Articles tagged “concur”

The rise of the sharing economy is a trend in business travel that won't get put easily back in the bottle, although it isn't for everyone. On the other hand, it is possible that Lufthansa's battle with the business travel community could get recorked and disposed with.

The convergence of mobile payments and wearable technology could well rewrite the way brands think about shaping travel experiences. And in business travel, the use case for alpha travelers is even more directly relevant.

A smart move by LoungeBuddy to partner with a platform business travelers already use, and to create a system that's easy for staff to use so congestion can be prevented.

Mobile is making its mark on travel expense submissions as an increasing number of road warriors snap photos of their receipts and submit them through online tools.

Concur officials are saying all the right things about the future of the company under SAP ownership. Sometimes acquisitions don't turn out exactly as one or both of the parties intended, so we'll just have to wait and see how it all turns out.

Hotels -- yes they do -- have to live with the fact that they move a lot of rooms through powerful online travel agencies. Platforms like CheckMate's can enable hotels to better communicate with their guests despite the involvement of the third parties.

Rome2Rio surfaces transport options from ridesharing to rail that represent the future of business travel. Concur is smart to get on board early.

The outcry about Uber's potential $25 billion valuation may turn out to be more muted than the criticism of its $17 billion valuation just a few months ago in the summer of 2014. But is there a cap on all this? Apparently not.

B2B travel companies are taking advantage of social media's inherent function of connecting with real people.

What does it mean that there was only one bidder, SAP, for Concur? There are only a handful of companies -- perhaps Oracle, IBM, the Priceline Group, and American Express -- that have both the resources to pay more than $8 billion for an acquisition and have an interest in making a business out of travel technology for corporations. In addition, Concur still has plenty of skeptics.