[bmiller2]

When my startup was acquired, we had to migrate from using Expensify to some god-awful corporate nonsense (SAP Concur).

Lord, how I miss Expensify. It was the epitome of intuitive.

It makes me sad that Expensify was not a first-mover in this space. Once SAP or whatever garbage-ware gets baked into corporate enterprise architecture, it takes an act of God (or equivalently the CTO's dedicated focus) to replace it.

[loosescrews]

I used to work at a company that used Concur. Some of my co-workers wouldn't bother with expensing a lot of expensible stuff because dealing with Concur wasn't worth it to them. I wonder if this phenomenon saves the company a significant amount of money.

[bagels]

I face the same choice around submitting expenses through concur. It is almost not worth the time you have to invest.

[jiveturkey]

wrong POV. for each individual user, the increased aggravation is tolerable. For the corporate controller, at megacorps you [apparently] need to use concur and the like. at the level of megacorp, financials must be correctly stated, auditable, and so forth.

kind of like security. why can't you just _trust_ your users to set a strong password and have a screen saver iff they are in an environment where it's helpful?

it's fun (and easy) to pick on concur but the goals of it are completely different than the goals of expensify.

[paxys]

It's almost always a case of "no one got fired for buying IBM". Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Cisco and the like are all entrenched in the business world because no one wants to be the guy to move the company over to a smaller, better, cheaper alternative just because there is a chance it could fail and their jobs would be on the line.

[MangoCoffee]

we use Concur (1500+ employees). not my cup of tea but the accounting people love it.