On September 1, the seventh Aranya community officially settled by Kuncheng Lake in Changshu, creating a unique lakeside campus-style ideal community in the Yangtze River Delta. The community plans nature and aesthetic education classes, sharing lectures, outdoor sports parks (including clay tennis courts, basketball, football, skate parks), bookstores, theaters, art galleries, and themed hotels.
Airbnb's Summer Release introduces features like social map, AI review highlights, ask about this home, wishlist comparison, and plans for car rentals and luggage storage. These moves aim to drive personalization and transition from a vacation rental marketplace to a global community. Airbnb emphasizes its 200 million verified identities as a foundation for building a social network.
MediaKind's Corporate Travel and Expense Manager Amber Lee shared her journey from Concur skeptic to champion on the SAP Concur Conversations podcast. She emphasized leading with empathy and context to drive adoption, empowering users by helping them understand the reasons behind policies to improve compliance, and community as a critical but underrated tool. She has over 15 years of experience driving user adoption.
SAP Concur published a blog outlining resources and collaboration opportunities in its public sector community for professionals in regulated industries. The community offers dedicated industry groups for federal, state, and local government, higher education, government contracting, and healthcare, helping members discuss challenges, share best practices, and refine their organizations' travel, expense, and invoice policies.
SAP Concur published a blog on strategies for financial efficiency in higher education. Approximately 700 schools already benefit from its solutions. The article notes that higher education faces stability challenges and staffing shortages, with 43% of back-office teams managing three or more new responsibilities due to staff shortages. SAP Concur helps institutions optimize AP, travel operations, and policy compliance through communities like CHELF and CHEAB and ERP solutions.
An SAP Concur blog post introduces how its customer community helps Travel, Expense, and Invoice (TE&I) professionals advance their careers. With over 80,000 members, the community offers various engagement opportunities such as online forums, user groups, leadership councils, and the annual Fusion conference, aiming to foster knowledge sharing, networking, and career growth.
A SAP Concur blog author shares experience attending the 2018 Lesbians Who Tech + Allies Summit. The summit attracted over 5,000 attendees from a community of 30,000+ members. The author highlights opportunities for cross-functional networking, access to industry leaders, and the importance of diversity and inclusion. The article encourages companies with resources to sponsor and participate.
This SAP Concur blog post covers the 2018 Lesbians Who Tech Summit, emphasizing diversity and inclusion. The summit set speaker goals of 50% women of color and 10% trans and gender non-conforming professionals. The community has over 30,000 members in 39 cities. The article also discusses SAP's hiring philosophy of 'culture adds' over 'culture fits'.