SAP Concur to Help Businesses Sync Meeting Planning With Travel Expense Management


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We anticipate a convergence between travel expense management and meeting planning. Companies will see a boom in internal meetings for team bonding and training as the pandemic subsides. So they'll need software to rein in costs.
SAP Concur digitized travel expense management. Now it's looking to digitize how companies self-manage meetings, such as for training sessions, quarterly team meetings, diversity workshops, small customer conferences, and board meetings. On Monday the German enterprise software giant SAP announced that the sales team at Concur, its corporate travel-and expense-management company, will now also sell a solution for planning small meetings. "Customers can now buy a small meetings tool in a single contract in a single existing relationship with their Concur sales rep," said Brian Hace, vice president of global travel strategy for SAP Concur. "They'll get an end-to-end integration with our other tools for travel and expense management." Concur's online tool will integrate with its flagship software to help corporate travelers manage their expense accounts and travel. The sol