TechValidate Research on Emburse Chrome River

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251 Customers Surveyed

2,133 Data Points Collected

44 Published TechFacts

3 Published Charts

15 Published Case Studies



Selected Research Highlights


Chrome River by Emburse Case Study

Chrome River Helps Shine Lawyers Save 20+ Hours/Month

Introduction

This case study of Shine Lawyers is based on a September 2020 survey of Chrome River by Emburse customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Chrome River has driven accountability for credit card and travel spend. They’ve also reduced loss from unrecovered client disbursements due to a faster card reconciliation process.”
- Alex Scott, Finance Manager , Shine Lawyers

Challenges

Before selecting Chrome River, Shine Lawyers used an ERP Solution and a spreadsheets/manual method to manage their expenses. While they evaluated both Concur and Chrome River to replace this process, they ultimately selected Chrome River as the best choice.

They selected Chrome River to help them:

  • Automate the expense management process
  • Enforce expense policy compliance
  • Increase visibility into company T&E spend
  • Improve reconciliation process for corporate cards
  • Have end-user accessibility

Use Case

Shine Lawyers primarily uses Chrome River to reimburse non-traveling employees for expenses, reimburse traveling employees for expenses, reimburse non-employee expenses (interview candidates, consultants, other) for expenses and spend analytics.

Shine Lawyers said they find the following Chrome River features and functionality very valuable or extremely valuable for their organization:

  • Approval workflow configurability
  • Built-in business rules engine
  • OCR
  • Credit card reconciliation
  • Ease of Use
  • Mobile Capabilities
  • Support & Training
  • Integrations with existing vendors
  • System Reliability

In comparison to the competition, Shine Lawyers rated Chrome River significantly better or better in these areas:

  • Approval workflow configurability
  • Built-in business rules engine
  • Credit card reconciliation
  • ERP integration
  • Ease of use
  • Mobile capabilities
  • Best-in-class support & training
  • OCR
  • System reliability

Results

Shine Lawyers saw a return on investment in under 3 months with Chrome River and strongly agreed with the following statements:

  • Chrome River’s configurability and integrations have given us greater visibility into our business processes.
  • Chrome River helps by extending our accounting software and ERP capabilities to regulate expense policies.
  • Chrome River has improved our ability to reimburse faster.

Shine Lawyers is very satisfied with Chrome River’s ability to:

  • Reduce errors caused by manual data entry
  • Ensure policy compliance
  • Reimburse expenses faster
  • Make corporate card reconciliation easier
  • increase employee satisfaction

Overall, using Chrome River has helped Shine Lawyers:

  • Save finance teams time so they can focus on more meaningful and strategic work
  • Increase productivity by automating mundane, manual tasks
  • Reduce stress associated with expense and/or invoice management
  • Enable remote work with cloud-based, paperless solutions

By using Chrome River, Shine Lawyers estimates their finance team has saved 20- 40 hours per month.

Emburse Chrome River Customer Statistic

93% of previous Concur customers said that Emburse Chrome River’s ease of use is better when compared to the competition.

93%

Chrome River by Emburse Case Study

Global 500 Insurance Company increases employee satisfaction with Chrome River

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 insurance company is based on a September 2020 survey of Chrome River by Emburse customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Chrome River is a great tool to use and has helped us in many ways. " – Procurement Vice President

Challenges

Prior to selecting Chrome River, this Global 500 Insurance Company said they struggled to:

  • Automate the expense management process
  • Enforce expense policy compliance
  • Increase visibility into company T&E spend
  • Improve reconciliation process for corporate cards
  • Have end-user accessibility

Before selecting Chrome River, they evaluated Concur and used Ariba.

Use Case

For this Global 500 Insurance Company, Chrome River helps them to:

  • Enable remote work
  • Reimburse non-traveling employees for expenses
  • Reimburse traveling employees for expenses
  • Leverage analytics

Compared to the competition, this customer said Chrome River was significantly better or best in class in the following areas:

  • Approval workflow configurability
  • Built-in business rules engine
  • Credit card reconciliation
  • Ease of use
  • Mobile capabilities
  • Best-in-class support & training
  • OCR
  • System reliability

This Global Fortune 500 Company said they said they strongly agree with the following statements:

  • Chrome River’s service level and accessibility was an important factor in the decision-making process.
  • Chrome River’s configurability and integrations have given us greater visibility into our business processes.
  • Using Chrome River has helped us to increase employee satisfaction.

They found the following capabilities very valuable to their business:

  • Built-in business rules engine
  • Credit card reconciliation
  • Ease of Use
  • Mobile Capabilities
  • Support & Training
  • System Reliability

Results

The surveyed company said they were satisfied with following results using Chrome River by Emburse:

  • Reduce errors caused by manual data entry
  • Provide better oversight into costs and expenses
  • Ensure policy compliance
  • Reimburse expenses faster
  • Make corporate card reconciliation easier
  • Increase employee satisfaction

This customer said that using Chrome River has:

  • Saved finance teams time so they can focus on more meaningful and strategic work
  • Enabled remote work with cloud-based, paperless solutions

This customer estimates their finance team saves between 10-20 hours a week by using Chrome River.

Chrome River by Emburse Customer Research

What were the business challenge(s) that led you to evaluate and ultimately select Chrome River?

Automate the expense management process
75%
Enforce expense policy compliance
69%
Increase visibility into company T&E spend
38%
Improve reconciliation process for corporate cards
44%
Extend ERP Capabilities
16%
End-user accessibility (mobile app, same experience and training on any device)
56%
Transparent pricing/costs
22%
Other
9%

Chrome River by Emburse Customer Research

Chrome River Capabilities

Customers who evaluated Concur, rated the following capabilities compared to the competition.

Best-in-class Significantly Better Better Worse

Approval workflow configurability
Built-in business rules engine
Credit card reconciliation
ERP integration
Ease of use
Mobile capabilities
OCR
System reliability

Emburse Chrome River Customer Statistic

95% of customers said that Emburse Chrome River’s ease of use is better than the competitions.

95%


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About Emburse Chrome River

Chrome River is part of Emburse, a global leader in expense management and AP automation solutions. Emburse is trusted by more than 14,000 customers in over 120 countries.

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