Brite Voice Systems Selects Concur Technologies' XMS for Travel Expense Automation.REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1999-- Leading Employee Facing Travel Expense Management Solution to Streamline Expense Reporting Process and Reduce Travel Supplier Costs Concur Technologies (Nasdaq:CNQR), the leading provider of employee facing business applications, today announced that Brite Voice Systems (Brite) has selected the Xpense Management Solution(tm) (XMS (1) See cross memory services. (2) (eXtended Memory Specification) A programming interface that allowed DOS programs to use memory above 1MB in 286s and up. ) to automate its travel expense management process. Brite, a global leader in the deployment of enhanced telecommunications and interactive information systems, will implement XMS(tm) to replace its paper-based process of filing and processing expense reports. "Currently our employees fill out, calculate, and submit their expense reimbursement Reimbursement Payment made to someone for out-of-pocket expenses has incurred. requests on paper forms. We were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a way to automate this process for both the employees and the accounting staff, and provide extensive reporting capabilities," stated Vicki Farris, Brite's vice president of finance. "XMS will provide us with a solution that should significantly streamline our current expense management and approval processes, and this is invaluable." Brite will run the XMS solution on its corporate intranet to realize the benefits of centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. data storage for improved reporting capabilities and, as a result, will gain the ability to track air and hotel expenditures for use in rate negotiations with travel suppliers. XMS also will provide Brite with direct feeds of corporate charge card data into employee expense reports that are automatically checked for corporate policy compliance, dramatically reducing data-entry time and errors. Brite is the latest customer to come from Concur's recently established partnership with ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. to bring XMS to the corporate middle market. "Brite Voice Systems is an excellent example of how well Concur and ADP are working together to bring XMS to the middle market," said Steve Singh, president and chief executive officer of Concur. "Medium sized and smaller companies want to realize the dramatic cost savings and increased efficiencies that XMS is bringing to large corporations. We are very pleased Brite Voice Systems chose Concur to help it reach that goal," Singh continued. About XMS Concur's XMS is the proven enterprise travel expense business application that dramatically reduces travel and entertainment costs by automating the entire travel expense management process. With XMS, preparing expense reports is easier and travelers are reimbursed faster. Accounting is more productive because expense reports are delivered online and automatically link to financial systems, eliminating the need to re-key data. Corporate travel policies are embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. into XMS to provide management and accounting with tools to quickly identify non-compliant expenses. With robust expense data easily accessible, management can analyze travel spending and negotiate better vendor rates. About Brite Voice Systems Brite is a world leader in providing enhanced telecommunications systems and interactive information systems, with offices and facilities around the world. Brite's products include prepaid pre·pay tr.v. pre·paid, pre·pay·ing, pre·pays To pay or pay for beforehand. pre·pay  ment n. and enhanced calling card systems for wireless and wireline communications companies Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. , and IVR-CTI for service companies. The company also provides managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality , maintenance and support capabilities for these products. Brite's customers include major corporations around the world. Brite's world headquarters is located in Heathrow, Fla., a suburb of Orlando. About Concur Concur Technologies was founded in 1993 to automate costly, inefficient business processes that otherwise consume valuable time and resources. Concur develops and supports a suite of Web-based employee facing solutions for automating key business processes across the corporate enterprise. Concur's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Employee Desktop(tm), is an employee business portal that integrates Concur's suite of employee facing applications with corporate information and employee support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . Concur's Xpense Management Solution(tm)(XMS(tm)) is the world's most widely used enterprise software for travel expense management, automating processes across hundreds of thousands of desktops in more than 165 companies worldwide. CompanyStore(tm), Concur's enterprise software for automating procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. , reduces the time and resources required to research and order supplies, equipment, and other non-production office goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . Formerly Portable Software Corporation, Concur is based in Redmond. Employee Desktop(tm), Xpense Management Solution(tm), XMS(tm), and CompanyStore(tm) are trademarks of Concur Technologies. All other company or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations. Statements made in this release that relate to future plans, events or performances or statements containing words such as "believes," "anticipates," "plans," or "expects" are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause or contribute to actual results differing from current expectations include, but are not limited to, the company's limited operating history, which makes the prediction of future operating results difficult, and uncertainty of market acceptance of the company's products. Please refer to the company's public filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission (http://www.sec.gov) for additional and more detailed information on risk factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations. Concur assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release. For sales or marketing information: Concur Technologies, 6222 185th Avenue N.E., Redmond, WA 98052 Tel: 425/702-8808, Toll free: 800/478-7411, Fax: 425/702-8828 Concur Technologies in the UK, 44-171-329-2981 URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : www.concur.com |
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