Tag: SAP
United Wants To Grow Its Clutch Of Alternative Distribution Options With NDC-Compliant Corporate Bundles For Concur Users
New York – United Airlines is working to begin pilot tests with multiple corporate clients of negotiated, “dynamic” fare bundles facilitated by New Distribution Capability-compliant…
GDPR Prompts BCD Travel To Sign On With SAP’s Customer Data Cloud, Replace Existing Traveler Profile System
BCD Travel clients by year-end will start benefiting from a new traveler information database built with SAP’s cloud-based customer data solution, the companies said Wednesday….
Concur Slows Down Innovation To Focus On Foundational Fixes
Concur’s technology leaders have refocused on core infrastructure over innovation to deal with increased service disruptions during the past 18 months. “In the past we…
From Data Management Firms, Clients Demand The Future
It seems that some corporate travel decision-makers are endlessly dissatisfied with data. It’s imperfect, dumped on them in buckets and hard to present to executives….
Years Of Consolidation Gave Concur Market Power, But No Monopoly
You may have read that as SAP swallows Concur, business travel innovation goes down with it. This is absurd. Concur is much more an expense…
SAP’s Earnings Target For Concur Requires Serious Synergy
SAP expects the pricey acquisition of Concur to increase its earnings in 2016, but that seems possible only with massive revenue growth or layoffs. In…
SAP CEO: Why Have Travel Policy When Employees Can ‘Maybe Get A Better Rate’?
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…
