written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . august 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message concur industry software travel & expense management founded 1993 headquarters bellevue washington united states key people steve singh ceo rajeev singh co founder michael w. hilton co founder elena donio president number of employees 4 600 parent sap se slogan click . done . website www.concur.com concur technologies is an american travel management company providing travel and expense management services to businesses . it is headquartered in bellevue washington . 2 concur entered into an agreement to be acquired by sap se in september 2014 for 8.3 billion . 3 the acquisition was completed on december 4 2014 . contents 1 current status 2 controversies 3 acquisitions 4 products 5 key competitors 6 acquisition by sap 7 see also 8 external links 9 references current status edit the company was co founded by steve singh its ceo and chairman of the board . concur is headquartered in bellevue washington with additional offices in vienna virginia eden prairie minnesota europe asia and australia . 2 some statistics about the company are it was number 57 on forbes magazine s 100 best small companies in 2010 4 it was number 2 on ciozone s 50 fastest growing software companies in 2009 5 it was number 28 on business 2.0 s 100 fastest growing tech companies list for 2007 6 and number 79 on businessweek s top 100 small companies to watch 7 the company was named to the seattle times nw 100 ranked at 12 and was previously ranked at 4 . to rise to the top of the seattle times rankings companies must excel over a two year span on four performance measurements return on equity stock price appreciation sales per employee and operating income . 8 on 18 september 2014 it was announced that sap se entered into an agreement to acquire concur in a deal that valued concur at approximately us 8.3 bn 3 controversies edit the company made news in march 2009 when it was uncovered that steve singh its president and ceo did not graduate from the university of michigan with an engineering degree as had been previously claimed in corporate filings until 2007 . while mr. singh had attended the university he left before graduation to pursue his entrepreneurial interests . 9 the board of concur expressed confidence in his abilities and retained singh in his current positions and said that they continued to have complete confidence in him following the disclosure while expressing regret that the mistake occurred . 9 acquisitions edit the following is a list of acquisitions by concur hipmunk september 2016 10 gdsx trx july 2013 11 contgo mar 2013 12 tripit january 2011 13 etap on line 2009 14 gelco2 07 15 outtask 2006 16 captura 2002 17 seeker software 1999 18 7software 1998 19 products edit concur s on demand software as a service saas offerings include concur travel & expense web and mobile solutions for travel and expense management . tripit mobile travel organizer for individuals in 2013 concur s ios app was selected by apple for editor s choice category . key competitors edit according to a recent report from technavio 20 concur s key competitors include chrome river technologies based in los angeles ca which was founded by alan & harvey rich as well as dave terry ariba sap ibm oracle apptricity cybershift insperity infor global solutions and sutisoft . a few of these vendors oracle and sutisoft in particular are focusing on providing integration platforms for end to end saas solutions . acquisition by sap edit sap entered into an agreement to acquire concur technologies 21 for us 8.3 billion . 22 the acquisition was completed on december 4 2014 . see also edit expense management web application application service provider external links edit concur home page concur on google finance references edit company profile for concur technologies cnqr . retrieved 2008 10 23 . a b 1 a b sap to acquire concur expanding the world s largest business network . sap news . 57 concur technologies . forbes . october 14 2009 . 2 business 2.0 100 fastest growing tech companies businessweek june 4 2007 hot growth by christopher palmeri the shock of the old desilver drew . buyouts reshape region s business . the seattle times . a b brennan peter j. ; hart dan 22 march 2009 . concur technologies board supports chairman singh . bloomberg . lunden ingrid . concur buys hipmunk to add search to its travel and expense management platform . retrieved 2016 09 21 . http www.rttnews.com 2151879 concur technologies acquires gdsx trx.aspx http techcrunch.com 2013 03 11 concurs travel shopping spree continues buys contgo for its travel based messaging platform http blog.tripit.com 2011 01 tripit joins concur to become bigger better and stronger.html 3 gelco sold to concur technologies . july 30 2007 . concur splurges 88m on outtask software as services zdnet.com internetnews realtime it news concur technologies acquires captura concur technologies inc cnqr securities registration statement s 1 a risk factors cnet portable s new identity technavio identifies concur technologies as a major vendor in global saas based expense mgmt market 4 5 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title concur technologies & oldid 742660442 categories companies based in bellevue washingtoncompanies listed on nasdaqcompanies established in 1993computer companies of the united statessoftware companies based in washington state sap se acquisitionstravel managementhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from august 2012all articles with a promotional tonepages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 october 2016 at 00 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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