IData » IData | SAP Concur Connector | Expense Request Encumbrance

SAP Concur®, the world’s leading provider of expense, travel, and invoice management solutions, and IData Inc., a leader in higher education integration, have partnered, with a referral relationship, to provide the Expense + Request/Encumbrance Connector for the Banner® by Ellucian and Colleague® by Ellucian financial systems. The connector will leverage SAP Concur data and be supported, easily configurable & continuously developed by a trusted higher education integrator.

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FEATURES

A fully automated, bi-directional integration with pre-packaged connectors that leverages the existing business logic in your AP/Finance system, the Expense + Request/Encumbrance Connector includes features in the Expense Connector as features of real time budget checking throughout the request workflow and real time creation of an encumbrance for approved requests. The integration also includes support for cancelling, closing, and liquidating encumbrances. If used in conjunction with the expense report connector, the integration will automate the connection and application of expense reimbursements and other payments to encumbrances created from requests.

Implementation is simple with pre-defined mappings and functionally driven configuration questions to set up your processing options, data translations, and data validations. Your business continuity and performance is part of the package with built-in error handling, notifications and monitoring as well as on-going software-maintenance and support.

KEY BENEFITS

Real time budget checking, real time encumbrance creation
Manages the complexity of multiple budget line allocations
Future and current fiscal year management
Productized solution, configurable to align with institution business policies
Proactive maintenance and enhancements as systems change (SAP Concur / Ellucian)
Includes the migration to the Expense + Request/Encumbrance for Ethos (release date TBA)
Connector delivers, automation, monitoring, data validation, error handling and notifications
Automates the load of user and accounting code data from the institution’s ERP to SAP Concur
Eliminates cost of manual data entry
Enhances and improves end user adoption
Rapid and affordable implementation

Expense + Request/Encumbrance Connector for Higher Ed by IData: Integration Between SAP Concur & Ellucian Financial Systems