Model Changes

Report Changes

Any standard reports that contain the Country, Country Code and/or State/Province/Region column will have the label associated with these columns updated on both the Prompts pages, if applicable, and the reports.

The following labels will be renamed:

• All instances of the Country label will be renamed Country/Region
• All instances of the Country Code label will be renamed to Country/Region Code
• All instances of the State/Province/Region label will be renamed to State/Province (Region will be removed from the label)

Standard reports are reports located in the Analysis – Standard Reports folder for Analysis customers and the Intelligence – Standard Reports folder for Intelligence customers.

UPDATED REPORTS

With the September release, the Country, Country Code and/or State/Province/Region labels were renamed on the following reports in the Analysis – Standard Reports folder:

• Accrual > Expense Accrual
• Accrual > Expense Accrual by Date Range
• Administration > Employee Details
• Compliance > Concur Travel Hotel Bookings
• Compliance > Non-Concur Travel Hotel Bookings
• Compliance > Past Hotel Reservations with Rates in Excess of Negotiated Rate
• Invoice > Invoice Tax Adjustment Report
• Market-Specific Reports > Auditor Digitised Receipt Search Report
• Market-Specific Reports > Germany - Yearly Employee Report
• Travel Request > Travel Requests by Country
• TripLink > Invisible Spend Details
• Trips > Itinerary Details

With the September release, the Country, Country Code and/or State/Province/Region labels were renamed on the following reports in the Intelligence – Standard Reports folder:

• Accrual > Expense Accrual
• Accrual > Expense Accrual by Date Range
• Administration > Employee Details
• Compliance > Concur Travel Hotel Bookings
• Compliance > Non-Concur Travel Hotel Bookings
• Compliance > Past Hotel Reservations with Rates in Excess of Negotiated Rate
• Compliance > Upcoming Hotel Reservations with Rates in Excess of Negotiated Rate
• Invoice > Invoice Tax Adjustment Report
• Market-Specific Reports > Japan > Unpaid and Unassigned Expense (Japan)
• Market-Specific Reports > Auditor Digitised Receipt Search Report
• Market-Specific Reports > Germany - Yearly Employee Report
• Travel Request > Travel Requests by Country
• TripLink > Invisible Spend Details
• Trips > Itinerary Details

With the November release, we are planning to rename the Country, Country Code and/or State/Province/Region labels for the following reports in the Analysis – Standard Reports folder:

• Supplier > Car Rental Details
• Supplier > Car Rental Summary
• Supplier > Hotel Details
• Supplier > Hotel Summary

With the November release, we are planning to rename the Country, Country Code and/or State/Province/Region labels for the following reports in the Intelligence – Standard Reports folder:

• Carbon Footprint > Air Carbon Footprint - Summary
• Supplier > Car Rental Details
• Supplier > Car Rental Summary
• Supplier > Hotel Details
• Supplier > Hotel Summary

The Hotel Supplier Normalisation Analysis report was removed from the Intelligence - Standard Reports > Premium Dashboards folder in Intelligence.

This report was removed from our standard report offering as there has been minimal utilisation, and we want to ensure we are investing in standard reports that bring the most value to our customers.

LOCATION OF THE REPORT

The report was located here:

• Intelligence - Standard Reports > Premium Dashboards

Other Changes

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, SAP is maintaining our SAP Concur file transfer subsystem to provide greater security for those file transfers.

SAP will begin migrating SAP Concur entities that currently use a legacy process for moving files to a more efficient and secure file routing process that relies on APIs.

Clients whose entities are currently configured to use the legacy process will be migrated to the more efficient process sometime between now and the end of 2020. After they are migrated to the more efficient process, clients will see the following improvement:

• With the legacy process, clients had to wait for the file move schedule to run at a specified time. With the more efficient and secure API-based process, extracts and other outbound files from SAP Concur will be available within the existing overnight processing period shortly after the files are created.

This announcement pertains to the following file transfer DNS endpoints:

• st.concursolutions.com

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

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

This announcement pertains to the following file transfer DNS endpoints:

• st.concursolutions.com
• st-eu.concursolutions.com

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

Model Changes

There will be a new travel-allowance-related field for Expense.

Description: The new Associated Claim Entry Key field will allow users to more easily connect Expense Claim entry information to the respective Travel Allowance details. This field will be added to the model for use with a planned future feature.

The new travel-allowance-related field for Expense will be located in the following folder:

• Expense > Travel Allowances > Xpressway Travel Allowance > Fixed Travel Allowance Calculations > Keys

Other Changes

Analysis and Intelligence are powered by IBM ®Cognos®. Cognos will be updated to v11 for Analysis and Intelligence.

This update will bring some enhancements to Analysis and Intelligence, such as the following:

• Enhancements to the user interface (UI):
  • More modern-looking interface
  • Instead of hovering over actions such as ‘run a report’, ‘schedule a report’ and more menu items, they can be found with just a right click.
• Existing Report Studio will be renamed to "Report" in Cognos v11
  • Includes data element searching within the Concur Data Warehouse Model

Additional information will be available in future release notes.

UPDATE SCHEDULE

The Cognos v11 update will be implemented by pre-designated groups of clients.

More information about communications and timing will be released closer to the update. We plan to update the Analysis/Intelligence UI automatically for each customer over a weekend.

We are updating by entity; customers with multiple entities or test sites may have different update timeframes across all their sites. More information will be provided in future release notes, and you will also receive a 30-day notification before we update your solution.

Due to technical reasons, we are not able to schedule any specific customer’s update; the dates will be pre-determined, and customers cannot move to Cognos v11 earlier or later.

In advance of this update, we are launching an early adopter programme. This is not open for other customers to join, but it provides an opportunity for us to prepare for the full update.