Infor has released Infor Expense Management 7 Service Pack 3 (SP3), a Web-based travel and entertainment expense solution currently used by both large businesses and SMEs 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.
Jane Thomson, MD of Softworx, an EOH company and distributor of Infor in Sub-Saharan Africa, says travel and entertainment is one of the top three business costs, and today many companies are scrutinising their policies to analyse spending, identify cost savings and reduce unnecessary travel.
“Infor Expense Management helps 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 licence, and dedicated hosting,” she explains.
Infor Expense Management 7 SP3 allows the mobile workforce 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 and reducing the amount of administrative time required to process and clear a report, allowing employees to remain productive.
“A number of other expense management solutions force customers to rely on a single online booking vendor of the software company's choice. The latest release of Infor Expense Management simplifies interoperability with online booking vendor platforms, allowing customers to choose their preferred online booking partner and providing visibility into the gap between 'planned' and 'actual' travel and entertainment expenses,” says Thomson.
As part of its integration strategy with online booking vendors, Infor has 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 travel and entertainment management process.
Many SMEs do not provide corporate credit cards and require employees to manually input items from their personal credit cards into the expense management system. 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.
“In today's challenging economic environment, companies need more than a system to automate the reporting process, they require employee-friendly expense management solutions that help drive down costs and stringently enforce spending and processing policies,” says Bob Steven, Expense Management product manager, Infor.
“The latest version of Infor Expense Management makes it easier for users to interact with the system in the office and on the road, and provides customers more choice in how they deploy the application across the enterprise. We continue to incorporate innovations requested by our customers and provide solutions that will grow with them and easily adapt to changing market requirements.”
Infor Expense Management 7 SP3 is available in 11 languages.
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Softworx
Softworx is a successful South African business applications company that prides itself in being able to deliver world-class products to its extensive customer base, which includes a number of Fortune 500 companies. In addition, Softworx supports clients in industries ranging from manufacturing, retail, distribution and financial, to supporting various government entities. The company is dedicated to marketing, implementing and providing support for its range of complimentary software products to medium and large enterprises that require effective solutions to optimise their business processes.
Softworx has positioned itself as a leading provider of business applications in South Africa, specialising in end-to-end business solutions. The company prides itself on being able to deliver true value to its customers through the implementation of business solutions based on a powerful combination of leading-edge products and consultancy. As a wholly owned subsidiary of EOH, Softworx has increased the number of services and products that can be offered to its customers from within the group.
EOH
EOH is a business and technology solutions provider creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large clients.
EOH operates in the following three clusters of business units as a fully integrated business:
Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement and support a range of world-class business applications including ERP, CRM, business intelligence, advanced planning and scheduling, e-commerce and manufacturing execution systems.
Consulting - Concentrated under the EOH Consulting brand are business units offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, project services, change management, supply chain optimisation and education.
Outsourcing - EOH offers comprehensive maintenance and support of client's IT infrastructure and applications through the rendering of full IT outsourcing, application hosting and managed services. In addition, EOH offers full business process outsourcing services.
EOH has a presence in all major centres in South Africa and operates in the rest of Africa.
Infor
Infor acquires and develops functionally rich software backed by thousands of domain experts and then makes it better through continuous innovation, faster implementations, global enablement, and flexible buying options. In a few short years, Infor has become one of the largest providers of business software in the world. For additional information, visit http://www.infor.com.
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