Concur Travel and Expense
Concur Technologies
Overview
Concur Reporting, Powered by IBM Cognos Software is an advanced reporting and analysis solution offered exclusively by Concur as an on-demand service. Integrated directly within Concur Travel and Expense, Concur Reporting enables users to rapidly access their organization's travel and expense data to create detailed reports and dashboards based on their unique needs.
Concur Reporting provides quick, easy, and complete visibility into an organization's travel and expense data. It provides Finance, Accounting, Travel Management, and Executive Leadership with the information they need to manage their T&E policy and control T&E spend.
This powerful Web-based reporting solution is built from the ground up to deliver comprehensive report creation and analysis tools all via the Internet.
Benefits
- Drag-and-drop ad-hoc query and report creation make it easy for any business user to create reports and conduct analysis from the data.
- With integrated travel and expense reporting, users gain a 360-degree view into all T&E related spend.
- By understanding where T&E spend is occurring and identifying spend that's out of compliance with T&E policy, managers can identify areas to reduce spending and better control costs.
- With increased visibility into T&E spending, managers can negotiate better contracts with T&E suppliers.
- Managers can quickly identify spend that is out of compliance with T&E policy and change employee behavior—even before spend occurs.
- With advanced reporting, you identify which travelers aren’t using your online booking tool to book their travel. By changing the behavior of employees, you can increase the adoption rate of your online booking tool, driving increased policy compliance and utilization of preferred suppliers
Features
Concur Reporting, Powered by IBM Cognos Software gives even casual users the ability to create reports and queries against expense reimbursement and vendor payment transactions within Concur Travel and Expense. It includes month-end accruals, company credit card reconciliation, vendor management, travel spend management, attendee spend tracking, and expense auditing and fraud detection. The company defines the reporting hierarchy, and each user is granted access to one, many, or all levels of the hierarchy to maintain security over the data.
The unique "presentation layer" makes navigation of the data more meaningful, allowing users to easily and quickly create the queries and reports they need. The presentation layer shields the user from the complexities of the underlying database. It presents pre-defined relationships and joins in plain and simple terms, making it quick and easy for all users to create, run, validate, and modify their reports. With Concur Reporting, Powered by IBM Cognos Software, queries which once took days to produce can be performed in a fraction of the time, often within a matter of minutes.
Other features:
- Single sign-on capability from within Concur Travel and Expense. Credentials are authenticated and users are granted appropriate access and data rights.
- The integrated security model is directly integrated with the reporting hierarchy within Concur Travel and Expense.
- Integrated data model maps the Concur Data Model available in Cognos to the underlying Concur Reporting database (data warehouse). Data is refreshed on a scheduled 24-hour basis.
- Powerful report distribution capability for publishing and distributing reports within the client organization.
Architecture
Concur Reporting, Powered by IBM Cognos Software ensures customers never have to worry about the architecture of the implementation. A link from the Concur Central homepage directly signs users into Concur Reporting where they can create and run reports and queries against their T&E transaction data.
Within Concur Travel and Expense, the employee administrator can assign users to Cognos professional, business author, or consumer roles to allow appropriate access. With each role, the administrator can assign the user to view specific segments of your company data based on the reporting hierarchy.
Availability
For more details, visit our Website: www.concur.com
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