The Concur Data Advantage: How Intelligence & Reporting Change the Business

What if your finance team could see every dollar spent in real time—before it impacts the bottom line?

In this customer spotlight, enterprise finance leaders share how SAP Concur Intelligence and Reporting took them from chaotic month-end reconciliations and 30% travel budget overruns to automated Power BI pipelines and complete financial control.

Key Capabilities at a Glance

• Total Spend Visibility: Instantly filter expenses by category, department, or individual employee.
• Frictionless Month-End Close: Automate accrual tracking and corporate credit card reconciliation in minutes.
• Enterprise BI Integration: Extract Cognos-backed Concur data directly into data warehouses and Microsoft Power BI dashboards.
• Measurable ROI: Turn policy compliance into real savings—helping companies eliminate chronic 25–30% budget overruns.

3 Ways Concur Intelligence Transforms Financial Operations

1. Master the Month-End Close: Accruals and Card Reconciliation in Minutes

Say goodbye to chasing receipts and guessing month-end numbers. With standard and custom reporting, finance teams gain line-of-sight into submitted versus unsubmitted expenses.

"Month-end credit card reconciliation is a lot easier... seeing what was submitted and what wasn't, accruing it, and following up. That's been very clean since we implemented it."

• The Impact: Finance teams eliminate reporting lag, accurately forecast accruals, and close the books faster with zero guesswork.

2. Connect Your Data Pipeline: From Concur to Microsoft Power BI

Your expense data shouldn't live in a silo. Powered by a robust IBM Cognos reporting engine, SAP Concur allows organizations to seamlessly pipe raw spend data into enterprise data warehouses and Power BI.

• Unified Metrics: Deliver custom executive dashboards, AP metrics, and department-level spend KPIs to leadership.
• Single Source of Truth: Keep stakeholders aligned using unified underlying data directly from SAP Concur.

3. Move from Reactive Tracking to Active Budget Control

When companies lack granular visibility, budgets fail. Meteor—a leading educational design firm—consistently struggled with travel spend exceeding forecasts until they unlocked granular reporting.

"Prior to joining the company, we were 25% to 30% over budget every year in travel. Being able to see that data on a monthly basis and make shifts... we were actually on budget for the first time."

• The Result: Moving beyond high-level bottom-line numbers allowed leadership to identify compliance issues, adapt travel policies in real time, and bring spend completely under budget.

The Verdict

Whether you are streamlining accounts payable, building automated executive dashboards, or taking control of corporate travel expenses, SAP Concur Intelligence delivers the granular clarity finance teams need to protect the bottom line.