May 2021 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.

The items shown here are summaries of the release notes for this month. For the Professional Edition release notes, refer to the monthly release notes page. For the Standard Edition release notes, refer to the monthly release notes page.

Cookie Preferences and User Consent

**Planned Changes** Explicit Cookie Consent and Zero Cookie Load Expanded to More Jurisdictions (1 July) (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)

To ensure that SAP Concur solutions meet the user cookie consent requirements of the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the United Kingdom (UK) and Brazil, SAP plans to implement explicit cookie consent and zero cookie load for SAP Concur solutions in those jurisdictions.

Explicit cookie consent: The user must agree to allow cookies to be stored on their device by responding affirmatively to a request for consent.
Zero cookie load: The user must provide explicit cookie consent before any cookies can be saved to their device.

This change ensures that SAP Concur sites comply with the cookie consent requirements of the listed jurisdictions and enables users to choose which cookies are downloaded to their devices by SAP Concur solutions.

Localisation

**Planned Changes** Translations for Cash Advance Term (19 June) (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request)

With the June release, SAP Concur plans to change the following terms in the Brazilian Portuguese version of the SAP Concur user interface to bring consistency in translation of Cash Advance:

Cash Advances will be "Adiantamentos". Currently, it is translated as "Adiantamentos de viagem".
Cash Advance will be "Adiantamento". Currently, it is translated as "Adiantamento em espécie".

These revisions provide a more accurate translation and improved user experience in Brazilian Portuguese.

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** SAP Concur Homepage Changes (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)In June 2021, SAP Concur will begin redirecting clients in the US Datacentre 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 begin being migrated to the new homepage in June and additional clients will be migrated to the new homepage over time.

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.

**Planned Changes** Client Privacy Statement Link Available (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)

In a future release, clients will have the ability to submit a link to their company privacy statement for inclusion in the SAP Concur page footer.

This change will enable clients to meet GDPR and other legal requirements to provide their privacy statement to their customers.

Security

RELEASE: Concursolutions.com SSL Certificate Renewal (26 May) (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** Changes to Some Email Subdomains (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)

SAP plans to adopt the Domain-based Message Authentication (DMARC) email security protocol for all email sent from SAP. As a result, the email addresses for some email sent from SAP Concur organisations will no longer be sent from the @sap.com root domain, but will instead be sent from a subdomain of sap.com, such as @example.sap.com where “example” is the subdomain.

This change occurs automatically. If your organisation maintains an allow list for email addresses, the allow list might need to be updated to include emails from additional subdomains such as @mail.sap.com and @info.sap.com or from @*sap.com.

Client Notifications

The items in this section provide reference material for all clients.

Accessibility Updates

SAP implements changes to better meet current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Information about accessibility-related changes made to SAP Concur solutions is published on a quarterly basis. You can review the quarterly updates on the Accessibility Updates (English only) page.

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