OpenAir PSA vs. SAP Concur

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OpenAir PSA
Score 6.3 out of 10
N/A
NetSuite OpenAir is a cloud-based Professional Service Automation (PSA) product which includes capabilities around project management, resource management, project accounting, etc.N/A
SAP Concur
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
SAP Concur is a SaaS expense report management product, and handles corporate travel booking, expense report automation, reimbursement, audit, and business intelligence, and corporate card integration.
$9
per month
Pricing
OpenAir PSASAP Concur
Editions & Modules
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Concur Travel and Expense
$9.00
per report (average price)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
OpenAir PSASAP Concur
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
OpenAir PSASAP Concur
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
OpenAir PSASAP Concur
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
OpenAir PSA
7.3
15 Ratings
3% below category average
SAP Concur
-
Ratings
Task Management8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management7.515 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling6.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation6.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology6.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access7.512 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking7.014 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management7.514 Ratings00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
OpenAir PSA
8.6
10 Ratings
15% above category average
SAP Concur
-
Ratings
Quotes/estimates8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Invoicing9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting8.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
OpenAir PSA
-
Ratings
SAP Concur
8.4
224 Ratings
5% above category average
Employee Expense Reporting00 Ratings8.7221 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation00 Ratings8.1159 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
OpenAir PSA
-
Ratings
SAP Concur
7.8
185 Ratings
2% below category average
Customizable Approval Policies00 Ratings8.2155 Ratings
Financial Document Management00 Ratings8.2128 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking00 Ratings7.9155 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail00 Ratings7.5141 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection00 Ratings7.9126 Ratings
Advanced OCR00 Ratings7.1117 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer00 Ratings7.7106 Ratings
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User Ratings
OpenAir PSASAP Concur
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(20 ratings)
8.1
(692 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(7 ratings)
6.5
(29 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(4 ratings)
5.9
(71 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(3 ratings)
7.2
(9 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(3 ratings)
7.2
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
5.5
(6 ratings)
8.9
(36 ratings)
In-Person Training
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.6
(9 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.6
(47 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.6
(47 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.8
(5 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.8
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
OpenAir PSASAP Concur
Likelihood to Recommend
NetSuite
This product is well suited for an organization that is focused on client services, project delivery, time tracking, expense reporting, and revenue recognition. From a pure project management perspective, this product is not as feature rich as say Microsoft Project Server. For organizations that are looking for detailed complex project plan and resource management (along with resource leveling, etc.), this is probably not the best suited product
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SAP Concur
I would highly recommend SAP Concur as it's the best tool for managing all our business travel and expenses in one place. It's very easy to use and has a very dedicated and supportive customer team available 24/7. The mobile app makes it easy to manage all our expenses through an intuitive and user-friendly interface.
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Pros
NetSuite
  • Netsuite OpenAir PSA is highly configurable and has a large ecosystem of assets to work with.
  • Tasks are easily designed to automate processes in your business workflow.
  • OpenAir is designed in such a way that it can communicate and receive information from external systems without having to re-engineer your systems to make them work if you are following standard business practice.
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SAP Concur
  • SAP Concur has mobile applications for iOS and Android devices.
  • It offers capabilities that automate complex and repetitive accounting processes.
  • In addition, SAP Concur offers invoice, travel, and expense modules in one place.
  • It eradicates errors when paying vendors by matching POs, invoices, and receivables.
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Cons
NetSuite
  • Compared to QuickArrow, setting up reports to reflect the data accurately seemed to require a bit more consultant time and collaboration. Getting the numbers correct is essential, so budget extra time for this iniative. We also learned that certain calculations can not be displayed in the executive dashboards. Ask these questions upfront to ensure your dashboards are complete for your needs (again, working backwards in the preparation stages).
  • Compared to QuickArrow, NetSuite OpenAir PSA falls short in the resource management capabilities. UI, flexibility, and scheduling options all could be improved. This is on their roadmap, timeline yet to be defined. Scheduling is vitally important to our company and this is THE area where we feel is the applications weakest. However, the application does provide everything critical to scheduling and provided the elements we needed in order to be successful. We altered our scheduling process accordingly.
  • During our System Administration 3 day online training, when a question was asked about detailed functionality, sometimes the trainer would share..."Yes, OpenAir has a configuration for that. Just inquire with your consultant and they can flip that flag in your instance." The responsibility for obtaining these special application configurations was placed on the System Admin [in training] to ask and to take notes. If your company needs the application to work a certain way, speak up and ask your OA consultant. There seems to be MANY flags that can be flipped in the background to allow for the system to meet your needs. My complaint is that these are not published, rather made available if one inquires.
  • OpenAir is able to generate invoices directly and we strongly encourage using this feature to keep everything housed under one application. However, this did not work for our organization and we leveraged a financial integration. A bit of a pioneer integrating with Softrax -- the integration works well, however is quite fragile. We do receive appropriate support when needed, but would prefer the integration to be a bit more stable. We recommend integrating with their stated supported financial systems, as staying the course will likely net a more stable integration.
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SAP Concur
  • Data syncing between the mobile app and the web platform may occasionally experience a little delay. That is not a major problem, but it can cause small inconsistencies in real-time data.
  • Concur's setup features may seem a little complicated to certain administrators.
  • Concur offers a number of powerful reporting services, but some users might want more in-depth options for tailoring reports to their own business requirements.
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Likelihood to Renew
NetSuite
It all depends. We are still looking at moving our consultants to Oracle PAC, in order to get our financial systems in line (we use Oracle Financials currently). We are feeling a lot of pain with integration and segmented systems.

Ultimately,it depends on how much pain is felt there. OpenAir has given us a path to follow on from QuickArrow. I foresee either moving onto Oracle PAC by end of calendar, or staying on OpenAir.

OpenAir to Oracle integration is not easy. From a reporting and process perspective, there’s been pain from being in different systems
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SAP Concur
Now that we are fully on Concur, switching is not an option. Concur has become ingrained in our expense reporting process. Furthermore, Concur continues to improve its offering. Each month, they release updates and changes, many of which were client requested. Concur's constant evolution means it is adapting with my business
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Usability
NetSuite
In this day and age I should not have to read a manual to understand a product. It should be intuitive to administrate and perform basic tasks. It feels like a ton of intelligence was poured into making OpenAir feature rich but no where near as much attention was given to the user experience.
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SAP Concur
I think it is very easy to use, especially once you are acquainted with it. I think the UX could be improved so some things, like accessing old reports, are more intuitive once you learn it though it is not difficult to replicate.
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Reliability and Availability
NetSuite
The system up time was reliable and that was never anything we ever had any concerns/issues with.
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SAP Concur
In prior years I would have given them a 9.5 for availability. Unfortunately in 2015 so far this rating has dropped to a 7 overall.
We have experienced far too many interruptions - from admins to employees who rely on it for day to day booking of travel and submission of expense reports. Server errors, slow system response time and spinning wheels are too common place. Those things should be a rare occurrence, not a daily interruption.

While Conur still has great product offerings overall, they are currently not offering world class or best in class product (and customer service) availability. Remaining hopeful they step up and get their A game going again soon.
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Performance
NetSuite
The performance was acceptable. If you had a very large data set you were working with it might take a little longer, but within reason.
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SAP Concur
Pages always load quickly, reports are always completed in a quick and efficient time frame, and everything about the experience is swift. I've never had any frustrations or complexities that can't be handled easily
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Support Rating
NetSuite
As an admin, I've had more contact with OA support than most. I've found their response to tickets typically timely and helpful, however many of the responses to tickets are "we will file an enhancement request" and then I never hear about it again. So not terrible, but not a very fulfilling experience.
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SAP Concur
I have never had to use customer support when using Concur Expense - the UX could be a bit nicer on the eyes or easier to understand, but there have never been any problems when using Concur Expense that I have had to ask or reach out to customer support to help me with anything.
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In-Person Training
NetSuite
Very knowledgeable and able to articulate how other customers configured the solution to meet their needs as well as the best practices they recommended.
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SAP Concur
My Seniors were the ones who taught me about Concur. Concur Support team has sent me training links and answered me in their tickets too. Usually they are helpful and knows their stuff. There are times when webex meetings is conducted for reporting training. They were very patient and took down all the details from me.
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Online Training
NetSuite
We did a 3 day online remote course back in April. NetSuite prefers training to occur before migration. We went over the functionality of tool and three months later we migrated. Personally, I didn’t find it that beneficial. Certain parts of it were beneficial as they applied to me – talked a lot about invoicing capabilities that didn’t apply to me. They also have knowledge base / e-learning assets, but I haven’t referred to them
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SAP Concur
To the point and adapted to user
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Implementation Rating
NetSuite
It went fine. Everything came over the way we wanted. In addition to migrating the current projects we wanted to migrate historical data – did that seamlessly. The finished product looked pretty good – just needed to tweak – and they helped us with that
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SAP Concur
There are different implementation teams for each module of the product you purchase, so implementation is not a 'one size fits all' environment. Also, the different implementation teams have different ways of doing things, so Concur could stand some standardization and streamlining in this area. A Project Manager can make or break an implementation so don't be scared to ask for a new one if things are rocky.
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Alternatives Considered
NetSuite
OpenAir accurately reflects changes in real-time as well as lends itself to see where a draw is at, when payment is expected and what percentage of the contract has been billed or approved to date. This helps with project billing and tracking as well as cash flow. Quickbooks lacks the ability to show progress draws, approved changes, and pending changes on a given project where OpenAir excels.
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SAP Concur
We have not used any other product for travel and expense management. Earlier this process was manual through HR and Accounts department. SAP Concur now makes the bookings and reimbursements process online and easy for us. SAP Concur also keep track and records of all expenses done. Therefore, it helped our teams to manage financials.
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Scalability
NetSuite
Once the system is setup, it's easy to manage and maintain.
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SAP Concur
This program has been very helpful, user friendly and has been a great asset to use to assist with time management. Not only are leadership involved with using this program but all staff as well. This is also a great way to hold each accountable. Easy startup with not many means for hands on training
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Return on Investment
NetSuite
  • It covers our requirements for time tracking and project/resource management better than the previous solution we used.
  • Project managers are happier having this tool for their job and also because it is running on the cloud as opposed to running on-prem.
  • It doesn't help in any way improving the "chasing" of the people that don't submit their time-sheets in time. This one stayed the same as before.
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SAP Concur
  • One of the things that I can notice the most through the use of this software is the ease with which I can make travel reservations for business meetings in other cities.
  • As it is a multifunctional software, it allows us to carry out different tasks, and we can finish in record time, so we can also focus on different tasks that are also important for the proper development of the company.
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ScreenShots

SAP Concur Screenshots

Screenshot of a picture of a receipt snapped from a smartphoneScreenshot of analytics from SAP ConcurScreenshot of the integrated travel and expense applicationScreenshot of the SAP Concur mobile app