Travel management company Egencia
has developed a new suite of APIs designed to make it easier for
companies to share travel and expense data across their internal
business systems.
The APIs are designed to
connect the various teams within a company that need to work with the
travel team – finance, human resources and security, for example – to travel
data and expense data without "cumbersome and time-consuming" processes
to enter, share and reconcile the data, according to Egencia.
Among the
available APIs are user management APIs for single sign-on and user
synchronisation; expense APIs with data including expense, bookings,
receipts and approvals; and reporting APIs.
"We are helping
companies' IT developers [bring data together] by delivering several
APIs that are easy to use and bring booking and expense data over to
enterprise systems," according to Egencia VP of product and technology,
John Sturino.
"This delivers the needed innovation in business travel
for all parts of the organisation and puts the travel management
function closer to the strategic heart of the business where it
belongs."
Egencia also has launched a developer centre for the
APIs as a resource for IT departments working on integrations with
Egencia's platform.