Travel management begins Upstream

The travel operations, spend and data platform

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Aggregate

63+

platforms integrated

integrate all content sources

Automate

10B+

transactions processed

up to 70% productivity gain

Analyze

400+

data sources

per company, on average

Act

500+

customers

driving results globally

The Platform

Cornerstone’s integrated solution, Upstream, ties three major areas of your organization into a single powerful platform.

Data Management

At Cornerstone, data is in our DNA. Store, manage, and deliver high quality data, generate insights, and drive action with advanced tools.

Spend Management

Synchronize ERP, payment and HR systems with expense and AP, combining indirect and direct spend with analytics to drive insights, decisions, and superior business outcomes.

Travel Operations

Automate workflow and services that deliver measurable savings and insights to manage your travel operations.

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Proven solutions for today’s challenges and beyond

through collaboration, experience and innovation

NDC

DATA SILOS

CLIMATE

COST CONTROL

Explore Our Solutions

Your business is constantly changing, static doesn’t work

tailored solutions that evolve with you

Your role is unique, so is our solution

find your fit with the platform that makes you shine

Operations

Automation and analytics save time and reduce workload

Deploy scalable solutions into your existing IT architecture

Finance

Get a handle on spend with data capture and sync

Data Analyst

Knock down data silos across the org with one platform.

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How we help

Webinar

Rethinking Travel Policy: Finding the Right Balance Between Cost, Compliance, and the Traveler Experience

Travel leaders from the Ford Foundation, Zillow, and SportsCorp Travel share how they balance cost, compliance, duty of care, accessibility, and traveler experience while using data and AI to build more effective policies for today’s workplace.

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Blog

Why Travel RFPs Take Longer Than They Should (And How to Fix It)

Travel RFPs take longer because all critical information is scattered across booking tools, expense systems, and supplier reports. Learn how connected data can simplify sourcing, strengthen negotiations, and guide supplier decisions.

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Blog Post

What We Heard at ProcureCon Travel 2026

ProcureCon Travel 2026 highlighted the shift toward simpler policies, practical AI adoption, connected data, and smarter workflows. Explore what these trends mean for travel leaders balancing cost, traveler needs, and business value.

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Blog Post

Why Travel Policy Compliance Remains One of the Biggest Operational Challenges for Travel Programs

Travel policy exceptions are tough to manage while teams rely on manual reviews and delayed reports. Learn how earlier visibility, automated notifications, and streamlined approvals can reduce workload and improve program compliance.

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Webinar

Total Trip Cost: What Travel Leaders Are Learning About Smarter Spend, Better Visibility, and More Defensible Decisions

Total trip cost goes beyond airfare and hotels. Experts discuss how connected data reveals hidden expenses, improves visibility, balances traveler experience with cost control, and supports smarter, more defensible program decisions.

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Guide

5 Things You Can Do with Total Trip Cost and 5 Things You Can’t

Discover what Total Trip Cost can and cannot do for your travel program. This guide explores data readiness, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, sourcing, leakage analysis, traveler experience, and the true cost of each business trip.

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Blog

Upstream Is Here: A New Era of Travel & Expense Data Has Begun

We’re proud to officially announce the commercial release of Upstream™, Cornerstone’s next-generation data management platform, available worldwide starting October 22, 2025.

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Our Partners

“Cornerstone has made life significantly easier for our team by providing the scalability and efficiency that our old platform lacked. As we continued our rapid global expansion and sought access to new content, our previous solution struggled to keep up. With Cornerstone, we’ve been able to seamlessly integrate new content, automate complex booking processes, and support the exceptional experience our customers expect.”

Kyle Grubbs

Navan
Director, Travel Operations

“Chevalier consolidated data across 18 sources with her partner Cornerstone [Upstream] and applied that across the Pretium portfolio of companies to secure customized, value-driven negotiated deals with this data approach during a time when small and midsize companies are more often being delivered “off-the-shelf” programs from suppliers.” Business Travel News

Maria Chevalier

Pretium
Global Director Travel & Expense

Cornerstone truly understands the complexities of the travel industry and has helped us remain agile across everything from booking to operations and reporting. Their travel operations solution has streamlined our mid office processes, enabling us to deliver a consistently high-quality experience for our customers.”

Sangeeta Murali

Navan
Vice President, Travel Operations

“Cornerstone’s technology is flexible enough to manage the exceptions. It’s really helpful to our customers and even allows us to turn reporting over to them!”

Brenda Ortman

VP Corporate Division
El Sol Travel

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