Bangalore, Karnataka, India:  SAP Concur^®, the world’s leading provider of expense, travel and invoice management solutions, today unveiled the deeper integration of two powerful brands to provide a truly connected, customer-centric experience that scales with businesses of all sizes. The unified brand will enable SAP Concur and their partner ecosystem to leverage and drive innovation and continue to simplify expense, travel and invoice management for greater visibility and control.
 
Together, SAP and SAP Concur will continue to:

• Deliver greater scale across all markets through our deep investment in R&D to provide customers with the best solutions.
• Provide powerful solutions that give customers visibility into spending by connecting employees with brands and apps they love. 
• With a connected experience, businesses can manage all of their spends—across expense, travel, and invoice—in the cloud, and with native integration with SAP. 

“The travel and expense management market is rapidly escalating with expectations of business travellers requiring more flexibility and personalization as the lines between work and life become increasingly blurred. Business travellers in India feel that it is painful to not only deal with the stress of travel but also with the stress of claiming expenses. We at Concur believe that digital transformation of an organization should be such that it is easy and intuitive to use and the people using it should be able to reap its benefits. By combining our best- in class solutions and SAP's expertize, we are now in a much stronger position to provide the superlative expense management products to our customers.  We are delighted to be a part of this incredibly talented team of SAP and with our focus on innovation, we look forward to making SAP Concur the best-in-class spend management company,” said Neeraj Dotel, Managing Director, India and SAARC, SAP Concur. 
 
SAP Concur remains passionately focused on providing their customers and partners with simple and powerful solutions. The company will continue to take businesses beyond automation to a completely connected expense, travel and invoice management solution that grows with them.
 
“For businesses who want to “Do Digital Now,” - the operative mantra is simultaneously reducing transactions while creating moments of delight,” said Debdeep Sengupta, President & Managing Director, SAP. “Travel as an industry has been digitally leading – starting from the simple step of consumers printing their own boarding pass. As India becomes the 6th largest business travel market by 2019 – business travel will a significant P&L area for customers of SAP Concur as well as a key part of employee experience. Together we are creating a premier process for companies to simplify expense, travel and invoice management for greater visibility and control. This is one of the key building blocks to helping our customers craft their enterprise digital experience.”