Infor has announced the availability of a new release of Infor Expense Management 7 a Web-based travel & entertainment (T&E) expense solution used by both large enterprises and SMBs in more than 30 countries. New features include support for mobile devices, integration with online booking services and the ability to capture and incorporate business expenses on personal credit cards into expense reports.
T&E is one of the top three business costs, says the company and many businesses are scrutinizing their T&E policies to analyse spending, identify cost savings and reduce unnecessary travel. Infor Expense Management is designed to help companies enforce policies and maintain accuracy throughout the submission and approval process. The solution is offered with four deployment options to best meet a company’s current and future needs: on premises, SaaS subscription, SaaS hosted license, and dedicated hosting.
A novel development in the latest release allows mobile workers to manage and submit expense reports from anywhere at any time through a new user interface specifically for use with mobile devices. Users can create, submit and approve expense reports in real-time, improving accuracy, reducing the amount of administrative time required to process and clear a report and allowing employees to remain productive and not bogged down with paperwork.
“The addition of mobile device support will provide more flexibility for our users and help ensure timely and accurate expense reporting,” said Michael Black, IT manager, IEM System, AT Kearney. “Our employees can create and approve expense reports without returning to their desk, which will allow them to work more efficiently and speed financial reconciliation.”
As part of its integration strategy with online booking vendors, Infor also announced interoperability between Infor Expense Management 7 SP3 and Amadeus e-Travel Management. Customers of Infor and Amadeus are now able to manage travel from booking to reimbursement quickly and easily. This helps further enforce corporate travel policies by providing a single point of entry for all travel-related needs, keeping costs down and speeding the T&E management process.
Many small businesses do not provide corporate credit cards and require employees to manually input items from their personal credit cards into the expense management system. Infor says that Service pack 3 provides the capability to import reimbursable expenses from personal credit cards directly into the expense management system, delivering the benefits corporate card users are accustomed to, including quicker and more accurate processing and approval.
Infor Expense Management 7 SP3 is available in 11 languages including English, Swedish, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
