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Travel and Procurement: The Convergence

whitepaper According to a recent Aberdeen Group survey, companies that don't use an integrated travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management service, like Concur Travel & Expense, are falling behind in almost every measure of financial management.

Tags: back-office

[11 May 2008]

Create e-Mail Newsletters for Your Travel Clients

whitepaper In the old days, when travel agents issued paper tickets, it was easy to stuff traveler communications collateral into the client's ticket jacket. The author actually called such newsletters "Ticket stuffers.

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Avoiding the Compliance Trap for Travel and Expenses

whitepaper Organizations weighing Travel and Expenses (T&E) automation should look beyond the value of streamlining the process to solutions that include analytic and reporting features that enforce compliance controls and provide audit evidence while...

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

One Touch Business Travel and the End of the Expense Report

whitepaper Read Concur's paper to learn why, despite the fact that billions of dollars per year are spent on business travel and entertainment (T&E) by employees on behalf of their organizations: Travel and Expense Management is still viewed as separate...

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Top 10 Reasons to Start Using Web Conferencing

whitepaper One of the major expenditures alleviated by Web conferencing is business travel. Although Web conferencing can't reduce the travel budget to zero, it can assist in bringing the costs down. Web conferencing will reduce hard travel costs (flights...

Tags: video conferencing

[11 May 2008]

CVC Turismo Adopts a Robust Database Infrastructure to Better Serve 2 Million Clients and Increase Growth

whitepaper CVC Turismo is a travel booking service that has served the Brazilian market since 1972. CVC Turismo wanted to reduce the time needed to generate reports and retrieve financial information and deploy a robust database to support company growth and...

Tags: intranet

[11 May 2008]

Conference Company Improves IT Management With New Tools

whitepaper This unified framework is saving the company an estimated 180 hours per month, so that IT staff can manage technology more proactively and do not need to travel as much to support a remote office. IT staff at conference manager Kenes International...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Travel site bookings fly when glitch fixed

Case Study Thomson Holidays is a subsidiary of TUI Travel. Usability testing software has helped a holiday company boost its sales by spotting a glitch in its website's navigation that could have been costing it tens of thousands per week in lost business.

Tags: testing, ecommerce, travel

[09 May 2008]

Employees at Middle East Construction Business Access E-Mails Round-the-Clock

whitepaper Many employees who travel extensively lacked e-mail access when working away from the office. United Arab Emirates-based ETA Star Group manages construction projects across the region. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, they can reach inboxes...

Tags: application servers

[07 May 2008]

Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle

Photo What the unit sees is what its operator will see, although the unit will automatically travel through a set series of waypoints, leaving the operator free to assess what they see through the robot's eyes.

Tags: military, sensor, robot

[06 May 2008]

Washington State First to Provide a U.S. Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) - Compliant Enhanced Driver License

whitepaper Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) program, U.S.citizens ultimately will need to provide WHTI-compliant proof of identity upon returning to the U.S.from western hemisphere nations. With the implementation of the U.S.

Tags: network security

[03 May 2008]

Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support

News From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open-source drivers for Linux.

Tags: lenovo, linux, dell, open source

[02 May 2008]

OOXML row continues

News Travel the galaxy without leaving your work station… click here for the best pics from Google Sky The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of...

Tags: bsi, microsoft, ooxml

[02 May 2008]

Photos: India 999

Photo A bench is provided inside the ambulance for family members to travel with their injured relative. The Indian government will help fund the rollout of a scheme created by an Indian outsourcing veteran to provide the country's first dedicated...

Tags: satyam, india, ambulance

[01 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News Because they both travel in the same direction it doesn't mean to say that one invalidates the other," he said. CIOs are increasingly becoming "green ambassadors" - taking responsibility for driving the adoption of sustainable business practices in...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment I enjoyed trouble-free travel - no one spotted a thing. For speed and convenience of travel I never check a bag into the hold and have found ways of living with one or two smaller bags in the carry-on regime that we regular travellers have all...

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves

Comment Because it can stand-in for face-to-face meetings and therefore - so the logic goes - cut down on corporate travel and reduce CO2 emissions. But this has then freed them up to travel more strategically - to places such as Asia - in order to expand...

Tags: climate change, technology, videoconferencing

[28 Apr 2008]

E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs

News The obvious areas - at least outside of its non-power generating business - were its buildings (covering things like heating, lighting, computer equipment etc) and its corporate travel. E.ON used simple formulae to calculate the energy cost and...

Tags: green, e.on, carbon emissions, travel

[25 Apr 2008]

Why next-gen videoconferencing can mean more travel

Case Study While high-end videoconferencing can play a role in reducing the costs of corporate travel - financial and environmental - the most notable benefits of the 'telepresence' technology are the softer ones, according to media company Pearson, an early...

Tags: travel, teliris, videoconferencing

[24 Apr 2008]

Say it in pictures - Google mobile ads go graphical

News Travel the galaxy without leaving your work station… click here for the best pics from Google Sky Google is expanding its advertising business into a new domain: graphical ads that appear on mobile devices.

Tags: iphone, android, google, mobile

[24 Apr 2008]

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