-- Escalating business travel costs
-- Challenges of managing paper-based travel processes
-- Increased fraud
-- Poor spend visibility and control
-- Penalty fees incurred due to late payments
PayStream Advisors Research Director, Sush Koka, said, "To overcome the
challenges associated with manual, paper-driven processes, organizations
are adopting what we refer to as travel and expense management solutions.
TEM solutions enable organizations to reduce processing costs by more than
80 percent and compress the reimbursement cycle from weeks to just a few
days." Koka added, "TEM solutions such as CyberShift's Necho Expense
provide solid mechanisms to proactively control costs and reduce waste and
fraud through robust reporting and analytical tools."
Craig Fearon, Senior Product Director of Necho Expense for CyberShift,
remarked, "PayStream Advisors' TEM report is especially timely given the
current economic climate. Inevitability, times such as these force
companies to consider business travel as an area for cost savings. This
research reinforces that automating expense management processes will
indeed reduce T&E costs in both the short and long term and help
organizations control their second largest controllable cost -- business
expenses."
CyberShift's expense management automation solution, Necho
Expense, streamlines the entire process of employee business expenses
from submission to reimbursement. Going beyond just travel and
entertainment, Necho Expense can process all employee business expenses
including fleet, cell phone, p-card and more.
Necho Expense can be launched directly through an organization's online
travel booking system, providing users with convenient access to create
expense reports. Through CyberShift's consolidated back-end reporting
portal, travel booking transaction data and actual business expense data
are combined and automatically matched based on a number of key parameters.
This seamless integration of booking and expense data into one consolidated
repository offers tremendous quantifiable benefits organizations. Necho
Expense customers achieve greater control over costs, improved compliance
and increased visibility into operations.
To download a copy of PayStream Advisors' research, "Travel & Expense
Management: Leveraging Automation to Optimize Expense Management
Processes," visit http://www.cybershift.com/TEMReport/.
About PayStream Advisors, Inc.
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About CyberShift
CyberShift, Inc. is a leading provider of workforce management and expense
management software and services focused on helping mid-sized to large,
complex organizations improve organizational performance and profitability.
Through its integrated Workforce Management 3G™ suite, which includes
time and attendance, advanced
scheduling, absence
management and reporting and
analytics, companies can more effectively plan, manage and deploy their
workforces, reduce costs and improve processes across business operations.
CyberShift's Necho Expense™ automates the processing and facilitates
the management of employee business expenses and helps companies improve
compliance; enforce expense policies and procedures and increase visibility
into operations. Offered in both traditional license fee and
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery models, CyberShift's innovative
solutions have been awarded U.S. and Canadian patents. More information can
be accessed at www.CyberShift.com.
CyberShift Featured in PayStream Advisors Travel & Expense Management Research Report
CyberShift Recognized for Innovative Mobile EMA Functionality and Leadership Position in the Expense Management Software Market
| Source: CyberShift
PARSIPPANY, NJ--(Marketwire - November 5, 2008) - CyberShift, a leading global provider
of workforce
management and
expense management software and services, today announced its inclusion
in PayStream Advisors'
Technology Insight Series research report, "Travel & Expense Management:
Leveraging Automation to Optimize Expense Management Processes." CyberShift
was recognized for the innovative functionality of its mobile expense
management automation (EMA) solution, Necho Expense™, and for the
company's strong position in the EMA software market.
According to Charlotte, N.C.-based PayStream Advisors' research findings,
EMA can decrease travel and entertainment (T&E) processing costs by more
than 80 percent. The report findings reveal that the rising cost of
business travel and concerns of fraud are directly contributing to the
adoption of EMA solutions.
T&E related expenses -- the second largest controllable cost at most
organizations -- have long been subject to management programs and
automation, but more recently current travel and expense management (TEM)
processes have come under renewed scrutiny for the following reasons: