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August 2019 Shared Planned Changes Professional Edition Admin Summary

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Planned Change Summaries

The items in this section apply to multiple SAP Concur products and/or services and are summaries of the changes targeted for future releases.

SAP Concur reserves the right to postpone implementation of – or completely remove – any enhancement/change mentioned here.

Authentication

These changes are part of the SAP Concur continued commitment to maintaining secure authentication.

**Planned Changes** Change in IP Restrictions

When a user signs in to SAP Concur, one of the validation processes includes checking for and adhering to any IP Restrictions (IPRs). IPRs are specific IPs or IP ranges that are defined by a company to restrict the IPs from which their users can sign in to SAP Concur. An IPR can be a string that contains a list of acceptable IP addresses and/or IP address patterns, for example: "170.242.6.43;170.243.70.42;170.243.70.43;171.159.*.*".

Currently, IPRs are set for each of a company's travel configurations, which creates maintenance issues for companies with many travel configurations and provides opportunities for errors. In addition, new travel configurations are not automatically included and can easily be forgotten.

In a future release, SAP Concur will change this setting from a configuration-level setting to a company-level setting. With the change, one set of IPRs will apply to the entire company.

Be aware that there are very few customers who will be affected by this change. In addition, all of the affected customers will be contacted individually – in advance – by SAP Concur to make any required settings changes.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Customers who use IPRs can be assured that the IPRs apply to the entire company.

**Planned Changes** New SAP Concur Sign In Page

In a future release, the SAP Concur Sign In page will be updated, providing a new sign-in experience for both direct SAP Concur username/password users and Single Sign-On (SSO) users. SSO users will be able to start the SP-initiated SSO sign-in process at www.concursolutions.com.

The new Sign In page feature will include a two-step sign-in process that will provide enhanced security, meet current industry standards and provide a better sign-in success rate. This feature is planned for 2019.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This feature provides better security and a faster, convenient experience for users signing in to SAP Concur products and services.

**Planned Changes** Single Sign-On (SSO) Self-Service Option

Single Sign-On allows users to access multiple applications using one set of login credentials. Currently, SAP Concur has two methods for signing in: with a user name and password or using SSO with Identity Provider (IdP) credentials, such as a user's login credentials for their organisation.

SAP Concur is planning to add a Manage Single Sign-On (SSO) feature to SAP Concur products that provides clients with a self-service option for setting up SSO for their organisation. SSO is currently supported for Concur Expense, Invoice, Request and Travel.

The new Manage Single Sign-On (SSO) feature is a replacement tool for clients using existing SSO configuration and a new tool for clients that now want to implement SSO at their organisation. Existing SSO configuration and the new SSO Self-Service tool will both be available until everyone has migrated to the new SSO Self-Service tool.

The new Manage SSO feature includes the following:

  • A free, self-service option for setting up SSO at your organisation; this new feature will be automatically available to all clients

  • The new SAML2 service, which complies with SAML 2.0 and is a current industry standard

  • Encrypted SAML assertion to address privacy and security concerns

  • Enforcement of SSO at the company level (the ability to select SSO as optional will also be available)

  • The ability to upload multiple Identity Provider (IdP) metadata

  • The ability to download SAP Concur's Service Provider metadata

Other SAP Concur products and services are outside the scope of this initial release.

This feature is targeted for September 2019.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This feature provides SAP Concur customers with a self-service option for setting up SSO and for existing SSO customers who must eventually migrate to the new SSO service to manage SSO for their users.

Budget Insight

**Planned Changes** Budget Insight (Legacy) to Retire in 2019

Budget Insight is a budget management tool that is being retired on 31 December 2019. It is recommended that clients who want to use budget functionality purchase the new Budget product that SAP Concur released last year. The new Budget feature offers greater functionality, an improved UI and additional integrations with SAP Concur products. Most notable is the inclusion of additional expense data from Concur Expense, Concur Invoice and Concur Request (previously only data from Concur Expense and Concur Request was available).

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The retirement of Budget Insight will provide clients with the opportunity to purchase the new Budget product, which gives greater value to clients by making budgets visible, actionable and near real-time.

**Planned Changes** Workflow Step Renamed for Budget Insight - STATUS UPDATE

SAP Concur is currently in the process of re-evaluating this change. With the next release, this information will be removed. If this change is considered again, information will appear in the release notes document.

E-Receipts

**Planned Changes** New Look for Air E-Receipts

As part of our ongoing commitment to e-receipts and the effortless expense claim, air e-receipts generated by SAP Concur based on ticket and coupon data from GDS and some TripLink transactions will be getting a new look.

The new e-receipt format will be released in stages, targeting the August/September timeframe.

User / Customer Benefit: This change brings air e-receipts up to SAP Concur’s standard e-receipt format, providing users with a more consistent experience in Concur Expense. The format is also more convenient for users working in NextGen Expense. This change also eliminates a performance/stability issue for end users who would sometimes not see new air e-receipts as quickly as they should.

File Transfer Updates

**Planned Changes** Mandatory SFTP with SSH Key

Non-SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) protocols and password authentication will eventually be deprecated as of 7 December 2020.

  • For new customers, as of the June release, all new file transfer accounts must use SFTP with Secure Shell (SSH) Key Authentication.

  • For existing customers, existing non-SFTP file transfer accounts need to switch to SFTP with SSH Key Authentication. Existing SFTP file transfer accounts that use password authentication must switch to use SSH key authentication. As of the June release, SFTP password reset requests require the client to provide an SSH key for authentication instead of having their password reset.

  • This announcement pertains to the following file transfer DNS endpoints:
    • st.concursolutions.com

    • st-eu.concursolutions.com

    • st-cge.concursolutions.com

    • st-cge-dr.concursolutions.com

    • vs.concursolutions.com

    • vs.concurcdc.cn

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: These changes provide greater security for file transfers.

**Planned Changes** Source IP Checking (EMEA)

SAP Concur will implement source Internet Protocol (IP) checking for all Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) file transfer accounts on 16 September 2019.

This announcement pertains to the following file transfer DNS endpoint:

st-eu.concursolutions.com

  • For new customers, the IP addresses for new customers will be added by SAP Concur to the SAP Concur access control list (ACL) during implementation.

  • For existing customers, please contact SAP Concur support now to have your source IP addresses added to the SAP Concur access control list (ACL).

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: These changes provide greater security for file transfers.

Product Settings (Standard Edition Only)

**Planned Changes** Continued UI Enhancements for Custom Fields

The Manage Custom Fields module in Product Settings will continue to have user interface (UI) updates in the coming weeks. The planned UI updates will change the look and feel of some existing features or settings. Some small, new feature enhancements may also be added, but these features will be relatively minor. No existing features or functionality will be removed. Some changes will be targeted to align with upcoming releases while other, smaller changes will occur without notice.

The following pages will receive UI updates:

  • Manage Custom Fields

  • Add New Field

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: These updates improve custom field management by providing a better end-user experience.

**Planned Changes** Updated Email Invitation for New Users

The email invitation that is sent to new users to sign in to Standard Editions of Concur Expense, Invoice and Request will soon be updated. The email invitation is an optional feature that can be sent to new and existing users from the Users page in Product Settings.

The email invitation changes include the following benefits:

  • Improved link location so users can easily find the link to sign in to SAP Concur products and change their password

  • Clarified text and formatting changes

This change will be available to new and existing clients.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This change will improve the usability of the email invitation for users by providing clear, concise instructions to sign in and change the password when signing in to the product for the first time.

RELEASE: User Export Allows Bulk Edit of Multiple Users

This feature/change has been targeted for release. For information about this feature/change, refer to the applicable product release notes.

Client Notifications

The items in this section provide reference material for all clients.

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 - Professional Edition