Visa International is using an application manufactured by SAP – SAP NetWeaver – to help corporations and their employees manage payments for business expenditures, automatically integrate related transaction data into enterprise systems, and increase the speed and lower the cost of expense administration.
“Visa’s new relationship with SAP brings together two industry leaders to deliver innovation and cost-effective solutions to our shared corporate customers worldwide,” says Aliza Knox, senior vice president, Visa International. “The combination of our technologies and product offerings will help clients fully integrate payment data into their business systems at minimal cost by utilizing existing infrastructure and optimizing technology investments.”
“Our new relationship with Visa represents a valuable opportunity for our shared clients to continue to release valuable IT resources from operational costs so they can be used for projects that enable change and drive innovation,” adds Shai Agassi, member of the executive board, SAP AG. “By utilizing SAP NetWeaver to seamlessly link transaction data directly from Visa commercial payment products to SAP ERP systems, customers will contain costs, reduce risk, drive down administrative expense and show a rapid return on technology investments.”
“Helping Visa member financial institutions in the U.S. deliver greater value to their corporate and commercial banking clients remains a primary focus of Visa Commercial Solutions,” says Mike Dreyer, senior vice president, Visa USA. “Visa’s relationship with SAP will significantly help in delivering that value through further streamlining the payment and data integration functionality of Visa’s suite of commercial payment solutions.”
T&E administration is considered to be the second-highest corporate expense behind payroll and benefits. With the integration of SAP NetWeaver and Visa Commercial data from banks, airlines, hotels and other merchants, the data will flow directly to the clients’ ERP systems. SAP NetWeaver will enable continued secure automated delivery and integration of Visa-provided data to clients’ back-office systems and expense reporting software helping them to monitor volume and compliance, identify trends and patterns and view detailed spend data and analytics.
Employees will receive expense data automatically, reducing data entry and processing times. Companies will gain better tracking and understanding of corporate spending, an improved supplier negotiation position, better policy controls-as well as stricter accountability of financial tracking and auditing functions.