industry news
Aam Aadmi is now an APP Aadmi
Times are changing and we now live in two worlds - real and online - that perfectly complement each other. The combined new world can perhaps be termed as the ONLINE REALity! And while we, the Aam Aadmi or the common people, are evolving and...
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thought leadership
Take the highway to speed up T&E
Improved infrastructure is helping Indians with faster connectivity. Since we are now able to save travel time, a better life is not a distant dream. The development authorities have started undertaking several projects that will change, and a few...
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thought leadership
Comply or Perish
“If you think compliance is expensive, think about what non-compliance is costing you?” These words become more poignant in a scenario where a typical company has 20% out-of-policy spending. With policies not being stringent enough, compliance is...
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industry news
Data Demands Action, Not Reaction
What’s flowing in and out of organizations isn’t the complete picture of what today’s data looks like. From sensors, tags and scanners to mobile devices, social media and machines; the total amount of data generated through these in 2013 was...
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industry news
Paper Passe
Paper. Pesky. Passé: Imagining a paper-free office As India moves towards a cashless environment after demonetisation, the initial frenzy and confusion have given way to a Paper-Free work environment. In corporate world, this could signal the...
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thought leadership
ABC of GST
In an utopian world, businesses should drive taxes, but in the Indian context, it was anything but that. This was because businesses were left with little choice but to restructure their operations and model supply chain and distribution to reduce...
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industry news
Are you GST ready, in the true sense?
This is the tax trigger, which will lead business to a level of transformation like never before. For all major industries ranging from consumer goods to pharmaceutical, automotive, manufacturing and logistics, GST presents an opportunity to make...
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thought leadership
What Does T&E Mean?
The term T&E is bandied about often in business and, as with most business acronyms, people assume that it's automatically understood. In case you have ever wondered what T&E actually stands for, we’ll explain not only what it is, but also...
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thought leadership
SAP Concur Travel Bot on Slack
According to IDC, 75% of workers will use digital assistants by 2019. At SAP Concur, we’ve seen an increased desire to have digital assistants in the workplace firsthand, with over 100 teams installing our Concur Expense bot on Slack within the...
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thought leadership
Thank You for 25 Years
It was the year 1993. “Sleepless in Seattle” tugged at the hearts of romantics, people listened to music on Walkman’s, Intel introduced the Pentium family of 32-bit microprocessors, and one of the world’s most popular athletes, Michael Jordan,...
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BUSINESS TRAVEL
The truth about TripLink
Often when finance leaders or travel managers hear of TripLink, they think of open booking, i.e., enabling business travelers to book wherever and however they want, outside of their company travel program. But in reality, rather than helping your...
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thought leadership
Travel tech to revamp SMEs
In India - the world’s fastest-growing business travel markets - a considerable percentage of the rise in overall corporate travel is attributed to the rise of SMEs. Standing at the US$30 billion mark, corporate travel has huge potential with a...
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BUSINESS TRAVEL
Top 6 risk management considerations
In critical times like the one we are going through now, travel is something that is completely off the mind for attendees. However, in case, if someone has to travel, there are several perennial issues to consider when building or improving your...
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thought leadership
Machine Learning in Concur Mobile
Many SAP Concur users will recognize the ExpenseIt service or app as one that, in the background, automatically extracts information such as amount, date, and expense type from your uploaded receipt. To perform the task, ExpenseIt uses an array of...
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thought leadership
Is it okay to grow now?
After the last year or so, every question is a valid question. “Should we hunker down?” “Should we stick with status quo?” “Should we stretch our legs a little?” It’s pretty clear that of these three, status quo doesn’t get you very far. No...
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thought leadership
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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BUSINESS TRAVEL
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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BUSINESS TRAVEL
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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BUSINESS TRAVEL
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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Travel & Expense Trends
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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