American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

Olivier Sauser

Dionino Di Florio

Dionino Florio

Michael Parker

Clarke Moir Simpson

A method of comparing and analyzing expenditures and savings for a first and a second time period includes a first step of receiving consumption data, expenditure data and market price data for the first and second time periods, a second step of calculating data representing a change in savings from the first time period to the second time period, based on differences between the market price data and the expenditure data for the two time periods, and a third step of outputting the data representing the change in savings from the first to the second time period. The consumption data represents a type and an amount of a commodity consumed during a given time period, the expenditure data represents an actual cost paid for the commodity consumed during that given time period, and the market price data represents a market price of the commodity consumed during that given time period.

System and method for comparing and analyzing expenditures and savings over different time periods

A system, method, and computer program product for managing meetings and allocating and reconciling expenditures. Scheduling information for a plurality of meetings is stored in a database. A plurality of budgets is stored in the database, each of the budgets being associated with and defining budget items for one of the plurality of meetings. Transaction data are received describing a plurality of expenditures made using at least one transaction account, wherein the transaction data comprise an amount expended for each of the plurality of expenditures. A selection of an expenditure, from the plurality of expenditures, and a selection of a meeting related to the selected expenditure from the plurality of meetings are accepted from a user. An allocation of at least a portion of the amount of the selected expenditure to a budget item for the selected meeting is accepted.

System and method for managing meetings budgets and allocating and reconciling expenditures

A method and system for travel savings assessment is disclosed. The invention analyzes the total travel spend of an entity with many members, employees, or other personnel who incur travel costs using various metrics, estimates the savings that may be achieved by known or new entities, calculates and produces periodic reports that track an entity's progress towards obtaining the estimated savings, and can also estimate the potential savings of an entity.

Travel savings assessment

A method and system for air carrier contract management and optimization is disclosed. In particular, the present invention receives and tracks client travel data and air carrier contract data, analyzes this data and configures the data structure to be used in a goal programming algorithm to determine an optimum travel carrier solution.

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Jouars Ponchartrain, France

Olivier Sauser