Concur Aims To Be Single Point Of (Purchasing) Access
D. Geller - March 1, 2000

Vendor Genesis

Concur Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1993 as Portable Software, and soon offered as its first product a shrink-wrapped retail application to automate travel and expense (T&E) reporting for individuals. It expanded its product line in 1996 by offering a client-server travel and expense package called Xpense Management SolutionÖ (XMSÖ), and again in 1998 by bringing XMS to the Intranet. The Intranet version of XMS - recently renamed Concur ExpenseÖ - now accounts for the majority of Concur's travel and expense-related revenues, which in turn are the bulk of the company's overall revenues...