Travel and expense management firm Concur continues to go from strength to strength in the Australian market, with the SAP-owned operation’s local workforce growing to around 100 employees over the last twelve months. The company sees itself as a disruptive innovator, harnessing the online “cloud” to simplify business expense reporting via a range of smartphone apps and management tools.
Last month the company was one of the many exhibitors at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, showcasing a range of innovations currently under development. One of these is a system which links to a car’s odometer to automatically log miles for business claims. There’s also a new project which highlights destination relevant apps to travellers when they are heading to a particular city, as well as a system which simplifies the management of business expenses which have been charged to personal credit cards.
Other developments which rolled out last year included the “first native mobile air booking experience for business travellers,” with the Concur smartphone app enabling road warriors to make flight reservations which comply with their particular company’s travel policies. Concur also unveiled a Locate & Alert service which allows travellers to “check in” when they arrive at their destination, while their companies can also leverage itinerary data to find and communicate with staff where required under their growing duty of care obligations.
The company’s Australasian managing director, Matthew Goss, is pictured above with marketing manager Silvana Kozlovic and director of business development, Murray Werner.
