Concur Unveils New Mobile Solution to Empower Business Travelers

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Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:00am EDT

Powerful innovation allows travelers to easily change itineraries, book taxis,
capture expenses and approve expense reports - all from their smartphone

REDMOND, Wash., March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Concur (Nasdaq: CNQR), the
world's leading provider of on-demand Employee Spend Management services,
today announced the availability of Concur(R) Mobile, the powerful extension
to Concur's innovative end-to-end approach for travel and expense management.
Now, for the first time, mobile workers can ease the pain of business travel
during their trip by using their Blackberry or Windows Mobile phone to manage
their itinerary, conduct in-policy business travel transactions, capture T&E
expense data and approve expense reports - all while on the road. Concur
Mobile not only makes life easier for the mobile workforce, it also helps
companies more tightly control the significant amount of unmanaged employee
spend that occurs during business travel, helping them take a giant step
toward getting a handle on this last area of uncontrolled business travel
spend.

"Concur's vision of One Touch Business Travel(TM) revolutionized the corporate
travel industry by linking procurement with reimbursement, using e-receipts to
seamlessly reconcile T&E spend while making it easy to book travel, file
expenses and get reimbursed. The next phase of that revolution is delivering
an even more compelling experience to help ease the pain for business
travelers on the road," said Rajeev Singh, president and chief operating
officer of Concur. "With Concur Mobile, the millions of business travelers
that trust Concur now have a trusted companion that they can take with them on
the road, to help them easily adapt and optimize their business travel plans
and accurately capture expenses - productively and within policy. At every
step of the business travel process, Concur is delivering innovation to help
our clients increase compliance and drive down T&E costs while making life
easier for the mobile workforce."

Concur Mobile enables travelers to quickly view their itinerary and add or
delete items such as hotels, rental cars, dining reservations and taxis - all
from their mobile phone. Available in English, French and German at no
additional charge for Concur(R) Travel & Expense customers, Concur Mobile
provides business travelers around the world with a powerful tool to help them
comply with corporate policies and be more efficient and productive wherever
they may be traveling.

The solution also lets business travelers quickly and easily capture
miscellaneous out-of-pocket purchases and tips, ensuring that these commonly
forgotten transactions are automatically and accurately accounted for within
the expense report. Busy managers can even review their employees' expense
reports in detail, right from their hand-held device, allowing them to approve
or reject expense reports quickly, no matter where they are.

Leveraging Pyxis Mobile's powerful Application Studio, Concur Mobile utilizes
the industry's most robust and flexible mobile application technology to
extend the power of Concur's market-leading on-demand travel and expense
management services to popular smartphones. And by seamlessly connecting to
Concur Travel & Expense, Concur Mobile helps drive compliance and minimize
program leakage by delivering access to in-policy travel choices and
accurately capturing the resulting spend.

"The mobile device has increasingly become the primary computing platform for
enterprise employees in the field or on the road," said Michael J. King,
Research Director with Gartner. "As the applications these users access evolve
to match the power of today's smartphones, forward looking companies are
embracing both the technologies and the process improvements they enable to
make employees more productive and efficient when on the road."

About Concur

Concur is the world's leading provider of on-demand Employee Spend Management
services. Trusted by thousands of organizations to reach millions of
employees, Concur's award-winning solutions streamline business travel and
expense reporting, and improve invoice processing - delivering rapid ROI by
helping companies increase efficiency, control employee spend and drive down
operational costs. Learn more at www.concur.com.  

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Stefanie Johansen of Weber Shandwick, +1-425-452-5468,
sjohansen@webershandwick.com, for Concur
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