December 2020 Shared Planned Changes Professional Edition Admin Summary

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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.

Admin

RELEASE: Connected List Data Type Now Available for Expense Attendee Form (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request)This feature/change has been targeted for release. For information about this feature/change, refer to the applicable product release notes.

APIs

RELEASE: List Item v4 API (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request)This feature/change has been targeted for release. For information about this feature/change, refer to the applicable product release notes.

RELEASE: List v4 API (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request)This feature/change has been targeted for release. For information about this feature/change, refer to the applicable product release notes.

Authentication

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

**Planned Changes** Android / iPhone / iPad – Retirement of Mobile PIN (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel and Mobile)

Targeted for the November (9.86) Mobile release, SAP Concur solutions plan 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.

**Planned Changes** Android / iPhone / iPad – Retirement of Auto Sign-In Setting (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel and Mobile)

Targeted for the November (9.86) Mobile release, SAP Concur solutions 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.

The retirement of this feature better supports secure authentication by removing the less secure automatic sign-in setting.

Authorised Support Contacts

RELEASE: Security / Data Protection Contact Option to be Added to SAP Concur Support Portal Profile (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.

File Transfer Updates

**Planned Changes** Mandatory SFTP with SSH Key Authentication (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel, Intelligence)

This release note is intended for technical staff responsible for file transmissions with SAP Concur solutions. 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.

Non-SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) protocols and SFTP password authentication will no longer be allowed to connect to SAP Concur products as of 10 April, 2021:

Existing non-SFTP file transfer accounts need to switch to SFTP with SSH Key Authentication before 10 April, 2021.
SFTP password reset requests require the client to provide an SSH key for authentication.
Existing SFTP file transfer accounts that use password authentication must switch to use SSH key authentication before 10 April, 2021.

Miscellaneous

**Planned Changes** Updated Naming Convention for Sub-URLs (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)

As part of our overall cloud platform strategy, SAP is planning to implement a more consistent naming convention for the URLs used to connect to SAP Concur solutions, based on data centre. Users will continue to be able to access www.concursolution.com and will be routed automatically to the correct URL or single sign-on (SSO) as part of their sign-in process.

This change supports future URL consistency across all global regions, and a central URL that redirects users to the appropriate data centre.

**Planned Changes** New SAP Concur Homepage to be Rolled Out (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)

Beginning in February, when some users sign into SAP Concur products, they will be directed to a new SAP Concur homepage. The appearance of the new homepage will be identical to the current SAP Concur homepage. The roll out of the new homepage will be phased. Some clients will be migrated to the new homepage beginning in February and additional clients will be migrated to the new homepage over time. The migration of clients to the new homepage is targeted to be completed in Q2 2021.

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.

Release Notes

Preview Release Notes No Longer Published

Starting with the January 2021 release, SAP Concur Technical Publications will no longer publish the preview release notes. This change is being made to streamline our client communication. With this change, only two sets of release notes will be published for each monthly release cycle: draft release notes and final release notes.

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