This new technology is designed to simplify transactions and provide traveler and travel manager convenience

As HRG (Hogg Robinson Group) builds its corporate services portfolio of products globally, it introduces a web based portal to provide an integrated travel and expense management solution.  This personalized electronic travel assistant delivers a wide range of services from travel booking and trip information to customized reports and expense management, all in one integrated interface tailored to corporate needs.  It is designed to deliver a complete online corporate travel solution providing a seamless environment for both travelers and travel managers.

This HRG solution gives organizations the ability to reduce transaction costs and improve management control when logging, calculating and processing travel transactions.  The technology also enables travelers and travel managers to efficiently track travel and purchases from a variety of sources including corporate credit cards, travel and entertainment cards, personal cash claims, mobile and office phones, fuel, cars and travel data. The solution integrates into a customer's established financial systems and has multilingual and multi-currency capabilities.

Tom Gleason, President of HRG North America said, "The new HRG Portal is inspired by customer experience and driven by customer need.  It is intuitive and easy to use and is designed to enable our customers to manage their business travel and expenses in an efficient and accurate manner.  We are very excited to offer this new solution to our customers as part of our expanding corporate services portfolio of products."

HRG Expense Management is powered by Spendvision, a provider of expense management automation and has the capability to manage low value, high volume expenses simply and easily.  Operating in a secure environment the expense management solution is designed to provide a seamless, outsourced on-line solution to customers, driven by sophisticated technology.  The HRG Expense Management solution can be delivered as a stand alone technology or as part of a complete end to end travel booking and expense management solution delivered through the HRG Portal.

The HRG Expense Management solution is an Application Service Provider (ASP) model.  The solution is installed, run and powered by Spendvision on a secure infrastructure as a service to our customers.  Therefore customers do not need to install new software on desktops or servers, host or publish materials online or in-house.  Customers can access their solution anywhere in the world via a secure internet browser.

According to Shane Bruhns, Chief Operating Officer of Spendvision, "There are significant customer benefits in the HRG Expense Management solution.  The technology is tightly integrated because it was developed from the ground up with everything from travel bookings to expense management in mind. The solution assists companies in meeting their detailed spend information and data analysis requirements with strong fundamental design principles and a secure and controlled environment for both technology and data. Our aim is to provide customers with a seamless outsourced online solution which is driven by state of the art technologies. By adopting the ASP model, we can provide customers with a full range of solution benefits on a subscription basis which minimizes the cost and structural implication of managing the technology development and installation in-house."

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For more information, please contact:

Tania Charalambous, HRG North America
416-593-3830

or

Kas Rigas, Dan Klores Communications
212-981-5211

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About HRG (Hogg Robinson Group)

HRG North America is wholly owned by Hogg Robinson plc the award-winning international corporate services company whose interests include wholly-owned or controlled corporate travel operations in over 20 key driver growth markets throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and North America.  It is supported by a worldwide network of managed partners in a further 68 countries.

Totally committed to a value offering for clients, the HRG worldwide network offers a comprehensive range of services which includes travel management and fulfilment services; low cost transactions; Consulting, Expense Management, Sports and Events & Meetings Management.

HRG North America, which is headed by President Tom Gleason, comprises the companies previously known as Sea Gate Travel, Robustelli World Travel and BTI Canada.