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This psychometric pilot study aims to evaluate a new multidimensional simple scale, named the nightmare severity index (NSI) - close to the existing insomnia (ISI) and hypersomnia (HSI) severity indexes. The NSI encompasses all main dimensions of nightmare disorder, evaluating four subdimensions: frequency, emotional impact, diurnal impact, and nocturnal impact of nightmares. The NSI was completed by a total of 102 patients. The majority of the population consisted of women (64%) and outpatient individuals (76%) diagnosed with mood disorders such as depression (31%) and bipolar disorder (41%). Comorbidity with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was prevalent (44%), and psychotropic medications were commonly used (47%). Internal validity analyses indicated that the NSI was well suited for exploratory factor analysis. All items demonstrated satisfactory correlations with the factors, and the questionnaire exhibited good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha >0.7). Higher NSI scores were observed among individuals experiencing nightmare symptoms considering the DSM-5/ICSD-3 criteria. In summary, the NSI proves to be a promising and valuable tool for clinical practice, demonstrating good acceptability, internal validity, and the ability to assess nightmare severity.
Hello Concur community, Concur employees, and users! My name is Chris, and I am a very, very frustrated Concur expense report user. This concur expense software, is probably the worst app I've even worked with, in the past 5-10 years, if not forever. How do you, Concur tool developers, figure out, that a person (such as myself, graduated from a top private university, with a BS and MS in engineering, and 25+ years in the aerospace industry) takes 3+ hours to fill out an expense report, worth approximately $1,000. Your tool is NOT user friendly, it is NOT intuitive, and the silliness of details is astronomical (not unlike my frustration). I could probably write a five-page white paper on how many silly steps and un-intuitive steps one must take, to complete an expense report. Shame on you guys, at Concur, shame on you for maintaining such a dinosauric app in this modern world. Anyone else feel the same way? How my employer still does business with you will be one of the biggest mysteries of my career...
@ChrisSharp hello there. I wanted to reply so you knew that someone from SAP Concur has read your post. I wasn't sure if your post was precipitated by our move to the NextGen UI, but since I've not seen you post before, my guess is that was the reason for your post.
I do want to preface the rest of my response with, and I'm just being transparent here, the team that manages this community is not the development team. We actually do not work with the development team. I wanted to mention this because I am pretty sure members of the development team are not members of this community.
I'm going to agree with you that an expense report should not take 3+ hours to complete. How many expense entries did you have on this report? Are you using a corporate credit card for your expenses and do those corporate card transactions feed into your Available Expenses?
I would like to hear more about one of your statements where you said, "the silliness of details is astronomical". What do you mean by this? Are you referring to the details that must be filled out or are you referring to something else?
I can tell you that our product team has had some newer members added to it and they are committed to taking in feedback from customers and implementing that feedback. So, I encourage you to look into the CEI Program and taking part.
If you have any questions for me about using our products, please let me know. I was in the SAP Concur training group for 12.5 years and am very familiar with how the system works from both and end user and site administrator perspective, so I might be able to provide some tips or things I have found that work well for me so we can cut down the time you spend on your report.
@jlvollmer would you be willing to provide some examples of what specifically gets your blood pressure up? Can you walk me through your usual process when it comes to doing expenses? Knowing this might help me provide you a tip or two.
As a user of the SAP Concur expense system, I appreciate its robust features and capabilities. However, I believe the user experience could be significantly enhanced by integrating spreadsheet functionalities into the interface. This would provide a familiar and intuitive layout for users who are accustomed to working with spreadsheets for financial data.
Furthermore, the ability to import and export data from and to Excel would be a valuable addition. This feature would streamline the process of transferring data between systems and make it easier for users to manipulate and analyze their expense data in a tool they are comfortable with.
OK, I just spent 2 months on the road. I travel with my wife and dogs. So because the current per diem rates don't reflect reality due to inflation, I went over per diem most days. So, in order to exclude an amount I have to first click to the over per diem page. I have to note what days I am over and an amount. the click to the expenses page. I click on a meal I want to exclude the overage for. Click. Change the type to misc. click add itemization, click set as misc, exclude the amount, click to add another, set as meal, enter the amount, click save then go back to the expense list and do the next day. Do that 18 times. It is stupid that I cannot do all that from one page. I want to quit my job rather than face this stupidity for every trip.
@russellsnow I totally understand the frustration. However, companies should re-evaluate per diems due to inflation. SAP Concur doesn't control the per diem amounts companies use, so while I can sympathize with your issue, I would recommend speaking to your site administrator and explain the frustration and extra work you are now experiencing. Hopefully they will listen and make some updates to help you and your colleagues out.
I'm in the same boat. Our company has used Concur for travel and expenses for a very long time. While there have been some improvements over time (receipt management and apps to take easier pictures of receipts), it is the most painful part of my business travel. Our website responds very slowly when loading the selection options. The Hotel Itemization USED TO have a method of inserting the single room price/daily tax/etc. that could be spread across a date range. Now it seems like you have to create a new Itemization for each and every day? The Help tool is no help at all. I barely found this community forum to try and find more insights. Multiple co-workers I know just pay for their own meals on business trips simply because they want to MINIMIZE their required time in Concur. For the moderator, I understand you are not the developer and I appreciate that. So, any hints or directions other tools that seem to be related to the frustrations posted here would be appreciated.
@dougpeeler I can speak to the hotel itemization. We actually have made the experience better. You can certainly enter a single room rate and taxes and spread it across multiple days. You can now even more easily enter differing room rates and taxes if the rate changes over the course of the stay. See my screenshot below. When itemizing room rates, you just need to make sure it is set to Recurring Item, which is the default.
The only tip for speeding things up is to use our mobile app, especially for receipt capture. I always suggest to users to immediately open the mobile app and use it to snap a picture of the receipt. I don't know if your company is using ExpenseIt, but if so, take advantage of that feature. For out of pocket expenses, you can use ExpenseIt to take a picture of the receipt and within about a minute or less, it will create the expense entry for you. Once available, add it to your report.
If the expense incurred was paid for on your corporate card, you can still use ExpenseIt. It will create the entry as I just described and go to your Available Expenses. Let it sit there and when the corporate card transaction for that item comes in, it should get matched to the ExpenseIt item, which already has the receipt image.
My last tip is to create your expense report even before you travel. Have it sitting there already and when you incur an expense (out of pocket) you can immediately add the entry to your report. If you use ExpenseIt, it will do most of the data entry work for you.
Key KevinD, thanks for the quick response. The screen post did not show up in your entry. In regards to the recurring cost being Default, that is not what I see in my experience. Maybe my company has deployed differently? I perform most of my entries via we browser site for easier typing and navigation vs. mobile.
In regards to creating an expense report before I complete the trip, I've tried that in the past only to have difficult reconciling the charges that sometimes accurately get identified and those that don't. It seems to me that I end up generating double work with that approach. I'll try again on my next trip in a few weeks.
The itemizations are infuriating because you cannot just click and enter the new number. A WHOLE NEW WEBPAGE LOADS. Stupid. Give ma table with all the data and let me have spreadsheet functions. Sort on different columns and do operations on multiple lines. For example, my stupid company puts a warning if you don't itemize the alcohol for each meal. In a multi month TDY this is tedious. Fortunately, you can ignore it but you get 89 warnings to ignore. There should be a way fix all of them with a group action. If there is, I haven't found it. The cycle time for every operation adds up to boiling over frustration. Especially when your company had a system that worked great, gave you a more spreadsheet like experience AND WAS REPLACED BY THIS GARBAGE for no apparent reason.
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