Articles tagged “concur”

Travel startups that started salivating over the prospects of Priceline and American Airlines getting into the funding game are likely disappointed, for now, at least.

Concur has faced intense pushback from the business travel establishment to its open booking initiative. Rebranding it as TripLink is a small bow to that opposition, but the essentials of the program remain the same.

The additional investment will allow Yapta to go deeper into corporate travel, and take advantages from its relationship with Concur to deliver savings to corporate travel bookers.

Concur and Trover: strange bedfellows? Not so much, according to Concur, which believes social media will play a major role in business travel, and how well employees follow the mandates of their companies' travel policies.

A lot of mega travel agencies and major corporations are trying to put the proverbial genie back in the bottle when they battle their employees over how and where they book their travel. The solution definitely isn't handing out badges and mayorships.

U.S. cities, barring NYC, are still not the most expensive large cities to do business in. Thanks to its mining boom and rising currency value, Australia clearly has a problem on its hands.

Admittedly, a one vendor list, but enough data to draw trendlines. And London is still the most global city for business, and expensive too. Maybe it really should solve that Heathrow problem, fast...

Small businesses have their share of inefficiencies when it comes to travel and entertainment spending, but the gap in small business versus large corporation spending in Concur's numbers is also a function of more transactions by road warriors at small businesses.

TripIt has a loyal following, but TripIt Pro lost a some of its attractiveness when Southwest, Delta, United and American decided to play tough with loyalty program trackers. Will Concur continue to give TripIt the resources it fought for and deserves?

Through its corporate venture capital arm, the Concur Fund, and Open Booking initiative, Concur is a leader in changing the travel industry for the better, but the company is finding out that this is tough work.