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WHO WE ARE
Concur Appoints Mike Eberhard as Company President
Former Head of Global Distribution for Concur Assumes Top Role BELLEVUE, Wash., November 1, 2016 – Concur, an SAP (NYSE: SAP) company and the world's leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, today announced the...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
What financial leaders must do to drive growth, innovation amidst digital...
The utilization of mobile devices to book travel is on the rise, especially among frequent travelers and expense report filers. This means it’s getting more and more challenging for financial decision makers to improve compliance and manage...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
How travel and expense management apps can help retain top-performing staff...
Today's business leaders are finding that managing a multi-generational workforce has never been more challenging. The cost of turnover and lost productivity is now greater than ever in a hyper-competitive business environment. For Chief Financial...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Where to start? 8 steps toward effective T&E management
When preparing for travel & expense management policy change, the question becomes: how do you move from a free-for-all T&E environment to a more effective, cost-saving model? Start with the basics: See also: 5 reasons your business...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
5 reasons why your business technology should be easy to use
While it may go without saying that technology should make your life and the lives of your employees better, there are many small ways that tough-to-use tech can creep into your org and cost you more than you think. 1. Productivity. The easier...
WHO WE ARE
A fresh perspective on millennial talent and work culture
Being summoned into a senior leader’s office isn't typically a good thing... unless you're being given a last-minute ticket to Talent Connect 2016. Being fairly new the Talent Acquisition (TA) world and a Talent Connect rookie, I had no idea what...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
6 things you need to know about international business etiquette
International business travel will be one of the most exciting things you might ever do in your career. Despite the thrill, adhering to etiquette in international business is extremely important. In fact, international business etiquette is so...
Press ReleaseJanuary 04, 2017
WHO WE ARE
Concur Recognized as One of the Best Places to Work by Glassdoor
BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 6, 2016 — It’s official: Concur is one of the best places to work. Concur, an SAP (NYSE: SAP) company and the world’s leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions, was honored with a Glassdoor...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
4 tips to help bridge the workplace generation gap
Today’s workforce includes collaboration from five generations. In prior years, we had three to four generations in the workplace, but since people are living longer and working longer these days – America has to learn how to bridge demographics...
PRODUCTS IN ACTION
Get your business out of the 80s
Are you feeling like you need a Flux-Capacitor-equipped DeLorean to get your business operations streamlined with modern solutions? Recent studies show that outdated invoice processes are causing businesses to spend nearly twice as much on...
PRODUCTS IN ACTION
Is this outdated process costing your business?
You might be surprised to find out how much automating workflows, including invoice processing, can save your business – both in terms of your operating dollars and your sanity. A recent study by American Productivity and Quality Center showed...
PRODUCTS IN ACTION
Invoicing trends: the lure of automated AP
It’s a strange time to be in Accounts Payable (AP). Over the last few years, we’ve seen a wave of disruptive cloud-based technologies that promise better visibility into spend, greater cost control, and significantly improved operational...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Sink or swim in 2017: Embracing the mobile mind shift keeps you afloat - part 1
During a recent webinar, guest speaker, Forrester Research VP and Principal Analyst Paul Hamerman revealed that savvy business leaders are leveraging the digital disruption to turn conventional business processes from batch to real-time,...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Will there ever be a 100% paperless office?
The digital age has brought about a plethora of change in everyday culture: Not to mention, mobility allows people to work anywhere, anytime – even at 39,000 feet. Basically, immediate gratification is the name of the game, and technology is...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Sink or swim in 2017: Embracing the mobile mind shift keeps you afloat - part 2
What’s the biggest opportunity for finance leaders in 2017? During a recent webinar, Forrester Research VP and Principal Analyst Paul Hamerman said, There is an opportunity to use technology to lessen the burden of managing expenses, risk and...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
7 reasons information mobility is crucial for your business
The sky is the limit – literally – when it comes to information mobility. Whether riding in a bus, lounging at the beach, waiting at a coffee shop, or cruising at 36,000 feet; employees can work anywhere they have an Internet connection. Since...
Press ReleaseMarch 16, 2017
Travel & Expense Trends
Concur Unveils First Integrated Traveler Risk Management Solution and Active...
BELLEVUE, WA. – March 15, 2017 – Concur®, an SAP company and the world’s leading provider of travel, expense and invoice management solutions, today introduced the first integrated traveler risk management solution featuring the most...
Press ReleaseMarch 23, 2017
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Concur Ecosystem Grows with Global Expansions and New Partners
With Expanded TripLink and App Center Ecosystems, Concur Delivers Unprecedented Value to Businesses and Seamless Experiences to Travelers Around the Globe BELLEVUE, WASH. – March 17, 2017 – Concur, an SAP company and the world’s leading provider...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Navigating M&A in the pharma, biotech and med device marketplace
The medical device, biotech and pharmaceutical industries are experiencing change like no other in the past couple of years. From a booming mergers and acquisitions (M&A) marketplace to the political spotlight on pricing; business leaders in...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Are you the company’s invoice guru, and would you like to expand your horizons?
The reality for many businesses is that their AP best-practices reside on the shoulders of the (often) lone employee who is the AP department. If that resourceful individual is you, it may be difficult to find the time to do anything but inputting...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Growth without growing pains
The landscape for business is increasingly becoming global, and American organizations continue to increase their global footprints as they look to new opportunities for expansion. Whether you are looking to expand programmatically, take your...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Building a travel & expense policy that takes the cringe out of spend management
You know that moment when you get an expense report in from an employee featuring a night at the Ritz Carlton and a $500 client dinner? That’s the moment that you think, “What’s actually in our expense policy?” Or maybe, you’re thinking, “Do we...
WHO WE ARE
The usability big picture—a checklist to avoid software pitfalls
In today’s tech-filled world, usability is key. We start our day with a smartphone in our hand, we work on a computer all day and even our cars, trains, streetlights and bank tellers are machines to interact with on our way home. If usability...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
From spreadsheets to the cloud: A global leader’s digital transformation of T&E
Helping builders build better. Bentley is a technology company that serves engineering, architecture and construction firms around the globe—offering solutions and software that help accelerate project delivery and improve asset performance. And...
WHO WE ARE
From one CFO to another: The top 5 things I learned from the IDC whitepaper
Jason Woods is a big believer in automation. As CFO of Concur and throughout his career, he’ve seen the rise and fall of companies that don’t keep up with the pace of modern business. If your company isn’t moving towards automation, you’re falling...
Press ReleaseJuly 18, 2017
WHO WE ARE
New Concur Travel innovations reduce time and costs associated with booking...
BOSTON – July 16, 2017 – Concur, an SAP company and the world’s leading provider of travel, expense and invoice management solutions, today announced expanded Concur Travel features to reduce time and costs associated with booking and managing...
Press ReleaseJuly 18, 2017
WHO WE ARE
Concur empowers businesses to protect travelers with Concur Locate and Active...
BOSTON – July 16, 2017 – Concur, an SAP company and the world’s leading provider of travel, expense and invoice management solutions, today announced the availability of Concur Locate and Active Monitoring, empowering businesses to find, inform,...
Press ReleaseJuly 18, 2017
WHO WE ARE
Airbnb and Concur expand partnership to provide Airbnb listings within Concur...
BELLEVUE, Wash., July 13, 2017 – Concur®, an SAP company and the world’s leading provider of travel, expense and invoice management solutions, today announced the availability to view and book Airbnb listings embedded within Concur Travel....
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Using data to track down your travelers
If you were looking at a map right now, could you pinpoint your people? Sure, you could get close with some of your travelers, but do you know exactly where all of them are as you read this? Could you call them? Could you warn them of an impending...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Travelers beware: Mid-November is expected to be the busiest time of the year...
End-of-year business goals are looming and business travelers are hitting the road en masse. To skip long airport lines and overbooked flights this fall, avoid traveling on these days.
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
A quick win for CIOs in financial transformation
In enterprise-size companies, CIOs and their teams align their IT strategies with their business strategies. At times, lending a hand to the business to help prioritize initiatives is essential. While HR, marketing and other departments have...
Who We Are
Concur in the news: Taking business travel management into the digital age
Is technology key to business success? We think so – especially in the case of business travel. As the number of business trips taken is expected to grow by three percent this year, it’s more important than ever for businesses to streamline their...
Press ReleaseNovember 27, 2017
PRODUCTS IN ACTION
Concur unveils e-Fapiao solution powered by WeChat in China
Beijing, China - November 27, 2017 - Concur, an SAP company and the world's leading provider of travel, expense and invoice management solutions, today introduced an electronic fapiao (a Chinese tax receipt) solution, developed to integrate...
WHO WE ARE
Alexa, ask Concur: When do I leave for my next business trip?
Conversational interfaces are one of the fast-growing opportunities in the tech industry,* with the market for intelligent virtual assistant estimated to reach $7.5 billion by 2024.** Think Amazon Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana or Baidu....
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Five reasons why your business technology should be easy to use
While it may go without saying that technology should make your life and the lives of your employees better, there are many small ways that tough-to-use tech can creep into your org and cost you more than you think. 1. Increased productivity The...
Travel & Expense Trends
Loopholes in Hong Kong Expense Management Practices that Put Corporate...
Hong Kong – 7 December 2017. Expense management processes in many Hong Kong businesses are vulnerable to fraud, non-compliance, human errors and inefficiencies, according to a survey of finance executives and employees in Hong Kong. The survey was...
WHO WE ARE
Concur Is Now SAP Concur
As we begin 2018, we are pleased to announce that Concur is now SAP Concur. Concur has had an incredibly successful three years as part of the SAP family. Together, we have shared experiences and best practices to combine our strengths and provide...
Press ReleaseJanuary 03, 2018
WHO WE ARE
SAP Concur Brings Continued Innovation and Connected Experiences to Global...
BELLEVUE, Wash., January 2, 2018 – SAP Concur®, the world’s leading provider of expense, travel and invoice management solutions, today unveiled the deeper integration of two powerful brands to provide a truly...
WHO WE ARE
Three Reasons Why You Should be Automating Your Invoice Process
Is your finance team still sifting through stacks of paperwork, even after you’ve automated your employee expense management? A closer look will show you those are vendor invoices in various stages of approval and payment. If your gut reaction is...
WHO WE ARE
Announcing the 2018 SAP Concur Innovation Award Winners
Each year at our annual SAP Concur Fusion conference, we gather together customers, partners, and staff to connect, collaborate, and inspire. We also take the time to recognize and celebrate a select group of marquee customers who exemplify an...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
How Are Forward-Thinking CFOs Using Modern AP Automation to Drive...
From the expectations of investors and CEOs to the challenge of managing diverse workforces who submit invoices, expenses, and purchase requests through inefficient and disparate systems, CFOs in growing companies face more challenges than ever...
WHO WE ARE
SAP Concur Provides Real-Time Visibility and Spend Control with New Budget...
According to a recent Oxford Economics report, strong profitability and revenue growth are tied to effective cost control. However, managing spend is increasingly complicated. In the last 15 years, travel spend alone has doubled to more than $1.2...
Travel & Expense Trends
Why T&E Demands So Much Attention In Financial Services
Your margins are under enough pressure already. But with continual digital disruption—from fintechs and other recent entrants who are tightening the screws even further—costs are always in the spotlight. In this environment, you need to do...
Who We Are
SAP Concur Taps Jim Lucier, Chief Revenue Officer for North America and Chief...
BELLEVUE, Wash., April 29, 2019 – SAP Concur, the world’s leading provider of integrated travel, expense, and invoice management solutions, today announced the appointment of Jim Lucier as president. A long-time veteran of SAP Concur, Jim Lucier...
Industries
Fighting Fraud in the Financial Services Industry
The financial services industry and the fight against fraud The ACFE recently published their 2018 report on global fraud and abuse in the workplace, and the findings are eye-opening. With losses from occupational fraud totaling $7 billion last...
Travel & Expense Trends
Power Your Accounts Payable by Integrating AP Processes With Your ERP
Accounting is a fundamental building block of your business. However, for many years, accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) functions remained largely unchanged. As a result, they suffered from three primary issues: siloed...
Invoicing & Spend Management
What's Your Spend Management Costing You?
You’ve hit your spending limit. Using manual, paper-based, and outdated systems to track expenses is costing your organization money and your own employees sanity. With employees spending more money across more channels than ever before, the...
Upcoming events & event memories
Seminar: Governance, risk and compliance in the digital world
Seminar: Governance, risk and compliance in the digital world has been organised successfully in EY office. Thanks EY for joining us on sharing how to enhance compliance and mitigate risk through intelligent spend management. Learn more:...
Upcoming events & event memories
Total Spend Management: Simplifying Cost Control in Real-World Complexity
SAP Concur Total Spend Management seminar has been held successfully yesterday! Sincere thanks to everyone who made this event a great success! Hope all the attendees find it useful and informative! Learn more:...
Upcoming events & event memories
Seminar : Managing Company Spend to Drive Business Growth
Are you aware that uncontrolled discretionary spending and fraud – especially in the areas of travel, expenses, and supplier purchases – can hinder your organization’s ability to scale and grow? With a holistic view and proper controls, your...
Products In Action
SAP Concur Customers, Are You Overlooking Processes Efficiency?
Are you getting the most out of your SAP Concur solution? As a customer, you’ve realized the value in automating your spend management processes. You’ve made it easier for employees to avoid errors, submit receipts quickly, and do it all on the...
Travel & Expense Trends
Compliance and Fraud: What You Can't See Can Cost You
As the way in which we do business and the ways that employees spend on behalf of organizations continue to increase in complexity, issues around compliance and fraud are also increasing in complexity. Many organizations currently perceive that...
Upcoming events & event memories
Visit SAP Concur booth at The 10th CFO Innovation Hong Kong Forum
About the Forum The "Greater Bay Area" blueprint, that was recently made public, will develop 11 cities in Southern China - including Hong Kong and Macau - into a world-beating innovation hub with a US$1.5 trillion economy to rival those of San...
TRAVEL & EXPENSE TRENDS
Decluttering your business travels
Owners of untidy homes and weary business travellers may not realise that they have much in common until Japanese decluttering expert Marie Kondo came along. She made the connection clear. Just like it’s possible − with the right method − to...
Upcoming events & event memories
Client Workshop Connecting Travel and Expense to Gain Total Spend Visibility
We'd like to thank our clients for joining today's workshop, and we hope you've all gained some fresh insights into Concur Travel, our one-stop solution to travel expense management. Learn more: https://www.concur.com.hk/travel-expense
Travel & Expense Trends
Make Intelligent Technology the Future of Your Travel and Expense Management
Why Manage T&E With Intelligent Technology?With automated travel and expense, everyone wins. Employees get the user-friendly consumer experience they want, while travel managers and finance leaders can make the most of travel budgets...
Upcoming events & event memories
[Event memory] Seminar : Managing Company Spend to Drive Business Growth
Over 50 guests joined our event to learn more about driving business growth by better managing company spend! Special thanks to Mr. Walker Fung from a well-known international NGO sharing their spend challenges and why they choose Concur to...
Products In Action
How to Get Receipts into Concur Expense
Looking for an app to scan and manage business receipts? You've come to the right place! With SAP Concur you can easily input receipts and data without having to re-key information or risk errors. Let's take a look at how this works: Simply take a...
Products In Action
Concur Invoice Demo: Discover How to Automate Invoices
Vendor invoices are a critical part of your business and they’re a strong indicator of financial health and cash flow. That’s why it’s necessary to have an invoice management solution that you trust and that makes the job of your accounts payable...
Products In Action
Concur Expense Demo: Take a Self-Guided Tour
You asked – and we listened. One of the top requests we get from people interested in our solutions is the ability to try them out quickly and easily. We completely understand the desire to try something before you commit to it. That’s why we’ve...
Upcoming events & event memories
Visit SAP Concur booth (D12) at Accounting & Finance Show HK
Digital technology is revolutionising accounting and financial management. Cloud accounting and a plethora of new applications, software and services are streamlining processes and making the accounting and finance team more efficient. And this...
Upcoming events & event memories
Seminar: Employee-initiated Spend - You can’t control what you can’t see
Employees today spend more freely than ever, no matter it is travel, expense or supplier purchases. It makes visibility and cost control difficult for organizations that lack a strong spend management solution. When your spend data is connected...
Upcoming events & event memories
[Event memory] Accounting and Finance Show 2019
Thanks to Kinson Lam for the sharing on "Accelerating Digital Transformation with Intelligent Spend Management" in Accounting & Finance Show Hong Kong 2019! Learn more, please visit www.concur.com.hk
Travel & Expense Trends
The Wider Impact of Business Travel
The appetite for travel has never been greater – in the past year the global travel and tourism sector contributed a record US$8.8 trillion and 319 million jobs to the world economy according to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC)....
Upcoming events & event memories
SAP Seminar: Plan the Future of Business
More than ever, business is a team sport. And success depends on the entire organization working together to design and execute plans that are flexible enough to respond quickly to changes. That is especially true when it comes to finance....
Products In Action
SAP Concur Real-Time Visibility and Spend Control with Budget Solution
According to a recent Oxford Economics report, strong profitability and revenue growth are tied to effective cost control. However, managing spend is increasingly complicated. In the last 15 years, travel spend alone has doubled to more than $1.2...
Travel & Expense Trends
New Research Reveals Top Concerns Among Business Travelers
Business Travelers Report Feeling Unsafe, With Female and LGBTQ+ Travelers Regularly Experiencing Harassment According to an SAP® Concur® Survey BELLEVUE, Wash. — Oct. 30, 2019 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) has announced the results of a new SAP® Concur®...
Upcoming events & event memories
Seminar: Employee initiated spend-you can’t control what you can’t see was...
Entitled “Employee-initiated Spend - You can’t control what you can’t see’, our seminar was successfully held on 22 Oct 2019 at SAP Hong Kong office located at Causeway Bay. We were glad to see the excited participation of our clients coming from...
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Seminar: How can Finance Leaders Deliver Intelligence across the Business?
The role of finance leader is changing nowadays no matter they are running a small firm or global corporation. Despite they are trying hard to bring a fresh insight, the low visibility and control could be a bottleneck of achieving the next goal....
Upcoming events & event memories
SAP Concur participated in CFO Innovation Forum Hong Kong
Every year, the CFO Innovation Forum brings together CFOs, Directors, Senior Managers and partners involving in cross financing functions. Combining business matching, seminar sessions with networking opportunities, it is a powerful communication...
Upcoming events & event memories
SAP Concur Fusion Exchange - A Huge Success in Shanghai
Shanghai, China – November 19, 2019 – SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today held the inaugural SAP® Concur® Fusion Exchange in Shanghai, China. Themed Harnessing Digital Transformation and Embarking Intelligent Journey, the event tailors the top-rated content...
Upcoming events & event memories
5 Dec │ Event Memory: Delivering intelligence across business excites finance...
With the countdown underway to 2020, SAP Concur hosted the last seminar this year on “How can finance leader deliver intelligence across the business” on the 5th of Dec at SAP office, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. This event took place under the...
Who We Are
Women’s Future In Work At SAP – Hermi Chu
Help others to help yourself During the past seven years, as SAP Concur’s territory director in Hong Kong, Hermi Chu has led her team on many engagements to help companies digitize and simplify travel and expense processes. She’s no ordinary...
Upcoming events & event memories
12 Dec │ SAP Concur to honour the Customer of the Year 2019 at the...
On the 12th of Dec, we successfully completed the much-awaited SAP Concur Client Appreciation Lunch 2019 at Rosewood Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui. With more than 20 companies joining us, we gathered to celebrate our great continuous cooperation in...
Invoicing & Spend Management
Next-Gen Spend Management Has Arrived – And Just in Time
How much of your organization’s revenue goes toward spend? For most companies, it's 40% to 45%. That’s a huge part of the revenue pie – and a notoriously difficult slice to monitor and control company-wide. As explored in a 2019 survey on...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] Next-Gen Spend Management Has Arrived – And Just in Time
How much of your revenue toward spend? Chances are that it's 40% to 45%. But, with management requirement growing ever-more complex. how much control do you have? SAP and IDC fielded the “ Intelligent Spend Management survey” in 2019 with...
Travel & Expense Trends
AI and Machine Learning at Work
For a lot of people, the words “artificial intelligence” (AI) fit neatly into a futuristic, sci-fi narrative that goes something like this: human beings create AI; AI helps at first, but soon begins to think for itself; advanced technology decides...
Upcoming events & event memories
11 Feb │ Join us for the SAP Intelligent Finance & Risk Virtual Event
Join us for the second edition of the SAP Intelligent Finance Virtual Event. Register today and join us live on February 11, 2020: Time: 12:00 a.m. – 3:00 a.m. (HKT) Connect with your peers, interact and listen to top experts, SAP customers and...
Travel & Expense Trends
Keeping at-home employees productive
Working from home: is it a dream come true, or a complete disaster? For many employers, this is a question they’ll have to address whether they want to or not. A more connected world means people can get the job done whether they’re sitting next...
Travel & Expense Trends
Use Technology to Keep Your Employees Safe
Over the last week there has been a dramatic increase in the number of confirmed cases and a steady increase in the number of deaths from complications of the coronavirus. The outbreak has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International...
Industries
Utilizing Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive...
By Mark Linver, managing director of Deloitte Life Sciences Advisory, and Jack Tanselle, Managing Director at Deloitte. Life sciences manufacturers continue to operate in an increasingly complex business and regulatory environment. The potential...
Travel & Expense Trends
New Research Reveals Top Concerns Among Business Travelers
Business Travelers Report Feeling Unsafe, With Female and LGBTQ+ Travelers Regularly Experiencing Harassment According to an SAP® Concur® Survey BELLEVUE, Wash. — Oct. 30, 2019 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) has announced the results of a new SAP® Concur®...
Products In Action
How Business Leaders Drive Growth Through Intelligent Spend Management
When small and midsize companies are not expanding internationally, growth for many firms comes through organic revenue increases, adding new locations and headcount, and mergers and acquisitions. These complex endeavors require close internal...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] Grow Intelligently with the Right Tools to Manage Spend...
As one of the world’s top three international finance centres, Hong Kong is a prime location for financial services. Built on a prudent and robust financial regulatory regime with a well-educated workforce...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] The CFO Perspective Live Broadcast: The Future of...
The CFO Perspective - The Future of Finance Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities in a Digital World
Don’t let anyone say that your job is easy.
The competition is...
Products In Action
How to Calculate Mileage with Concur Drive
When driving around for work, you have enough to worry about. Whether you’re a saleswoman on the way to close a big deal or a doctor off to make a house call, you should be focusing on the task at hand rather than calculating and recording the...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] Simplifying Invoice and Expense Management amid Growing...
The success of your business depends on effective spend management. It is a key factor in making your entire organization more responsive and flexible. The sudden increase in working from home is presenting problems as well as opportunities. Are...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] The 3 Business Priorities Driving Invoice & Expense...
2020 is a year fraught with challenges for all Small and Mid-sized Enterprises in Hong Kong. Many SMEs are suffering from economic uncertainty, stress on cash flow and inefficient systems &...
Travel & Expense Trends
Four Tools to Speed Up Your Expense Reporting
Admit it, you always put your expense reporting off until the last minute. (Don't we all?) But avoiding your reporting means you're not getting reimbursed as quickly as you could be and maybe even risking credit-damaging late fees on your...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] Digital Employee Experience - a Vital Need in the "New...
As many employees in Hong Kong are still working from home, no one is left in any doubt about the essential nature of digitalisation to keep organisations connected and thriving. Invisible Technology The best technology in the world is useless if...
Invoicing & Spend Management
Updating Your Expense Policy for Employees Working From Home
Working from home has recently become the new normal, leaving office buildings empty and employees, at all levels, seeking out new ways to connect, collaborate and get their jobs done. Now, individuals who normally come into an office and use the...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] Grow Intelligently with the Right Spend Management...
As one of the world’s top three international finance centres, Hong Kong is a prime location for financial services. Built on a prudent and robust financial regulatory regime with a well-educated workforce and the absence of capital control,...
Invoicing & Spend Management
Finance’s Digital Agenda For 2020
It looks like finance is about to turn a digital corner. To date, many finance organizations have approached digital transformation with caution and have been challenged by a lack of financial and human resources. However, the results of The...
Travel & Expense Trends
Duty of Care Made Easy
Employees are an organization’s greatest assets. If they work to their best, your firm delivers service to customers to its best. And when do employees function optimally? When they are motivated. Few things galvanize people as much as the...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] Recover Your Business: Improving Strategic Cash Flow and...
Recover Your Business: Improving Strategic Cash Flow and Liquidity to Ensure a Safe and Successful Relaunch of Economic Activity With economic disruption, predicting cash flow is more important than ever and also more difficult. The time to plan...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] Optimize Cash Flow Management When Automating Financial...
Take Control of Corporate Spend and Gain VisibilityWhen making decisions about growth, prioritizing cash flow can lead to greater visibility, agility, better cost control, and improved business outcomes. By automating and integrating expense,...
Products In Action
SAP Grew Its T&E Software Global Market Share to More Than 54% in 2019,...
Demand for travel and expense management (T&E) software grew significantly in 2019, according to market intelligence firm IDC, with the popularity of services from SAP Concur again boosting SAP’s position as the market leader. "SAP Concur...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] How Finance Processes Help You to Better Respond, Adapt,...
When it comes to business, sometimes the only thing that’s certain is uncertainty. Because no one knows for sure what tomorrow will bring, you need to do everything you can to improve your ability to plan for the future while being prepared to...
Industries
Manual Expense and Business Travel Processes Could be Costing Hong Kong...
[Hong Kong, 5 August, 2020] – A new SAP® Concur® commissioned study revealed that the despite widespread digital transformation in Hong Kong, many firms still run manual finance and administrative processes – resulting inefficiencies may be...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] The CxO Perspective Live Webcast Series
Reopening the Skies: Get Ready for Safer Business Travel Even with the COVID-19 pandemic, travel will continue to play an irreplaceable role in meeting critical business demands . However, travellers’ health and safety, and a new era of trip...
Upcoming events & event memories
(8 & 9 Sep) SAP Concur Fusion Exchange Goes Virtual
Since we have been half way into 2020, it is imperative for us to explore how to reshape growth in the new normal and gear up towards digital transformation to address the challenges ahead. SAP Concur Fusion Exchange, our most important annual...
Travel & Expense Trends
You Don’t Need to See the Future if You Can See Clearly Now
No one knows what’s going to happen tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be ready for it. And while “getting ready” for further disruption might conjure images of a total corporate overhaul or revamping your entire workforce – again – getting...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] SAP x Deloitte Webinar: Finance in the New World of Work
SAP and Deloitte are partnering to deliver a session for Finance professionals. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted businesses and markets globally. Organisations and their workforce have to adapt to work remotely. However, operating in remote...
Upcoming events & event memories
SAP Concur China Fusion Exchange made a huge success on 8 and 9 Sep
Themed Reshaping Business Growth, Defining the Future, SAP Concur Fusion Exchange made a huge success these 2 days! We brought together the industry leaders, opinion leaders, as well as SAP Concur preferred customers and partners to explore how to...
Upcoming events & event memories
[On-demand webinar] Cost and Compliance - Two Things You Can Still Control
80% of CFOs see the potential for global recession, and 48% anticipate a financial impact that effects operations, liquidity, and capital resources. Controlling corporate spend is more critical than ever. Think about it. Even when it was “business...
Travel & Expense Trends
What is Duty of Care?
What Is Duty of Care? Duty of Care is an organization’s legal obligation to protect employees from harm. For instance, when employees travel for work, it’s critical that businesses take all reasonable measures to ensure that people remain safe on...
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[On-demand webinar] Webcast Invitation: How Finance Digital Transformation...
As 2020 started, no one could have anticipated how the world would change, including unprecedented shifts in the way we work. While the pandemic has created extraordinary challenges and uncertainty, it also presents an opportunity for the business...
Industries
The Digital Transformation Pioneer - SAP Concur Helps TCL Accelerate Digital...
TCL Wins Two Heavyweight Awards at the 2020 Ding Ge Award November 2, 2020 - The “Ding Ge - 2020 Enterprise Digital Transformation Awards" were recently announced in Beijing, a list jointly released by Harvard Business Review, Tsinghua IGI and...
Travel & Expense Trends
New Ideas Will Emerge from Challenging Times: Our Predictions for 2021
After a difficult 2020, SAP Concur leaders are optimistic that the coming year will be one of innovation, recovery, and renewal. While 2021 is unlikely to look like any recent year in history, it may be remembered as one in which life slowly began...
Industries
Deloitte Announces New App Through SAP Concur Collaboration to Ease Business...
Deloitte is today announcing the upcoming release of the Deloitte - Travel Ready app in the SAP® Concur® App Center. This is an extension of the working relationship developed through the SAP Deloitte partnership. SAP Concur is a leading provider...
Upcoming events & event memories
2 Dec - Foresight 2021: Digital Agenda for a Post-Covid Recovery
The global pandemic has made the CFO role more challenging than ever before, requiring your business to be more agile, and adapt faster and smarter. As you navigate the realities of the next normal, COVID-19 has accelerated the urgency to...
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15 Dec - Webcast: Go Paperless - Starting with your Expense Receipts and...
Digital transformation has become one of the top business strategies in most of the organizations. Upon the current economic and pandemic situations, “going paperless” becomes an empirical eco-friendly driver and low entry threshold for starting...
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17 Dec Webcast: HR-Finance Teamwork to Drive Sustainable Cost Optimization
The economic collapse that came with COVID-19 has reinforced the need by businesses to drive up productivity. Organizations are now being asked to go beyond one-time cost savings actions that reduce expense levels to more strategic cost...
Who We Are
Is Your Spend Going Through the Proper Channels? Or is it Just Going Away?
It might be hard to imagine now, but there was a time when you didn’t have to think about how much facemasks cost, or how many disposable gloves you needed in the office. Or, for that matter, how to source HDMI cables for the home offices of every...
Who We Are
What Keeps CFOs Up at Night?
“When you encounter a difficult time, like the COVID crisis, it really helps you to see what's important and recalibrate. You learn about some of the areas of your business that, perhaps, needed to be corrected all along, and it affords you the...
Who We Are
SAP Concur Brings Intelligent Finance MBA Program to Business and Finance...
In collaboration with the MBA Center of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE), SAP Concur launched a joint executive education course on Intelligent Finance as part of the university’s MBA program during November 2020 to January...
Who We Are
Tailored for Change | SAP Concur Releases Fapiao Capture, Accelerating...
Beijing, China –March 1, 2020 - SAP Concur recently released the next generation Fapiao Capture, catering to the unique needs of the China market with innovative digital technologies, which will help enterprises build efficient and compliant...
Who We Are
SAP Concur Celebrates 2021 Innovation Award APAC Nominees
Celebrating our customers is the highlight of our annual customer event, SAP Concur Fusion. We showcase their achievements through the SAP Concur Innovation Awards, which honor customers who embody digital innovation and purpose-driven business...
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Make Better Financial Decisions with Help from Digital Spend Management
2020 was a difficult year. But companies with 1,000 employees or fewer have been hit especially hard. To see how this segment is faring and how digital spend management can ease the road ahead, SAP commissioned Aberdeen Research to conduct a...
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Six Ways to Ensure Your Invoice Process Works for You
With new opportunities to review financial processes, shifting how you do things to look at what works – and what doesn’t – is the secret to riding out a storm. By creating processes that increase efficiency, save time, and give you more...
Who We Are
Do You Have a Supplier Invoice Policy in Place?
A supplier invoice policy is one of those documents that every business should have. An effective policy will greatly reduce the amount of time related to the tasks of approving and processing vendor invoices, addressing exceptions, or storing,...
Invoicing & Spend Management
What Are Industry Benchmarks for Accounts Payable Efficiency?
Time is money and accounts payable departments are continuously looking for ways to optimize cashflow by avoiding late fees, taking advantage of early payments, or negotiating better pricing and delivery terms with vendors. Evaluation of the...
Industries
3 Ways to Improve Financial Management with AI in 2021
This article was first published on Fei Daily. Here are three reasons to invest in AI-powered solutions for business spend management. The past year was a whirlwind of challenges and quick decisions to adapt, especially for finance managers who...
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22 Apr Webcast: Spend Wise and Business Thrives
In such unprecedented pandemic, most companies work their very best to control their cost for survival. When cost is unavoidable for running business, how to spend wisely to drive business outcomes is more important than ever.
When companies spend...
Who We Are
New Global Survey Reveals Employees Connect Travel to Business Success
New research commissioned by the SAP Concur organization in April – May 2021 revealed a shift in priorities for business travelers amid COVID-19. The data offers powerful insights for organizations to consider as they continue to think about the...
Who We Are
Get Ready for the New World of Work with Digital Spend Management
The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world of business upside down. Whether your company experienced a boom in demand or you found yourself struggling to keep the lights on, the way we work shifted 180 degrees in a matter of weeks. Keeping employees...