Booking travel through the previous TMC was onerous, but reporting was the real ordeal. “We had to wait until the 15th of the following month to get any kind of meaningful reporting,” said Sharon who was often left scrambling to input numbers into the general ledger before the company’s monthly close.

Managing global travel — a necessity for Amobee, with offices in Israel, Australia, Singapore, London, and beyond — was a hassle for both traveling employees and Sharon’s team, since Amobee’s old TMC lacked direct support abroad.

“Each of those TMCs had different tools and pricing structure,” Sharon said. “I couldn’t get a complete picture of what was happening.”

With Navan, Sharon is able to access traveler information and reporting in real time. “We don’t have to rely on anyone else, and we can arrange the reporting exactly how we’d like,” she said. That means no more waiting until the following month to access reports or manually combing through them to identify out-of-policy bookings.

Instead, Amobee gets the flexibility to build out multiple policy tiers with accompanying notifications. And when an employee books out of policy, Sharon and the relevant managers receive and email with details of the booking. “We then just need to determine whether it’s ok or not,” Sharon said.