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Summary—More and more companies are leveraging mobile applications that integrate with their existing travel and expense systems to provide frequent business travelers with tools needed to efficiently book travel and expenses using mobile devices, thus enabling business travelers to be more productive, resulting in money savings for the company. Currently, nearly twenty-three thousand Boeing employees have received BlackBerry smartphones. 90% of these employees make more than one trip per month. Currently, Boeing is not maximizing the use of BlackBerry smartphones by using a Boeing travel and expense management mobile application to reduce costs by allowing employees to be more productive. Since twenty-three thousand employees have already been issued BlackBerry smartphones, we can leverage these devices and implement a mobile application that integrates with our current travel and expense systems that we purchased from Concur Travel. Purchasing a mobile application solution from Concur Travel will save Boeing travelers time; reduce costs; increase productivity; and better serve our customers.I. RATIONALE Concur's mobile functionality will provide Boeing with the perfect solution for employees, managers and executive staff who will no longer have to wait until they return to the office to complete or approve an expense report. Travelers will be able to use the mobile app to take photos of receipts and complete expense reports using their BlackBerrys. When they return to the office they don't have to sit at their desk all day to make a paper expense report or return to the office just to approve an expense report [1]. The main factors for implementing a Concur Tr. ..... half of the sheet ......al%20Report%20-%20Long%20Version.pdf.[2] Concur, “Concur Offers Your Organization a World-Class Travel and Spend Experience,” n.d. [Online]. Available: http://assets.concur.com/case-studies/medium-large-business-travel-expense-cannon-cochran-management-services.pdf.[3] Aberdeen Group, “Mobile Technology: Bridging the Gap in Modern Expense Management,” March 2011. [Online]. Available: http://assets.concur.com/whitepaper/mobile-technology.pdf.[4] Concur, “Concur's Mobile Solution Continues to Grow Cinema Exhibitors on the Go,” April 2011. [Online]. Available: http://assets.concur.com/case-studies/cinemark-case-study.pdf.[5] Concur, “Building an Effective Business Case: Automating Travel Booking and Expense Report Processing,” February 2009. [Online]. Available: http://www.travelwise.co.uk/business/downloads/CNQRWP-Building_an_Effective_Business_Case_NA.pdf.