March 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.
File Transfer Updates
**Planned Changes** Mandatory SFTP with SSH Key Authentication (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel, Intelligence)This release note is intended for technical staff responsible for file transmissions with SAP Concur. For our customers and vendors participating in data exchange through various secure file transfer protocols, SAP Concur is making changes that provide greater security for those file transfers.
- Existing non-SFTP file transfer accounts need to switch to SFTP with SSH Key Authentication before April 10, 2021.
- Existing SFTP file transfer accounts that use password authentication must switch to use SSH key authentication before April 10, 2021.
- SFTP password reset requests require the client to provide an SSH key for authentication.
These changes provide greater security for file transfers.
Beginning on April 10, 2021, SAP plans to start disabling non-compliant file transfer connections. If you have multiple file transfer connections configured, this change applies to all of your file transfer connections.
If you are not using SFTP with SSH Key Authentication, you must take action before April 10, 2021 to avoid disruption of your file transfer connections.
Financial Integration
RELEASE: Sage Intacct Integration (US) (Mar 1) (Products: Expense, Invoice)This feature/change has been targeted for release. For information about this feature/change, refer to the applicable product release notes.Miscellaneous
**Planned Changes** Updated Naming Convention for Sub-URLs (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)As part of our overall cloud platform strategy, SAP is planning to implement a more consistent naming convention for the URLs used to connect to SAP Concur solutions, based on data center. Users will continue to be able to access www.concursolution.com and will be routed automatically to the correct URL or single sign-on (SSO) as part of their sign-in process.
This change supports future URL consistency across all global regions, and a central URL that redirects users to the appropriate data center.
**Planned Changes** SAP Concur Homepage Changes (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)Beginning in late April, SAP Concur plans to redirect clients in the US Datacenter to a new homepage. The appearance of the new homepage is identical to the current SAP Concur homepage. The new homepage has enhanced functionality when services become temporarily unavailable.The roll out of the new homepage will be phased. Clients will begin being migrated to the new homepage in March and additional clients will be migrated to the new homepage over time. The migration of clients to the new homepage is targeted to be completed in May 2021.
This change ensures that the SAP Concur homepage is available even when some services are unavailable and improves the consistency of the sign in experience.
User Administration
**Planned Changes** Updates to User Administration Pages (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel, Budget)Targeted for late March, SAP plans to implement several improvements to the SAP Concur User Administration pages, including:
- Enabling user admins to edit multiple users to perform tasks such as activating users, deactivating users, and sending email invitations.
- Implementing an alert on the Users page that indicates a user’s account is incomplete.
- Adding a feature to the Edit User page that lists fields that are incomplete and provides a link to quickly navigate to the incomplete fields.
- Updating the Users page so that the user admin can click the user’s last name to open the Edit User page for that user.
Client Notifications
SAP Concur Non-Affiliated Subprocessors
The list of non-affiliated subprocessors is available here: SAP Concur list of Subprocessors (English Only)
Monthly Browser Certifications
Monthly browser certifications, both current and planned, are available with the other SAP Concur monthly release notes, accessible from What's New - Standard Edition
