New capability enables enterprises to build AI-powered travel and expense experiences that can book travel, file expenses, manage vendor spend, and approve requests through natural conversation — while securely accessing a marketplace-driven travel ecosystem through a single connection.

BENGALURU, India and CHICAGO, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TripGain, the AI-powered enterprise Travel & Expense (T&E) management platform, announces the launch of the TripGain MCP Server, a new capability that combines the open Model Context Protocol (MCP) with TripGain’s API Gateway to bring agentic AI to enterprise travel and expense management.

Unveiled at the GBTA Convention 2026, the new capability enables organizations to connect AI assistants directly to TripGain’s Travel & Expense platform, allowing employees to book business travel, file employee expenses, manage vendor expenses, and approve requests through natural conversation. Instead of navigating multiple applications, supplier portals, approval queues, and expense systems, users simply interact with their AI assistant while TripGain securely executes the underlying business workflows.

Enterprise AI is rapidly evolving from helping employees find information to completing real business tasks. The TripGain MCP Server extends this shift to corporate travel and expense by allowing AI assistants to execute enterprise workflows while continuing to leverage TripGain’s policy engine, approval workflows, supplier connectivity, and financial controls.

Built on the open Model Context Protocol introduced by Anthropic in 2024, the TripGain MCP Server acts as the conversational interface between AI assistants and the TripGain platform. What makes the solution unique is its combination with TripGain’s API Gateway. Together, they create a unified execution layer that enables AI assistants to securely access a marketplace-driven travel ecosystem through a single connection. Enterprises can connect to any travel supplier, aggregator, or inventory source supported through TripGain’s API Gateway without building or maintaining individual integrations, custom APIs, approval workflows, or compliance logic.

Rather than acting as just another AI connector, the TripGain MCP Server functions as an intelligent orchestration layer. MCP provides the standardized interface for AI assistants, while TripGain’s API Gateway handles the complexity of supplier connectivity, inventory aggregation, booking workflows, policy enforcement, approvals, and expense processing. This allows organizations to unlock maximum travel inventory and enterprise functionality through a single conversational interface instead of managing dozens of disconnected integrations.

Unlike AI integrations that primarily retrieve information, the TripGain MCP Server is designed to execute enterprise workflows. Employees can simply ask an AI assistant to search and book policy-compliant business travel, submit employee expenses, reconcile vendor expenses, or approve pending requests, while TripGain performs the actions securely in the background according to enterprise policies and workflows.

“Enterprise AI is moving beyond answering questions to completing real business work,” said Sudheer Reddy, Founder and CEO of TripGain. “With the TripGain MCP Server, organizations can extend their AI strategy into enterprise travel and expenses without rebuilding existing systems. Employees simply ask, AI takes action, and TripGain executes securely in the background.”

“The real innovation comes from combining MCP with our API Gateway,” Sudheer added. “MCP gives AI assistants a standard way to communicate with enterprise systems, while our API Gateway gives them access to a connected travel ecosystem through a single interface. Customers don’t need to integrate individual suppliers, maintain APIs, recreate approval processes, or manage complex compliance workflows. They connect once, and TripGain orchestrates the entire experience behind the scenes.”

TripGain MCP Server supports key enterprise workflows including:

Policy-compliant business travel search and bookingEmployee expense capture and submissionVendor expense managementTravel and expense approvals

Beyond end-user experiences, the TripGain MCP Server also enables enterprise development teams to build their own AI-powered travel and expense agents. Developers can leverage TripGain as the execution layer while focusing on creating AI experiences tailored to their business, eliminating the need to build supplier integrations, global inventory connections, approval engines, policy enforcement, or compliance workflows from scratch. Whether an organization connects to a handful of suppliers or an extensive global travel ecosystem, TripGain abstracts the underlying complexity through its API Gateway.

Designed around the open MCP standard, the TripGain MCP Server is AI assistant agnostic, enabling organizations to integrate with MCP-compatible AI assistants of their choice instead of being locked into a single AI ecosystem. The solution is remotely hosted by TripGain and can be enabled through secure endpoint configuration and OAuth authentication, allowing enterprises to get started without deploying additional infrastructure.

“The future of enterprise software isn’t another interface — it’s intelligent systems that work on behalf of employees,” added Sudheer. “We’re not simply exposing travel and expense data to AI. We’re enabling AI agents to execute enterprise operations while TripGain manages the complexity of supplier connectivity, business rules, approvals, and governance behind every transaction.”

By combining the open Model Context Protocol with its marketplace-driven API Gateway, TripGain creates a single intelligent pipe between enterprise AI and the global travel ecosystem. Organizations gain broad access to suppliers and global inventory without the ongoing burden of customizing integrations, configuring booking flows, maintaining API connectors, or continuously updating approval and compliance processes.

About TripGain

TripGain is an AI-powered enterprise Travel & Expense (T&E) management platform that helps organizations simplify business travel, automate expense management, and gain real-time visibility into travel spend. Built on a marketplace-driven, inventory-agnostic architecture, TripGain combines intelligent workflow automation with an extensive API Gateway that connects enterprises to a broad ecosystem of travel suppliers and aggregators. The platform enables organizations to manage travel booking, employee and vendor expenses, approvals, compliance, and financial workflows through a single intelligent platform. Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, TripGain serves more than 400 organizations and processes over US$1 billion in annual travel and expense transactions.

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TOKYO, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh today announced it has been named in the Leaders Category in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Laser Production Printers, 2026 Vendor Assessment[i].

This IDC MarketScape assesses the capabilities and strategies of 11 worldwide vendors of laser production printers. According to the report a ‘key capability is Ricoh’s polymerised toner technology that improves print quality and energy efficiency’. We believe this demonstrates how our technology supports our sustainability goals.

It continued: “More importantly, Ricoh’s core capability in laser production printers is shown not only in the hardware but also in the integration of semiconductor laser technology, electrophotography, toner materials science, and high-volume print engineering developed over nearly 90 years of imaging innovation.”

This latest recognition follows Ricoh being positioned in the Leaders Category in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide High-Speed Inkjet 2025 Vendor Assessment (#US52990625, December 2025).

“We are delighted to again be named a Leader by IDC MarketScape,” said Koji Miyao, President, Ricoh Graphic Communications & Senior Corporate Officer, Ricoh Company, Ltd. “We are especially pleased that our commitment to research and development and the many innovations that result from it have been considered. We believe it confirms the value of our focus on co-innovating with clients and partners to identify and develop solutions that support high quality production, agility, and growth.”

Said Tim Greene, Research Director at IDC, “Ricoh is considered a trusted brand in production printing because it combines engineering heritage, global support, stable technology platforms, and reliable performance, all of which are essential for professional print providers that depend on their equipment for daily business operations.”

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About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

About Ricoh

Ricoh is a global integrator in workplace transformation, operating in approximately 200 countries and regions and headquartered in Tokyo. Supporting customers’ value creation, Ricoh offers workplace services and solutions that empower organisations to work smarter through advanced technologies—including AI— together with long-standing expertise rooted in printing. Ricoh also operates commercial and industrial printing businesses and delivers new solutions leveraging inkjet technology. In the financial year ended March 2026, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,608 billion yen (approx. 16.4 billion USD).

For 90 years since our founding, Ricoh has upheld its mission and vision of empowering individuals to find Fulfilment through Work—and that commitment continues today. By understanding and transforming how people work, we unleash their potential and creativity to realise a sustainable future.

For further information, please visit www.ricoh.com

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TEPLICE, Czech Republic, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Contemporary Nebula Technology Energy Co., Ltd. (CNTE), a global provider of integrated energy storage solutions invested by CATL, has supplied its STAR T containerized energy storage system for the Modlany Energy Park in northern Czech Republic.

The project combines a 42.7 MW photovoltaic power plant with a 37.95 MW/41.7 MWh battery energy storage system, making it the largest completed battery storage project in the Czech Republic. It deploys 11 CNTE STAR T-285 liquid-cooled energy storage containers, each rated at 3.45 MW/3.793 MWh.

CNTE Modlany Energy Storage Project, 37.95 MW/41.7 MWh

Connected to a major high-voltage substation, the project is designed to provide fast-response frequency regulation and grid balancing services. The energy storage system can rapidly charge or discharge according to grid requirements, helping balance fluctuations in photovoltaic generation and electricity demand.

By storing surplus solar power and releasing it when required, the project improves renewable energy utilization and strengthens the flexibility and reliability of the regional power system. It also provides additional balancing capacity as the Czech Republic continues integrating more renewable energy into its electricity network.

Located on a former mining spoil site, the Modlany Energy Park demonstrates how previously unused industrial land can be redeveloped into productive renewable energy infrastructure. The integration of solar generation, battery storage and intelligent energy management creates a more flexible energy asset for the local region.

The project highlights CNTE’s growing presence in the European utility-scale energy storage market and demonstrates the increasing demand for fast-response, high-safety battery storage solutions that can support renewable energy integration and grid stability.

CNTE’s STAR T is a liquid-cooled containerized energy storage system developed for utility-scale applications, including frequency regulation, renewable energy integration and grid-side energy management.

The system supports 1P charging and discharging, enabling rapid power response for frequency regulation and ancillary services. Its modular architecture supports one- to four-hour applications, allowing system configurations to be adapted to different project capacities and operating requirements.

The project deploys 11 CNTE STAR T-285 containerized energy storage systems.

STAR T integrates intelligent liquid cooling, four-level fire protection, precise fire alarm positioning and continuous DC insulation monitoring to support stable operation under demanding grid conditions. Its integrated energy management system and cloud platform provide real-time monitoring, intelligent control and lifecycle asset management.

The Modlany project marks an important milestone for CNTE and the development of large-scale energy storage in the Czech Republic. Through the deployment of STAR T, the project will deliver rapid frequency response, improve renewable energy utilization, and support a more reliable and flexible regional power system.

As Europe continues accelerating renewable energy deployment and modernizing its electricity infrastructure, battery energy storage is becoming increasingly important for balancing power supply and demand, reducing renewable energy curtailment and maintaining grid stability.

CNTE will continue working with customers and local partners across Europe to deliver safe, efficient and scalable energy storage solutions for frequency regulation, renewable integration and other utility-scale applications.

About CNTE

Invested by CATL, CNTE specializes in integrated energy storage solutions, offering research and development, intelligent manufacturing, global sales and localized services. With strict quality control and standardized delivery capabilities, CNTE provides high-safety and high-efficiency energy storage systems for utility-scale, commercial and industrial, and residential applications.

Learn more: https://en.cntepower.com/

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