From Forecast to Fact: How SAP Concur Predictions for Business Travel, Finance, and AI Are Playing…
SAP Concur reviews its 2025 predictions: slowing inflation increasing travel opportunity, growing trust in generative AI, cross-functional collaboration, and TMC consolidation with NDC adoption. Actual data shows stable budgets, rising AI adoption, improved collaboration with gaps, and accelerated TMC consolidation but persistent content fragmentation.
Impact and considerations
Companies can understand business travel trends to optimize budgets and AI adoption strategies.
Key points
- 89% of travelers, 93% of travel managers, and 90% of CFOs expect budgets to increase or stay the same.
- 57% of CFOs say general finance tasks are highly automated, up from 7% in 2024.
- 88% of business travelers are comfortable using AI automation for some travel tasks.
- TMC consolidation accelerates, but content fragmentation remains a challenge.
Sources and time
- Primary source
- SAP Concur
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- First source publication
- 21 Aug 2025, 19:41
- Page published
- 13 Aug 2026, 08:31
- Last updated
- 21 Aug 2025, 19:41
- Original links
- SAP Concur Blog：From Forecast to Fact: How SAP Concur Predictions for Business Travel, Finance, and AI Are Playing Out in 2025 (opens in a new tab)Primary source · en · Published 21 Aug 2025, 19:41