Company Card

With this release, Concur displays a new VISA logo icon next to Expense-based card accounts associated with a VISA account.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This enhancement aligns Expense with the latest client branding initiatives.

Internet Browsers

In earlier release notes, we announced that the Users by Browser report would be removed in June.

The decision has been made to keep the report. A replacement may become available in the future. An announcement will be made in future release notes.

Company Card

With this release, new fields are available for the Japan market that can capture additional data included in overseas transactions. This is useful for clients who want to use these fields in their workflow and accounting extract configurations to capture this transaction data for their financial systems.

These fields include:

• Merchant City
• Merchant State
• Merchant Country Code

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This enhancement allows Expense to capture additional data found in overseas transactions.

Concur Solutions Home Page

The Quick Tips section of the Concur Solutions home page (concursolutions.com) is targeted to be removed in the July service release.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This update simplifies the home page, making it easier to view and access the information on the page.

Expense Assistant

Expense Assistant will soon be available for Expense in August or September. Expense Assistant has the following features:

• The feature is enabled by default for the company, but can be turned off, if needed, at the company level to block access for all users. If the company allows access to Expense Assistant, each individual user will be allowed to opt in to use this feature.
• If there are any expenses in Available Expenses, Expense Assistant will add them to an expense claim.
• Expense Assistant will not add expenses to a returned expense claim. The exception is when a returned claim includes a transaction that now matches an expense in Available Expenses.

For example, if the returned claim contains an ExpenseIt expense, and a credit card transaction that matches that expense is in Available Expenses, when the claim is returned, Expense Assistant will combine the ExpenseIt transaction with the credit card transaction.

• When the user opens an expense claim, any transactions added by Expense Assistant since the user last viewed the claim will be formatted in bold. The bolding will be removed when the user opens and views that expense.
• Expense Assistant sends a summary email of all the activity that happened in the expense claim to the user once a week.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This feature automates more of the expense reporting process, to provide an easier end user experience.

For additional details, refer to the Expense Assistant FAQ available from Help > Expense Administration Help > Resources for Administrators - Professional Edition > Client Fact Sheets (English Only).

Fiscal Calendar

Concur is targeting to release the enhanced fiscal calendar for Analysis/Intelligence in July. A fiscal calendar allows organisations to define their accounting periods independent of the standard calendar year. Many organisations define their own calendars to model their financial reporting to reflect seasons in their business, to compare results with direct competitors and to avoid the busy year-end season in January.

The new fiscal calendar will be available in Reporting Configuration, which is accessed via Administration > Expense.

For more information, refer to the release notes for Analysis / Intelligence.

Legacy Expense Authorisation Request

Concur plans to retire our legacy Expense Authorisation Request feature on 31 March 2018.

Concur offered this feature to some clients prior to the existence of the standalone Concur Request product. We now have feature parity as well as enhanced features and full support on the standalone Request product. Clients that wish to leverage a request capability within Concur should purchase and migrate to the Concur Request product.

A client-facing FAQ is available: http://assets.concur.com/concurtraining/cte/en-us/legacy_request_retirement_faq.pdf

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This retirement allows Concur to focus development resources on further enhancements to our standalone Concur Request product whose functionality, innovation and value now exceeds that of our legacy feature.

Microsoft IE v.10

Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) version 10 browsers under Concur products will end on 18 August 2017. Concur strongly advises clients using IE v.10 to update to the latest IE browser version before that date, or to install and work with another supported browser.

Users still using IE v.10 will see a banner.

TLS v 1.0 Encryption Protocol

Please note these dates:

- EU datacentre: Completed on Tuesday, 4 April 2017

- US datacentre: MOVED TO Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Concur announces an End of Support cycle for version 1.0 of the TLS encryption protocol, continuing support for the more secure 1.1 and 1.2 versions of TLS. As background, the TLS protocol allows secure back and forth communications between a phone or computer and a cloud-based service.

Note that, since less than 1% of Concur users are logging in to Concur Solutions using browsers or phones limited to version 1.0, a very small number of users are affected by this support discontinuation.

We have moved the date in order to give our clients ample time to understand and make the required manual changes to their browser's security settings. These changes will be detailed in an upcoming service release.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Concur is taking this step after careful consideration of both the client’s security and ease of upgrade to the newer, more secure 1.1 and 1.2 versions of TLS. This end of life plan for TLS v 1.0 ensures our clients are communicating with Concur services in a safe and secure manner using TLS v. 1.1 and newer.

USB IC Card Readers – Japan

The USB IC Card reader solution for capturing Japanese IC Card travel information in Expense utilises a reader connected to a single computer. Because Microsoft is deprecating the ActiveX technology leveraged by this solution, Concur is ending support for the solution.

Important dates:

• On 1 August 2017, Concur will no longer support this solution.
• After 31 December 2017, the solution is being retired and will no longer work in Concur.

As a replacement, Concur's current solution uses a Network IC Card Reader, which our Japanese clients are already deploying. The Network IC Card Reader has the benefit of allowing multiple users to import transactions at a central location.

For the Network IC Card Reader release note, refer to the October 2016 version of this document.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This retirement keeps Concur users aligned with current technology.

Client Notifications

The list of non-affiliated subprocessors is available here: Concur Non-Affiliated Subprocessors (English Only)

Monthly browser certifications, both current and planned, are available with the other Concur monthly release notes, accessible from What's New - Professional Edition