Authentication Administration

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

RELEASE: Self-Service Tool for Application Management (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)

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

**Planned Changes** CES SSO To Be Decommissioned (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)

SAP Concur plans to decommission Concur Expense Service (CES) SSO on 29 October 2021. SAP Concur now provides a Single Sign-On self-service option that enables client admins to set up their SAML v2 connections without involving an SAP Concur admin. This change provides better security and improved support for users logging in to SAP Concur products and services.

Localisation

Miscellaneous

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

In Q4, 2021, SAP Concur will begin redirecting 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 is phased. Clients will be migrated to the new homepage over time beginning in Q4. 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.

SAP Concur User Assistance

**Planned Changes** Help Menu Directed to SAP Help Portal (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)

In a future release, SAP will update the Help menu in the SAP Concur solutions to point to the online help content on SAP Help Portal (http://help.sap.com). SAP Help Portal includes a new look and feel for the help and additional functionality, while the help content remains the same.

This update consolidates the SAP Concur solutions documentation with other SAP products on the central SAP Help Portal.

Security

**Planned Changes** Some TLSv1.2 Ciphers No Longer Supported (Feb 2022) (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)

To ensure that connections to *.concursolutions.com and *api.concursolutions.com are not disrupted, clients and partners who connect to *.concursolutions.com and *api.concursolutions.com through an application that uses an unsupported cipher must update the application to a supported cipher before 1 February 2022.

This update provides ongoing security for our products and services.

Supported Configurations

On 1 January 2022, SAP Concur plans to begin transitioning away from support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11). This change is in line with other SAP solutions, industry best practices and Microsoft’s lifecycle policy for IE 11.

After 1 January 2022, SAP Concur development teams will not design new features, user interface enhancements or security or bug fixes with IE 11 in mind. Over time, new functionality and existing functionality might not work properly on IE 11.

SAP Concur users will not be blocked from access when using IE 11. They will still be able to sign into their SAP Concur solutions. However, to ensure their users can continue to work successfully and securely with SAP Concur solutions, SAP recommends that clients move away from allowing use of SAP Concur solutions on IE 11 and move to a more modern, supported browser.

This change enables SAP to speed up adoption of the latest browser innovations and provide a stronger security posture.

Test Entities

**Planned Changes** Test Entity Login Updates and Email Verification (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request)

Currently, some SAP Concur users use test entities to set up, test and provide training for new configurations prior to deploying them to their live production entity. The production entity is where users perform real transactions, such as submitting expense claims and booking travel.

Today, test entities are in a separate environment called the implementation environment; production entities are in a separate environment called the production environment. To improve the stability, performance, monitoring and security of test entities, SAP Concur plans to migrate both test and production entities to the same environment as part of our move to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

This change will result in the co-existence of both test and production entities in the same production environment.