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With this release, SAP Concur will rename two terms in Workflows for clarification.

For Budget, the "Budget Owner" in the Role column on the Workflows page will be renamed "Budget Approver".

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This enhancement makes it easier for clients to see what product they use and what role they should use.

SAP Concur will be releasing the Budget v4 API for partner and client use in a future release. Budget v4 provides the following features:

• Fiscal Calendar: This API can GET, POST and DELETE fiscal years and periods similar to the Fiscal Calendar UI in Budget Configuration.

• Budget Category: This API can GET, POST and DELETE budget categories, and GET all expense types of a budget category.

• Budget Items: This API can GET, POST and DELETE budget items, including details such as period amounts, budget item tracking fields (cost objects), budget viewers, managers and approvers.

• Budget Tracking Field: This API can GET all budget tracking fields.

• Budget Adjustment: This API can POST budget adjustments.

• Global availability: Budget v4 API is supported in all SAP Concur data centres.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This new budget API enables clients (and partners) to integrate Budget with their ERP and HR systems to automate budget configuration and maintenance as well as importing external transactions not captured via SAP Concur through budget adjustments.

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

When a user signs in to SAP Concur, one of the validation processes includes checking for and adhering to any IP Restrictions (IPRs). IPRs are specific IPs or IP ranges that are defined by a company to restrict the IPs from which their users can sign in to SAP Concur. An IPR can be a string that contains a list of acceptable IP addresses and/or IP address patterns, for example: "170.242.6.43;170.243.70.42;170.243.70.43;171.159.*.*".

Currently, IPRs are set for each of a company's travel configurations, which creates maintenance issues for companies with many travel configurations and provides opportunities for errors. In addition, new travel configurations are not automatically included and can easily be forgotten.

Targeted for the August release, SAP Concur will change this setting from a configuration-level setting to a company-level setting. With this change, one set of IPRs will apply to the entire company.

Very few clients will be affected by this change. In addition, all of the affected clients will be contacted individually – in advance – by SAP Concur to make any required settings changes.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Clients who use IPRs can be assured that the IPRs apply to the entire company.

Beginning on 15 July 2019, SAP Concur will implement source Internet Protocol (IP) checking for all Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) file transfer accounts.

NEW CLIENTS

During new client implementation, SAP Concur will add IP addresses for new clients to the SAP Concur access control list (ACL).

EXISTING CLIENTS

Please contact SAP Concur support by 1 July 2019 to have your source IP addresses added to the SAP Concur access control list (ACL).

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: These changes provide greater security for file transfers.

Non-SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) protocols and password authentication will eventually be deprecated.

NEW CLIENTS

New file transfer accounts must use SFTP with Secure Shell (SSH) Key Authentication.

EXISTING CLIENTS

Existing non-SFTP file transfer accounts will be required to switch to SFTP with SSH Key Authentication.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: These changes provide greater security for file transfers.

(Release note updated: 8 June)

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

Single Sign-On allows users to access multiple applications using one set of login credentials. Currently, SAP Concur has two methods for signing in: with a user name and password or using SSO with identity provider (IdP) credentials, such as a user's login credentials for their organisation.

SAP Concur is planning to add a Manage Single Sign-On (SSO) feature to SAP Concur products that provides clients with a self-service option for setting up SSO for their organisation. SSO is currently supported for Concur Expense, Invoice, Request and Travel.

The new Manage Single Sign-On (SSO) feature is a replacement tool for clients using existing SSO configuration on the Security Keys page and a new tool for clients that now want to implement SSO at their organisation. The existing SSO configuration on the Security Keys page and the new SSO Self-Service tool will both be available until everyone has migrated to the new SSO Self-Service tool.

Other SAP Concur products and services are outside the scope of this initial release.

This feature is targeted for Q3 2019.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This feature provides SAP Concur clients with a self-service option for setting up SSO.

(Release note updated: 8 June)

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

In a future release, the SAP Concur Sign In page will be updated, providing a new login experience for both direct SAP Concur username/password users and Single Sign-On (SSO) users. SSO users will be able to start the Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO login process at www.concursolutions.com. This feature is planned for 2019.

The new Sign In page feature will include a two-step login process that will provide enhanced security, meet current industry standards and provide a better login success rate. This feature is planned for 2019.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This feature provides better security and a faster, more convenient experience for users logging in to SAP Concur products and services.

Concur Expense and Concur Request

Budget Insight is a budget management tool that is being retired on 31 December 2019. It is recommended that clients who want to use budget functionality purchase the new Budget product that SAP Concur released last year. The new Budget feature offers greater functionality, an improved UI and additional integrations with SAP Concur products. Most notably is the inclusion of additional expense data from Concur Expense, Concur Invoice, Concur Travel and Concur Request (previously only data from Concur Expense and Concur Request were available).

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The retirement of Budget Insight will provide clients with the opportunity to purchase the new Budget product that SAP Concur offers and that gives greater value to clients by making budgets visible, actionable and near real-time.