Business travel steering toward mobile with new ground transportation app


Skift Take

Deem Ground doesn't represent your arriving car's location by a red pin on a map, but it is still an improvement over merely using your phone -- the voice-calling part -- or a website to book or change your transportation. Nothing moves fast in managed business travel, but this looks like a step forward.

Managed travel is getting more mobile as Rearden Commerce announced the pending launch of a Deem Ground mobile app for corporate users of its Saturn Reservations system. Business travel has been slow to join the mobile party, but major providers such as Rearden Commerce, with $340 million in funding from the likes of American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Citi, and a handful of venture capital c