expense reports

"A return to a certain normality after years of post-Covid recovery": the 2024 edition of the American Express GBT Business Travel Barometer translates into figures what most players in business tourism have been able to feel: an upward trend in travel volumes in 2023. However, after a...

Automating the expense claim process as far as possible is the aim of the new bridge between SAP Concur and Mastercard. "Our collaboration with Mastercard is an important step in our drive to provide an expense report that practically manages itself," says Chris Juneau, head of SAP Concur's...

As might be expected given the inflationary environment, 2023 will have cost companies more in terms of expense claims. The new Expensya Barometer attests to this, pointing to a significant increase in the amount employees spend: 8.75 %. The number of expenses also increased last year, by...

Where does business travel stand on the road back to normality? Laurent Lassure - The recovery is here, and we're starting to see figures close to 2019, but there are a lot of new ways of working that have developed, particularly with teleworking. It's also a question of habits. A...

From your position as an observer, what trends are driving business travel management today? Julie Troussicot - First of all, I can see a significant impact of inflation on travel budgets. As a result, even companies that were not very mature when it came to managing their business travel, such as SMEs and...

Business travellers, and executives in general, are all too familiar with this corporate rule of thumb. According to the barometer published on Tuesday by Mooncard, 80% of executives regularly make expense claims - and 20% at least once a month. While the exercise is commonplace, its implications are not...

For many business travellers, the expense claim is still the most daunting stage of a business trip. However, publishers, agencies and all those involved in business travel are investing to ensure a smoother - and above all less time-consuming - experience, with a view to simplifying the reimbursement of travel expenses. To measure the gap...

Air France-KLM is enhancing its relations with companies by adding Amadeus' Cytric suite to the list of partners for its BlueConnect online booking tool, dedicated to the airline group's corporate customers. As one of the world's leading providers of travel-related technologies, Amadeus will be integrating its various solutions into the BlueConnect booking tool...

Buoyed by the advent of ChatGPT, the flagship of artificial intelligence and its vast range of possibilities, AI is the focus of all attention and investment. Navan promised at the beginning of the year that it would be at the forefront of innovation. On the occasion of its change of identity, and the launch of a virtual assistant called Ava, Navan...

All eyes seem to be on artificial intelligence (AI) this week, for better or worse. While voices are being raised in favour of a more rational pace of development, financial managers are looking favourably on the possibility of entrusting more tasks to this technology. Starting with the management of...

The information had already been leaked a few days ago. We had to wait for it to be made official before we could get a clearer picture of TripActions' intentions. Well, it's now official: the business travel specialist has been renamed Navan. The platform is taking advantage of this rebranding to announce a number of changes to its offering, including the integration of the various...

While the issue of fraud regularly comes to the fore when dealing with expense claims, the financial impact it can have on business travellers remains less exposed. Mooncard therefore worked with Ifop to survey a thousand executives at the beginning of the summer. The aim...

It's a recurring theme, a 'chestnut' in the business travel sector, but one that had fallen off the radar more than two years ago. And for good reason: with mobility at a low ebb, the issue of expense claims and the scope for savings were out of step with the challenges facing the business travel industry...

Notilus and Goelett. These two players have been in the news in the world of business travel in recent months. Notilus, which specialises in expense management, became part of Cegid, one of the world's heavyweights in ERP and other cloud-based management solutions for business travel, on 1 July.

Announced just before the summer, the partnership between BNP Paribas and Expensya aimed at offering the bank's customers a paperless expense management solution is now entering its active phase. At the end of September, the French bank will begin marketing this new service, which will simplify the administrative processing of expense...

It was announced on 25 May this year, and now it's official: Notilus is to become part of Cegid, officially becoming "Notilus, A Cegid Company". The acquisition of the software publisher specialising in expense and travel management, now a former subsidiary of Dimo Software, was signed on 4 July. The 138 employees...

Regularly cited as a priority by companies in the field of business travel, the issue of business travellers' well-being is more topical than ever. A study by BCD Travel, carried out in February and March this year, provides some insights into the current situation of business travellers, the measures taken by companies to improve...

Notilus, a provider of travel and expense management solutions, will soon be in the hands of Cegid. The group founded in 1983 by Jean-Michel Aulas has announced the forthcoming acquisition of the DIMO Software group subsidiary, which offers three main products to businesses: Notilus T&E and Notilus InOne, solutions dedicated...

A sign of the sector's "rapid recovery": that's how the management of CDS interprets the major manoeuvres underway in the business travel sector in recent weeks. The French business hotel marketplace has now acquired Rydoo's travel business. The former...

Amadeus and Microsoft have taken the next step in their collaboration in the field of business travel. The two partners have announced the integration of Cytric into Microsoft 365. Business travellers will thus be able to access the new possibilities offered by Cytric Easy, in particular to optimise the organisation of their business trips, and the sharing of information...