Certify and Chrome River Join Forces and 13 Other Digital Trends This Week
Photo Credit: A promotional photo of a man using Concur on his iPad. Sector leader SAP Concur might be getting some competition from recently-merged Certify and Chrome River. SAP Concur
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This week in digital news, expense giant SAP Concur may finally be getting some real competition, we go into the details of CWT's plans to up its tech game, and we look at how hotels are starting to use new tools to monitor online price listings.
Digital Travel News Weekly Roundup
Throughout the week we post dozens of original stories, connecting the dots across the travel industry, and every weekend we sum it all up. This weekend roundup examines digital trends. For all of our weekend roundups, go here.
Certify and Chrome River to Challenge Expense Leader SAP Concur: The combined Certify and Chrome River still pales in scope when compared to global behemoth SAP Concur. The approach of offering a variety of different services instead of a single platform, though, has potential in a fragmented global market for expense software services.
Behind CWT’s Effort to Go Digital-First: The future isn’t here yet, but at least big travel management companies like CWT have come to realize the importance of improving the experience of actual travelers instead of focusing on travel managers alone.
Hotels Tap New Tech to Clamp Down on Rogue Rates: Hotels are hiring companies to clamp down on online travel sites displaying cheap rates against their wishes. One of those startups, Fornova, has just bought smaller rival HotelsBI to broaden its rate-detection service. The deal is partly justified by
