SAP SuccessFactors – Human Experience Management
With over 6,700 customers and 40 million users, SuccessFactors is the most widely adopted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business software in the world. SuccessFactors is a full-suite Human Experience Management (HXM) solution that directly links an organisations’ people strategy to their business strategy – what we call ‘Effective Experience Management’ (“EEM”).
SuccessFactors is deployed in a modular approach and can be deployed in whatever order suits the organisation using it – ‘Start Anywhere, Go Anywhere’. This unique approach enables organisations to acquire the HR solutions they need, when they actually need them, to increase overall HR and business effectiveness, whilst also ensuring a good Return-on-Investment.
‘Core’ HR Processes – SuccessFactors Employee Central
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central is the industry’s only Core HR solution that provides not just comprehensive, integrated Core HR capabilities, but also effective management of talent and employee experience, that is specifically designed for better business engagement.
Mobile first, Digital HR experience
- Consumer grade, mobile first employee and manager experience
- Powered by live insights to help make data driven decisions
- Focused on the entire workforce (incl. dedicated support for contingent labor, and apprentices)
Comprehensive Solutions that are flexible and intelligent
- Single global Core HR platform, with consistent and standardized HR processes
- True self-service to drive automation, improve data quality and elevate HR service delivery with efficient real time processes
- Connecting all HR processes to attract, develop, and retain workforce using modern technologies
Deep localization embedded within the application
- In use in 200 countries around the globe.
- Deep localization delivered and maintained for 90+ countries, and 40+ countries for Employee Central Payroll
- Localized SAP Best-Practice content to accelerate implementation timelines
Secure, connected and world class platform
- Modernized and updated during 4 release cycles per year
- Extensibility options to ensure customer specific requirements can be covered
- Prebuilt integrations with other solutions from SAP and leading partners to accelerate and simplify
- Proactive approach to world-wide regulatory compliance
SAP Employee Central
- Seamless Integration with Employee Experience, Engagement & Development – through seamless integration with talent management processes, Employee Central provides the ability to make more impactful workforce decisions and improve overall employee experience and satisfaction.
- Includes embedded Analytics – Employee Central provides embedded dashboards and reporting tools, with 2000+ built-in metrics and benchmarks that enable powerful measurement capability to improve overall business results. HR Leadership also has easy access to key HR information via ‘real time’ dashboards to enable faster and more strategic decisions.
- Supports Collaboration around Business Goals – Employee Central enables employees to leverage their talent, Core HR, and personal profile data to collaborate on business goals. It provides intuitive tools to form groups, network, and share knowledge around common goals, interests, projects, work experience, locations, and much more.
- Provides Enterprise-Grade Core HR functionality – Employee Central is an enterprise-grade Core HR solution driven by effective dated entities. It provides support for any combination of business units, geographies or cost centres to model and manage any workforce.
- Designed for Everyone – Like all of SAP SuccessFactors offerings, Employee Central is built for its 10 million users in the cloud. This approach results in a radically simple user experience for every role in the organization, which increases not only employee satisfaction and well-being but also productivity.
- Provides Seamless Integration – SAP SuccessFactors handles the integration between Employee Central and any other SAP and non-SAP systems. Its cloud-based integration platform (“SCPI”) enables enterprise-class, fast, and cost-effective integration that is proven to work.
- Powerful Reporting and Analytics right out of the box – SuccessFactors provides customers with an extensive set of embedded reporting and analytical capability as part of the base platform. All customers have access to an online reporting tool that provides the ability to build your own reports. These can be in the form of simple lists, or more advanced cross-tabs / pivots. These can be combined with charting and formatting into multi-page reports for distribution within the company. Output formats include PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Access to build and run reports are permissions that can be granted to authorised users.
Attract, Engage & Retain
SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management suite ensures organisational alignment, optimising people performance, and building competitive advantage with greater workforce insights. Organisations are able to quickly and easily identify gaps in the workforce, advertise and attract new employees and quickly engage them, even before they start, to be seen as an ‘employer of choice’. These solutions bridge the gap between strategy and execution by optimising people productivity and improving employee engagement. It provides the tools to attract, engage and develop the right people with the right skills.
Attract & Engage
SAP SuccessFactors Recruitment & Onboarding: Talent acquisition is a collaborative process involving recruiters, HR, hiring managers, and peers. But often, recruiting processes and functions are siloed from the rest of the business. SuccessFactors Recruiting Management is a comprehensive, collaborative tool that extends the process of recruiting wherever in the world or on the go, to help you hire the best talent and drive real business value.
Business values
- Get a consumer-grade experience: The best-in-class experience, on a desktop computer or a mobile device, makes using SuccessFactors easy for all types of users and effective for power users.
- Improve collaboration: Initiate and track team discussions about candidates with SuccessFactors Jam.
- Access anywhere, anytime: Support your mobile workforce and keep the hiring process moving with mobile access to key recruiting features across devices (smartphones and tablets).
- Utilize industry best practices: SuccessFactors is driven by customer best practices. This makes all of our customers better recruiters regardless of wherever they may be in their recruiting programs.
- Gain more insight: Answer questions about how your recruiting results align with your overall talent strategy.
- Integrated talent management suite: Combine with Workforce Planning and Workforce Analytics to understand your talent pipeline needs or with Onboarding to increase employee engagement and reduce time to contribution.
Job Board Multi-Posting for Recruitment
Multi-Posting is an SAP solution that provides job board aggregation technology for the Recruitment suite. In essence it provides a place where requisitions can be posted to multiple job boards in one place, saving recruiter time and cost, and ensuring that all applications come in to the same recruitment application.
Gavdi has partnered with Multi-Posting to offer a Rapid Deployment Solution to our recruitment customers and is available upon request.
Contingent Workforce Management – SAP Field Glass
Fieldglass is the worlds largest Vendor Management System (VMS) provider. Its innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions allow organisations to better procure and manage their flexible workforces, including contingent labour, services arranged through Statements of Work, independent contractors and specialized talent pools.
As an SAP Gold Partner Gavdi is able to provide SAP Field Glass for contingent workforce management.
SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding gets new employees engaged faster, before their ‘start date’, streamlining the process and paperwork before day one, and then gets your new hire ramped up fast with our employee network and content-sharing solution.
Business Values
- Engage new employees quickly – Connect new employees to a secure talent portal from outside the company firewall before they even start.
- Automate form delivery – Online forms available in Onboarding ensure that new employees don’t spend their first day filling out paperwork.
- Manage internal tasks – Send email notifications to IT, security, and anyone else who is part of the onboarding process to ‘kick start’ the process for making sure everything is in place on day one for the new employee.
- Schedule workflow – Keep processes on track using automatic task triggers and new-hire reminders.
Measure, Manage, Reward
SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals facilitates a meaningful, ongoing ‘feedback loop’ between managers and employees, turning the occasional performance review into an ongoing dialogue focused on improving employee performance. Managers spend less time on administrative tasks and more time coaching and giving valuable feedback, increasing employee morale and overall productivity.
Performance Management will:
- Identify High Performers – Provides executives and managers with real time actionable insight into organisational performance.
- Increase Completion Rates – An easy-to-use user interface promotes fast user adoption, increasing performance review completion rates.
- Develop Talent – Writing assistants and configurable routing turn performance reviews into a valuable ongoing feedback loop between managers, subordinates, and peers.
- Improve Compliance – Audit trail of legally discoverable documents, evidence of an objective review process, and ‘Legal Scan’ capability help ensure compliance with local regulations.
Compensation Management
SAP SuccessFactors Compensation Management streamlines and simplifies compensation planning, provides visibility and insight for total compensation management, and uniquely enables a perform-and-reward culture.
Develop & Retain
SAP SuccessFactors Succession Planning provides the visibility you need to identify and anticipate the talent gaps in the organisation as well as provide the insight required to help bridge perceived gaps. With support for individual, role, and position succession models.
Succession Planning will help to:
- Know your Talent – Collect valuable information about your employees that provides insight about their backgrounds, experience, expertise, performance, and career aspirations.
- Identify Talent Gaps – Easily identify current and potential talent gaps in your organisational structure. Assess the impact of loss to your business and gain visibility to your bench strength.
- Broaden the Nomination Pool – Expand your talent search beyond your immediate sphere by leveraging robust nomination capabilities and an organisation-wide talent search engine.
Promote the Right Talent – Identify the right candidates to fill leadership gaps quickly and objectively using competency-based search capabilities and side-by-side comparisons of top candidates.
Learning Management
SAP SuccessFactors Learning Management is closely coupled with Performance & Goals and Career Development & Succession Planning. This solution is a core part of the talent management suite and it provides comprehensive learning solutions that uniquely combine formal and informal practices. Learning activities can be tracked easily in the learning plan. Compliance and qualification gaps are highlighted in a pie chart and workflow alerts when qualifications, certificates and/or licences expire and need to be renewed. Central learning teams can push learning activities directly to employees.
SAP Jam Collaboration
SAP Jam provides a platform to collaborate, engage, re-train staff and enable business processes that impact value and tangible outcomes.
Features & Benefits
- Streamline and humanise – HR Add a human element to your digital HR transformation. From hire to retire, enterprise collaboration fosters a culture of knowledge sharing and increases employee engagement.
- Cultivate a culture of learning – Simplify and accelerate the learning process – while increasing the ROI of your employee development programs – by going beyond your learning management system.
- Speed innovation with collaboration – Accelerate informed decision-making and fuel innovation with collaborative intranet software that extends collaboration to custom and legacy business applications.
- Close more sales deals faster – Augment critical sales processes with collaboration capabilities to respond to customers quickly, perform better, and improve the effectiveness of sales teams and partners.
- Resolve service issues effectively – Work collectively with customers, internal stakeholders, and experts to minimise the time to first call through rapid onboarding, accelerated learning, and close mentoring.
- Deliver more effective marketing campaigns – Enhance program planning, execution, and analysis to build outstanding content and create smarter marketing campaigns by working with internal and external experts. Mobile Enabled and Maximised.
SAP SuccessFactors Mobile
SAP SuccessFactors solutions are natively maximised for use with mobile devices, whether that be a phone or tablet device. This mobile platform enables SuccessFactors users to stay connected with key HR processes from any mobile device in order that employees can still ’get things done’ on the move or whilst away from their desk.
It allows users to:
- Remain in contact – Managers can know the status of their team and projects.
- Stay up-to-date – they can receive real-time notifications and review and update ’To-Do’ lists.
- Instant access – they can ’Log in’ to their account from anywhere to access the Org Chart, Recruiting, and ’To-Dos’.
Analyse, Strategise & Execute – Fast
SAP SuccessFactors Dashboards & Reporting: SAP SuccessFactors comes with a fully comprehensive suite of reports and dashboards delivered with the solutions – they are built in and bespoke reports can be built by the user ‘on demand’. This information is available immediately and ‘on demand’ allowing HR and business leaders to quickly respond to situations and crises, with access to real time information, and fully integrated processes, with the solutions that enable fast communications and rapid decision-making to deal with them. They also provide the long term data required to look at trends and ling term issues that must be addressed to improve overall business performance.
SAP Integrations
Gavdi understands that integration can make up the most complex and demanding aspect of any Cloud HR project. The success and automation of the user experience is frequently driven by what data is available when and how this data can be passed onto stakeholder systems within the organizations wider landscape.
Many organizations underestimate the complexity involved in within the integration track of a project whilst being focused on the functional implementation of SuccessFactors.
At Gavdi we have marketing leading experience multiple integration middleware’s between SuccessFactors, SAP, Oracle and third party platforms. We have implemented integrations between the Cloud and On-premise systems across multiple industries.
Dell Boomi – Proven Integration Capability
SuccessFactors utilises Dell Boomi AtomSphere, which enables seamless integration from their applications to Boomi’s extensive network. Integration is no longer an obstacle we need to overcome in our implementation processes.
Our implementations process
- Migrate data from legacy HR systems or databases to ensure that no data is lost in your transition to the cloud.
- Integrate Core HR data in Employee Central to Benefits and Time Management solutions to create a strategic system of record and foundation for all talent decisions.
- Integrate Employee history and Candidate info from SuccessFactors to payroll to streamline employee on-boarding and termination processes.
- Use candidate information to/from background screening services and SuccessFactors.
- Synchronise compensation and benefits to finance and payroll systems to reduce employee on-boarding costs.
Align budgets and financial data to strategic goals and performance metrics in order to leverage real-time reporting and drive forecasting and analytics.
