Concur Car Rental Booking Tool to Include Sustainability Features

SAP Concur’s new automobile rental reserving device, slated for launch by year-end, will characteristic instruments to assist vacationers make extra sustainable transportation selections, Concur Journey president Charlie Sultan mentioned in a memo launched at present.

Options of the upgraded device will embody search filter capabilities for hybrid and electrical automobiles in addition to steering on car emissions to provide vacationers extra management over the environmental impression of their journey, Sultan mentioned. Including the capabilities coincides with outcomes of SAP Concur’s recent Global Business Travel Survey of three,850 enterprise vacationers, which confirmed 94 p.c mentioned they deliberate to take steps over the subsequent 12 months to scale back the environmental impression of their journey.

The brand new device additionally will drive “course of efficiencies by way of improved error avoidance whereas including new methods to discover automobile rental choices throughout suppliers each on-airport and off-airport,” Sultan mentioned.

The brand new automobile rental reserving expertise is a part of full re-platforming of Concur Travel, for which Concur has employed greater than 200 engineers and product managers, Sultan mentioned. He referred to as it “one of the vital important improvement investments ever made within the historical past of SAP Concur.”

Concur launched a brand new rail expertise final 12 months, and the automobile rental expertise can be adopted by a resort reserving expertise in early 2023 that may embody “an enhanced [user experience] with options together with higher imagery and upgraded filtering and sorting capabilities,” Sultan mentioned. The airline reserving part will arrive by subsequent summer time’s International Enterprise Journey Affiliation Conference, with “a revamped person expertise, enhanced content material and a greater potential for vacationers to check facilities throughout merchandise,” he mentioned.

Sultan added that the re-platforming work goes past the reserving device.

“We’re constructing the journey platform of the longer term, throughout all journey merchandise and companions,” Sultan mentioned. “It’s constructed from scratch utilizing the newest in microservices expertise, which permits Concur Journey to be much more scalable, dependable and versatile. It permits us to effectively deploy modern options, launch the SAP Concur suite of journey merchandise into the subsequent technology, and ship a streamlined ecosystem and platform that may allow an built-in, end-to-end journey expertise no matter whether or not customers are on desktop or cell.”