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Press ReleaseApril 11, 2017
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Concur Unveils First Integrated Traveler Risk Management Solution and Active...
SINGAPORE – April 11, 2017 – Concur®, an SAP company and the world’s leading provider of travel, expense and invoice management solutions, has introduced the first integrated traveler risk management solution featuring the most comprehensive,...
Press ReleaseApril 04, 2017
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Concur and AirAsia partner to help businesses reduce cost of travel
SINGAPORE, 4 April 2017 - Concur, an SAP company and one of the world’s leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, has announced a collaboration with AirAsia Group that will help Concur Travel customers access regular...
Press ReleaseMarch 19, 2016
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Concur Empowers AirAsia to soar new heights with Cloud Computing
Concur integrates travel desk processes for AirAsia staff enabling cost reduction and employee satisfaction Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19 May 2016 – Concur, an SAP company, today announced a collaboration with AirAsia to implement an integrated...
Press ReleaseJanuary 28, 2016
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Concur Predicts Top Five Corporate Travel and Expense Management Trends in...
Deployment of fully automated systems expected to accelerate and streamline travel and expense management processes significantly SINGAPORE, 28 January, 2016 - Concur, an SAP company providing integrated travel and expense management solutions,...
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From one CFO to another: The top 5 things I learned from the IDC whitepaper
I’m a big believer in automation. As CFO of Concur and throughout my career, I’ve seen the rise and fall of companies that don’t keep up with the pace of modern business. If your company isn’t moving towards automation, you’re falling behind....
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Will there ever be a 100% paperless office?
The digital age has brought about a plethora of change in everyday culture: Not to mention, mobility allows people to work anywhere, anytime – even at 39,000 feet. Basically, immediate gratification is the name of the game, and technology is...
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6 ways to save on T&E
Today’s technology innovation and changes in traveler behavior are driving significant and rapid change in corporate travel, and businesses need modern solutions to take control of employee spend. In fact, manual processes are impacting your...
travel & expense trends
5 real world deployment guidelines for your Concur digital journey
Being digital in T&E means better visibility into, and control of, spending. It means boosting employee productivity and satisfaction through easier, faster creation of expense accounts and faster reimbursement. It also means reduced risk...
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Building a travel & expense policy that takes the cringe out of spend management
You know that moment when you get an expense report in from an employee featuring a night at the Ritz Carlton and a $500 client dinner? That’s the moment that you think, “What’s actually in our expense policy?” Or maybe, you’re thinking, “Do we...
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The cost of doing nothing: Ignoring fraudsters? Part 1
Fraud is an enterprise risk. It falls in the same realm as economic, supply chain, disaster, duty of care and regulatory risks, according to the Association for Fraud Examiners (ACFE). An awareness of this risk can get the attention of the CFO and...
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The cost of doing nothing: Tax troubles for guestimators (Part 2)
According to Ed Sturm, Tax Managing Director at Deloitte Tax LLP, companies are generally doing a decent job in keeping up with book accounting for travel, meal and entertainment expenses. "At the same time, when referring to the correct tax...
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Don’t get blown away by manual expense processes
Expense reports ruining your staff’s day? Well, you’re not alone. Manual, paper-based expense report processes can take hours. Employees have to set aside large portions of their days to dig through receipts, manually input each expenditure and...
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The software that saves you from expense reports
It’s safe to say that no one likes filling out expense reports. No one. It either takes time away from getting your job done, or, if you’re like most people and end up doing them after hours, it takes time away from doing the things you love. It’s...
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Business travel climbing like a jet, is your travel and expense policy ready?
Do you find yourself spending more time than you’d like reviewing and approving employee expenses? You’re not alone. Travel and entertainment (T&E) expense policies are often too vague or confusing, leaving employees struggling to know how to...
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From spreadsheets to the cloud: A global leader’s digital transformation of T&E
Helping builders build better. Bentley is a technology company that serves engineering, architecture and construction firms around the globe—offering solutions and software that help accelerate project delivery and improve asset performance. And...
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Tips for a Successful SAAS Implementation in Higher Education: Part One
Higher Education institutions have unique needs when it comes to managing travel and expenses for Universities and Colleges. You need total functionality and visibility in order to support your traveling faculty, staff and student body, and a...
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Tips for a successful SAAS implementation in higher education: Part two
In part one of our two-part higher education implementation series, we provided tips and best practices for pre-implementation planning. Because of the unique needs that universities and colleges have when it comes to managing travel and...
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Healthcare Spotlight: Automating accounts payable with Concur Invoice
For many healthcare organizations, managing spend is a distraction, not a differentiator. Hospitals and medical facilities need to prioritize caring for the health of individuals. Tracking spend isn’t at the core of what differentiates...
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60-second update: 5 innovations from Concur for June 2017
We know you are busy, but also like to be in the know. With that in mind, here are a few quick highlights to make your Concur experience even better. Find out how to locate and communicate with remote employees, discover how Concur alleviates...
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T&E market projected to reach $2.5B by 2020 and Concur is the “unquestionable...
The digital era has changed modern finance, and SAP (Concur) is keeping up with the increasingly-evolving T&E market. In 2015, the T&E market reached $1.6B, of which Concur owns ~54 percent. In fact, according to IDC, “Concur continues to...
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The cost of doing nothing: Mitigating FCPA risks (Part 3)
According to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) expert Mike Koehler, who runs the award-winning FCPA Professor website, “2016 witnessed the largest number of corporate enforcement actions and the largest aggregate corporate settlement amounts in...
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The top six ways to take the hassle out of CME expense management
Continuing Medical Education (CME) is critical to healthcare providers—keeping them up-to-date on the latest medical advances and legally licensed to do their jobs. Although every organization allocates funds for these events and classes, managing...
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Give your company policies a health check-up
Are you spending more time than you’d like fielding travel & expense (T&E) related questions (and complaints), and reviewing and approving expense reports? How about monitoring your accounts payable (AP) processes, approvals and...
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Can expenses kick-start Digital Transformation?
When private equity firms in the US complete an acquisition, one of the first things they often do is roll out Concur to handle travel and expenses (T&E). Why focus on such a small part of the business? The answer also applies to another...
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Why IT budgets are like bank loans
I first started work in computing and IT in 1985, before many of Concur’s team members were going to school or even born. Back then, IT budgets were big – millions of dollars for huge systems roll-outs that could take years to complete. If you...
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Is the end of cash closer than we think?
For years, cash has been the undisputed king in Asia. At the start of the decade, cash made up nearly 100% of transactions in countries like India and China, and even in 2015, around 85% of transactions in South-East Asia were still being...
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Is your business leaving millions on the table?
Having grown up and worked in a fair number of different countries, I’m always fascinated by the variety of perspectives that I get to encounter. Often, those perspectives bring into greater focus the things that we ourselves might be missing –...
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Winning with AP automation and the Virtuous Vendor Cycle
There are many benefits to automating your AP process including saving employee time, adding efficiencies to the invoice process and gaining better insight into company spend. But another positive aspect is vendor satisfaction. That’s right –...
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How automated spending management gives tech leaders a competitive advantage
The technology industry is, without a doubt, fast-paced and uber-competitive. Trying to keep up with constant changes, while striving to come up with the next best thing, is hard enough. Having a solid grasp on your cash flow and expenses makes...
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Key considerations for building a scalable audit process
These days, many finance leaders focus on optimizing systems and processes to drive down the cost of their spend management programs. This challenge becomes more complex by pressures to increase profitability through acquisitions, new domestic...
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What every CFO should know about employee spend
Some finance teams may feel they have employee spend well managed across their organization. Reports are being sent to the CEO’s desk and, at a high level glance, they seem to be in order, within budget and pass muster. Yet, as we look at how...
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Machine learning with heart: How sentiment analysis can help your customers
When you think of artificial intelligence (AI), the word “emotion” doesn’t typically come to mind. But there’s an entire field of research using AI to understand emotional responses to news, product experiences, movies, restaurants, and more. It’s...
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As it turns out, managing your money is a good thing
This won’t come as a surprise to anyone, but, as Oxford Economics recently pointed out, effectively controlling spending is key to boosting performance and efficiency. The surprise, perhaps, is in how CFOs are doing it. Or maybe we should say how...
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Four things to do when you centralize shared services
If you have operations across the globe, you likely have multiple regions, countries, business units and teams each managing multiple aspects of their finance functions. You've also likely considered, or have already moved to, a shared services...
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Four facts that put Fintech first
The Singapore Fintech Festival is just around the corner. Asia’s fintech industry continues to grow in leaps and bounds: Last year, fintech investments in the region reached more than US$10 billion, and governments are doing their best to...
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What I learned from Mother Teresa
I met Mother Teresa just once. It was a brief but memorable encounter: she shook my hand, and I recall her thanking me, presumably for some of the charity work we’d been doing. But it stuck with me – after all, how often do you shake hands with a...
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Is your expense policy costing you top talent?
Within the next five years, most employees will be millennials. They will have grown up with mobile devices, apps, and technology that’s as simple and seamless to use as it is powerful. They expect the same in their workplaces. What happens when...
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Don’t build a company. Build a family.
I grew up in India, the son of a military family, so by the time I’d reached college I’d been to seven different schools in the space of 12 years. Every time we relocated, I’d have to make a conscious effort to introduce myself to the other kids...
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What is sentiment analysis and how can machine learning help customers?
When you think of artificial intelligence (AI), the word “emotion” doesn’t typically come to mind. But there’s an entire field of research using AI to understand emotional responses to news, product experiences, movies, restaurants, and more. It’s...
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What every CPO should know about employee spend
While negotiating with suppliers to find the lowest costs and applying heat when necessary are part of a traditional role of procurement, many procurement leaders are being pushed to help their companies identify new and upcoming spending trends...
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Concur TripLink and AccorHotels integration now available
Concur TripLink helps companies capture travel itineraries, no matter how employees book. It connects trips, travelers and itineraries across multiple channels, allowing companies to apply policy and fulfill duty of care obligations by making it...
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Travel, expense, and machine learning
"Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning could be as profound and maybe even bigger than the shift to mobile and cloud" – Frank Chen (Andreessen Horowitz) "Google has moved from a search first to a mobile first to an AI first company" – Google...
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A quick win for CIOs in financial transformation
In enterprise-size companies, CIOs and their teams align their IT strategies with their business strategies. At times, lending a hand to the business to help prioritize initiatives is essential. While HR, marketing and other departments have...
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Four reasons why travel risk management is a business imperative
Business travel does not exist without a degree of risk, whether it be from flight delays, natural disasters, transportation strikes or even pickpocketing. Because of such threats, businesses have both a legal and moral duty to develop or enhance...
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Continually innovating for our customers
At Concur, our customers are the north star that fuels our innovation. That is why we are proud to share that for the sixth year in a row and eighth time in ten years, Concur has been named the ‘Most Admired Travel Technology Company’ in the...
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How to manage company spend with invoice management from Concur
In today’s world, tracking and managing business spending is becoming increasingly complicated. With easy and convenient purchasing options at their fingertips, employees are more likely to make purchases on their own. Managing vendor spending has...
travel & expense trends
8 tips to keep your company credit card under control
The perils of the pocket perk Search the hashtag #companycreditcard on Twitter, and it will reveal some interesting habits from employees entrusted with the company plastic. While many posts are innocent fun and typically boastful jibes among...
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Get ready for the busiest time of year for business travel
End-of-year business goals are looming and business travelers are hitting the road en masse. To skip long airport lines and overbooked flights this fall, avoid traveling on these days.
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6 things you need to know about international business etiquette
Traveling for business might be one of the most exciting things you'll experience in your career. But, while thrilling, global business travel comes with various rules of etiquette that cannot be ignored. In fact, business etiquette is so...
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Take these necessary actions to prevent T&E fraud
According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, "the money lost by businesses to fraudsters amounts to more than $3.5 trillion each year.” That’s a big number. And while many CFOs and business leaders would like to think it won’t happen...
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Here's the expense policy template you need
Setting clear guidelines is important in every aspect of business, particularly with your most valued audience – your employees. Managing T&E expenses is no exception. And, with an average of 10% of a company's business budget devoted to...
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Why HR professionals should put employee spend on their radar
Author and thought leader in general business and human capital management, Jenny Dearborn, shares in her most recent book, The Data Driven Leader, that HR professionals should feel encouraged to transform by using data to help make decisions...
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Concur in the news: Taking business travel management into the digital age
Is technology key to business success? We think so – especially in the case of business travel. As the number of business trips taken is expected to grow by three percent this year, it’s more important than ever for businesses to streamline their...
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Why data integration is key to your travel risk management plan
In the first part of our travel risk management (TRM) series, we explored why having a TRM program is a critical part of running your business. The next step towards implementing a successful TRM program is to ensure the effective acquisition and...
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Maximizing your ROI on automated T&E management
The demands on today’s accounting professionals when it comes to travel and expense management are increasing. In an article for AccountingWeb, Concur VP of Product Management A.G. Lambert explains that these include reducing time on tasks,...
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Last-minute travel can come at a cost
The hectic pace of running a business inevitably leads to some last-minute travel. According to a Concur report released last year, these eleventh-hour bookings can be a tough hit to your bottom line. Consistent with our data, tickets booked fewer...
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We’re shedding light on traveler safety, but do we like what we see?
When you ask business travelers if their employers care about their safety, they’ll mostly likely tell you that, yes, their employers do care about their safety. But caring about it isn’t enough. The problem, among other issues and insights...
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Travel throwbacks: Why we're thankful for travel technology
It’s easy to take technology for granted when it comes to business travel. Since all it takes are a few taps on the phone to book and check-in for a flight, trip prep hardly requires more than a passing thought. It wasn't long ago, though, that we...
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Why employee spend matters for sales leaders
As a leader of your sales organization, your people and their performance are what drives progress. You work hard to inspire, motivate and engage your sales teams to be as productive as possible, but is the technology they use every day for...
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Knowledge is power: Using all your data to drive better business decisions
It’s been said that knowledge is power, but having too much information is as bad as not having enough. In today’s business world, staying ahead means staying on top of every dime. If you are using Concur’s solutions to track spend and simplify...
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The top five ways in which employees are decentralizing spend
Today’s workforce and the way employees spend on behalf of an organization have greatly changed in the digital economy. Employees are spending more money across more spend categories, and using more payment methods than ever before. And it’s not...
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Start your 2018 expense management resolutions early with these tips
The end of the year is quickly approaching and it’s easy to get overwhelmed by everything that needs to be wrapped up. From reviewing (and approving) expense reports to analyzing financial statements, the to-do list feels neverending. Fortunately,...
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Save time and money on expense report processing
According to a report1 by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), U.S. firms will spend about $296 billion on travel and entertainment in 2017. On average that can amount to 10% or more of annual revenues, and for project-based firms, that...
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What does T&E mean?
The term T&E is bandied about a lot in business and, as with most business acronyms, people assume that it's automatically understood. In case you have ever wondered what T&E actually stands for, we’ll explain not only what T&E is, but...
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Busiest expense day: The most wonderful time of the year?
As 2017 comes to a close, employees are packing in extra travel to finalize projects and businesses are celebrating their accomplishments. While executives focus on year-end profits and revenues, another number rises around this time of year:...
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What every travel director should know about travel and employee spend
Many external forces are once again shaking up the travel director’s role at enterprise-sized organizations. The share economy, supplier direct bookings and increased responsibilities in traveler satisfaction, as well as a heightened understanding...
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Business travel, expense and invoice in 2018 and beyond: Concur’s predictions...
The business travel, expense and invoice landscape is experiencing a rapid evolution, fueled by emerging technologies, shifting employee expectations, and globalization. Concur experts have taken a close look at the trends that will shape business...
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Shortlist potential TEM vendors with this guide
The most innovative solutions for travel expense management (TEM) are only available as Software as a Service (SaaS). That's according to Gartner’s Market Guide for Travel Expense Management Software for IT/Financial buyers. This report looks at...
Press ReleaseJanuary 03, 2018
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SAP Concur Brings Continued Innovation and Connected Experiences to Global...
SINGAPORE, January 3, 2018 – SAP Concur®, the world’s leading provider of expense, travel and invoice management solutions, today unveiled the deeper integration of two powerful brands to provide a truly connected, customer-centric experience that...
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Concur Is Now SAP Concur
As we begin 2018, I am pleased to announce that Concur is now SAP Concur. Concur has had an incredibly successful three years as part of the SAP family. Together, we have shared experiences and best practices to combine our strengths and provide...
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AI and Blockchain are the Accounting Tools of the Future. Are You Ready?
The face of the accounting industry is changing. Cloud computing opened up the door for automation and mobility, and now with the emergence of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), the way you handle your accounting is never going to be the...
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Four Tips to Prepare for Financial AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is mainstream and there is no going back now. In order to maintain competitiveness, organizations of all sizes should start planning to incorporate it into their business processes. One area in particular that has seen...
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Is Flying in Basic Economy Worth It?
Every business traveler needs to take a personal trip now and then. If you've ever thought about flying basic economy to shave some money off your airfare, Hipmunk did the math to see which routes will net consumers the best deals. In an ongoing...
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Expense, Travel, and Invoice Management is Complicated. Here's How to Simplify
If your company is facing issues with expense, travel, and invoice management, you’re not alone. A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of SAP Concur, found that 60% of companies face issues with manual processes and...
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The duty of caring for your employees
Despite growing global uncertainty—from terrorist attacks, natural disasters and world health issues—organizations show no signs of slowing down on their investment in business travel. Global business travel continues to rise and is expected to...
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Using data to track down your travelers
If you were looking at a map right now, could you pinpoint your people? Sure, you could get close with some of your travelers, but do you know exactly where all of them are as you read this? Could you call them? Could you warn them of an impending...
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Growth without growing pains
The landscape for business is increasingly becoming global, and American organizations continue to increase their global footprints as they look to new opportunities for expansion. Whether you are looking to expand programmatically, take your...
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Compliance and Fraud: What You Can't See Can Cost You
As the way in which we do business and the ways that employees spend on behalf of organizations continue to increase in complexity, issues around compliance and fraud are also increasing in complexity. Many organizations currently perceive that...
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SAP and Singapore Airlines Collaborate to Boost Corporate Travel Visibility...
SINGAPORE — November 8, 2018 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced a collaboration with Singapore Airlines (SIA) to boost travel visibility for businesses. SIA is the first Asia-based carrier to sign an agreement with the SAP Concur organization,...
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True innovation lands a product just ahead of the market need
When I joined SAP Concur, we faced two main challenges: customers in Asia didn’t know our product, and they didn’t care. So how does a business open up a market, where self awareness is not there? Facing these challenges taught me that you can...
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Innovation is magic made real
The best innovation is led from emotions in response to passion, joy, pain or frustration. The closer something is to your heart, the more motivated you are to improve it or find ways to do it better. When I was growing up, overseas travel was a...
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Don’t let stereotypes kill your culture
One of the potential dangers of a successful workplace culture is confirmation bias. When everyone shares not only the same values, but also ways of thinking and even types of experiences, you can find yourself operating in an “echo chamber”...
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Why the best leaders put people first, their positions second...and your...
Asian culture is very big on tradition. Sometimes it’s harmless…but sometimes it’s not. And there is one tradition I absolutely do not agree with in the office: top-down hierarchy. This tradition has many names: guanxi, “giving face”, even the...
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The secret to successfully scaling up culture is letting go
I believe that getting culture right is the key to business growth. But at the same time, growth also poses the greatest risks to culture. It is relatively easy to foster openness, warmth, and genuine trust amongst a small group of people – but...
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Your company’s future begins with the right story
My colleague Carl has a reputation for big ideas…the sort that challenge everything you think you know about corporate travel. He’s just shared one of those big ideas in a post where he muses how SAP could possibly become the world’s largest...
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Do you have the time to be a good leader?
My colleague Laura has hit upon what could be the best leadership trick I’ve ever encountered. In her latest writing, she’s shared how all it takes to recognise any person’s contribution is a simple email from top management saying, “thank you”,...
Press ReleaseFebruary 19, 2019
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SAP Concur Appoints Andy Watson as Senior Vice President & General Manager...
SINGAPORE — February 18, 2019 – SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the appointment of Andy Watson as Senior Vice President & General Manager for SAP Concur, Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) and Greater China. Watson succeeds Nick Evered, who has...
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SAP Concur Taps Jim Lucier, Chief Revenue Officer for North America and Chief...
BELLEVUE, Wash., April 29, 2019 – SAP Concur, the world’s leading provider of integrated travel, expense, and invoice management solutions, today announced the appointment of Jim Lucier as president. A long-time veteran of SAP Concur, Jim Lucier...
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Why T&E Demands So Much Attention In Financial Services
Your margins are under enough pressure already. But with continual digital disruption—from fintechs and other recent entrants who are tightening the screws even further—costs are always in the spotlight. In this environment, you need to do...
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Power Your Accounts Payable by Integrating AP Processes With Your ERP
Accounting is a fundamental building block of your business. However, for many years, accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) functions remained largely unchanged. As a result, they suffered from three primary issues: siloed...
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Your Expense Reports Could Be Writing Themselves. Here's How
There’s no way around it, so we’re just going to come out and say it: Expense reports are a pain. That’s exactly why we work so hard to make expense reporting simple, fast, and accurate for businesses around the world. Recently, though, new...
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Do You Have a Supplier Invoice Policy in Place?
A supplier invoice policy is one of those documents that every business should have. An effective policy will greatly reduce the amount of time related to the tasks of approving and processing vendor invoices, addressing exceptions, or storing,...
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Expense Automation and Mobile AI: Time to Embrace a New Norm
I recently visited the head of sales at a retail company and had just shown him the machine learning receipt capture technology on the SAP Concur mobile app. What he said surprised me. He was struggling to see the benefit their team would gain as...
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Spend Visibility is Critical to Fuelling Business Growth. So Why Delay Giving...
Growth is top of mind for enterprises today. And yet expansions bring a host of challenges, from heavier workloads, overloaded and disrupted processes, and a larger and more-fragmented workforce to unfamiliar regulatory challenges in new...
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Are you Taking a Global Approach to Capturing Spend Across the Enterprise?
According to IMF’s recent World Economic Outlook Update, the certainty of global expansion is under threat due to international trade pressures and a plateau in global growth that began more than two years ago. So whether your business is further...
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Machine Learning in Concur Mobile
Many SAP Concur users will recognize the ExpenseIt service or app as one that, in the background, automatically extracts information such as amount, date, and expense type from your uploaded receipt. To perform the task, ExpenseIt uses an array of...
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Asia Pacific Travellers Put Personal Safety Above All Else
Business travellers report feeling unsafe, with business travel not getting easier or less stressful according to an SAP Concur survey SINGAPORE – SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) has announced the results of a new SAP® Concur® survey revealing the challenges...
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See Which Travel and Expense Solution Stands Out in the IDC MarketScape Report
Digital tools have transformed the way companies capture employee travel and business expenses. Employees are booking travel and making business purchases on mobile devices and in many different locations, meaning the cloud is quickly becoming the...
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3 Ways to Increase the Impact of Your IT team With Native SAP Integration
Becoming a best-run business requires strategic thinking and bold steps into a largely interconnected digital future. Because these steps often require the adoption and development of new technologies, IT organizations have a very big role to...
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20 Predictions for 2020 From SAP Concur
In today’s technology-driven business world, changes in customer expectations, societal shifts, and industry disruptions rule. That’s why leaders at SAP Concur, and those from our parent company, SAP, think constantly about trends with the...
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Manual Expense and Business Travel Processes Could be Costing Asia Pacific...
SAP Concur and Asia Insight study reveals that: ASIA PACIFIC & SINGAPORE, 20 JULY 2020 – A new SAP® Concur® commissioned study revealed that the potential economic loss across Asia Pacific due to inefficient finance and administrative...
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You Don’t Need to See the Future if You Can See Clearly Now
No one knows what’s going to happen tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be ready for it. And while “getting ready” for further disruption might conjure images of a total corporate overhaul or revamping your entire workforce – again – getting...
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Business Travellers in Asia Pacific Look to Employers to Implement New Health...
A new research commissioned by SAP® Concur® in May-June 2020 provides important insights that are shaping a new normal for business travel. The data suggests travel will continue to play an irreplaceable role in meeting critical business needs....
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SAP.iO Foundry Singapore Launches FinTech and COVID-19 Recovery Acceleration...
SINGAPORE — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today kicked off the SAP.iO Foundry Singapore Fall 2020 acceleration program focused on COVID-19 recovery, FinTech and spend management. The selected business-to-business startups will help SAP’s customers extend the...
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New Ideas Will Emerge from Challenging Times: Our Predictions for 2021
After a difficult 2020, SAP Concur leaders are optimistic that the coming year will be one of innovation, recovery, and renewal. While 2021 is unlikely to look like any recent year in history, it may be remembered as one in which life slowly began...