Asia-Pacific Travel and Expense Management Software Market – Industry Trends and Forecast to 2029

Asia-Pacific Travel and Expense Management Software Market Analysis and Size

Rise in international visits by government representatives worldwide and hassle-free claims and reimbursement via travel and expense management software is driving the overall growth of the market. The constant threat of data breach is a major restraint factor for the travel and expense management market.

Data Bridge Market Research analyses that travel and expense management software market is expected to reach the value of USD 44,926.40 thousand by 2029, at a CAGR of 6.5% during the forecast period. Cloud segment accounts for the largest offering segment in travel and expense management software market. Travel and expense management software market report also covers pricing analysis, patent analysis, and technological advancements in depth.

Market Definition

Travel and expense management software is a comprehensive system that can assist you in managing and monitoring your business travel expenses. T&E management software is essential for companies sending staff on business trips, whether for planning trips, overseeing personnel on the road, or generating expenditure reports.

Businesses of all kinds can benefit from corporate travel and expense management software. It's essential to make sure you have a thorough understanding of your business travel expenses and knowledgeable customer support in case of problems. Additionally, it aids in optimizing your billing process and schedule travel according to your company's travel policy.

Travel and Expense Management Software Market Dynamics

Drivers

• HIGH ADOPTION OF MOBILE DEVICES

The rise in the number of smartphones globally due to their high demand and affordable rate, has resulted in the increasing number of multi-platform software. This software is developed to work across multiple devices, synchronized with same data for the user. In the travel and expense management software market, many companies offer smartphone applications with details of users, their history, tickets, and offers. The same companies offer websites or online services having the same features. Furthermore, with the advent of mobile computing technology, the cloud and the ability to connect to business systems all over the globe, many businesses are looking mobile app technology, system integrations and real-time solutions to help staff get things done quickly and more efficiently. Mobile expense management is one area where there have been huge developments in business efficiency. Employees that travel around the globe for business can use mobile expense reporting apps to streamline their expense reporting. The use of mobile device and expense applications offers a several benefits for the employee and the organization and as a driver for the growth of travel and expense management software market.

• INCREASING MILITARY TRAVEL INTERNATIONALLY

The movement of the military, which may be internally or in a nation, is increasing due to various reasons such as the presence of military outposts and postings; international exercises, and U.N. peacekeeping forces. The increasing budget of military expenses in various nations across the globe has allowed the military to provide travel allowance (T.A.) to the soldiers. Additionally, the presence of SAAS for travel expenses analysis with travel and expense management software on smartphones has allowed penetration of these software in military. The continuously evolving bilateral relations of nations allow their military to conduct exercises to boost soldiers' confidence, gain experience and increase brotherhood between two armies. Also, the increasing alien military bases of various army allows the soldiers to travel across the globe. These factors through which the movement of army and army personals has increase across the borders has started to act as a driver for the growth of travel and expense management software market. As the personal have started doing their travel booking and travel expenses through available software in the market.

Opportunities

• RISE IN DIGITIZATION IN DEFENSE AND GOVERNMENT SECTOR

Digitalization enables using digital technologies such as cloud computing, big data, data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence in the defence sector and government sector. The deployment of digital technologies improves legacy processes and enhances operation and process efficiencies, enabling faster decision making and better situational awareness. Digital technologies are perceived as key enablers to adapt to changes, facilitating more efficient operations and increased outputs. In many nations, governments are increasing their efforts to bring digital transformations in sectors such as executive, ministries and defence. This digitization rise is an opportunity for the travel and expense management software market. Because of this, it is becoming normal in many sectors and its team to use the institution's travel and expense management software.

• MORE OF PARTNERSHIP AND ACQUISITION AMONG MARKET PLAYERS

The travel and expense management software market is fragmented as it consists of many regional players and global players. The presence of these companies in the region provides stiff competition in travel and expense management software market and produces the best applications and software for various business and employees. To tackle the stiff completion, few market players tend to sign an agreement, and partnership with other market players, to develop better software using advanced technologies such as ML and A.I. Additionally, few market players acquire small start-ups or businesses to increase their market dominance and offer better products and software. These steps by the market players provide various possibilities to expand the travel and expense management software market.

Restraints/Challenges

• CONSTANT THREAT OF DATA BREACH

An expense management software holds data such as employee names and details, corporate credit card information, transaction statements, business-related activities, and financial history. Therefore, it has become a critical part of businesses and they tend to be careful when choosing an expense management solution. With such important business data contained in travel and expense management software, businesses are little conscious of the security of travel and expense management software across the globe. But, hackers or cybercriminals use phishing, malware, social engineering, or related techniques to steal information from businesses and travel and expense management software. Thus the constant threat of data breach in Travel and expense management software market is expected to limit the growth of market.

• FRAGMENTATION IN THE TRAVEL AND EXPENSE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY

Most companies today have different software for travel and expense management. It is a big challenge for them as travel bookings happen on one platform and expense process on the other, making the whole T&E process inefficient. According to a report from ITILITE, 70% of expenses are travel-related, and having separate tools for travel bookings, and expense reimbursements result in cost leakages, poor data visibility, and even leaves room for fraud and on top of all this, it provides a broken experience to employees and finance managers. This is estimated to act a restrain for the travel and expense management software market growth.

The presence and use of different software for travel and expense management, hits on the finance productivity as it will be hard to manage data and expenses on a different platform. Additionally, due to this fragmentation in the travel and expense software industry, many companies continue to use their current segregated systems as they worry about the cost to change. But on the contrary, using an integrated travel and expense management solution can help them save more than 30% of the costs. Furthermore, this segregation also allows many frauds to slip by during audits as different software offer different offers to the customers and generally financial teams cannot detect these frauds. The fragmentation in travel and expense management industry, limits the finance professional as they don't have any visibility over the travel expenses, and can easily fall into the trap of exceeding your allocated budget.

Recent Development

• In December 2019, Chrome River Technologies, Inc., was named a "Leader" in the IDC Market Scape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Enterprise Travel and Expense Management Applications 2019 Vendor Assessment. Company is was positioned as a Leader for large enterprise deployments which created a brand image globally

Travel and Expense Management Software Market

The travel and expense management software market is segmented on the basis of deployment model, organization size, and industry. The growth amongst these segments will help you analyse meagre growth segments in the industries and provide the users with a valuable market overview and market insights to help them make strategic decisions for identifying core market applications.

Deployment Model

• On-Premise
• Cloud

On the basis of deployment, the travel and expense management software market is segmented into on-premise and cloud.

Organization Size

• Medium Enterprise
• Large Enterprise

On the basis of organization size, the travel and expense management software market is segmented into medium enterprises, large enterprises.

Industry

• Defense
• Government
• Others

On the basis of industry, the travel and expense management market is segmented into defense, Government and others.

Travel and Expense Management Software Market Regional Analysis/Insights

The travel and expense management software market is analysed and market size insights and trends are provided by deployment model, organization size and industry.

The countries covered in the travel and expense management software market report are Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Rest of Asia-Pacific in Asia-Pacific.

Japan is expected to dominate the Asia-Pacific travel and expense management software market due to the rising inclination towards travel and expense management software.

The country section of the report also provides individual market impacting factors and changes in market regulation that impact the current and future trends of the market. Data points like down-stream and upstream value chain analysis, technical trends and porter's five forces analysis, case studies are some of the pointers used to forecast the market scenario for individual countries. Also, the presence and availability of global brands and their challenges faced due to large or scarce competition from local and domestic brands, impact of domestic tariffs and trade routes are considered while providing forecast analysis of the country data

Competitive Landscape and Travel and Expense Management Software Market Share Analysis

The travel and expense management software market competitive landscape provides details of the competitor. Details included are company overview, company financials, revenue generated, market potential, investment in research and development, new market initiatives, presence, production sites and facilities, production capacities, company strengths and weaknesses, solution launch, product width and breadth, application dominance. The above data points are only related to the companies' focus on travel and expense management software market.

Some of the major players operating in the market are Webexpenses Pty Ltd, Inc, Concur Technologies, Inc., GBT Travel Services UK Limited, Oversight Systems, Inc., Infor, Oracle, Emburse, Inc., TripActions, Empxtrack Inc(Saigun Technologies Pvt. Ltd), Expensify, Inc., SutiSoft, Inc., Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd., TravelPerk S.L.U, ExpensePoint, Rydoo, 8common, and Coupa Software Inc., among others.

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