PR Newswire
BELLEVUE, Wash., May 6, 2014
BELLEVUE, Wash., May 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR) today announced a strategic alliance with IBM to jointly market Concur's solutions to global enterprises.
Under the terms of the agreement, IBM will actively promote Concur's cloud-based expense management solutions to IBM Global Expense Reporting Solutions clients, who will continue to receive the expertise and support of IBM's Global Process Service and Business Process Outsourcing operations while migrating to Concur's market-leading travel and expense management platform, which is used by customers in over 150 countries.
"IBM and Concur are pioneers in delivering world-class solutions and together we serve the largest companies in the world. For 20 years, Concur has defined the market for automated expense management and reporting with a full complement of solutions that help companies and their employees with travel services, booking, expense reimbursement, spend management and invoice processing. We are thrilled to enter into this alliance with IBM to help their customers experience the same benefits as Concur's 20,000 current customers and the 25 million travelers they represent," said John Torrey, EVP, Corporate Strategy of Concur.
IBM will continue to provide T&E back office services to clients who procure expense services and solutions from Concur as part of IBM's broad portfolio of business process solutions.
"As the leader in providing an open platform that offers end to end integrated travel management, Concur is the logical partner for IBM to deliver continued innovation in T&E services to our clients," said Sandy Khanna, Global Practice Leader of IBM Global Process Services. "We are currently seeing a fundamental shift in the T&E market toward end-to-end integrated travel management and Concur offers the leading solution for transforming the efficiency and effectiveness of the T&E process."
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About Concur
Concur® is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions. Concur's easy-to-use Web-based and mobile solutions help companies, federal agencies and their employees control costs and save time. Concur's open platform enables the entire travel and expense ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and developers to access and extend Concur's T&E cloud. Concur's systems adapt to individual employee preferences and scale to meet the needs of companies from small to large. Learn more at http://www.concur.com or the Concur blog.
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