December 2017 Expense Professional Edition Admin Summary
Last Update: 9 December 2017
Accessibility
Global Navigation BarThis is a non-visual change to the blue global navigation bar found within concursolutions.com. Following WCAG 2.0, the standards for this navigation bar were incorrectly applied. This change impacts screen reader users.
Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The information given to the screen reader user is improved. By having the correct role, correct instructions are now appropriately given to the screen reader user.
Missing Keyboard NavigationThis is a non-visual change to keyboard navigation of the SectionExpandable component (a.k.a. widget) within concursolutions.com. An example of the widget is shown below. Actual content and appearance will vary per use. Following WCAG 2.0, the standards for keyboard navigation, the issue identified showing difficulty in keyboard navigation was correctly applied. This change impacts screen reader users.
Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The information given to the screen reader user is improved. By having the correct role, correct instructions are now appropriately given to the screen reader user.
Admin
Name Changes for Spend CategoriesIn this release, four spend category names were changed for easier selection and naming consistency.
Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This enhancement makes it easier for clients to select the relevant spend category.
Concur Pay
2018 Bank HolidaysThe 2018 list of bank holidays will be available after the first of the year.
Expense Pay – Global Enhanced Display of Onboarding FormsWhen creating a new funding account, or editing a funding account that has a payment-processing partner onboarding application in progress, the fields now display on two tabs rather than in one window. The fields have not changed, only where they display has changed. The new tabs are named Account Information and Partner Onboarding Application. The Account Information tab contains fields for data required by Concur. The Partner Onboarding Application tab contains fields for data required by the payment-processing partner.
Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Admins can tell the difference between the fields for data required by Concur and the fields for data required by the payment-processing partner. In addition, this change reduces the amount of scrolling that was previously required to view all of the fields.
Languages
Support for New LanguagesWith this release, Concur has added support for the following languages:
Bulgarian
(Български)
Croatian
(Hrvatski)
Romanian
(Română)
Slovak
(Slovenčina)
Turkish
(Türkçe)
Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This change allows more Concur users to experience Concur in their native text.
USB IC Card Readers – Japan
No Longer SupportedThe USB IC Card reader solution for capturing Japanese IC Card travel information in Expense utilised a reader connected to a single computer. Because Microsoft deprecated the ActiveX technology leveraged by this solution, Concur is ending support for the solution.
On 1 August 2017, Concur discontinued support for this solution.
After 31 December 2017, the solution is being retired and will no longer work in Concur.
Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This retirement keeps Concur users aligned with current technology.
Admin
**Planned Changes** Support for Plain Text FTP to End on 15th May, 2018Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Transfer of data to and from Concur using plain text FTP after the End of Support date will result in a failure of incoming connections. Clients using plain text FTP must utilise one of the approved secured methods to continue transferring data as outlined in the File Transfer User Guide. This change is required on the client side, and Concur is available to support these efforts.
Available Expenses
**Planned Changes** New One-Year FilterThe Available Expenses list on the Manage Expense page will soon no longer display expenses older than one year.
Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This new feature automatically filters expenses with transaction dates older than one year and only displays expenses added within the past 12 months, to provide an easier end-user experience. This change is consistent with behaviour in the Available Receipts sections (where unused receipts older than one year are hidden) and will result in improved performance by reducing the volume of old, unnecessary data.
Legacy Expense Authorisation Request
**Planned Changes** Product Retirement (March 2018)Concur plans to retire our legacy Expense Authorisation Request feature on 31 March 2018.
Concur offered this feature to some clients prior to the existence of the standalone Concur Request product. We now have feature parity as well as enhanced features and full support on the standalone Request product. Clients that wish to leverage a request capability within Concur should purchase and migrate to the Concur Request product.
Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This retirement allows Concur to focus development resources on further enhancements to our standalone Concur Request product whose functionality, innovation and value now exceeds that of our legacy feature.
New Concur Logo
**Planned Changes** New SAP Concur LogoWith the January release, the SAP Concur logo will appear in all Concur products. The new logo will be displayed in the upper-left corner of each page. Both the SAP and Concur logos appear in the footer. For instances where a TMC has rebranded in the footer, in addition to the TMC logo, the SAP logo will appear.
Client Notifications
Concur Non-Affiliated SubprocessorsThe list of non-affiliated subprocessors is available here: Concur Non-Affiliated Subprocessors (English Only)
Monthly Browser CertificationsMonthly browser certifications, both current and planned, are available with the other Concur monthly release notes, accessible from What's New - Professional Edition