Concur, Cognos Ink Development Pact

Concur Technologies today said on Monday it will announce a partnership with Ottawa, Ontario-based business intelligence software provider Cognos Inc. to launch three cost-management software products.

Concur said that among other features, the software simplifies ad hoc and custom data queries and notifies users when the company reaches defined spending thresholds. Concur expects to ship the new software to customers later this quarter.

Concur CEO Steve Singh on Wednesday in an interview with Business Travel News said that with some exceptions "customers are not yet taking advantage of the data they have. With business intelligence, someone can analyze that data, benchmark it and in general help clients with it."