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I had a demonstration earlier this year with an organization (that will go unnamed) that decided to build its own internal Spend Management applications, starting first with an application to span the traditional purchase to pay (P2P) footprint Read more

Airlines looking to distribute ancillary services such as checked bags, seat upgrades and meals outside of the global distribution systems have found a new partner in Rearden Commerce. Rearden plans to hook up to Farelogix's XML direct connect technology to bring airline ancillary services to corporate and travel management company clients of the Rearden Personal Assistant at the point of sale Read more

Rearden Commerce ended a job search and hired Adam Pease as senior applied scientist. And, Pease, in turn, will be heavily involved in search. In a manner of speaking, you can think of Pease as a SUMO wrestler — as in Suggested Upper Merged Ontology. Rearden says Pease has spent the last decade creating SUMO, which the company describes as "the world’s largest free, formal ontology.” Read more

Rearden Commerce has just added some semantic know-how to their arsenal with the hiring of Adam Pease, a scientist with over a decade of experience in semantic technologies. Rearden, a "next-generation eCommerce platform company" brought on Pease as their Senior Applied Scientist with the responsibility of leading Rearden's "semantic technology and formal reasoning practices and technologies." Read more

Rearden Commerce, an eCommerce platform company, announced the appointment of Adam Pease as Senior Applied Scientist. Pease, who has worked for over a decade to create the world's largest free, formal ontology, the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO), will be responsible for leading Rearden Commerce's semantic technology and formal reasoning practices and technologies Read more

Rearden Commerce is integrating Farelogix's new XML direct connect technology with its Personal Assistant technology, to give airlines a point-of-sale for their ancillary products and services. The combination will also allow corporations to designate preferred offerings, add and enforce policy, display a total price to the traveler, track expenditures and deliver the data to both the company and its designated TMC Read more

Rearden Commerce today announced a three-year reseller deal with the United Kingdom's Advantage Focus Partnership, a division of Advantage Business Travel that includes 77 member agencies managing more than $1 billion worth of business travel, said Rearden U.K. regional director Matt Beck Read more

Major deal for US-based Rearden Commerce after securing a partnership with UK agent consortium Advantage to power the web and mobile tech for its business travel wing. Through a three-year deal, travel ecommerce specialist Rearden will provide travel agent members in the Advantage Focus Partnership with combined travel, procurement and spend management system Read more

The Advantage Focus Partnership of business travel agencies said today (May 7) it had signed an agreement with Rearden Commerce. The three year deal will provide a "combined travel, procurement and spend management solution" for the group's 77 members. The agreement marks a major expansion for the Californian IT company into the European market Read more

Just when you thought it was safe to put your sales team back on the road again – Wham! Fuel costs are on the rise, and with them, a whole host of travel-related fees. Suddenly it feels like 2008, when corporate travel budgets were slashed by as much as 50%, and in some cases, companies simply stopped travel all together Read more

Purchasing's top priority for the next 12 months: Control costs. That's the result of a new poll conducted by Rearden Commerce of procurement and supply managers attending the 96th Annual International Supply Management (ISM) Conference and Educational Exhibit in Orlando recently Read more

Handling new categories of spend will be the best way of achieving cost savings in the year ahead, according to US buyers. But, according to a short poll of delegates at last week’s Institute for Supply Management annual conference, this would not be the only method procurement teams will use to look for cost reductions Read more

While debate around the state of the economy continues, procurement professionals at ISM last week confirmed that one of their top priorities for the next 12 months is controlling costs. But after several years of cutting spending, when asked in a pulse survey sponsored by Rearden Commerce about where they'll look for the next layer of savings, there's a surprising lack of consensus Read more

When released in the coming months for each major mobile platform, the downloadable CWT To Go app will enable "travelers to access their travel itineraries directly from their mobile devices through CWT's secure and automated Message Distribution Facility," according to a press statement Read more

It's widely accepted that travel and expense costs (T&E) represent a Top 5 category of spend for most companies. The size of the category is driving a growing emphasis on managing travel and entertainment (T&E) costs with an eye toward an improved bottom-line; according to a recent report from Aberdeen Group, nearly 40% of the participants reported an increase in the importance of T&E management in the past 12 months Read more

Henry Hwong, VP of Product Marketing and Alison Jenette, Director of Corporate Communications for Rearden Commerce called Supply Chain Matters attention to a recent "pulse survey" conducted among attendees at the recent Institute of Supply Management (ISM) annual conference Read more

Thomas recently had the chance to spend an hour demoing Rearden Commerce's new e-sourcing tool. For those who don't know Rearden, they acquired Ketera last year, and the latest sourcing toolkit represents the next release of a Ketera solution Read more

One thing that stands out in using Rearden's new Ketera E-sourcing tool is the ability to hide or embrace (albeit in a relative manner) complexity in creating an RFP or tender structure. Consider that when scoring bids, it's easy to breeze over different section elements or profile criteria Read more

Procurement and supply management operations have long touted the benefits of ordering goods and services online from suppliers, among them lower costs and streamlined processes. Perhaps some of the biggest beneficiaries are companies with a multitude of locations and a center-led purchasing operation. Read more

Everything in your palm. A dream-come-true, especially for those who live on the road. Hauling a carry-on and a laptop bag from one city to the next, in pursuit of the next golden opportunity makes it tough to carry much more. The growth of consumer travel apps would appear to be the answer. But are they really? Read more

There's a lot of noise in procurement today about the value that cloud-based solutions can deliver to purchasing organizations and their companies as they source supply and manage suppliers. But how can a procurement organization determine how and with whom they should engage with to make the journey to the cloud? Read more

Travel managers sometimes need more than car rentals — they need chauffeurs, too. So Global Ground Automation, a unit of Rearden Commerce, reached an agreement to integrate WeDriveU's Chauffeur Drive tool into Global Ground Automation's online marketplace. Read more

Dubbed Deem Travel, the system considers user preferences, location and other characteristics, and also presents options based on company policy. Read more

American Express Open and Rearden Commerce are partnering to provide a travel portal designed for small businesses, according to American Express Business Travel senior vice president and general manager Hervé Sedky Read more

Rearden Commerce is beta testing a flight search engine for business travelers with recommendations served up based on a user’s “persona.” Read more

There are a ton of ecommerce software platforms out there determined to try to get you the best deal, save you some money, and of course, convince you to spend your money with them instead of anywhere else. Read more

The rise and rise of mobile applications for business travellers is throwing up a host of new challenges for travel managers, GBTA delegates in Denver were told. Read more

TripAdvisor will provide hotel ratings and traveler reviews, and SeatGuru will contribute detailed airline seat maps and information on inflight amenities. Read more

The world of ecommerce software is constantly changing. Whether it’s a smaller shopping cart system or the top of the line Amazon selling platform, innovation and upgrades are the name of the game. Read more

Travel and expense costs represent a big chunk of corporate budgets – often as high as 8 to 10 percent of a corporation’s overall operating expenditures. T&E also takes up considerable time and manpower, and most travel managers would rather spend those resources elsewhere. Read more

The process of building mobile tools should be about what the customer needs, not a battle between competing development technologies Read more

Controlling costs is, without a doubt, the top priority for procurement professionals this year, according to a survey of executives at the 2011 Institute for Supply Management conference. Read more

At a recent petroleum-based group conference for OFS Portal in Houston, one of the major themes I touched upon was about Supplier Networks and their future. As part of a discussion shared by a fellow analysts, Andrew Bartels, was the discussion around supplier network convergence and the need for improved interoperability. Read more

Business travelers may love their Blackberrys and iPhones and the crush of available mobile apps, but only a quarter of travel managers believe travel apps are effective for their businesses. Read more

It looks like LivingSocial, the second-most popular daily deals site, may be getting cold feet about filing for an initial public offering. Bloomberg reports that LivingSocial is in talks to raise $200 million for a valuation of $6 billion, rather than following in Groupon's IPO footsteps. Read more

Rearden Commerce, an e-commerce platform company, announced on Wednesday that it had raised $133 million, valuing the company at $1.35 billion. Read more

E-commerce solutions company Rearden Commerce today announced that it has raised a monster round of funding, securing a whopping $133 million in new financing from current backers American Express and JPMorgan Chase, as well as from new investor Citi. Read more

Corporate travel managers are under pressure to cut costs, improve compliance and better leverage mobile technology, according to a new survey conducted by Rearden Commerce. But the managers’ goals are easier to identify than to attain. Read more

Last week, Rearden Commerce announced it had raised $133 million in funding in its latest round. By all accounts, this is a round that is at least 10 times larger than what we typically see for software providers in the source-to-pay area (inclusive of travel, T&E and related areas). Read more

Rearden Commerce has rebranded its e-commerce platform, now calling it Deem Travel, and plans to use its recent acquisition of HomeRun.com to perfect a purchasing platform that will incorporate discount offers and relevance to buyer needs into its mobile search capabilities. Read more

Travel managers are missing the biggest shift in travel technology to hit the industry in years–the mobile platform. Read more

Amidst all the news coming out of SAP early last week with the Crossgate deal and a nasty head cold going around the office that's slowed the usual pace of developing current content, we've been slow to cover some major news at Rearden Commerce, including a large funding round and an acquisition. Read more

Consolidation continues in daily deal land. One of the largest international deal sites, kgbdeals, announced today that it has just acquired TheDealist, an independent deal site for New York City. Read more

In the annals of travel mythology, it's up there next to the free upgrade or the comped Vegas hotel room: the ever-elusive inexpensive Thanksgiving airfare. Read more

Fleet diversification has not been uncommon among the limousine and black car companies that traditionally serve corporate travel and meeting departments. Read more

Carlson Wagonlit Travel president for suppliers, products and technology Andrew Winterton in September spoke with BTN editorial director Jay Campbell about direct connections, mobile technology and data quality. Read more

Recently, American Express has been pushing its own internal digital commerce initiatives including the company’s digital wallet, Serve. Serve integrates a variety of payment options into a single account that can be funded from a bank account, debit, credit or charge card. Read more

“We have been very, very quiet by design,” says Rearden CEO Patrick Grady, who will make a big noise in 2012. Read more

Business travelers do much of their travel planning through their managed travel programs, but once they are on the road they do a lot of research on their mobile devices in-destination. Read more

Rearden Commerce has introduced a web-based collaboration and relevance tool that is part of its Deem e-commerce platform designed to help friends planning a vacation, colleagues planning a business trip, or anyone else planning a vacation or business trip... Read more

Rearden Commerce is conducting a private beta for a travel-planning collaboration tool which it hopes will streamline travel search and make it more personalized. Read more

Rearden Commerce has unveiled Storyboard, a web-based collaboration and relevance tool that enables coordination of trip details among several people, including business travelers, their administrative assistants and their travel managers. Read more

Imagine you want to plan a vacation, book a business trip or find a new book to read. You start by searching the web. If you're planning a trip, you may visit 20 or more websites -- spending more time on some than others -- and piece together all of the different reviews and details that each site offers. Read more

The co-founder and chief executive of Seattle travel startup Yapta announced his exit strategy today. After running Yapta for six years, Tom Romary left to join e-commerce venture Rearden Commerce in Foster City, Calif. Romary will be senior vice president of consumer services at the company. Read more

Airfare-price tracker Yapta will have to track down some CEO candidates as co-founder and chief executive Tom Romary exited the company and was hired by Rearden Commerce.Rearden says Romary becomes its senior vice president of consumer services. Read more

Carlson Wagonlit Travel’s mobile offering, a collaboration with Rearden Commerce, integrates online and GDS bookings and is now available for iOS, Android and Blackberry devices. Read more

Google has a knack for making waves when it pushes into new arenas, and online travel is no exception. Six months ago, Google announced its intention to buy the company that made it easy for travelers to compare airfares, ITA Software, for $700 million Read more

Rearden Commerce on Tuesday named Andrea Cunningham chief marketing officer. The Foster City e-commerce platform company said Cunningham was founder and CEO of CXO Communications, a brand strategy and communication firm. Before that she was founder and CEO of Cunningham Communication, a public relations agency she founded in 1985 and sold to Huntsworth plc in 2000 Read more

The acquisition of Ketera Technologies by Rearden Commerce offers another example of an e-commerce platform vendor adding technology from a spend management suite with the aim of expanding into multienterprise commerce Read more

It's the end of an era, although there's a good chance you won't even notice its passing. By the end of this year, the traditional magnetic-stripe boarding pass will become a thing of the past, joining the likes of Airphones, armrest ashtrays and free meals in coach Read more

In their own ways, both Southwest Airlines and Rearden Commerce had the one million mark in their sights Read more

Rearden Commerce Inc. said Wednesday it acquired Ketera Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Rearden Commerce, which is based in Foster City, is an e-commerce software company. Ketera, which is based in San Jose, is privately held and backed by firms that include Menlo Park-based Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Read more

Effective immediately, Ketera Technologies is now part of e-commerce platform company Rearden Commerce. Ketera aims to transform corporate buying and selling via the Ketera Network, an online spend management solution and business community of nearly 1 million companies Read more

Rearden Commerce just announced that it is acquiring Ketera. For those who don't know Rearden, the company has long focused on positioning itself as a personal services (e.g., air, car rental, hotel, dining, small parcel/overnight, etc.) procurement and business/personal life-simplifying complement to traditional P2P providers Read more

Most non-technology executives are wary of cloud computing. They have been through technology fads before. While they will acknowledge that cloud computing is interesting in terms of potential to reduce IT costs, they harbor a suspicion that this might be just a lower cost form of IT outsourcing. If that is all it is, then it is important for the CIO to take care of, but there is no compelling need for the rest of the C-suite to get deeply involved in the technology Read more

Aiming to further streamline its already automated expense reimbursement process, The Advisory Board Company later this month plans to equip frequent travelers with a new corporate payment solution that matches travel itineraries to charges and feeds those, along with Level 3 data, to its existing Rearden Expense system Read more

Air and hotel cost containment initiatives often devour a travel purchaser's time, but some buyers and suppliers are zeroing in on an untapped source of potential savings--food and beverage. Whether it's by partnering with an outside company for discounts or integrating F&B into hotel negotiations, strategies exist to assist travel buyers in unearthing some savings Read more

U.S. Bank debuted its own expense reporting tool for midsize companies this month as a bevy of other expense providers partnered with banks, online booking or technology providers to expand their distribution. U.S. Bank Expense Management is designed to be simple for both employees and administrators to use, but is available in 15 languages to support global deployments, according to senior vice president Jeffrey Rankin. Read more

Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) has signed a reseller agreement with Rearden Commerce to offer clients the CWT Traveler Assistant powered by the Rearden Commerce™ Platform, an end-to-end solution for booking and managing travel and related business services. The two companies have been working on the project for "quite a while," says Brian Hace, vice president of client services for CWT North America, adding that many CWT clients already use Rearden Personal Assistant Read more

Nippon Express Travel USA has signed as the first TMC to commit to offer the joint Travelport and Rearden Commerce solution to its corporate customers who need a travel and spend management platform. The Travelport-Rearden joint offering includes a Travelport-branded version of Rearden Personal Assistant, currently available only to Travelport-connected TMCs in the US. Read more

Rearden Commerce, a developer of personal internet assistance and standardized platforms for commerce, announced a partnership with IBM's Managed Business Process division (IBM MBPS), with the goal to introduce more choice to the expense management and online procurement category Read more

echnology was a hot topic at this week's National Business Travel Association (NBTA) meeting in Houston. Along with increased flexibility from start to finish, the integration of mobile devices was a hot topic. Expense management systems becoming increasingly efficient at gathering and sharing information (going so far as to include info from digital photos of receipts taken by mobile devices) Read more

Spend Matters' Jason Busch analyzes the recent deal between Rearden Commerce and Southwest Airlines. Busch feels "Southwest is clearly making a statement that this chosen partner is fundamentally different than others in the market", and part of a strategy to increase its business travel revenues Read more

Southwest Airlines launched a mobile Web version of the airline's Swabiz corporate booking portal, enabling bookings, cancelations, changes, flight status, loyalty program tools and check in. The nation's largest domestic airline also announced a deal to provide fares and inventory, via its application-programming interface, to Rearden Commerce. Read more

Carlson Wagonlit Travel will convert its hundreds of Horizon online booking tool customers to a customized version of the Rearden Commerce platform as part of a reseller agreement it has signed with Rearden, the companies announced Monday Read more

Rearden Commerce on Monday said it would enable by year-end Southwest Airlines bookings through a direct connect to its Rearden Personal Assistant tool. Rearden said to expect the offering to go live in late 2010, at which time customers will be able to shop and book Southwest fares through "the same Rearden Personal Assistant experience to which they are accustomed." Read more

Earlier today, Rearden Commerce announced it was teaming with Southwest Airlines to expose "direct access to Southwest fares and schedules," within its Commerce Platform. The result, they suggest, will "simplify the reservation process for travelers" and will help consolidate "reporting efforts for travel and procurement" on the back-end. Under the agreement, there will be type of travel punch-out to Southwest's site required Read more

Carlson Wagonlit Travel will retire a proprietary booking tool used by several hundred North America clients and migrate travelers to a CWT-branded tool from Rearden Commerce. Under the arrangement, CWT, one of the largest global travel management companies, agrees to become a reseller of the Rearden Personal Assistant as CWT phases out CWT Horizon, a proprietary booking tool which debuted in 2002 Read more

Rearden Commerce and Southwest Airlines struck a deal in which mutual customers will be able to search the airline's schedules and fares and book Southwest flights using the Rearden Personal Assistant. The partnership is slated to be implemented late in 2010, the companies say Read more

A longtime Travelport global distribution system user, Nippon Express Travel USA is adding the recently announced Travelport-branded Rearden Commerce solution to its technology menu largely because it brings a new tool without a new account rep. The travel management company already offers clients Travelport's Traversa product, but Nippon Express marketing director Richard Mizuno said its feature set isn't as mature as the Rearden-backed product Read more

Travelport and Rearden Commerce have announced that several of the industry's leading U.S. travel management companies (TMCs) have committed to offer the joint Travelport and Rearden Commerce solution to its corporate customers who need a travel and spend management platform Read more

Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry, and Rearden Commerce, today announce that several of the industry's leading U.S. travel management companies (TMCs) have committed to offer the joint Travelport and Rearden Commerce solution to its corporate customers who need a travel and spend management platform Read more

Travelport and Rearden Commerce report that several U.S. travel management companies (TMCs) have committed to offer the joint Travelport and Rearden Commerce solution to its corporate customers who need a travel and spending management platform Read more

Don't call the Rearden Personal Assistant a booking tool when Rearden Commerce founder and CEO Patrick Grady is within earshot. If you do, get out of the way. Grady says booking tools and apps, for that matter, come and go, but integrated platforms - like the Rearden Personal Assistant, in Grady's view - have staying power Read more

Travelport and Rearden Commerce have entered into a multi-year partnership in which the Rearden platform will be added to Travelport's flagship Traversa corporate booking tool. The agreement includes Rearden's location-aware Mobile Personal Assistant that incorporates corporate policies and gives individuals access to personalized travel itinerary information. The combined travel, procurement and expense management solution will be available to travel management companies (TMCs), existing corporate customers, and corporations in the US and Canada. Read more

Let's be honest. In today's volatile economy, foresight and planning are easily pushed aside in favor of reactively averting poisonous arrows and perilous moats. Those hazards continuously threaten us – and often appear from a surprise enemy. How many of us keep putting our foot on the gas and have not slowed down to finesse these dangerous conditions? Read more

Last week, Rearden Commerce unveiled a new partnership with Travelport, an announcement that in our view represents a critical stamp of approval on the vendor's disruptive business model within the travel market. Because Travelport has competitive solutions to Rearden that it most certainly stands to achieve greater revenue Read more

Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry, and Rearden Commerce, today announce that they have entered into a multi-year partnership that will result in delivery of a combined travel, procurement, and expense management solution for travel management companies (TMCs), existing corporate customers, and corporations in the U.S. and Canada Read more

Rearden Commerce and Travelport sign technology agreement for the US and Canada. The partnership will see the Rearden platform added to the suite of corporate bookings tools, including Traversa Read more

Travelport has inked a multiyear agreement with Rearden Commerce to offer Rearden's corporate booking/spending management tool to Worldspan and Galileo users in the U.S. and Canada Read more

Travelport and Rearden Commerce have announced a multi-year partnership that will result in delivery of a combined travel, procurement, and expense management solution for travel management companies (TMCs), existing corporate customers, and corporations in the U.S. and Canada. Read more

Today's announcement by Rearden Commerce of a strategic marketing partnership with distribution and technology firm Travelport is the first of many product advancements and partnerships, acquisitions and distribution agreements to come this year, Rearden CEO Patrick Grady told Business Travel News. Read more

American Express Business Travel in May launched a mobile travel solution to allow travelers to manage itineraries and reservations through mobile devices, regardless of the booking channel they use. The tool, dubbed MobileXtend, is powered by technology developed by Read more

American Express Business Travel and Carlson Wagonlit Travel joined BCD Travel in the race to bring managed travel elements to the use of mobile applications by corporate travelers. Having announced its plans last summer, BCD was scheduled this month to launch automated itinerary synchronization with TripIt for an initial group of six corporate customers Read more

Search is radically changing to become more contextual, relevant and focused on producing the right answer for the user. The shift from a web of documents to a web of data is evolving. The impact can be seen on search engine results pages across many product categories, which foreshadows the future of travel search Read more

At the OpenTravel 2010 Advisory Forum in Seattle April 27, there was much talk about new XML standards and schema, and travel-merchandising, too. But during the formal discussions and as people engaged in off-premises banter, the topic often reverted to - pick your favorite metaphor - "the elephant in the room" or the [800 pound] "gorilla in the room." Read more

Given all the investment in and attention on mobile itinerary planning and sharing, what are the top five areas still to be explored and exploited? Indeed, which dark horses could still make a charge, and where are the blue sky opportunities for innovative start-ups to stake their claim in the mobile travel apps gold rush? Read more

Rearden Commerce Inc. is integrating StarCite meeting management solutions into its platform, offering a complete meetings solution that covers the entire process from event planning and execution to individualized travel bookings for each attendee. The integration will include Rearden's Personal Assistant, giving meeting registrants a one-stop opportunity to make all their arrangements Read more

Rearden Commerce is adding StarCite-powered meetings functionality to its Personal Assistant online booking and procurement tool, making meetings the latest spend category the firm is hoping clients will manage through the platform Read more

Rearden Commerce's Mobile Personal Assistant, which previously has been available only as a premier feature of Rearden Personal Assistant and American Express's aXiom online marketplace, has now been made compatible with any online booking tool and can be integrated with any corporate travel program. Although there is "a bit of a branding exercise," says Tony D'Astolfo, Rearden's vice president of global sales, the wider availability is "all about the technology." Read more

Rearden Commerce is leveraging agency relationships to import passenger name records and offer its mobile solution to travelers regardless of whether their companies use the Rearden booking tool Read more

Rearden Commerce and American Express Business Travel are taking the Rearden Mobile Personal Assistant beyond the confines of Amex's corporate-booking tool, aXiom, and are offering it to corporate customers who use other booking tools, including Sabre's GetThere and Concur Cliqbook Travel Read more

Rearden Commerce is expanding the reach of its Mobile Personal Assistant, making it compatible with any corporate booking tool and enabling its use through any smart phone model, the company announced today. The Mobile Personal Assistant, which enables corporate travelers to manage itineraries Read more

It's official – the debate around merchandising has switched from the conceptual to the practical, meaning that it is finally being taken very seriously. At the CASMA conference in Montreal last month, one of the most interesting sessions was Read more

It makes my Spend Management blood boil to read this article in the Washington Times about how some Federal employees have taken it upon themselves to define their own travel policies and stick tax payers with the bill. If true, some of the Read more

Continuing our new "Travel Tuesday" column, this week we'll cover some of the travel Spend Management basics. Today, I'll refer Spend Matters' readers to a recent Purchasing Magazine study that provides a useful state of the market when it comes Read more

Rearden Commerce has announced the public launch of its Mobile Personal Assistant application for the iPhone®, after making the application available last month to select corporate clients. Rearden says that early release has resulted in the download by "hundreds of users," now with access to flight alerts, detailed itinerary information, weather forecasts, flight search capabilities, interactive mapping, dining reservations and car service bookings. Read more

Rearden Commerce has launched a mobile personal assistant application, packing the functionality of several applications into one. Consumers can check on their flights, see weather forecasts and make dinner reservations with the new application Read more

Rearden Commerce, which offers corporate travel booking and expense management, released an iPhone app which mirrors its Web-based Personal Assistant - both are mashups of multiple applications. Mobile expert Norm Rose, who heads Travel Tech Consulting, agrees that the Rearden Commerce iPhone app is differentiated from most Read more

As smartphones have become ubiquitous with business travelers, the availability and use of mobile travel services has multiplied. Travelers now can shop, book, purchase, check in, board, receive alerts and even file expenses from the screens in their pockets. But corporate Read more

Still hesitant about adding to their workloads and grappling with IT departments, most corporate travel buyers have not offered social networking to company travelers. In a January ProMedia.travel Content Solutions survey of more than 200 industry pros Read more

Ancillary fees have become the Susan Boyle of the travel industry. That’s right, they aren’t sexy, but people still love to talk about them. Plus, nobody agrees on the magnitude of these things, and how could they, when tracking them is such a daunting task Read more

Rearden Commerce said the number of transactions processed on its platform grew 63 percent in 2009 compared to a year earlier, and that it added more than 1,400 new customers to bring its corporate customer count to more than 6,000 "across all business units." Read more

Nearly two years after creating its first mobile application, Rearden Commerce launched an iPhone app offering "flight alerts, detailed itinerary information, weather forecasts, flight search capabilities, interactive mapping, dining reservations and car service bookings." Read more

Craig Banikowski, president of the National Business Travel Association, describes the expression "new normal" as "a parking garage to describe a lot of change." To characterize current attitudes and behaviors as a new normal, he said, would be Read more

Cloud computing is an emerging computing technology that uses the internet and central remote servers to maintain data and applications. Cloud computing allows consumers and businesses to use applications without installation and access their Read more

Downloadable applications for the iPhone, Blackberry and other smartphones are fast becoming indispensable among business travelers who use their phones to help them organize and navigate trips with little more effort than a few taps on a touch screen Read more

A few very fascinating trends and facts emerged from this week's NBTA webinar "The Next Big Thing in Travel: 2010 and Beyond," and I'd like to share a few with you. The webinar was hosted by Craig Banikowski, newly-elected President & CEO of NBTA Read more

Travel Leaders Corporate has relaunched its Compass-branded technology suite, which is now powered by Rearden Commerce. Rearden's platform includes a corporate booking tool, ExpenseWire expense-management tool and other Read more

Travel Leaders is using Rearden Commerce's Personal Assistant online booking platform under its own brand, making it the first travel management company to fund development for a private-label version of the tool other than American Read more

The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) has officially commenced its search for a new executive director, it announced yesterday. The new candidate, who will be vetted and chosen by a special candidate review committee, will replace Read more

Payment systems AirPlus International and MasterCard Worldwide are developing a solution that would enable travel buyers to report ancillary airline charges, paralleling similar efforts of U.S. airlines, technology companies and settlement Read more

With large market company travel spending becoming more multinational, travel buyers in the segment are requiring more capabilities and enhanced functionality from travel technology to raise their control over travel expenditures and traveler Read more

The airlines' continuing strategy to unbundle products and pricing remains troublesome for corporate travel managers keen to measure total trip costs. According to a recent survey conducted by the Association of Corporate Travel Read more

While prices for rental cars and limo service are expected to rise moderately next year, travel buyers need to keep in mind that airport fees, energy surcharges, insurance and taxes all can add even more to the cost of ground transportation Read more

American Express continues to disappoint in the Spend Management sector of late, having taken the ball on their opponent's 40 yard line numerous times with the result so far having been numerous interceptions and punts and nary a touchdown, Read more

In exploring the prospective impact on the tourism industry, Scene Advisor takes a look at the progression and salient characteristics of our travel industry, as well as current trends given the economic backdrop. In doing so, we draw some insight Read more

Cornerstone Information Systems and Rearden Commerce, Inc., which helps manage companies' spending on business services and created the first web-based personal assistant, have forged an agreement to make Cornerstone's Policy Compliance Read more

Gregg Tuccillo, CEO and founder of Global Ground Automation, a Rearden Commerce Co. based in Hackensack, N.J., says that demand for black car limo service has started to pick up a bit. Is this an indication that an economic recovery Read more

Purchasing recently ran a very well-researched article examining how Tyco is driving savings and compliance across its $150 million in travel spend. The story profiles how Tyco's Director of Global Travel, Rose Speckmann, coordinates teams Read more

Following the transition to a new online booking tool last year, The Advisory Board Co.'s managing director of information systems and travel buyer Steven Mandelbaum integrated the technology into employee workflow processes,allowing Read more

As director, global travel, at Tyco International, Rose Speckmann leads global travel councils for North America, Latin America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Through the four global travel councils, Speckmann communicates regularly Read more

The National Business Travel Association kicked off its International Convention and Exposition here last month by naming Michael McCormick as its new executive director and COO and ended it with Hilton Hotels director of global travel Read more

ConAgra Takes A Bite Out Of Spend Via Mandated Policy, Tech: Ready To Taste Success With Demand Management Read more

For most of the past decade, mobile software for managed business travelers was either useless or marketing hype. That's changing this year as a frenzy of development by new innovators and existing corporate travel software providers Read more

Expense and meeting technology integrations appeared to dominate the tradeshow at the National Business Travel Association's annual convention here last week with dozens of announcements and some working demos of the aligned products Read more

Siemens, a multinational conglomerate, in June began deploying in the United States an end-to-end meetings management platform that integrates its meetings payment system with automated planning and booking processes Read more

Rearden Commerce, Inc. today announced an integration relationship with StarCite, Inc., a leading provider of Web-based solutions to strategically manage corporate meetings and events. With this integration, Rearden Commerce's more than 5,000 Read more

StarCite announced two major new partnerships that will greatly expand the reach of its meetings management platform today at the National Business Travel Association conference. The news included: "Rearden Commerce's more Read more

Meetings technology supplier StarCite has partnered with travel management provider Rearden Commerce and meeting planning firm Experient, both of which will use StarCite's Web-based solutions to manage meetings, it announced this Read more

Siemens Shared Services on 28 September plans to launch Rearden Commerce's Personal Assistant technology in the United States, followed by a rollout in Canada. Signed at the end of the second quarter, the contract represents California-based Read more

Rearden Commerce Inc has appointed Beverly Heinritz as vice president of customer services and product support. Ms Heinritz joins Rearden from Sabre where she was general manager of GetThere. In her newly created role, Ms Heinritz will oversee customer support Read more

Rearden Commerce today announced the appointment of former GetThere general manager Bev Heinritz as its vice president of customer services and product support, effective Aug. 24. Heinritz will oversee the 50-employee implementation, Read more

Rearden Commerce, supplier of a corporate travel booking platform, has named Beverly Heinritz vice president of customer services and product support. Heinritz was general manager of GetThere, the Sabre business unit that provides a Read more

Rearden Commerce this month announced the appointment of former GetThere general manager Bev Heinritz as its vice president of customer services and product support, effective Aug. 24. Heinritz will oversee about 50 employees on the Read more

Continuing to fill the content gaps for corporate customers, some online booking providers recently announced new booking connections that do not use global distribution systems Read more

Amtrak is building direct connections to corporate online booking tools in an effort to better meet the needs of corporate clients and compete with airlines on short-haul routes, particularly those in the Northeast Corridor Read more

Rearden Commerce late last month on its Personal Assistant online booking platform began providing Amtrak content through an application programming interface connection via rail IT services provider Wandrian. Rearden claims to be Read more

Rearden Commerce has added new rebooking, dining and rail capabilities to its Rearden Personal Assistant tool, its on-demand platform that helps companies manage and buy travel services online. The new capabilities help increase productivity and Read more

Use of handheld mobile device applications by corporate travelers has skyrocketed in recent months as some of the largest and newest travel technology providers have entered the market with mobile applications, offering flight status updates, Read more

Acknowledging that "travelers' demands are getting more sophisticated," Tony D'Astolfo, vice president of worldwide sales at Rearden Commerce, is "going back to the drawing board and redoing a bunch of stuff" to the company's Personal Read more

Heading off on a business trip? Don't forget to get a receipt - from the chambermaid, the coat-checker, and the barista. Sound impractical? Maybe, but these days no travel expense is taken for granted, and travel policies now routinely Read more

For the longest time, artificial intelligence has remained in the domain of academics, considered untouchable by investor types. Increasingly, though, this somewhat esoteric science is finding its way into crisp business applications that translate into Read more

Imagine the scenario of a senior executive on a business trip. Before the executive heads out to dinner a restaurant selection is in order. Enter Rearden Commerce and their virtual personal assistant. The executive simply opens the platform and Read more

The Rearden Personal Assistant is a web-based application that consolidates various services that may be purchased by a corporate traveler, such as flight and hotels, car rentals, shipping, conferencing and dining reservations. For companies, it improves Read more

Right now, the online travel market is the only travel market showing positive growth. Players unheard of before the internet dominate travel sales. Not just online travel agents like Expedia and lastminute.com, but also suppliers such as Ryanair Read more

As procurement departments expand their sway over travel management, supplier performance measurement using such procurement-based tactics as key performance indicators, scorecard analysis and service-level agreements have Read more

No one will argue that doing more with less is the biggest challenge travel buyers face today. Management turns to travel buyers for assistance with reducing spending on travel, and, at the same time, for support of efforts to meet company Read more

Forget business class. Ditto room service. Some companies are eschewing hotels altogether, encouraging employees to bunk with buddies when they must hit the road on business. Companies are clamping down on what is typically their Read more

Rearden Commerce has long hung its hat on bringing managed travel controls to services that are related to the travel experience but not traditionally offered by competing intermediaries or suppliers. Rearden books travel, links to expense Read more

Newly formed energy and utility company Integrys Energy Group, created through the merger of several Midwestern firms, in a matter of months contracted with a travel management company, implemented an online booking tool, formed a Read more

Rearden Commerce is a survivor. Founded right before the dot-com bubble peaked in early 2000, it's gone from a tiny company based in a sketchy San Francisco neighborhood to a growing Silicon Valley online service that helps more than 2,000 Read more

One of my favorite startups in Silicon Valley is Rearden Commerce. Few people have heard of it despite the fact that the company has been around since before the first Internet bust in 2000 and has raised $200 million in capital, most of it recently Read more

Business Travel News editors again proudly recognize the 25 business and government executives whose decisions held the greatest sway over the business travel industry in the previous year. Editors vetted nominations that were Read more