SAP Concur, the world’s leading brand for integrated travel, expense, and invoice management solutions, is moving on from the extremely challenging 2020 that has gravely impacted its transactional yearend revenue. The travel and expense unit of SAP remains committed to supporting its customers and partners with intelligent solutions and digital events to help them thrive in the post-pandemic world.

In January, SAP Concur released Concur Tax Assurance by VATBox and Concur Detect by Oversight– two new solution extensions delivered through the SAP Concur partner ecosystem to help customers meet broad compliance requirements. 

This month, the inaugural global SAP Concur Fusion 2021 will be launched on the 16th-18th for Americas and 17th-19th for EMEA and APAC to celebrate its customers and boost engagement within SAP’s integrated partner ecosystem. Furthermore, the SAP Concur Innovation Awards will be recognising top customers’ remarkable achievements in implementing digital, innovative, and purpose-driven business practices.

SAP Innovation Awards 2021 APAC Nominees

SAP Concur has announced the 11 nominees from APAC that have digitalised their travel and expense (T&E) processes amidst the COVID-19 climate. By embracing modern and automated T&E systems through SAP Concur, these enterprises have brought change and created a remarkable impact, both locally and globally, on their employees, their business, and their communities.

Doosan Digital Innovation (DDI), a global IT service provider headquartered in Jongno-Gu, Seoul, has achieved operational efficiencies such as shortened business hours, improved ease of use, and enhanced employee compliance with expense policies and regulations with SAP Concur.

Getinge Holding B.V & Co. KG, a medical technology company with operations in APAC & MEA, has standardised its expense needs with SAP Concur as the single global solution that would increase transparency, meet local tax compliance rules, robust integration with SAP, and eliminate inefficiencies from using multiple software platforms.

Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), a service provider headquartered in Bangalore, has implemented SAP Concur that empowered HGS to achieve real-time visibility and control of expenses while enforcing remote working.

Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages (HCCB), one of India’s top FMCG companies, has optimised its Travel Allowance (TA) process by using SAP Concur with GPS tracking and Goods and Services Tax (GST) claimable on hotel spend.

iCare, an insurance provider in Australia, has achieved enhanced visibility over expenses, increased cost savings initiatives, simplified workflow, and submitted timely reports on the completion of credit card reconciliations with SAP Concur.

Keppel Corporation, a Singaporean conglomerate, has partnered with SAP Concur not only to optimise T&E processes but also to leverage its large suite of App Centre partners, which allows Keppel to tap into a wider ecosystem of solutions.

SK Energy International has streamlined its T&E process and enhanced employee experience with SAP Concur.

TCL Overseas Marketing, headquartered in Hong Kong, has accelerated its financial digital transformation with SAP Concur. Through the partnership, TCL has optimised its T&E processes, maintained good supplier partnerships, enhanced employee experiences, and achieved accurate management of internal cash flow.

Toto Asia Oceania, a wholesale and distribution company based in Singapore, has leveraged SAP Concur to simplify T&E processes despite the COVID-19 challenges and support the company’s digital transformation.

Yarra Trams, a tram network in Melbourne, has streamlined its paper trail, eliminated the need for manual data entry for payments related to procurement and finance systems, and has increased visibility of all invoices across the business and the status of those invoices with SAP Concur.

Zensar Technologies, an Indian mid-tier IT services organisation, has achieved compliance levels of 95{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} and improved its process compliance from 70{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} to 95{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} with a significant decrease in disputes and exceptions and has reduced the claim filing time by over 50{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} with SAP Concur.

The winners of the 2021 SAP Concur Innovation Awards will receive:

• A complimentary pass to an SAP Concur Event
• Customer video story
• Recognition at an SAP Concur event in 2021
• Opportunities for recognition throughout the year (PR, social amplification, speaking opportunities)

Know more about the 2021 SAP Concur Innovation Award here.

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itelligence AG, a full-service provider for SAP business software, has strengthened its partnership with the German ERP company SAP by implementing SAP Concur solutions for travel management in Asia and Europe. This development enables intelligence to offer consistent service quality in these strategic regions.

Norbert Rotter, itelligence AG CEO, said:

“In light of the growing commercial demand for solutions in the area of software as a service, the portfolio from SAP Concur is of great strategic importance for itelligence.”

“We follow SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise approach. With this background, itelligence figures once again among the top providers and pioneers in the consulting sector,” he added.

The partnership between SAP and itelligence for SAP Concur implementations were limited to Europe until this announcement. India, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines and other wide parts of Asia have been leveraging SAP Concur solutions since January 2020.

“We are proud to be able to support our national and international customers in transforming and optimizing their business travel management processes in all important core countries,” expressed Uwe Bohnhorst, itelligence AG COO.

As a globally successful consulting company, itelligence houses SAP experts in SAP Concur solutions implementation who can provide customers globally with consistent quality through the corporate network. Through itelligence, global players and SMEs with global operations alike will be able to integrate their solutions across the SAP Concur platform. 

itelligence, one of the largest SAP Concur partners in the world, is now able to offer a combination of SAP applications that enables cost management across different business areas – from purchasing and human resources to all the steps involved in requesting, approving, booking, and accounting for business trips with SAP Concur. SAP Concur solutions also champion efficiency in the field of HR Management, more so adding greatest value, when the cloud portfolio is utilised in conjunction with SAP S/4HANA, procurement solutions from SAP Ariba and SAP SuccessFactors cloud solutions. 

About itelligence AG

Germany-based itelligence AG is part of the global SAP Platinum Partner NTT DATA Business Solutions Group together with NTT Data Business Solutions APAC . NTT DATA Business Solutions Group leverages its global expertise to deliver quality outcomes in a countrywide operation or multinational scale. The enterprise has over 9,000 SAP experts across 29 countries, an undisputed leader in SAP S/4HANA with about 500 SAP HANA clients and over 300 SAP S/4HANA clients.

itelligence supports SMEs and large enterprises’ digital transformation through a range of services including IT strategy and transformation consulting, software deployment and implementation, as well as application management and managed cloud services. itelligence has been working with SAP since 1993 building a strong relationship, delivering unparalleled service to customers and ensuring customers get the most of SAP solutions. In 2018, itelligence AG has achieved Partner Centre of Expertise (PCOE) certification from SAP.

The consulting company has added Amazon Web Services (AWS) to its partner network enabling a comprehensive delivery of global IT and business services with the flexibility and cost-efficiency of SAP-related hybrid cloud technology.

itelligence generated about 1 billion euros in total revenues in 2019.

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Thomas Cook (India) Ltd., the leading integrated travel and travel-related financial services company in India has renewed a strategic partnership with SAP Concur, an SaaS company providing travel and expense management services to businesses. 

The collaboration is intended to enable organisations across verticals to completely automate their business travel for employees. Together, SAP Concur and Thomas Cook India will help enable an organisation’s workforce to achieve seamless and rewarding experience through a user-friendly, integrated travel and expense (T&E) management solution.

“SAP Concur’s value proposition is simplicity, integrated travel, and expense management, and we look at partnerships that help translate these into customer experiences and brand loyalty. Last year, our collaboration saw increased adoption by corporates owing to the integrated offering. Together with Thomas Cook India, we aim to transform the way organisations manage their business travel, expense, and invoice in a highly visible marketplace,” said Mankiran Chowhan, Managing Director of SAP Concur India.

According to Indiver Rastogi, President & Group Head – Global Business Travel – Thomas Cook (India) Limited, the company has been sustained in strategic ideation that brings value to multinationals, Indian corporates, and SMEs. He added:

“ Our delivery of employee experiences helps eliminate tedious tasks, reduce cost and hence, enable them to work smarter. We are delighted to renew our partnership with SAP Concur as a global reseller which will now enable us to deliver cutting-edge solutions by driving integration and automation – equipping our Global and Indian clientele to better manage their travel expenses and invoice processes.” 

The Intelligent Enterprise and SAP Concur

In the SAP Concur Intelligent Enterprise White Paper: The Intelligent Enterprise Changing the Face of Business, it was stated that SAP Concur helps finance, technology teams, and their companies become an Intelligent Enterprise by collecting, normalizing, enriching, and connecting previously siloed data so everyone can focus on more strategic work. The White Paper stressed that Intelligent Enterprises elevate employees to focus on higher-value tasks.

Focusing on spend management for 25 years, the company boasts of the SAP Concur solution that integrates and shares expense, travel, and invoice data across a single, unified intelligent suite.

As highlighted in the White Paper, Mike Eberhard, President of SAP Concur, said: 

“With Intelligent Enterprises, the real value is in doing more with less, not as a euphemism for cutting cost, but for reducing repetitive manual tasks that keep businesses from fulfilling their mission.” 

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