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What’s worse is that while these travelers are working tirelessly to drive business forward, most receive little support while on the go if travel details don’t go as planned. With these legacy solutions, employees often get charged each time they pick up the phone to get support, which actually deters them from getting them the level of support they deserve rather than encourage them and takes virtually none of the stress away. Is she supposed to leave the meeting halfway through and spend an uncomfortable amount of time trying to find a workaround to get back home–putting the success of the whole meeting at risk and cost the company money? We know what it’s like to be on the road, so we designed a solution that offers unprecedented travel management and support tools that help travelers out of a bind no matter where they are in the world.

Not only does this indicate a lack of employee engagement with your travel solution, it ultimately means finance teams lose visibility of travel spend, creating a huge unknown in budgeting and forecasting that keeps them up at night. The fact is, we’re all used to having the world at our fingertips with an abundance of information and choices, and that expectation carries over when employees sit down to book a business trip. That means that by the time they’ve searched, applied all the filters they need, and cross-checked prices on consumer sites, your employee has wasted too much time booking a trip instead of excelling at the role they were hired for. What’s even better is that when your employees love using your travel management solution, you gain the transparency you have always wanted to accurately track and forecast travel spend.

Santa Clara-based startup Qubole, a big-data-as-a-service provider and creator of the industry’s first autonomous data management platform, knows a thing or two about the power behind data-driven insights and decision-making. Adopting a centrally managed travel solution that could add more visibility into employee travel, help curb employees purchase habits and create more consistent perceptions of reasonable (and unreasonable) travel costs was the clear next step to give management more control over company travel efforts and stimulate company savings. While employees received a user-friendly way to book and manage travel as well as abundant inventory from the sites they were accustomed to using, the management team gained more measurable insight into employee travel spend habits and savings. Leveraging TripActions today, Qubole’s team now has real-time visibility into employee travel costs and savings.

Securing $51 million in Series B funding caught the attention of major news outlets like CNBC, who reported on TripActions’ employee-centric approach to disrupting the corporate travel industry as well as our future plans to expand into international markets, with sights set on establishing new offices within the US and globally. The article shared that today 90% of corporate travel managers surveyed by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives said they use “visual guilt” to remind travelers about the company’s price policies and keep them within a particular budget. Expanded travel options mixing corporate and consumer inventories, dynamic travel policies, mobile-friendly user experiences and a powerful proactive 24/7 traveler support all together give our customers and their employees a travel management platform that reduces costs and supports every detail of their corporate travel needs–a sorely needed asset in the business travel space. Such a powerful, all-in-one solution that understands the impact of personal, face-to-face relationships is where TripActions differentiates from corporate travel companies that struggle to innovate for today’s market demands.