2018 U.S.-Booked Air
Volume: $110 million
Primary Global Expense Supplier: Concur
Primary Global Online Booking Supplier: Concur
BTN estimates that tech conglomerate Cisco spent about $110
million on U.S.-booked air travel. Cisco has implemented SAP Concur solutions
for online travel booking and expense management in more than 70 countries.
It's primary U.S. TMC is American Express Global Business Travel. The company
requires all company meetings to be registered in its online events portal and
outsources some meeting planning and event production to outside firms,
including BCD Meetings & Events. Cisco supplies a suite of
videoconferencing and remote collaboration tools, including telepresence and
Webex, and has used these tools throughout the world to try to reduce travel.
Webex is available to all Cisco employees using company-assigned laptops, and
Cisco has built more than 1,500 telepresence rooms globally. About one-third of
Cisco's annual global ISO 14001 environmental site audits are performed using
the company's remote collaboration solutions. Revenue for Cisco's 2019 fiscal
year, which ended July 27, 2019, increased about 3 percent year over year to
$51.9 billion. The company had about 75,900 employees in July 2019, versus the
74,200 reported one year earlier.