Announcing plans to acquire a majority stake in rail distribution and IT firm SilverRail, Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi last month said rail was “ready for an online revolution.” It can’t come too soon. Attempting to integrate rail content into corporate travel programs is not for the faint of heart. The rail sector is fragmented, inconsistent and disconnected….
Concur is phasing out the TravelTrax data solution and its biggest user, the U.S. federal government, is switching to Cornerstone Information Systems. A Concur representative confirmed the company would be sunsetting TravelTrax by next year. “We are committed to the travel analytics space and will continue to invest and innovate in this area,” according to the…
Concur still isn’t saying much about its plans for Hipmunk, but a client conference this month featured a roadmap for its natural language processing capabilities. According to a March 15 tweet by Concur VP of business development R.J. Filipski, Hipmunk showed attendees it was enabling “chatbot-based business travel booking via Concur and your preferred TMC.” Meanwhile,…
Tax jurisdictions around the nation and globe increasingly are going after companies for revenues owed based on business activities within their borders facilitated by travel. Ernst & Young last year pointed out “a significant increase … in both business travel and nonresident income tax enforcement” by the state of New York. That’s not the only…
[UPDATE, July 12, 2017: Concur indicated it would support Egencia integration for existing joint clients through Nov. 1, 2018.] The partnership agreement between Concur and Egencia will end on March 31, Concur confirmed Tuesday in a written statement. Declining to comment on what Concur “is or isn’t doing,” Egencia VP of global product and marketing Michael…
The U.S. Department of Defense finally identified the commercial travel system it’s been piloting since June 2016. No one should be surprised that it’s market leader Concur Travel and Expense. A DOD official told The Company Dime that the pilot is designed to evaluate “the out-of-the-box capability of the commercial-off-the-shelf, software-as-a-service product to meet DOD…
Frosch recently left the Concur preferred travel management company program because it didn’t want to use all the required technology. A similar thing happened with Altour and at least one other TMC. In the three cases, officials said they remain Concur supporters even if they no longer meet the formal program’s criteria. At more than…
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