Concur Technologies

Concur Technologies is an American travel management company, providing travel and expense management services to businesses. It is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.^[1] Concur entered into an agreement to be acquired by SAP SE in September 2014 for $8.3 billion.^[2] The acquisition was completed on December 4, 2014.

Current status

Concur was co-founded by Steve Singh, its CEO and Chairman of the Board.

The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with additional offices in Vienna (Virginia), Eden Prairie (Minnesota), Europe, Asia, and Australia.^[1]

Some statistics about the company are:

• It was number 57 on Forbes magazine's 100 Best Small Companies in 2010^[3]
• It was number 2 on CIOZone's 50 Fastest-Growing Software Companies in 2009^[4]
• It was number 28 on Business 2.0's 100 Fastest-growing tech companies list for 2007^[5] and number 79 on BusinessWeek's "top 100 small companies to watch"^[6]
• The company was named to the Seattle Times NW 100 ranked at #12 and was previously ranked at #4. To rise to the top of The Seattle Times' rankings, companies must excel over a two-year span on four performance measurements: return on equity, stock-price appreciation, sales per employee and operating income.^[7]

On 18 September 2014 it was announced that SAP SE entered into an agreement to acquire Concur in a deal that valued Concur at approximately US$8.3Bn ^[2]

Controversies

The company made news in March 2009 when it was uncovered that Steve Singh, its president and CEO, did not graduate from the University of Michigan with an engineering degree as had been previously claimed in corporate filings (until 2007). While Mr. Singh had attended the university, he left before graduation to pursue his entrepreneurial interests.^[8] The board of Concur expressed confidence in his abilities and retained Singh in his current positions and said that they continued to have "complete confidence" in him following the disclosure, while expressing "regret that the mistake occurred".^[8]

Acquisitions

The following is a list of acquisitions by Concur:

• Hipmunk (September 2016)^[9]
• GDSX, TRX (July 2013)^[10]
• conTgo (Mar 2013)^[11]
• TripIt (January 2011)^[12]
• Etap-On-Line (2009)^[13]
• Gelco2(07^[14])
• Outtask (2006)^[15]
• Captura (2002)^[16]
• Seeker Software (1999)^[17]
• 7Software (1998)^[18]

Products

Concur's on-demand software as a service (SaaS) offerings include:

Concur Travel & Expense

web and mobile solutions for travel and expense management.

TripIt

mobile travel organizer for individuals

In 2013, Concur's iOS app was selected by Apple for "Editor's Choice" category.

Key competitors

According to a recent report from TechNavio,^[19] Concur's key competitors include Chrome River Technologies based in Los Angeles, CA, which was founded by Alan & Harvey Rich as well as Dave Terry, Ariba(SAP), IBM, Oracle, Apptricity, Cybershift, Insperity, Infor Global Solutions, and SutiSoft. A few of these vendors - Oracle and Sutisoft in particular - are focusing on providing integration platforms for end-to-end SaaS solutions.

Acquisition by SAP

SAP entered into an agreement to acquire Concur Technologies ^[20] for US$8.3 billion.^[21] The acquisition was completed on December 4, 2014.

See also

• Expense management
• Web application
• Application service provider

External links

• Concur Home Page
• Concur on Google Finance

References