SAP CEO Bill McDermott sees Concur's TripLink supplier-direct program as a replacement for corporate travel policy.
In an interview published last week by Re/code, McDermott responded as follows when asked why SAP is paying about $8 billion for Concur:
"Every company has a corporate travel department, but no one wants to work with it. You can use . . .
Before starting The Company Dime with David Jonas in 2014, journalist Jay Campbell a decade earlier created travel business newsletter The Beat. In 2006, Jay co-founded Travel Procurement magazine and in 2010 helped integrate them with Business Travel News. He served as BTN's editorial director until 2013. Jay made his travel industry media debut in 1993 at the Air Travel Journal of Boston while earning his undergraduate degree in journalism at Boston University. He would be happy to connect on LinkedIn. He's here at CorporateTravel.social on Mastodon.
