Beacon Travel
Beacon Travel is a cloud-based solution developed to streamline how you handle travel planning. Beacon Travel is an NIH one-stop travel planning tool, designed to get everyone on the same page, prevent data entry errors, and save your Institute valuable time. Utilize the full value of Beacon to free your team from the repetitive time consuming work so you can focus on fostering creative discoveries and innovative research.
Beacon Travel provides your Institute all the tools to smoothly manage the travel request process. With Beacon HR integration we eliminate manual data entry errors and expedite the review and verification steps of every travel request. With automatic alerts and status updates every team member can efficiently submit and track a request expediting the entire process to final approval.
Key features allow you to:
- Reduce the time to approval of a Travel Request by as much as 75%
- Receive alerts and status updates to eliminate unnecessary time spent notifying and keeping track of colleagues
- Integrate with Beacon HR data to eliminate repetitive data entry steps and avoid manual errors for more accurate reporting and tracking
- Group conference requests by division, rolled up through the organization for faster data entry into OFM
- Rapidly add travelers and track the costs involved for individuals and organizations to attend
- Share information and documentation among the travel team
- Collaborate with other organizations to give or receive travel slots (i.e. trade)
- Report on key data analytics with Beacon Cards
Designed with an easy to use interface, Beacon Travel simplifies your routing and tracking of travel planning. Beacon Travel provides you with better visibility throughout the entire travel planning process using a platform built on the highest cloud security standards.