SUGGESTION: Use Q&A with the group to get them thinking/discussing mobile (discovery opp): Ex:-How many people here have a smart phone – an iPhone, a blackberry, etc.-How many use it for work?-What does it allow you to do? When you use your smartphone for work…what impact does it have? More accessible? More efficient? More productive?-What is your company’s mobile strategy?- Does your company issue company mobile devices? What are they? Are you aware of how many of your employees are using mobile phones today? What else are they doing you are unaware of?
It’s important to truly understand the impact of mobility on both your business and your travelers especially when 80% of business travelers now carry a smartphone.
800 million people will be using social apps by 2012Interoperability has always been at the core of the Internet, but now services are getting even smarter and working together to solve problems for us. Have you ever signed up for a new website using your Facebook credentials? Or rented a movie on Tivo using your Amazon login and stored payment?This is just the very beginning of one service talking to another service to make life easier, and we are going to see a lot more of this coming soon.
To truly transform the end-user experience, you must reach them where they are. And where they are is on their mobile phone and using social networking sites.By 2012, 80% of business travelers will be carrying a smartphone and there will be 800 million social app users.Whether it’s a company-issued phone or not, employees around the world are using their smartphone more and more to manage their work email and calendar as well as share and review documents and access information…especially when they’re traveling.So granting access to travel and expense systems, information and tools through mobile apps is a must when focusing on the user experience.
Your business travelers are looking for:> Real-time info to empower themselves to solve their own problems> More efficient ways to file expense reports while they’re on the move> Intuitive, easy-to-use products> Ways to manage their converging work and personal life
Concur has products that meet those traveler needs. Concur’s free mobile solutions –Concur and TripIt—have functionality that hits all the core requirements. In addition, our premium service TripIt Pro goes a big step further with an upgraded experience that delivers even more value at a great price.
Aberdeen Research shows mobile-enabled expense programs save time and money
Aberdeen Research shows mobile-enabled expense programs save time and money
Many of your employees spend a lot of time out of the office and away from their laptop, so they don’t have easy access to ever-changing travel information, and they have to wait to complete and approve expense reports and invoices until they get back to their computer.With the progress in mobile devices and apps, this is completely unnecessary.Concur’s mobile app lets employees create, review and approve expense reports and invoices and, with TripIt, users have immediate access to travel info all from their smartphone.
We know you and your employees are not always sitting in front of a computer. That’s why we make it easy to do all your itinerary management and expense reporting straight from your smartphone or iPad.
Giving your travelers access to Concur on their smartphones lets them ACCESS AND MANAGE THEIR TRAVEL ITINERARIES AND create, review and approve expense reports anywhere, anytime. Right from their smartphone your travelers can create a new expense report. They can add expense items from imported credit card charges or add them manually to their report. Managers have expense reports and invoices queued up for approval. They can review a summary report, line item details and view attached receipts before either approving the report or sending it back to the submitter.And with access to travel options from vendors and suppliers within your travel policy, Concur’s mobile app lets your travelers make hotel, rail and rental car choices that match theirschedule and preferences.
Concur users can take a photo of a paper receipts with their smartphone, and attach that image to their expense reports within the Concur system…so they don’t have to keep tabs on that little slip of paper. And think of the time and headaches this will save your back office—not having to chase down employees for receipts. That could equate to some significant man-hours (i.e. $$$).
Add a simple mobile expense by:Entering in the expense information like date, amount and vendor. Then attach a receipt image.Then attach the expense to an expense report. Once the report is complete it’s ready to be submitted.Even though the process is quick and easy the same rules that apply to your browser are enforced in the mobile app ensuring the same level of compliance.
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