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March 2021 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.

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 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 10 April, 2021:
  • Existing non-SFTP file transfer accounts need to switch to SFTP with SSH Key Authentication before 10 April, 2021.
  • Existing SFTP file transfer accounts that use password authentication must switch to use SSH key authentication before 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 2021 to avoid disruption of your file transfer connections.

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 centre. 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 centre.

**Planned Changes** SAP Concur Homepage Changes (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)Beginning in late April, SAP Concur plans to redirect clients in the US data centre 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.

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