November 2021 Shared Planned Changes Standard Edition Admin Summary
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Planned Change Summaries
The items shown here are summaries of the release notes for this month. For the Professional Edition release notes, refer to the monthly release notes page. For the Standard Edition release notes, refer to the monthly release notes page.
Localisation
RELEASE: Translations for Distribute Term (Traditional Chinese) (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)This feature/change has been targeted for release. For information about this feature/change, refer to the applicable product release notes as indicated.
Fax Feature
**Planned Changes** Fax Feature to be Decommissioned (Products: Expense, Invoice)In a future release, the Concur Fax Feature will be decommissioned. This change is targeted for the latter half of 2022. The Fax feature was retired in 2020. Clients onboarded after 15 July 2020 do not have access to this feature. Among clients with access, very few use the feature regularly and, among those that use it, use has declined steadily. Removal of the Fax feature improves the security, performance and scalability of SAP Concur solutions. In addition, The Concur Fax Feature attaches files only at the header level of expenses and invoices. As a result, clients who use the Fax Feature cannot take advantage of recent innovations that apply only to images and attachments at the line-item level.
Product Settings
**Planned Changes** Product Settings Page Enhancements (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request)
SAP plans to enhance the Product Settings page in Concur Standard Edition. These changes improve the functionality of the Product Settings page.
- A new link to the Deployment Toolkit appears at the top of the page.
The Deployment Toolkit link can be permanently dismissed from the page.
- If any required information is missing from the Accounting, Expense Types for Expenses, Employee Reimbursements or VAT settings pages, an alert appears at the top of the Product Settings page and on the tile for the affected setting.
For example, if Expense Types have not yet been mapped to Account Codes on the Expense Types for Expenses page, an alert appears at the top of the Product Settings page and on the Expense Types for Expenses tile.
- If required information is missing from a settings page, an alert appears at the top of the affected settings page.
For example, if VAT configurations have not yet been set up, an alert appears at the top of the Taxation – VAT Tracking page.
Release Note Admin Summaries
**Planned Changes** Streamlined Delivery (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)
Currently, the monthly release note admin summaries are provided in two file formats:- As pdf files from the classic landing pages.
- As html files from the in-product Help systems and the SAP Help Portal.
SAP Concur plans to provide only html files from the in-product Help system and the SAP Help Portal. The SAP Help Portal provides a Create Custom PDF link.
A single location will provide a consistent user experience for accessing this content and free resources for work on new content.
SAP Concur User Assistance
RELEASE: Help Menu Directed To SAP Help Portal (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)
This feature/change has been targeted for release. For information about this feature/change, refer to the applicable product release notes as indicated.RELEASE: New User Assistance Tool for End Users (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)
This feature/change has been targeted for release. For information about this feature/change, refer to the applicable product release notes as indicated.
SAP Concur Support
**Planned Changes** Suggested Solutions Migration (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)Targeted for Q1 2022, the Solution Suggestions platform that SAP Concur provides will be migrated into the SAP Continuous Influence – Improvement Requests program. This change will provide a better user experience and a single place for Authorised Support Contact (ASC) users to engage with all SAP Concur Customer Influence programs.
To support this change, SAP Concur will no longer review suggestions submitted to the Solution Suggestions platform after 1 December 2021.
In addition to offering a better tool with more functionality, SAP Concur is improving the entire process of how ASC user ideas will be reviewed, considered, and implemented.
Security
**Planned Changes** Some TLSv1.2 Ciphers No Longer Supported (Feb 2022) (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)
- AES256-GCM-SHA384
- AES128-GCM-SHA256
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
- TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
To ensure that connections to *.concursolutions.com and *api.concursolutions.com are not disrupted, clients and partners who connect to *.concursolutions.com and *api.concursolutions.com through an application that uses an unsupported cipher must update the application to a supported cipher before 1 February 2022.
This update provides ongoing security for our products and services.
Supported Configurations
**Planned Changes** Change in Support for Internet Explorer 11 (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel, Intelligence)On 1 January 2022, SAP Concur plans to begin transitioning away from support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11). This change is in line with other SAP solutions, industry best practices and Microsoft’s lifecycle policy for IE 11.
Until Cognos 11 has been rolled out for all Analysis and Intelligence customers, we will provide support and allow exceptions for investigation to issues related to Cognos 10 and IE 11. For more information, refer to the Cognos 11 User Interface Update FAQ.
After 1 January 2022, SAP Concur development teams will not design new features, user interface enhancements or security or bug fixes with IE 11 in mind. Over time, new functionality and existing functionality might not work properly on IE 11.
SAP Concur users will not be blocked from access when using IE 11. They will still be able to sign into their SAP Concur solutions. However, to ensure their users can continue to work successfully and securely with SAP Concur solutions, SAP recommends that clients move away from allowing use of SAP Concur solutions on IE 11 and move to a more modern, supported browser.
This change enables SAP to speed up adoption of the latest browser innovations and provide a stronger security posture.
Client Notifications
Accessibility Updates
SAP implements changes to better meet current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Information about accessibility-related changes made to SAP Concur solutions is published on a quarterly basis. You can review the quarterly updates on the Accessibility Updates (English only) page.
SAP Concur Non-Affiliated Subprocessors
The list of non-affiliated subprocessors is available here: SAP Concur list of Subprocessors (English Only)
Supported Browsers
Supported browsers are available with the other SAP Concur monthly release notes, accessible from What's New - Standard Edition
