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I'm using it at work on a daily basis almost. Their expense + flight / hotel booking system is surprisingly OK relative to enterprise software, they also have

I'm using it at work on a daily basis almost. Their expense + flight / hotel booking system is surprisingly OK relative to enterprise software, they also have a mobile app which is pretty great. It's quite a complex topic, lot's of corporate policies to enforce, and basically they had to develop all the tech facade that Kayak, Expedia etc have (flight and hotel booking) as well as a lot of financial logic for expenses. There is a lot of money in enterprise software... I wish more YC startups would tackle that area...

brown_ghost 12y ago
So I wonder why Concur Government edition is so awful. I mean really, really, unusable.
- thearn4 12y ago
  Agreed. My agency just switched over, and it is 100% awful.
  - peapicker 12y ago
    Sounds like it will fit in fine with SAP.
- jayseattle 12y ago
  I'm a ux designer at Concur, have not been there very long but there is an extensive/exhaustive re-design in the works which HN readers will appreciate. Just have a little more patience...
hkarthik 12y ago
> There is a lot of money in enterprise software... I wish more YC startups would tackle that area. Enterprise Software requires more much investment in Sales/Marketing so these companies often they invest a lot less in engineering. YC companies historically tend to be more engineering-focused. Many are now going up market so you start to see more YC job posts for marketing and sales positions now so this is probably changing.
mtbcoder 12y ago
>There is a lot of money in enterprise software... I wish more YC startups would tackle that area... Unfortunately in enterprise-land, it's a tough sell for startups. No one in middle management wants to be that person who doesn't stick to the Status Quo when it comes to software purchasing or choosing which technologies to implement. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" is the old saying I believe.
- judgardner 12y ago
  Enterprise is changing and people are getting fired for buying IBM. http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/outsourcing/3275270/astrazeneca-to-drop-ibm-from-860m-deal/ http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/outsourcing/3275270/astr...

brown_ghost 12y ago

So I wonder why Concur Government edition is so awful. I mean really, really, unusable.

thearn4 12y ago
Agreed. My agency just switched over, and it is 100% awful.
- peapicker 12y ago
  Sounds like it will fit in fine with SAP.
jayseattle 12y ago
I'm a ux designer at Concur, have not been there very long but there is an extensive/exhaustive re-design in the works which HN readers will appreciate. Just have a little more patience...

hkarthik 12y ago

> There is a lot of money in enterprise software... I wish more YC startups would tackle that area. Enterprise Software requires more much investment in Sales/Marketing so these companies often they invest a lot less in engineering. YC companies historically tend to be more engineering-focused. Many are now going up market so you start to see more YC job posts for marketing and sales positions now so this is probably changing.

mtbcoder 12y ago

>There is a lot of money in enterprise software... I wish more YC startups would tackle that area... Unfortunately in enterprise-land, it's a tough sell for startups. No one in middle management wants to be that person who doesn't stick to the Status Quo when it comes to software purchasing or choosing which technologies to implement. "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" is the old saying I believe.

judgardner 12y ago
Enterprise is changing and people are getting fired for buying IBM. http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/outsourcing/3275270/astrazeneca-to-drop-ibm-from-860m-deal/ http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/outsourcing/3275270/astr...