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Sep 15Tue
  1. Hospitality Technology

    Survey: 29% of Hospitality Brands Let Staff Use Public AI With No Guardrails

    Hospitality Technology's forthcoming 2027 AI Impact Study finds that 29% of restaurant brands let team members use AI tools with no guardrails, standards, or training. Restaurant technology expert Chris Munz said on a recent HT webinar that stores run 20 to 25 systems with hundreds of integrations, so an ungoverned tool can halt a brand, with an outage potentially costing millions of dollars in lost revenue. The risk often starts with a manager improvising during a dinner rush, with staff feeding store operational data, schedules, or unvetted code into public AI models. Munz recommended drafting a clear AI policy, fitting security into operations, auditing vendor access, cleaning up old per…

Sep 9Wed
  1. Business Travel News

    Clarasight Launches Supplier Intelligence Tool Combining Travel, Card and Expense Data

    AI data platform Clarasight launched Supplier Intelligence, a tool aimed at helping travel buyers improve negotiations and performance with suppliers. The capability pulls together a company's travel, card and expense data to give a full spending picture, showing where buyers have leverage, where supplier performance can be improved and what they are paying across comparable trips. For example, buyers can see whether they are paying a preferred carrier more than a competing carrier at a route or cabin level, where programs provide meaningful marketshare to a supplier, and which bookings are materially more expensive than expected on a given route. The company said this offers an alternative…

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  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Actionable Strategies for IT Leaders to Drive Growth and Enhance Cybersecurity

    A SAP Concur blog post for IT leaders outlines strategies including using AI for operational efficiency, strengthening cybersecurity through cross-functional collaboration, and optimizing IT policies for vendor management and data privacy. Citing the 2025 CFO Insights global survey, it says IT leaders' main observed AI benefits include increased operational efficiency (46%), better data insights and analytics (42%), and improved decision-making (38%). On cybersecurity, 71% of IT leaders feel 'somewhat prepared' to respond to increased cyberattack risk, while only 26% say they are 'very prepared'; 43% rank phishing and social engineering attacks as a top-three vulnerability.

Jun 7Fri
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Using Data Analytics to Improve Corporate Travel Programs

    A SAP Concur blog post describes four types of travel analytics—descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive—and how they help optimize costs, enforce policy, reduce risk and improve traveler experience. It recommends tracking KPIs such as total spend, cost per trip, booking rates, preferred vendor compliance and travel policy compliance rate. It also says analytics can support vendor sourcing and negotiation, policy optimization, demand management, experience enhancement and benchmarking.

  2. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: The Power of Spend Analysis and How to Implement It

    A SAP Concur blog post says that amid economic uncertainty and inflationary pricing, finance leaders are seeking more efficient spend management strategies. A SAP Concur study shows 90% of global senior finance leaders said there is a critical need to prepare their businesses for the unexpected. The post covers the definition, benefits and implementation steps of spend analysis, including defining objectives, identifying data sources, centralizing data, cleansing and normalizing data, categorizing spending, analyzing and monitoring, and acting on findings. It also recommends taxonomies such as UNSPSC or ECLASS and emphasizes automation and cross-functional collaboration.

Jun 29Wed
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: A 90-Day Guide for New Finance Leaders

    A SAP Concur blog post offers a 90-day framework for new finance leaders, starting with understanding the company's finance processes and best practices. It recommends diving into the numbers and knowing spend, gathering primary reports such as the income statement, cash flow statement, balance sheet, budget vs. actual reports, annual reports, accounts receivable aging report, and current and past forecasts. If finance and accounting processes are automated, real-time data and a clear picture of day-to-day numbers should be available. It also advises learning industry financial best practices, proactively learning finance systems, understanding business fundamentals, and getting a handle on…

  2. SAP Concur Blog

    4 Questions to Ask When Interviewing B2B Payment Providers

    The article recommends four questions for evaluating B2B payment providers: whether the payment solution is customized or out-of-the-box; what the provider means by 'vendor analysis'; how the provider supports onboarding new vendors; and how well its platform integrates with your systems. It notes that checks are being replaced by faster, easier, and more secure digital payment methods, helping businesses save money and even generate new revenue streams. A CSI executive said its vendor analysis draws on hundreds of thousands of accepting vendor records from a 20-year internal database plus Mastercard and Visa data.

  3. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Five Steps to Supercharge Organizational Purchasing Power

    A SAP Concur blog post states that with tighter budgets, many organizations are examining purchasing to find savings. For organizations without a formal procurement department or full-time purchasing staff, employees who purchase as a small part of their jobs represent a big savings opportunity, but they may be unfamiliar with the purchasing program, supply chains, or supplier relationships, leading to unnecessary spending and rework. The post offers five steps: set clear purchasing policies, train the team, explain the 'why' behind policies, streamline with technology to centralize purchasing, and continually gather feedback to improve. It emphasizes that even small purchases can yield big…

  4. SAP Concur Blog

    Get a Single View of Spend by Working with Procurement, Supply Chain, and IT

    SAP Concur blog introduces Intelligent Spend Management, emphasizing cross-departmental collaboration for a unified view of all spend. It suggests three ways: create an engaging user experience, establish direct electronic connections with suppliers, and connect innovative third-party solutions to break down silos and achieve full spend visibility.