January 2020 Shared Planned Changes Professional Edition Admin Summary
Initial Post
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.
Authentication
**Planned Changes** Single Sign-On (SSO) Self-Service Option (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request and Travel)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.
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.
File Transfer Updates
**Planned Changes** Mandatory SFTP with SSH Key Authentication (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel and 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.
These changes provide greater security for file transfers.
**Planned Changes** Source IP Checking (EMEA) (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel and Intelligence; Standard Edition Only)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.
These changes provide greater security for file transfers.
**Planned Changes** HTTPS Protocol No Longer Allowed For File Transfer (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel and Intelligence)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.
These changes provide greater security for file transfers.
**Planned Changes** TLS 1.1 SSL Protocol Not Allowed (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel and 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.
These changes provide greater security for file transfers.
Miscellaneous
RELEASE: Support Ending for TLS v 1.1 Encryption Protocol (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request and Travel)This feature/change has been targeted for release. For information about this feature/change, refer to the applicable product release notes.
RELEASE: Graphics No Longer Supported for Printed Reports/Invoices (Products: Expense, Invoice and Request; Professional Edition Only)This feature/change has been targeted for release. For information about this feature/change, refer to the applicable product release notes.
**Planned Changes** Abbreviated Service Access Page (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel, Intelligence, Analytics and Budget)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.
This enhancement allows users to complete some tasks that may not be affected by the unavailability of one or more services.
**Planned Changes** Imaging XML API Error Message Update (Products: Expense, Invoice and Request)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.
This update supports better monitoring of the Imaging XML API.
Product Settings
**Planned Changes** Continued UI Enhancements for Custom Fields (Products: Expense, Invoice and Request; Standard Edition Only)The Manage Custom Fields module in Product Settings will continue to have user interface (UI) updates. The planned UI updates will change the look and feel of some existing features or settings. Some small, new feature enhancements may also be added, but these features will be relatively minor. No existing features or functionality will be removed. Some changes will be targeted to align with upcoming releases while other, smaller changes will occur without notice.
These updates improve custom field management by providing a better end user experience.
Client Notifications
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
