SAP SuccessFactors Integration Tools

This blog provides an overview for the SAP tools available for SAP SuccessFactors data integration scenarios.

Keeping up with technology changes introduced by SAP SuccessFactors:

Choosing between “Point To Point” Integration pattern and “middleware” based approach is often the biggest challenge.

Here are the quick decision points on the advantages of using SAP SuccessFactors Integration tools:

SAP SuccessFactors Integration tools provide dedicated adapter out of the box.
SAP SuccessFactors tools are always kept up to date with technology roadmap as SAP SuccessFactors enhances the Integration capabilities.
Packaging/Life-Cycle maintenance capability
Content discovery made easy (SAP API Business Hub)
Advisory services – SAP SuccessFactors Extensibility Advisory | Innovation | Partner Benefits Catalog | Partner Marketplace

The below table explains the capability of the SAP SuccessFactors Integration tools.

Integration tool Integration tool Capability	SAP SuccessFactors Integration Center	Cloud Integration
Extract data using CompoundEmployee API
Support for complex message transformation
Support for scripting in the integration flows
Extract data using SAP SuccessFactors OData APIs
Data extraction from SAP SuccessFactors to SFTP
Data extraction from SAP SuccessFactors to FTP
Send data directly to a SOAP/REST based 3rd party API end point from SAP SuccessFactors
Support for SSH key based authentication to SFTP
Consume data from a SOAP/REST based 3rd party API end point into SAP SuccessFactors
Support for EDI format
Support for file Encryption/Signing through PGP keys
Support for multiple SFTP destinations in single integration flow
Support for high frequency-based integrations
Ability to extract history/future date/as-of-dated information from SAP SuccessFactors
Ability for scheduling the integrations
Ability to send email notification for success/failure of the integrations
Support for both server/client-side paging mechanism
Suitable tool for productized integration development/Lifecyle management
API payload enrichment by calling a different source/target API in the integration flow
Support for 3rd party certificate-based authentication
Support for 3rd party OAuth2 based authentication
Support for OAuth2 based authentication to SAP SuccessFactors