Amadeus taps Emburse to simplify travel & expense for businesses

By Gloria Methri

Travel technology company Amadeus and Emburse, the spend optimization specialist, have entered a strategic partnership to meet the business travel demands of global enterprises.  The partnership will ensure a seamless experience from trip planning and booking, through to expense reporting, reconciliation, reimbursements, and spend analytics.

The relationship delivers more choice to enterprises that are looking for an integrated suite of modern, sophisticated travel spend management tools, without having to compromise on quality by being tied to a single vendor.

Amadeus and Emburse can now deliver a fully integrated solution to new customers, as well as offering each other’s solutions to current customers. Amadeus will promote Emburse Chrome River as a recommended integrated expense management offering to corporations in the United States and specific markets in Europe (UK, Scandinavia, and Benelux). On the other hand, Emburse will market Cytric Travel and Cytric Easy for Microsoft Teams to its portfolio of travel spend optimization solutions.

“Emburse and Amadeus have had data integrations for some time, and we share a number of high-profile customers, but with this partnership, we are really taking things to the next level,” said Eric Friedrichsen, CEO of Emburse. “The two companies offer a number of complementary solutions that span the entire business travel journey. This relationship enables us to empower global enterprises with state-of-the-art tools that offer greater simplicity for their end-users while creating value for the enterprise through greater visibility and more efficient travel spending.”

Rudy Daniello, Executive Vice President, of Amadeus Cytric Solutions said, “This partnership enables us to go beyond managing travel booking and expense. By leveraging our two companies’ complementary strengths, we are greatly enhancing the traveler’s digital and mobile experience and corporations’ travel spending and policy management throughout the entire travel journey. All of this will enable corporations to optimize their travel spend in terms of cost, carbon emission, and productive collaboration.”

The two companies will continue working together to collaborate and innovate in building end-to-end spend management.