February 2020 Analysis/Intelligence Professional Edition Admin Summary

Release Note Summaries

The items in this section are summaries of the release notes for this month. The Professional Edition release notes are accessible from What's New - Professional Edition.

Model Changes

New Folder and Fields: Deductions

With this release, there is a new travel-allowance-related folder and fields for Expense.

Description: The new fields in the Deductions folder will allow users to report on additional daily allowance information for travel allowances. These fields were added to the model for use with a planned future feature.

The new travel-allowance-related folder and fields for Expense are located in the following folder:

Expense > Xpressway Travel Allowance > Fixed Travel Allowance Calculations

New Fields: Key Fields for Travel Allowances

With this release, there are new travel-allowance-related fields for Expense.

Description: The new key fields will allow users to report on additional daily allowance information for travel allowances. These fields were added to the model for use with a planned future feature.

The new travel-allowance-related fields for Expense are located in the following folders:

Expense > Expense Claims > Entry Information > Keys
Expense > Xpressway Travel Allowance > Fixed Travel Allowance Calculations > Keys

Report Changes

New Report: Adoption Reports Are Now Combined into New Travel Adoption Report

The Adoption (Air, Car, Hotel) and Air Adoption By Month reports in the Compliance folder are now combined into one report, the new Travel Adoption report.

Combining the Adoption (Air, Car, Hotel) and Air Adoption By Month reports into one report consolidates the adoption rate information into a single report, and provides visibility into the total travel adoption for your employees. Also, the new Travel Adoption report includes adoption rate information for rail trips, in addition to air, car and hotel trips.

The report's trip count is based on the air, car, hotel and rail segment reservations. The report indicates the number of trips that are booked using Concur Travel versus the number of agent-booked trips.

Now that the Travel Adoption report has been added to the Standard Reports > Compliance folder, the Adoption (Air, Car, Hotel) and Air Adoption By Month reports have been removed from the Standard Reports > Compliance folder.

REPORT OUTPUT

The report includes these columns:

Purchased Year
Purchased Month
Concur Travel Booked Trips
Agent Booked Trips
Booking Source
Trip Count
Booking Amount
Concur Travel Adoption Rate

LOCATION OF THE REPORTS

The Travel Adoption report is located here:

Analysis - Standard Reports > Compliance
Intelligence - Standard Reports ‎> Compliance

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about the Travel Adoption report, refer to Chapter 7: Folder – Compliance in the Standard Reports by Folder guide (English only).

Other Changes

Enhancements to the Standard Reports by Folder Guide

SAP Concur is in the process of enhancing the Standard Reports by Folder guide (English only). We are adding definitions of the report prompts and fields, and adding the expressions associated with the report fields for each report.

This is an ongoing project. Clients will see these guide updates as they become available.

EXAMPLES

Example of the new report prompt definition for the Itinerary Details report:

Record Locator: Used to search by the record locator assigned to the trip(s)

Example of the new field information for the Itinerary Details report:

Passengers
Data Item Label	Data Item Name	Data Item Expression	Data Item Description
Purchased By	<Purchased By>	[Travel].[Trips].[Employee Last Name] + ', ' + [Travel].[Trips].[Employee First Name]	Legal first and last name for the travelling employee (for example, John Smith)
Booked By	<Booked By>	[Travel].[Trips].[Booking Employee]	Name of the employee who booked the trip (last name, first name format)
Passengers	<Passengers>	[Travel].[Trip Passengers].[Passenger]	Employee taking the trip (last name, first name format)
Is Primary?	<Is Primary ?>	[Travel].[Trip Passengers].[Is Primary]	Shows if the employee is the primary traveller (Yes/No format)

File Transfer Updates: HTTPS Protocol No Longer Allowed for File Transfer (24 February, 2020)

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.

Beginning 24 February, 2020 at 2 PM PST, connections via the HTTPS protocol will no longer be allowed when connecting to the SAP Concur file transfer system.

Existing HTTPS file transfer accounts must switch to SFTP with SSH Key Authentication before 24 February, 2020.

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.

File Transfer Updates: TLS v1.1 SSL Protocol Not Allowed 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 has made changes that provide greater security for those file transfers.

The TLS 1.1 (Transport Layer Security) SSL protocol has been removed from our SAP Concur file transfer system allowed list.

This relates to the FTPS and HTTPS file transfer protocols.
The HTTPS file transfer protocol will not be allowed, starting 24 February, 2020. If you are currently using HTTPS, we suggest migrating to SFTP with key authentication.
For more information, refer to the HTTPS Protocol No Longer Allowed for File Transfer (24 February, 2020) release note in this document.

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 Change Summaries

The items in this section 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.

There are no Analysis/Intelligence-specific planned changes this month.

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