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August 2020 Mobile Professional Edition Admin Summary

Release Note Summaries

This topic contains the admin summaries of the release notes for the SAP Concur mobile app functionality for the Professional Edition.
Android / iPhone / iPad – New Travel Allowance Multiple Itineraries in One Expense Claim Feature

With this release, SAP Concur mobile users can now add multiple Travel Allowance itineraries to one expense claim within the mobile app. Prior to this release, users could only add one Travel Allowance itinerary to an expense claim.

**Ongoing** Android / iPhone / iPad – New Claim Entry Experience

With the 9.83 release, SAP Concur mobile app users gained access to the new claim entry experience within the mobile app. The new user interface is available exclusively in "preview mode" in implementation environments.

Once SAP has received and addressed customer feedback, a migration of this experience - from implementation environments to production environments - will be scheduled. In the meantime, customers can escalate any detected issues to SAP Concur support.

There will be additional changes, which will be described in future release notes.

**Ongoing** Android / iPhone / iPad – Direct Connect Content Access

On 31 March, 2020, SAP Concur mobile app users will have the ability to shop, book and cancel content from Hotel Service V2.

User / Customer Benefit: Travellers expect to be able to book travel on any device. After 31 March, travellers will be able to search, book and cancel Hotel Service V2-sourced hotels from within the SAP Concur mobile app.

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.

IMPORTANT: These Planned Changes may not be all of the upcoming enhancements and modifications that affect this SAP Concur product or service. The Planned Changes that apply to multiple SAP Concur products and/or services are in a consolidated document. Please review the additional Planned Changes admin summaries available in the August 2020 Shared Planned Changes Professional Edition Admin Summary.

**Planned Changes** Android / iPhone / iPad – Retirement of Auto Sign-In Setting

These changes are part of SAP's continued commitment to maintaining secure authentication.

Targeted for the November (9.86) Mobile release, SAP plans to retire the automatic sign-in setting in the SAP Concur mobile app. This change coincides with the redesign of the mobile sign-in page which will also be implemented with the November release.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The retirement of this feature better supports secure authentication by removing the less secure automatic sign-in setting.

**Planned Changes** Android / iPhone / iPad – Removal of Expense Claims Legacy User Interface Toggles

For a while, SAP Concur mobile app users have had the option to continue using the expense claims legacy user interface via disabling the Expense Claim (New) and Expense Claim (New) – Approver toggles on the Additional Features screen in the mobile app settings.

Targeted for the October (9.85) Mobile release, SAP plans to remove the Expense Claim (New) and Expense Claim (New) – Approver toggles from the Additional Features screen and mobile users will no longer have access to the expense claims legacy user interface.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This update offers a more streamlined experience to users, while they work with expense claims in the mobile app.

For more information, refer to the Mobile Authentication Update FAQ (English Only).

**Planned Changes** Android / iPhone / iPad – Retirement of Mobile PIN

These changes are part of the SAP Concur solutions continued commitment to maintaining secure authentication.

Targeted for the November (9.86) Mobile release, SAP plans to retire the Mobile PIN sign-in option in the SAP Concur mobile app.

This change coincides with the redesign of the mobile sign-in page which will also be implemented with the November release.

Beginning with the November release, users will be able to switch back to the old sign-in page design and will be able to use the Mobile PIN sign-in option on that page. The option to switch between the old and new page designs will no longer be available beginning with the March (9.89) release.

With the retirement of the mobile PIN sign-in option, users will continue to be able to sign into the mobile app via the following methods:

  • Single Sign-On (SSO)

    • Mobile SSO

    • SAP Concur SAML v2 (SAML v2)

  • Username and password

  • E-mail address and password

For companies that have Single Sign-On (SSO) enabled for the web version of SAP, we recommend that they enable SSO on the SAP Concur mobile app, ideally migrating to SAML v2.

For information about migrating to SAML v2, refer to the SSO Service: Overview Guide (English Only) and the Shared: SSO Management Setup Guide (English Only).

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The retirement of this feature better supports secure authentication by removing the less secure PIN option, simplifies the way users sign into the SAP Concur mobile app and makes the mobile sign-in experience more consistent with the web sign-in experience.

For more information, refer to the Mobile Authentication Update FAQ (English Only).

**Planned Changes** Android / iPhone / iPad – Redesign of the Sign In Page

Targeted for the November (9.86) Mobile release, the Mobile Sign In page will be redesigned and improved. The enhancements will improve the user experience, improve security and simplify configuration. It will also assist customers who use more than one Identity Provider (like OKTA or Azure) for Single Sign-On (SSO).

There will be additional changes, which will be described in future release notes.

For more information, refer to the Mobile Authentication Update FAQ (English Only).