The SAP Concur Intelligent Enterprise White Paper: The Intelligent Enterprise Changing the Face of Business stated that the employee spend accounts for as much as 65{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} of an organization’s controllable spend.
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.”
