A corporate travel technology platform enabling businesses and employees to book travel services like flights, hotels, car rentals, and rail online. Can be configured to fit the business rules for each user organization, including contracted rates, approvals processes and policies. They often integrate with other systems such as mid/back office and expense management. Some examples are SAP‘s Concur Travel, Serko‘s GetThere and Zeno, Deem from Travelport and Cyrtic from Amadeus.
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Kayak press officials have not responded to requests for comment, but informed sources described a possible business travel solution that would mix negotiated corporate airfares with public results for logged-in users. The concept borrows from what suppliers do with SAP Concur’s TripLink. Connecting the supplier’s loyalty program to a traveler’s Concur profile allows supplier websites to…
When you’re looking for a new booking tool experience, it’s nice to work at a company with its own user experience experts. Not thrilled with what it’s like to use Concur Travel, ZS Associates this summer put on a bake-off including three competing systems and two supplier sites. Four of the consulting and business services…
A poll conducted this spring by the Global Business Travel Association and sponsored by SAP Concur had some unsurprising results: most organizations used an online booking tool, most travel managers wanted controls on how they worked and nearly all promoted preferred suppliers. What may be less well-known is that travel management companies often configure booking…
Released last month, Grasp Technologies’ latest version of the GraspPay virtual payment system integrates with online booking tools via XML connections. Aside from SAP Concur’s work to integrate virtual payment with its Compleat mid-office system, no parties had accomplished seamless online booking tool integration, Grasp vice president Dave Lukas claimed. Lukas said Grasp’s “prominent integrations” are…
New York – More than 20 years since their invention, corporate online booking tools don’t generate much respect. Executives with three of them last month channeled the notion during a panel discussion that mixed updates on development priorities with good-natured ribbing. Representatives of market leader Concur, reinvented Deem and North America newbie Amadeus Cytric touched on familiar issues like…
In recent years, KDS talked a lot about the importance of partnerships with travel management companies. Then American Express Global Business Travel announced it would acquire the travel and expense tech firm. Some assumed right away that those TMC relationships would suffer. They were right. Travel and Transport was once a key KDS partner. “Our…
Online Booking Tools Nov. 10, 2016 Thanks to all our attendees and speakers! Listen to a recording of the live teleconference. Highlights of Teleconference 3 included Jay Campbell’s observations of the US Airways v. Sabre trial and Upside chairman Jay Walker taking questions about his business travel proposition for small and medium enterprises. Microsoft global travel and venue…
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