SAP Showcases New AI, Integrated Travel and Expense Enhancements, and Global Partnerships at SAP Concur Fusion 2026

At SAP Concur Fusion 2026, we’re bringing collectively finance and journey decision-makers, prospects, and companions to discover how AI-enabled innovation is reworking built-in journey, expense, and bill administration.

New improvements and new and expanded partnerships introduced on the occasion mirror our give attention to smarter automation that drives effectivity and compliance, deeper visibility that helps higher decision-making, and options that assist organizations management prices whereas bettering worker experiences.

Joule Integration, New Agents and Innovations Streamline Travel and Expense Workflows  

Building on the combination between Joule and Microsoft 365 Copilot, SAP Concur is bringing AI-enabled journey and expense administration instantly into the Microsoft purposes staff use on daily basis. Available now, staff can create and submit expense experiences, monitor expense standing, ask policy-related questions, add receipts, ebook journey, and extra with out having to depart the appliance they’re working in to log into Concur options. With this enhanced organizational context, Joule introduces higher enterprise intelligence into the stream of labor, serving to staff full journey and expense duties extra simply, providing steering, and lowering handbook effort whereas sustaining compliance. Bringing Concur experiences into the instruments staff already use repeatedly removes friction, streamlines workflows and improves productiveness.

Existing Joule Agents from SAP Concur give attention to clever receipt evaluation and expense report validation, robotically enriching expense knowledge, detecting errors, and guiding staff to submit correct, compliant experiences. Now, two new Joule Agents be part of the SAP Concur lineup to additional streamline expense compliance and reporting.

• Expense Automation Agent: A Joule Agent that acts as a digital delegate creating the expense report and robotically including transactions, together with populating customized fields based mostly on contextual particulars and consumer historical past. Employees can merely assessment and refine the report earlier than submitting, lowering handbook knowledge entry and saving appreciable time. This agent delivers a contemporary expense administration expertise – the expense report that virtually manages itself.
• Expense Pre-Submit Audit Agent: A Joule Agent that gives correct, related receipt checks early within the expense report course of. It proactively flags discrepancies in receipts earlier than submission, serving to handle inaccuracies early, cut back report rejections and assessment cycles, and shorten reimbursement timelines. Drawing on a long time of experience and innovation in expense report auditing, SAP Concur delivers an agent that ensures receipt validation is powerful and exact.

Concur Expense will quickly assist new capabilities to submit receipts by way of textual content message, providing one other simple approach for workers to seize receipts with out handbook knowledge entry.

Expense Pre-Submit Audit Agent, Expense Automation Agent, and receipt texting capabilities are presently within the SAP Early Adopter Care program, with basic availability anticipated later this 12 months. 

Expense Automation Agent might be obtainable as a part of Joule Premium for Travel and Expense.

Additionally, leveraging the ability of the SAP Business Suite, the SAP Sales Cloud resolution now integrates with Booking Agent to streamline workflows and improve productiveness for gross sales groups. Salespeople can use Joule throughout the SAP Sales Cloud resolution to ebook journey for deliberate consumer visits. Joule acknowledges key particulars of the consumer go to and presents customized journey itinerary choices for the salesperson to select from for fast, seamless reserving throughout the current workflow. This eliminates the necessity to handle separate workflows for consumer visits and journey bookings, as Joule connects deliberate visits instantly with simple reserving choices. The integration is deliberate for basic availability in Q2 2026.

Simplified Administration, Stronger Compliance and Increased Automation Across Travel and Expense Processes

New AI-based rule creation instruments simplify the advanced strategy of managing coverage guidelines in Complete by SAP Concur and Amex GBT, Concur Travel, and Concur Expense, particularly for directors and not using a technical background. These instruments assist prospects automate enforcement of even probably the most nuanced insurance policies utilizing pure language or firm coverage paperwork because the enter. Now, directors can handle rule creation effectively and confidently. Administrators can add a journey coverage doc, and the journey guidelines will robotically be created or modified, saving time and strengthening coverage compliance. This functionality might be obtainable as a part of the SAP Early Adopter Care program in Q2 2026. Concur Expense directors can create and handle audit guidelines utilizing pure language beginning in Q2 2026. The capacity to create guidelines from uploaded coverage paperwork is deliberate for later in 2026.

Additionally, SAP Concur is strengthening two key monetary business partnerships to additional streamline expense reporting and compliance.

SAP Concur and American Express (Amex) are deepening their partnership to allow joint prospects to create and handle American Express Virtual Cards in Concur Expense. An American Express Virtual Card encompasses a uniquely generated card quantity and safety code related to an employer’s Amex Corporate Card account, lowering the burden of out-of-pocket bills by supporting on-line funds and transactions on-the-go by way of a digital pockets.

American Express Virtual Cards with SAP Concur allow staff to make purchases in just some clicks, whereas offering organizations with enhanced visibility, stronger controls, and higher effectivity. They additionally can be utilized as a cost methodology inside Concur Travel. This functionality is offered now to pick out U.S.-based American Express® Corporate and Business prospects utilizing Concur Expense with availability for all such prospects deliberate for Q3 2026. 

Last 12 months, SAP Concur and Amex launched a real-time notification (RTN) functionality that robotically generates and categorizes eligible enterprise bills from Amex Corporate Card purchases in Concur Expense. Enrolled cardholders will get real-time notification by way of the Concur cell app when making a purchase order, so that they by no means miss key particulars like importing a receipt or including attendees for a meal.

SAP Concur groups up with Visa to drive higher integration between Concur Expense and Visa by way of the Visa Commercial Integrated Partner program. The first integration milestone might be for Concur Expense to allow real-time notifications to robotically create bills from Visa card swipes and cut back the chance of misplaced receipts or duplicates. The functionality might be obtainable as a part of the SAP Early Adopter Care Program in Q3 2026.

SAP Concur will now assist RTN from all main bank card networks.

Corporate Travel Experience Enhancements and New AI-Enabled Capabilities

SAP Concur is advancing the company journey expertise with new capabilities, expanded world availability, and enhanced accomplice integrations designed to assist vacationers and journey managers worldwide.

SAP Concur and American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) are asserting new improvements to Complete, an AI-enabled, co-developed resolution for reserving, servicing, funds, and expensing. New capabilities embody AI-enabled journey assist with hand-off to a dwell journey counselor and a specialised house web page for journey managers. Concur Expense additionally integrates with Amex GBT Egencia for purchasers worldwide. For extra about these co-innovations, go to the Concur weblog.

For all prospects utilizing the brand new Concur Travel expertise, it now absolutely helps visitor bookings, providing an improved reservation workflow for internet hosting visitor journey. Enhanced reserving capabilities present a streamlined expertise, permitting visitor profiles to be created shortly with out having to ascertain new profiles for recurring guests every time.

Starting in Q2, India joins greater than 150 international locations with entry to the brand new Concur Travel expertise. With expanded content material from Cleartrip that helps all fare manufacturers, seats, luggage, and ancillaries, mixed with new One-Way Faring functionality and cell consumer expertise, vacationers can store IndiGo and SpiceJet, in addition to new provider additions together with Akasa Air and Air India Express.

TripIt by SAP Concur can be enhancing the journey expertise with new clever, on-device capabilities that assist vacationers manage plans effortlessly whereas staying knowledgeable about potential disruptions in actual time.

• TripIt Pro Image to Plan with Apple Intelligence: Travelers can flip pictures or PDFs—together with tickets, reservations, occasion flyers, and receipts—into organized JourneyIt plans in just some faucets. Using Apple Intelligence’s on-device basis fashions, JourneyIt Pro securely extracts key particulars comparable to dates, instances, places, affirmation numbers, and prices, all with out leaving the system.
• Expanded JourneyIt Pro Risk Alerts: Based on the handle entered with a visit plan, JourneyIt Pro screens breaking information that might disrupt the itinerary. Travelers will now obtain proactive, well timed alerts about incidents that would have an effect on lodging, automotive rental, rail, actions, and different plans, along with flights, airways and airports.  

These new capabilities in JourneyIt Pro are typically obtainable now.

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