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Sep 17Thu
  1. Hospitality Technology

    Simpli.fi Study: Shake Shack Leads Burger QSR Loyalty

    Simpli.fi released "Whose Cheeseburger Is It?", the debut report in its Loyalty in the Real World series, analyzing billions of anonymized mobile movement and digital intent signals across the top 20 U.S. burger QSR chains over eight weeks to separate "loyalists" (single-chain visitors) from "samplers" (two or more chains). Shake Shack posted a 99% loyalty rate, with Wendy's, Smashburger, Sonic and Steak 'n Shake rounding out the top five. While 61% of burger QSR visitors stick to one brand, 39% are samplers; McDonald's recorded 60% loyalty but the largest customer overlap across every chain, making it the primary target for switcher campaigns.

Sep 15Tue
  1. Hospitality Technology

    Case Study: How a Midscale Independent Cut Revenue Alert Response Times to 1.8 Hours

    Jala Bapa Hospitality, a small independent midscale property in Los Angeles County, built a four-layer Power BI risk-monitoring dashboard using standard PMS exports, OTA reports and Excel, with no dedicated revenue team or enterprise software budget. The system scores occupancy deviation, monthly cancellation rate and RevPAR volatility against green-amber-red thresholds and pushes alerts via email and Teams. Over a six-month validation period, undetected occupancy risk events fell 14.3%, average manager response time dropped from 4.7 to 1.8 hours, and RevPAR coefficient of variation declined from 0.22 to 0.16.

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…

Sep 3Thu
Aug 21Fri
  1. Hospitality Technology

    HotelData.com H1 2026 Report Highlights Divided US Market and GOP Margin Gains

    HotelData.com's H1 2026 Profitability Performance Report, based on financial data from 5,000 U.S. properties on Actabl's ProfitSword platform, reveals overall GOP margin expanded 3.6 percentage points year-over-year to 44.9%, reaching 47.2% in Q2. Luxury properties led with ADR up 10.1%, RevPAR up 15.9%, and GOP margin up 4.0 points to 38.6%. Economy was the only chain scale with falling RevPAR (-2.7%) despite highest occupancy gain (+4.6 points), as ADR dropped 9.3%. June, boosted by FIFA World Cup, saw strongest rate environment with ADR +11.4% and RevPAR +13.1%.

Aug 20Thu
  1. Fenbeitong Feed

    Travel Platform Is Not a Magic Bullet for Cost Reduction

    Fenbeitong's article points out that a travel platform is a control tool, not a magic bullet for cost reduction. Cost reduction requires a combination of policies, platform, and operations. The platform can block non-compliant spending but cannot eliminate reasonable expenses from business growth. Enterprises should focus on data analytics and continuously optimize travel policies.

  2. TravelDaily China

    Global Business Travel Management Series First Module Concludes; Shanghai Session Next in September

    The first module of the 'Global Business Travel Management Practical Series' by TravelDaily and Lenovo concluded successfully, focusing on cost control and data analysis. Taught by Lenovo's North America travel lead, the course used methodologies like PTSD and HCP. The next session in Shanghai in September will cover 'Centralized Systematic Management for Multinationals', delving into OBT tools.

Aug 4Tue
  1. Hospitality Technology

    Emburse Integrates Travel Analytics into Cvent to Modernize Corporate Hotel Sourcing

    Emburse and Cvent have announced a strategic integration that embeds Emburse Travel Analytics into Cvent Travel's hotel sourcing workflow via a new feature called Booking Insights with Emburse. Powered by Emburse's Hotel Intelligence API, it integrates actual transaction-level corporate booking and spend data directly into Cvent's hotel sourcing UI, eliminating sourcing data silos. It gives corporate travel buyers property-level historical spend data, traveler behavior metrics, and supplier performance tracking. The feature launches in August 2026, timed for the 2027 annual corporate hotel RFP cycle.

Aug 2Sun
  1. BCD Travel RSS

    BCD Launches Tripsource Insights to Unify Travel, Payment, and Risk Data

    BCD Travel launched Tripsource Insights this summer as a core capability within the Tripsource platform, integrating data from BCD systems and supplier sources into one interface. It provides corporate travel and finance leaders with a unified, real-time view of travel spend, payment activity, and traveler risk. Using AI and NLP, the platform supports daily program management, helping optimize spend, monitor performance, and ensure compliance.

Jul 17Fri
  1. BCD Travel RSS

    BCD research: hotel sourcing should focus on actual usage value

    BCD Travel's research highlights that in hotel sourcing, 86% of buyers prioritize cost control, yet 97% want more flexible cancellation policies and 96% seek enhanced amenities. It suggests measuring utilization, challenging breakfast inclusion assumptions, aligning cancellation policies with behavior, benchmarking beyond discounts, and using data to define value to ensure paying for benefits actually used.

Jul 14Tue
Mar 13Fri
  1. PhocusWire All News

    Expedia partners with PredictHQ to help hotels with revenue strategy

    Expedia Group has partnered with PredictHQ to bring contextual data about global events to its hotel partners via Expedia Partner Center. The integration aims to provide hotels with demand insights to boost revenue strategies. The pilot began last year, with a full launch in late 2025. Chief commercial officer Greg Schulze highlighted that such events like the World Cup create demand spurts, and the tools help hotels optimize before, during, and after events for sustainable revenue.

Aug 8Fri
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Why Spend Visibility Matters in Business Management

    SAP Concur highlights the importance of spend visibility in business management. It says companies with deep insight into how, where and why money is spent have a major advantage in controlling costs, and that spend visibility is the foundation of good financial management, helping identify cost-reduction opportunities, optimize budgets and make strategic decisions. Without visibility, organizations may struggle with low-return or redundant spending and, in increasingly complex regulatory environments, face policy violations, audit red flags, financial penalties and reputational damage. The article also notes challenges from fragmented data, inconsistent cross-department categorization, lag…

Jun 17Tue
  1. Amadeus Newsroom

    Amadeus Enhances Demand360 and MeetingBroker with AI

    Amadeus announced a partnership with Microsoft to develop AI integrations for its Hospitality portfolio using OpenAI models on Azure. Two new tools: Amadeus Advisor chat will be integrated into Demand360, enabling customers to instantly produce customized analysis and insights; Email to RFP within MeetingBroker will automatically generate contextual, property-specific RFP responses. Demand360 is based on insights from 44,000 hotels and 35 million short-term rental properties, providing a 12-month forward-looking view of occupancy and market ranking plus two years of retrospective data. Advisor chat was rolled out to Agency360 in 2024, saving some analysts about a day each week. Omni Atlanta…

Jun 16Mon
  1. Amadeus Newsroom

    Arrive Agencies Expands Strategic Agreement with Amadeus

    Scandinavian travel seller network Arrive Agencies extended its long-standing cooperation with Amadeus. The renewed agreement covers NDC-sourced air content, payments, data analytics, and hospitality booking solutions. Arrive Agencies will use tools including Amadeus Productivity Tracker, Outpayce B2B Wallet, and Amadeus Value Hotels. In September 2024, Arrive Agencies became a reseller of Amadeus Cytric Easy.

Nov 12Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur and FT Series: Accelerate Decision-Making with Financial Storytelling

    The third article in the SAP Concur and Financial Times series explores how data-backed financial storytelling can help CFOs fulfill their responsibilities. Citing the SAP Concur CFO Insights report, it notes significant shifts in CFO priorities within a year: 33% of CFOs surveyed in 2023 said their organization was investing in cutting-edge technologies like AI, rising to 63% in 2024; while monitoring market conditions dropped from 57% to 20% as a priority. 57% of CFOs said their company is investing heavily for growth. The article suggests using visuals, AI tools, and tailoring messages to audiences to improve financial communication.

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.

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…

Dec 13Wed
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Data: Top U.S. Business Travel Destinations for 2023 Holiday Season

    SAP Concur analyzed U.S.-origin business travel bookings on Concur Travel from November to December 2023. The busiest business travel day in November was November 13, with Dallas and Chicago as the top two destinations. During Thanksgiving (November 17-26), Las Vegas claimed the top spot, with more than three times as many business travelers as Phoenix in tenth place. December 4 was the busiest travel day in December, with Dallas again ranking first. During Christmas and New Year (December 21-January 3), Orlando ranked first, with more than double the number of business travelers compared to Phoenix in second place.

Nov 28Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    How a Travel Management Company (TMC) Can Help Simplify Business Travel

    An SAP Concur blog post explains the definition, operations and core value of travel management companies (TMCs). TMCs specialize in corporate travel needs, assisting with booking air travel, hotels, car rentals, train reservations and car services, and providing itinerary management and support throughout the trip. TMCs typically charge on a subscription or fee-for-service basis, offering benefits including streamlined processes, data gathering, 24/7 support, better prices, policy compliance, risk alerts and data analytics.

Nov 2Thu
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Releases Travel and Expense Performance Benchmark Report

    SAP Concur released a Travel and Expense Performance Benchmark Report based on data from its top 25% best-performing customers worldwide, helping businesses compare metrics such as expense approval time, rejection rates, corporate card usage, and booking channel visibility. Data is broken down by global region and company size (under 1,000 and 1,000+ employees), with a worksheet to help identify gaps and develop improvement plans.

Oct 26Thu
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Report Explores the Changing Role and Responsibilities of the CFO

    SAP Concur surveyed 220 finance leaders across seven markets and released a CFO Insights report. Findings show four of five top external challenges relate to global economic turmoil; CFOs respond by increasing market monitoring (57%), investing in innovation (40%), and automation and AI (33%); 68% of CFOs see AI as a threat to their position, while 82% believe it will make operations leaner.

Oct 23Mon
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Change is Constant. Here's How Your Business Can Get Ready

    SAP Concur's blog publishes a business resilience guide, noting 90% of CFOs agree their top task is preparing for the unexpected. The article offers four ways to future-proof: using a single cloud platform for travel, expense, and invoice data; gaining visibility through advanced analytics; improving employee experience; and measuring progress with benchmark reports.

Oct 9Mon
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Sep 29Fri
Aug 2Tue
Jun 29Wed
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Innovating Through Data: Predict the Future

    SAP Concur explores how to leverage financial data to drive innovation. The article emphasizes the need to consolidate disparate spending data, centralize it through automated spend management systems, and use AI to analyze trends and improve efficiency. Industry benchmarks, leading indicators, and lagging indicators help businesses measure performance and identify innovation opportunities.

  2. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Grew Its T&E Software Global Market Share to More Than 54% in 2019, According to IDC

    According to market intelligence firm IDC, SAP Concur had 54.1% market share in the travel and expense (T&E) management software market in 2019, and the total market grew from $2.0 billion in 2018 to $2.3 billion in 2019. The IDC report noted that public cloud adoption in T&E dominated, accounting for 83.9% of the market. The report also outlined seven key qualities of a modern T&E solution, including enhancing analytics capabilities, prioritizing user experience, and creating intelligent workflows.

  3. SAP Concur Blog

    EIU Survey: 91% of Executives Say Tech-Driven Expense Management Is Key

    A SAP Concur blog post cites an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey of 552 senior executives in 11 countries: 91% say technology-driven expense management systems are key to meeting spend policies and protocols, and 95% agree that real-time data analytics has helped keep spending and operations in line with company goals. The post notes the pandemic is accelerating adoption of cloud, AI, machine learning, and automation to achieve spend visibility, consistency, and compliance.

  4. SAP Concur Blog

    Navigating Your Business Through Turbulent Times: FAQ

    SAP Concur webinar addressed common business questions during the pandemic. Remote work creates new expenses like monitors, internet, and office supplies, requiring policy updates. Companies stay connected via digital tools and use SAP Qualtrics to assess employee well-being. SAP Concur offers reports and analytics to control spend and optimize cash flow.

  5. SAP Concur Blog

    Utilizing AI to Manage Compliance Risks in Life Sciences

    Mark Linver, Managing Director of Deloitte Life Sciences Advisory, discusses how life sciences manufacturers can use artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) to manage compliance risks. Since it is not feasible to audit all activities involving healthcare professionals (HCPs), compliance organizations use a risk-based approach. A Deloitte survey shows manufacturers want to use AI to monitor financial transactions in real time, implement automatic controls to prevent overspend, automate contract reviews, and more. AI can increase the amount of data reviewed, the frequency of audits, identify anomalies, and prioritize compliance risks. The article also covers knowledg…

  8. SAP Concur Blog

    Oxford Economics: Cost-Conscious SMBs Better Leverage Spend Management Platforms

    A SAP Concur blog post cites an Oxford Economics study: cost-conscious SMB finance leaders achieve better outcomes while keeping expansion costs in line. The study reports 93% of cost-conscious SMB executives agree they have the right platforms and systems to adapt to their growing organization, versus 79% of less cost-conscious executives. The post notes that as companies grow, discretionary expenses such as travel, expenses, marketing, and office supplies can add up quickly, and intelligent automated technologies can help finance leaders proactively control costs and optimize cash flow.

  9. SAP Concur Blog

    Three SAP Concur Tools Small Businesses Shouldn't Overlook

    A SAP Concur blog post highlights three tools for small businesses: Audit Services, which combines human auditors and AI to identify misuse, waste and noncompliant spend; reporting solutions that draw on discretionary spend data held on one platform for easy access and visualization; and App Center connections linking employees to popular enterprise applications, travel brands and rewards programs. The post says these tools help control cash flow, ensure compliance, reduce costs and mitigate fraud risk.

  10. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Blog: How People Analytics Can Drive New Business Insights

    SAP Concur published a guest article discussing how people analytics can help organizations gain new business insights. The article debunks three common myths: people analytics involves more than one type of analytics, does not require expensive technology, and is not only for HR. It notes applications in workspace planning, work design, and automation and employee experience, and highlights that analyzing employee spend data (such as travel expenses) can optimize budgets and improve employee experience.

  11. SAP Concur Blog

    Oxford Economics Survey: CFOs Embrace Cloud Technology

    A SAP Concur blog post describes a global survey of 1,500 finance executives by Oxford Economics and SAP examining what separates leading finance leaders from followers, compiled into the report Effective Spending Management Boosts Performance. The report lists six traits of top finance leaders, including strong influence beyond finance, driving strategic growth, improving efficiency with automation, effectiveness at core finance processes, collaboration with business units and handling regulatory change. The post says 95% of CFOs consider cloud-based applications critically or very important to financial performance.

  12. SAP Concur Blog

    T&E Moves Toward Spend Optimization

    IDC analyst Kevin Permenter writes on the SAP Concur blog that financial services firms are shifting from cost control to optimizing travel spend. The article emphasizes capabilities like advanced analytics, better reporting, APIs, and data visualization to understand business travel outcomes and drive smarter decisions.

  13. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Next-Gen Spend Management Has Arrived

    A SAP Concur blog post cites a 2019 IDC survey of 800+ global executives. The survey found that for most companies, 40% to 45% of revenue goes toward spend; 90% of respondents reported room to improve spend control; 95% said they were likely to invest in intelligent spend management platforms in the next two years; and 60% were already talking with a technology vendor.