Four companies were recognised in the recently concluded 2022 SAP Concur Partner Growth and Innovation Awards for driving innovation in their respective Concur Travel and Expense solutions implementations.
Emerging from the unprecedented disruptions of the pandemic, many organisations are treading the new normal leveraging intelligent solutions to help them remain agile and competitive. As business and travel have gradually returned in 2021, SAP Concur witnessed several customer wins enabled by technology partners from the SAP Concur Partner Ecosystem, the global partner network and the benchmark in the Intelligent Spend Management space helping clients optimise their SAP Concur investments.
Annually, SAP Concur recognises companies for their outstanding travel and expense solutions deployments. This year, four SAP partners from all over the world have emerged winners in the 2022 SAP Concur Partner Summit Growth and Innovation Awards for delivering innovative solutions that helped customers accelerate their modernisation strategies.
Outstanding Concur Travel and Expense Partners
The two partners given the Innovation Award are:
Zylo
Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Zylo is a leading Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions provider focused on helping customers optimise and govern their SaaS applications across the organisation. The software management company’s patent-pending, AI-powered Discovery Engine offers comprehensive visibility of customers’ SaaS spend, licences, and usage.
As the only SAP Concur App Center Partner focused on SaaS optimisation, Zylo SaaS management integration empowers customers to analyse expenses and direct supplier transactions within Concur Expense. The Zylo SAP Concur integration has enabled one of their joint customers, for instance, to improve on monitoring expense purchases and create a new system that would drive transparency after discovering a single employee expense that reached over $160,000 in multiple SaaS applications.
TransferMate
Global B2B payments technology company TransferMate enables seamless cross-border payments and has built one of the largest portfolios of payment licences worldwide to support financial transactions in 162 countries and 134 currencies. The company has a global footprint spanning Australia, Ireland, and the US.
TransferMate’s invoice payments and VAT recovery solution PaymentsHub directly integrates with Concur Invoice, enabling customers to pay invoices and reclaim VAT simultaneously with a click of a button. With business operations, which includes payment processes, starting to return to normal last year, the solution has achieved a historical transaction volume of over 800{8bf2b29f36318f0ac46ab1cc03d7035abce669a1cea16c9ed62389a818fa22fd}.
The two SAP Concur partners honoured with the Growth Award are:
Blue dot
Based in Isarel with offices in the Netherlands and the US, Blue Dot delivers comprehensive systems and procedures to worldwide customers harnessing a sophisticated AI/ML engine to ensure uninterrupted data security and availability as well as drive process integrity and confidentiality across the VAT & GST recovery process.
Specifically, the Concur Tax Assurance by Blue dot is a dynamically updated data completion and VAT/GST compliance platform that allows organisations to comply with global tax regulations. Since its launch last year, the solution has already empowered hundreds of customers to digitise compliance and optmise tax recovery. Concur Tax Assurance by Blue dot leverages AI and the latest tax information to capture and analyse Concur Expense transactions.
Flexso
Belgian company Flexso is an SAP Gold Partner as well as a Concur Implementation Partner and reseller. As a longstanding strategic part of SAP, the firm with over 300 dedicated SAP consultants has helped clients with their SAP Concur, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP systems integration. Flexso has supported a 6,000+ employee project spanning 17 countries and has increased the number of its project managers and technical integration specialists dedicated to SAP Concur by around 200{8bf2b29f36318f0ac46ab1cc03d7035abce669a1cea16c9ed62389a818fa22fd}.
During the event, SAP Concur has also given Distinguished Partner Awards to 20 companies for their excellence and industry leadership. Accenture, Deloitte, BCD Travel/Advito, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and PwC Japan and Singapore were among the recipients of this category.
