Best Practices to Meet Today's Automation and IT Challenges
An SAP Concur blog post says IT leaders adopting, integrating and implementing business applications face a tight labor market, budget pressure and the need to fold sustainability and social goals into metrics. A report by Oxford Economics and SAP Concur shows 46% cite increasing functional efficiency as their organization's top priority, 75% use basic automation to boost efficiency and 68% say advanced automation raises more efficiency. It suggests IT leaders focus on four areas: simplify integration, provide wide-ranging support, secure data, systems and people, and measure sustainability.
Impact and considerations
Automation and integration capabilities directly affect the efficiency, security and sustainability performance of corporate travel and expense management.
Key points
- IT leaders face a tight labor market, budget pressure and the need to fold sustainability and social goals into metrics.
- A report by Oxford Economics and SAP Concur shows 46% cite increasing functional efficiency as their organization's top priority.
- 75% use basic automation to boost efficiency and 68% say advanced automation raises more efficiency.
- AI Strategy Leaders are more likely to have a detailed, adaptable automation and AI strategy and to customize technology to business needs.
- IT leaders are advised to focus on simplifying integration, providing wide-ranging support, securing data and systems, and measuring sustainability.
- Prebuilt connectors can link travel and expense, HR and other solutions to ERPs without affecting business continuity.
Sources and time
- Primary source
- SAP Concur
- Other sources
- 0
- First source publication
- 18 Apr 2023, 19:50
- Page published
- 14 Aug 2026, 08:24
- Last updated
- 18 Apr 2023, 19:50
- Original links
- SAP Concur Blog：Best Practices to Meet Today’s Automation and IT Challenges (opens in a new tab)Primary source · en · Published 18 Apr 2023, 19:50