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September 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.

Authentication

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

**Planned Changes** Single Sign-On (SSO) Self-Service Option (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel)

SAP Concur is planning to add a Single Sign-On (SSO) self-service tool to SAP Concur products. This new tool will enable clients to set up SSO for their organisation without assistance from SAP Concur support. SSO is currently supported for Concur Expense, Invoice, Request and Travel.

This feature will provide new SAP Concur clients with a self-service option for setting up SSO. It will also provide an option for existing SSO clients who must eventually migrate to the new SAML v2 service to manage SSO for their users.

**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 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.

**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.

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. 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

**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.

Product Settings

**Planned Changes** Option to Switch Back to Legacy Users Page Removed (Standard Only) (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request, Travel and Budget)

In late September, the option to switch between the new design of the Users page and the legacy design will be removed.

The redesign refreshes the look of the user management interface and provides a framework for future improvements to this administrative area.

Security

**Planned Changes** End of Support for Insecure Protocols and Ciphers in F5 Client SSL Profiles for VIPs (Products: Expense, Invoice, Request and Travel)

On 12 November (US) and 13 November (France), the F5 internal and external client SSL profiles for VIPs will be updated to remove support for various protocols and ciphers. Clients, TMCs and internal SAP Concur employees who use or develop applications that rely on an F5 SSL client profile must test the ability of their applications to connect to SAP Concur entities using the new, more secure profile.

This update provides ongoing security for our products and services.

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