Authentication

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.

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 (Professional Edition Only)

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

File Transfer Updates

This feature/change was released on the target release date of 23 November. For information about this feature/change, refer to the applicable product release notes.

This release note is intended for technical staff responsible for file transmissions with SAP Concur. For our customers and suppliers participating in data exchange through various secure file transfer protocols, SAP Concur is making changes that provide greater security for those file transfers.

Non-SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) protocols and SFTP password authentication will no longer be allowed to connect to SAP Concur products as of 7 December, 2020.

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

This feature/change, previously targeted for 21 October, 2019, release is now targeted for a release date to be determined. This release note is intended for technical staff responsible for file transmissions with SAP Concur. For our customers and suppliers participating in data exchange through various secure file transfer protocols, SAP Concur is making changes that provide greater security for those file transfers.

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

This Release Note is intended for the technical staff responsible for file transmissions with SAP Concur. For our customers and suppliers participating in data exchange through various secure file transfer protocols, SAP Concur is making changes that provide greater security for those file transfers.

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

This release note is intended for technical staff responsible for file transmissions with SAP Concur. For our customers and suppliers participating in data exchange through various secure file transfer protocols, SAP Concur is making changes that provide greater security for those file transfers.

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

Miscellaneous

SAP Concur is announcing an end-of-support cycle for version 1.1 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption protocol, while continuing support for the more secure version 1.2 of TLS. As background, the TLS protocol allows secure back and forth communications between a phone or computer and a cloud-based service.

This change is currently planned for the first quarter of 2020.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: SAP Concur is taking this step after careful consideration of our customers’ security and ease of upgrade to the newer, more secure version 1.2 of TLS. This end-of-support plan for TLS v 1.1 ensures our clients are communicating with SAP Concur solutions in a safer and more secure manner using TLS v 1.2.

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

Currently, if a user attempts to sign in to an SAP Concur service and the service is not available, a message appears stating that the entire site is down.

In fact, some services may be available. If services are available, an abbreviated service access page appears for the user, allowing the user to access those services.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This enhancement allows users to complete some tasks that may not be affected by the unavailability of one or more services.

SAP Concur is updating the Imaging XML API to correct an error message HTTP code. The service currently returns an HTTP 200 code even when the API returns an error 500 in the XML response. This update corrects the HTTP error code, returning HTTP 500 if the API response includes the 500 error code. No other response codes in XML or HTTP will be changed.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This update supports better monitoring of the Imaging XML API.

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

Currently, customers can use the Printed Report (or Printed Invoice) feature to configure and customise their own expense claims, invoices and requests that are emailed, displayed online or printed. Customers can also add graphics (generally logos).

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This change provides greater security for SAP Concur customers.

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