BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Concur
(NASDAQ: CNQR), the world's leading provider of spend management
solutions and services, and TripIt, the award-winning travel
itinerary service, will host The Perfect Trip DevCon 2014 on
October 30, 2014, at The Westin St.
Francis in San Francisco. At The
Perfect Trip DevCon 2014, developers and entrepreneurs will
showcase new apps and learn about APIs and tools to build solutions
for business travelers and corporate travel buyers, including 25
million travelers and 23,000 companies using Concur worldwide.
100,000 for Top Travel-Related Innovations from The Perfect
Trip Fund Awards
As part of the event, The Perfect Trip Fund Awards will be
presented for tech innovations that improve the business traveler
experience. Two awards for $50,000
will be given to: 1) The Best Travel-Related Innovation for
Businesses; and 2) The Best Travel-Related Innovation for
Travelers. A select list of finalists will pitch their application
to the audience and a panel of experts.
DevCon 2014 will feature keynotes from Concur CEO Steve Singh and Uber's Head of Product
Partnerships, Matt
Wyndowe. VisionMobile will offer a glimpse into the
future of mobile travel apps. Additionally, participants will
hear from Concur engineers, customers and partners, such as Airbnb,
MileIQ and Visage, about their best practices.
The Business Travel App Opportunity
"The business travel industry is sizeable and relatively
untapped opportunity for developers," says Jigish Avalani, Senior Vice President and
General Manager of Developer Platform Services at Concur. "Business
travelers spend five times as much as leisure travelers and often
rely on mobile devices to get the greatest value out of every trip.
We're enabling developers to capitalize on this opportunity with an
open platform, the Concur App Center and our $150 million Perfect Trip Fund."
At DevCon 2014, developers will learn how to turn everyday
business travel needs into rich, engaging and connected apps and
services. The list of friction points for business travelers is
long, creating significant opportunities for developers to improve
the business trip experience. Concur will also demonstrate a suite
of travel applications and mashups to tap the trillion-dollar
industry.
Global business travel is a $1.12
trillion industry, and the U.S. business travel market is
estimated to reach $292.3 billion in
2014, reports the Global Business Travel Association. According to
the U.S. Travel Association, 452 million business trips were logged
in the U.S. alone, providing a large need and opportunity for
developers worldwide.
Through its APIs and tools, Concur provides developers access to
the same open platform that already supports more than 70 percent
of the Fortune 1,000 for integrated travel and expense solutions
that ease expense, invoice and compliance requirements.
Event and media sponsors include BluVision, IdeaMarket, IBM
Innovation Center, Mojio, Pebble, Silicon Valley Code Camp,
TravelStartups.com and Yodlee.
About Concur
Concur is the leading provider of spend management solutions and
services in the world, helping companies of all sizes transform the
way they manage spend so they can focus on what matters most.
Through Concur's open platform, the entire travel and expense
ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and developers can access and
extend Concur's T&E cloud. Concur's systems adapt to individual
employee preferences and scale to meet the needs of companies from
small to large. Find out how to put your app in front of 25M
business travelers with the Concur Platform and pitch for
$100,000 in funding awards at The
Perfect Trip DevCon 2014, from Concur & TripIt. To register or
to find out more details about the conference, please visit:
https://developer.concur.com/devcon
PR Contact:
April Moh
Grayling
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206.508.4104
SOURCE Concur