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Is this outdated process costing your business?
You might be surprised to find out how much automating workflows, including invoice processing, can save your business—both in terms of your operating dollars and your sanity. A 2015 study by American Productivity and Quality Center showed that...
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It's time to let go of your spreadsheets
Small businesses often start tracking their expenses using spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel, and it’s easy to see why. It’s not a difficult tool to learn, and it’s a heck of a lot easier than digging out your calculator. And if you’re a...
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20 Predictions for 2020 From SAP Concur
In today’s technology-driven business world, changes in customer expectations, societal shifts, and industry disruptions rule. That’s why leaders at SAP Concur, and those from our parent company, SAP, think constantly about trends with the...
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Concur Expense Demo: Take a Self-Guided Tour
You asked – and we listened. One of the top requests we get from people interested in our solutions is the ability to try them out quickly and easily. We completely understand the desire to try something before you commit to it. That’s why we’ve...
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What Keeps CFOs Up At night?
“When you encounter a difficult time, like the COVID crisis, it really helps you to see what's important and recalibrate. You learn about some of the areas of your business that, perhaps, needed to be corrected all along, and it affords you the...
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Is Your Business Ready to Travel?
As much of the world is still working from the kitchen counter, COVID-19 restrictions and, thus, travel restrictions are starting to loosen in some regions. But just because it may be safer to travel in a particular country, is your business...
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No One Loves a Good Audit.
Even with all the change and challenges we’ve just gone through – even with the absolute imperative that businesses must see, manage, and attempt to save every cent they can – organizations are still loath to look at their audit processes. Sure,...
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Just How Often Do We Have to Reinvent Ourselves?
If change wasn’t an issue and disruption didn’t exist, you wouldn’t have to worry about much. You wouldn’t have to wonder what was going to happen next, and you could just run your business the same way you always have – with the same tools, the...
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This Breaks All the Rules.
After a year of stagnation, confusion, and questions, companies might be tempted to burst back onto the scene with a growth-at-all-costs philosophy. You have to do whatever it takes, after all, to make up for lost time, and if that crosses a few...
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Where’s Everyone Going?
The return to corporate travel after a year of change. Yes, clicking a Zoom link is easier than packing an overnight back and heading to Cleveland, but after a year-and-a-half of meetings in your spare bedroom, Cleveland – or Chicago or Sydney or...
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You Don’t Have to Fly Solo.
Partnering with TMCs is a key component to rebuilding corporate travel. With changing regulations, compounding compliance concerns, increasing traveler demands, and a jittery C-Suite eager to get people back on the road, it might seem like the...
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Sustainable Travel Isn’t Going Away
When you graduated from high school, you were determined to change the world. Well, the world is finally giving you a chance. You see, saving the planet isn’t simply a slogan anymore. It’s about actually saving the planet, and it isn’t something...
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Where’s Your Sense of Duty?
Duty of care isn’t only about traveler safety anymore. It turns out that keeping people safe, happy, and productive actually makes them safe, happy, and productive. Maybe that isn’t a huge surprise, but after 2020 turned all our spare bedrooms...
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Who’s Driving the Next Era of Corporate Travel?
You stand at the helm your travel program – your newly modified, completely adaptable travel program that you rebuilt during the last 16 months of “downtime” – but even though the C-Suite now looks at you to singlehandedly restart corporate travel...
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Duty of Care: Not Just for Emergencies Anymore
Duty of care often used to be crisis management, largely used by oil and gas companies and others operating in remote and danger-prone environments. The COVID-19 pandemic and the evolving nature of work changed that. Now, it’s not tenable to look...
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Sustainability Becomes a Business Fundamental
Regulators and markets are watching to ensure organizations are making progress on ever-increasing and ever-more-critical goals to reduce emissions, save energy and preserve our planet. Instead of being just one business metric among many,...
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Like finding a needle in a tech stack.
What to look for when looking for a travel and expense management solution. It isn’t about the money (okay, it’s about the money), but in this case it’s about more than the money. Any tool can keep track of expenses and help you keep spending in...
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Don’t let legacy be your legacy.
Examining the five stages of travel and expense program maturity. The pandemic didn’t tap you on the shoulder and whisper, “Hey, you should really think about updating your legacy travel and expense (T&E) systems so you can more easily adapt...
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