Community and Innovation in Higher Education Tech with Huron about Penn State University

10/07/21 • 25 min

Taking a spend management program from excellent to astounding is a speciality that Huron does for its SAP Concur partner customers daily. This certainly was the case for Penn State University, one of the longest-running higher education customers of SAP Concur solutions who was ready to optimize and modernize their spend management program and ERP system. Penn State University leveraged the SAP Concur Higher Education Leadership Forum (CHELF) to confirm with their industry colleagues that Huron was the right partner for them, and then transformed their program before and during the global pandemic. “How do we take the technologies that we have, and the expertise we have, and the needs of different organizations, and just get creative with the stuff to make it work?” asks a Senior Solutions Consultant for SAP Concur, in this compelling podcast conversation with a Consulting Manager for Huron. Discover innovation and community at its finest as they walk us through this incredible transformation story for Penn State University.

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