Concur’s car rental booking tool to include sustainability features

SAP Concur’s new automobile rental reserving device, which is due for launch by the top of 2022, will function instruments to assist travellers make extra sustainable transportation decisions.

Concur Journey president Charlie Sultan confirmed the plan in a memo launched on Monday (15 August), with the upgraded device set to incorporate search filters for hybrid and electrical automobiles, in addition to steering on car emissions to provide travellers extra management over the environmental footprint of their journeys. 

The addition of those sustainability capabilities comes after SAP Concur’s latest World Enterprise Journey Survey of three,850 travellers confirmed that 94 per cent have been planning to take steps over the following 12 months to scale back the environmental influence of their journey.

The device may even drive “course of efficiencies via improved error avoidance whereas including new methods to discover automobile rental choices throughout suppliers each on-airport and off-airport,” added Sultan.

The brand new automobile rental reserving device is a part of full re-platforming of Concur Journey. This has seen Concur rent greater than 200 engineers and product managers for what Sultan referred to as “some of the vital improvement investments ever made within the historical past of SAP Concur”.

Concur launched a brand new rail platform final 12 months, and the automobile rental device can be adopted by a lodge reserving expertise in early 2023 that Sultan mentioned would come with “an enhanced [user experience] with options together with higher imagery and upgraded filtering and sorting capabilities”. 

The airline reserving part will arrive by subsequent summer time’s World Enterprise Journey Affiliation Conference, and provide “a revamped consumer expertise, enhanced content material and a greater skill for travellers to match facilities throughout merchandise”.

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

“We’re constructing the journey platform of the long run, 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 progressive options, launch the SAP Concur suite of journey merchandise into the following 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 cellular.”