Deem vs. Egencia

Deem has made life simpler while we make our trips around the states to deliver innovative IT systems with clients. It has incredible synchronization so that whenever you are out for an official trip, the management is notified of your absence in good time. I however a big issue with their hotel reservation system. It does not update the reservations availability in real-time and we get the 'reservation not available message' after booking which brings several inconveniences.

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Overall, Egencia is a good tool for my employees to use when I (or my work partner) aren't available to make the reservations. They can easily access their account and the charges will go on the corporate credit card. This makes it all around easy for the traveling employees.

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• Ease of use. Very user friendly
• Able to book any kind of travel very quickly- air, hotels, etc.
• Can setup airline or hotel preferences so they are displayed first

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• Egencia is an all-in-one booking tool so you can keep everything in once place.
• Egencia works with SAML, so it's easy for users to get set up and logged in.
• Egencia helps keep things in order by preventing bookings without the approval of managers. This can help keep costs low as well.

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• Real-time tracking of flights.
• It logs me out once in a while.

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• Customer service was awful. It was a running joke that when we had to call customer service for something (frequent), it was a crap-shoot whether we were going to get someone that knew what they were doing.
• The website was not intuitive and sometimes made it difficult to find the flights we wanted. Most of the admins resorted to looking for flights on other services and then searching for that flight specifically in Egencia.

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It is just so simple to use.

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I have not been involved with any product support or troubleshooting; however we had an issue where the app or website were down for some time and they were able to resolve the issue and have it back up and running pretty fast so i would say that overall support is pretty good!

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My training was over the phone with some trial and error.

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Deem seems much more efficient. Concur limited the types of hotels or flights that I was able to view. Perhaps they had some kind of admin settings on there blocking access to everything for me. But Deem was much easier and faster to use in my opinion.

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I used another solution which required pending for a consultant to propose options and then waiting for the chosen option to be booked. Contrary to that, in Egencia I searched for the options myself, had the results after short waiting time and was able to finalize the booking without waiting for someone else's action.

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• We are able to compare travel tickets and choose best flight deals for travelling.
• With just one click, we can book flights and hotels.

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• More efficient booking - save time.
• We can specify when additional approval needs to take place based on perimeters that we set (price, class, etc) - save money!
• All electronic - bookings all online so have easy access to all staff trips.

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