This was a recent webcast from SAP’s Jan Meyer.
Figure 1 Source: SAP
Jan is the head of learning systems at SAP with a new mandate – internal, external, and community learning
Opportunities, challenges, provide learning to external learning
Simplify discovery and learning at SAP
Update experience from content perspective
After this last year, consumption of digital learning has soared, both on Open SAP and Learning Hub
See learning as unprioritized
Falls off the back
Especially in transformation times, innovation cycles faster
Learning needs to happen continuously
Recognize need for continuous learning
Importance and impact of learning shown on this slide – culture, productivity
IDC study of benefits of SAP training
SAP Learning Hub to develop knowledge, skills, certification – running on SuccessFactors Learning
Receive updates every 90 days from SuccessFactors learning
Line of business, IT, extend the core, intelligent technologies
It is not just S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, integration between products
Customer who moved from ECC to S/4HANA
61 different innovation areas, 8 lines of business
Short term, mid term, long term; from a learning perspective, provide things like predictive accounting, build into learning journeys
Learning journeys are role based, visualizations of learning paths
Where start, what do next, to achieve learning goal/objective
200+ learning journeys
High satisfaction
Want them to be more role specific, cater to more roles in the future
Possibly some for leaders, business process owners
Available at help.sap.com and when you subscribe to learning hub, same learning journeys are there
The Open SAP program
Enterprise MOOCs free of charge, just need an email address
Courses on latest SAP innovations
Does not cover entire SAP portfolio, but a starting point for many SAP solutions
Learning Hub is the platform for professional learning skills
Subscription based model
Different learning hub editions depending on objectives
Provides 24×7 access to learning content
Access to Learning Rooms; Jan says they are the “heart of the learning hub”
Learning Rooms meet the peers and instructors
Social peer to peer learning environment
Added instructor live sessions on topics; helps with knowledge and self study; news, updates, or something complicated
Certification: “drivers license for SAP products”
Launched program for partners to certify consultants
Partner Learning Hub edition
Stay part of the stay current program to keep skills up to date
Instructor lead training
Subject matter experts in their own field, connected with SAP Product Management
They develop learning journeys and content
Q2/2020, transformed physical training to virtual
Training services available
Tool for digital adoption
Pre integrated in many solutions, all the cloud solutions
Provides baseline, “art of the possible”
Game, played on a live S/4HANA system, solve business problems
Question:
Q: I am subscribed to Learning Hub but unclear on how to develop a training plan
A: Private/public subscription
Private – has additional functions to push out training
Public – learning journeys
S/4HANA Learning for Professional Roles
Professionals are consultants, project team
Have ERP learning journeys online, in maintenance mode
S/4HANA learning journey, on premise
Highlight upskilling learning journeys
Summary is shown above
More Q&A:
Q: printing of ebooks?
A: offering this; ramping this up
Not for old ones
New ones and updated ones
Q: No HR/HCM learning journey?
A: Do not have an S/4HANA HCM/HXM – functionality in S/4HANA didn’t change
Will see a lot of RISE next month; also see more learning offerings S/4HANA private cloud
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