Stories about: Concur Technologies

The SOA concept -- developing a software architecture based on service components that can be mixed and matched as needed to reduce development time and increase application deployment flexibility -- is only a few years old, but the providers of SOA-supporting infrastructure are fast consolidating. Oracle captured the headlines with its acquisition of BEA Systems this spring, and Progress Software recently bought Iona Technologies.

Although some would trace back the roots of software as a service to mainframe timesharing, what we would now call SaaS, or on-demand computing, is really experiencing its second coming.

Software-as-a-service may have come into the enterprise through "the bathroom window," but it's definitely becoming part of the mainstream, says SAAS expert Mike West, vice president at Saugatuck Technology Inc., a boutique management consulting and subscription research company focused on disruptive technologies.

Expenses, whether for travelling, accommodation or entertainment make for a monthly nightmare both for staff and for the accounts department. And it's not only a bad dream, it's a messy and expensive one.

Jamcracker, paving the way for Web services integration with its ASP aggregation model, is beefing up its platform flexibility and adding applications to its services network.

FRAMINGHAM (09/14/2000) - Building materials giant USG Corp. in Chicago has chosen Concur Technologies Inc.'s hosted travel- and expense-reporting application. According to USG, it will use the Redmond, Wash.-based application service provider's software to replace its paper-based travel- and expense-tracking process. USG said it expects to cut both operational and travel costs using the product..

FRAMINGHAM (09/01/2000) - Managed-care company Magellan Health Services Inc. in Columbia, Md., has signed up application service provider (ASP) Concur Technologies Inc. in Redmond, Wash., to deliver travel and expense software to its 12,500 employees. Magellan said that by using an ASP, it can divert information technology talent to more pressing application development and support..