022 Travel and Expense Management Software Market with 49.4% Share

    An IDC report shows SAP maintained the No. 1 ranking in the 2022 travel and expense management software market with 49.4% share, $1.281 billion in revenue, and 16.3% year-over-year growth. It also cites the 2023 Global Business Travel Survey finding that 67% of global business travelers are very willing to travel for work in the next 12 months, and a 30% increase in U.S. airline passengers between 2021 and 2022.

Oct 17Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur App Center Offers 300-Plus Apps for Travel and Expense Needs

    The SAP Concur App Center offers more than 300 applications and services to customers using its travel, expense, and invoice management solutions, covering payment providers, carbon emission trackers, trip planners, duty of care providers, mileage calculators, tax-recovery tools, ride sharing, ERP connectors, and major hotel chains, airlines, and car rentals. Apps fall into two broad types: fee-free user connections and fee-based enterprise applications.

Oct 9Mon