Large corporations are the early adopters of travel technology and apps

Small businesses have been much slower than large corporations to adopt mobile solutions of all kinds on the road…“Small business professionals’ usage and satisfaction with mobile business apps is lagging their larger competitors.”

Concur’s research suggests that business travellers at large companies have more business-related apps on their mobile devices. Nearly 28% have five or more apps, compared with 21% at smaller businesses. In addition, small-biz travellers still tend to rely on laptops rather than mobile phones while travelling (52% vs. 45% at larger businesses.) “To be quite honest, we’re not sure exactly why we’re seeing that discrepancy,” Mr. Newell says. “But we can speculate on some of the possible reasons.”