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The Onboarding solution offered by SAP SuccessFactors enables seamless integration of new hires into an organization’s culture while equipping them with essential tools and information to thrive as productive team members. With its comprehensive features, the solution facilitates a smooth transition, ensuring that new employees have the necessary resources to quickly acclimate and contribute effectively....

During the process of hiring new employees using SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 2.0, three main types of forms are commonly utilized. These forms serve as a means of collecting essential data from candidates, including documents and PDF files. This data is not only stored within the system but can also be exported for internal use, ensuring....

I have seen requirements where Employee Class and Employment Type picklist functionalities were not meeting customer requirements. This blog describes the solution to set up complex validation combinations between Employee Class and Employment Type. While SAP standard configuration provides these fields as picklists, due to which different combinations of validations cannot be used for e.g.,....

In SAP Cloud Integration (CPI), we all use Filter palette item in our various B2B scenarios to validate/filter the incoming payload. One of the most common XPath expression we use is to check whether a particular node in the incoming payload has a particular value. In this blog, we will use W3C XPath and XQuery....

Offboarding is the formal process of separating an employee from a company, typically due to resignation, termination, or retirement. It involves various tasks and procedures to ensure a smooth departure, such as transferring job responsibilities, deactivating access rights and passwords, returning company equipment, and conducting exit interviews to collect feedback. SAP SuccessFactors provides a comprehensive....

This post will provide steps to be followed during requirement gathering for Successfactors Compensation implementation. Steps for requirement gathering: The first and the most important part of compensation cycle is the eligibility of employees who are to be included in the current cycle or to be excluded. The eligibility for the 3 main pillars (Merit,....

With SAP Datasphere’s unified experience for data integration, data catalog, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization, professionals can now distribute mission-critical business data across their organization’s data landscape with ease and with business context and logic preserved. By introducing the SAP Datasphere Analytic Model, SAP Datasphere improves the business semantic layer to provide advanced multi-dimensional capabilities. Complex aggregations, time dependencies,....

Clients frequently ask me how to improve the user interface for their Learning Management System (LMS), which is one of the first interactive experience users will have when they access the modules. In this blog post, we will discuss how to add an enrolment link for course registration. The LMS has standard pages and custom....

ID validation, or identity document (ID) validation, is the process of verifying a provided national ID such as an Aadhar Card or PAN Card to ensure authenticity and validity. These National IDs are pretty important information when it comes to Recruiting as well. Even though there is a unique National id for each person, there are....

As instance-sync for MDF objects is going to be deprecated in the upcoming release (1H 2023), there is no better time to explore and start using the configuration center that is the upgraded alternative to the instance-sync tool and most probably replace it completely sometime in future. The primary difference between the two is instance....

Use Case: Manager should be permitted to create records, but after they are saved, he or she should not be allowed to alter them because this data is the source of the workforce management system downstream. Of course, organisation to organisation may have different use cases, but almost all would need to control modification after saving....

SuccessFactors consultants and developers are often using the /oauth/idp endpoint the generate the assertion and consequently use the assertion in an additional request to obtain an access token. This endpoint is now deprecated and will be removed in the near future. It’s good to point out that although Postman supports many flavours of OAuth, it does....

mTLS stands for mutual Transport Layer Security. It is a security protocol that provides encrypted communication between client and server, ensuring that the data transmitted over the network cannot be intercepted, read or modified by any unauthorized entity. Unlike traditional SSL/TLS, which only authenticates the server to the client, mTLS authenticates both the server and....

The frequent occurrence of accidental data deletion is largely attributed to human error and can result in the loss of critical employee or system data which may cause dominoes effect across the system landscape, and other consequences. While there are remedial measures such as running audit reports and data retrieval to address such incidents, it....

Triggering group assignments based on a user attribute is among the recent enhancements of Identity Provisioning capabilities. What does this mean and how can you make use of it? It means that you can directly assign or unassign whatever users you want (based on their attribute values) to any group that exists on the target....

There are many countries in the world including Nordic and Middle Eastern where salary disclosure at the JD level, salary negotiations, offer letters and annual salary review happen on monthly remuneration unlike in USA or India where it’s Annual. But the standard SuccessFactors system is designed with annualization across suite where amounts are projected to....

This is the second part of the topic “Salary planning without Annualization”. In this blog, we are going to discuss the EC approach for performing salary review on monthly income. I would encourage you to go through the first part https://blogs.sap.com/2023/03/17/salary-planning-config-design-without-annualization-part-1/ to get the context in more detail. The annualization concept is not specific to the compensation....

My name is Sabina Paskuraj. In this blog I have explained about the error message “The HRIS Element jobInfo is not updated” faced in Successfactors Employee central and steps to rectify. Error Message: “The HRIS Element jobInfo is not updated. To save this configuration, correct the following issues: Verify if the following deprecated fields are required....

In this blog, the user will learn how to create system-generated external code for a career path in SAP SuccessFactors Career Development Planning. Career Path: The Career Path displays information about the expected path for a position or various positions. HR managers and HR administrators can create multiple new career paths and associate them to....

This blog post introduces you to the recently published SuccessFactors Implementation Design Principle (SFIDP) document: SAP SuccessFactors Learning: Setting up an Open Content Network Provider. Implementation Design Principle documents are owned and managed by SAP SuccessFactors Product Management who engage and collaborate with select, interested partners along with SAP Professional Service to tap the rich implementation experience....

This blog post explains the process of purging the partially created External Users in Onboarding 2.0. Scenario Some Organizations use external solutions for the recruitment process and choose to use SuccessFactors for Onboarding, HR Core (Employee Central) and so on. In these cases an integration should be set up with multiple entities like External User,....

In this blog, the user will learn to use Initiatives in SAP SuccessFactors Goals Management. Initiatives: SuccessFactors Goal Management provides a feature known as “initiatives” whereby administrators can create corporate, departmental, division, business unit, and location-level initiatives and further enable employees to link their own personal goals to those initiatives. How it works: HR Admin wants to....

One of the lesser-known capabilities within SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central is the ability to create process-specific email notification templates. These can be useful when you have a process that requires a little extra guidance, such as reminding the manager to discuss the promotion with the employee. As you will see, there is a decent amount....

This article is about Public cloud services (also known as software as a service) and not covering platform or infrastructure as a service. All core principles are valid for the SAP Cloud product family and all public cloud vendor offerings. Cloud operations help companies operate, adopt and develop software applications. In this article, we explain....

SAP SuccessFactors licenses for Learning classify the users into two License user types, “Active” or “Functional”. It is important to classify the users into right type for compliance with the licenses purchased by the customer. Difference between Functional user and Active user: The Learning management system does not differentiate between an Active and Functional User.....

User experience has become a critical part of a successful implementation of SuccessFactors projects. One way to help customers increase the user experience is by enhancing alert messages and message definitions. These two functionalities are used to throw error messages, warning messages, or info messages during HR Transactions. Alert messages are highly used to remind....

In this blog post, I will be sharing an automated design concept for Spot Award Budget calculation and how to configure it. About Spot Awards A Spot Award is a non-recurring, compensation event that is based on a specific contribution or performance. It can be cash or stock and is generally subject to budget and....

Would like to share an idea on how to utilize in full potential the combo Recruiting business rules, Pre-screening questions and quick Apply as a powerful tool to rate candidates in your job requisitions. In order to do that I need you to understand three main features: 1 – Pre-Screening Questions: Roughly speaking, “pre-screening” questions....

The Theming of the SAP SuccessFactors system can be managed using the Theme Manager. This Theme manager allows to define own themes or select preselected themes for the product. Customer use this functionality to adapt the look and feel of the product to their corporate colors and logos. When Partner or Customers are building an extension....

SAP SuccessFactors solutions are cloud-based HCM software applications that support core HR and payroll, talent management, HR analytics and workforce planning, and employee experience management. SuccessFactors solutions are used by over 235+ million users in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. SAP SuccessFactors Intelligent Services Events SuccessFactors already comes with Intelligent Services....

As, we have feature to use Multi-Select of Position to hire Multiple Candidates on different positions by creating only One Job Requisition. In this blog I am sharing end-to-end step to Configure the Multi-Select Feature and the limitation And also my experience when I got the requirement, which is common but not feasible in standard....

I received similar questions about SAP SuccessFactors (SF) landscape from our partners and customers; therefore, I decided to write a blog about common cross-customer questions. This blog is intended for customer admins, and consultants new to SAP SuccessFactors. The intent is to provide information in a simple way via a FAQ-kind structure. Feel free to....

I received similar questions about SAP SuccessFactors (SF) landscape from our partners and customers; therefore, I decided to write a blog post about common cross-customer questions about landscape management. This blog is intended for customer admins, and consultants new to SAP SuccessFactors. The aim is to provide information in a simple way via a FAQ-kind....

Summary I observed some problems that impact operations at SuccessFactors for our customers; therefore, I want to consolidate my experience and share an understanding of SuccessFactors administrator requirements. This blog post is about common cross-customer questions about SF Admin skills and does not explain how the operating model should be or what the best practices....

Hello SAP community, Tired of imports/changes/exports? Unable to mass update current & future (specific) pay components with X% and maybe some extra logic in a more automated fashion? Do you want to mass change pay scale levels within a Compensation Cycle based on performance cycle outcomes? And/or are there employees that do not have the....

In this blog post, I will be sharing some design concepts for Employee Central Global Benefits implementation and how to configure them. Scenario: When the employee has a newborn child or on birth date anniversaries; the employee automatically claims an eligible benefit. The employee receives a voucher code from the system or gets paid based on....

Today I”m starting a series of YouTube videos on the new Stories For People Analytics.  I’ll admit I’m not the world’s foremost expert on the subject, but I have been working with Stories a good bit on my recent implementations.  Hopefully, you can learn from my mistakes! SAP SuccessFactors delivers over 50 Template Stories for....

Today is the 3rd installment in my series on SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central position reclassification. In part 1, I explained that position reclassification is the ability to update information on the employee and have the change synchronized back to the position he or she occupies. Position reclassification does not exist in SAP but does in SuccessFactors.....

SAP SuccessFactors offers a comprehensive set of Role Based Permission (RBP) APIs based on OData V2. Those APIs can be used in several scenarios, the most common one is knowing the permissions of a logged-on End User when building an application/extension to SAP SuccessFactors. I will refer to this extension through out this blog post....

In this blog, we will cover leading learning trends , and how they are supported in SAP SuccessFactors Learning. 1.Machine Learning: Machine learning is an application of AI that enables systems to learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed. SAP SuccessFactors Learning has developed the personalized learning recommendation platform which is powered by....

In order to load mass changes into SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, we often need to work with load files. Using Microsoft Excel to maintain and adjust load files can cause chaos if you are not careful. In this video, I talk about the application I use to maintain SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central files in a....

Childcare leave refers to a period of paid or unpaid leave granted to employees for the care and/or support of their children under a certain age. In China, we have a common requirement that each couple can enjoy five days’ childcare leave each year until their child reaches three years. In this blog, I am....

While using Identity Provisioning Service(IPS) to run user data sync between SuccessFactors and Identity Authentication Service(IAS) I was faced with the challenge to identify duplicate email addresses within SuccessFactors. To check for duplicate Emails please do the following: Navigate to Admin Center Open Check Tool Under Application select User Management Here you will see User Information inside....

This blog explains how to map Address field for Emergency contact from Onb 1.0 to EC. As SAP deprecated the Address field from Emergency Contact section, there is no Address field available for direct mapping. (If you want to know how to configure Emergency contact Information panels and map with EC, check the KBA  https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/2432866 ) We....

Work from Home has made organizations look for ways to engage employees remotely through virtual training and one of the functionalities of SuccessFactors Learning, Virtual Learning Services (VLS) played a big role in helping organizations achieve this. In SuccessFactors Learning, VLS configuration enables learners to enter virtual meeting rooms directly from their My Assignments tile by clicking Join....

In this recording we demonstrate how to use Performance Ratings in Compensation Eligibility Rules by : Creating an effective dated MDF object that will store all Performance Ratings over the years. Adding the Overall Performance Portlet to People Profile (mostly for data checks / testing purposes) Creating an Integration Center Job to feed the MDF object....

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....

In my last blog post Calling SuccessFactors OData APIs via iRPA 2.0 I wrote about how we can create an automation which is calling a SuccessFactors API for performing upsert operations. The automation however also needs to be invoked. For this I worked on developing a chatbot which would call the API based trigger of the automation.....

Prior to the H1 2205 Release Prior to the 2205 Release, there were occurrences of users losing all of the Report Stories which they have created. This generally happened following an IPS User Sync. User became inactive in SF and deleted from SAC. Instance refresh copying users from one instance to another. IPS Admin permissions....

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central consists of Foundation objects (Position, Location, Division, Legal Entity, Department, Division, Business Unit) and Employee Data related objects (Person, Personal Information, Employment information, Job Information, Compensation information). The foundation objects form the Organization structure and acts as a framework on which the Employee information is built. Third party (Target) systems that....

In my last blogs I used Basic Authentication method to call SuccessFactors OData APIs.  Calling SuccessFactors OData APIs via iRPA 2.0 Let’s call iRPA 2.0 bot from CAI chatbot to update SuccessFactors I decided to invest time in changing this to OAuth 2.0 Authentication method. What makes oAuth 2.0 with SAML more secure than Basic....

Intended Audience: This blog is relevant for customer’s and consultants who are implementing SuccessFactors for a global client where they are planning to implement the solution in a multiple phase and have a complex landscape setup. Use Case: We have a global customer who is planning to implement SuccessFactors modules in their organization but want....

SAP SuccessFactors has become a major pioneer in framework and integration as part of the Cloud HCM applications in the market, since becoming a part of SAP in 2011. The flexibility offered in SAP SuccessFactors APIs makes a good fit for varying architecture complexity. Within SAP SuccessFactors, Employee Central (EC) is the hub for Employee related....

Last year the SAP SuccessFactors HR Research Team published eight meta-trends for 2021.  Many of these, specifically employee well-being, hybrid work environments, and internal mobility, are predicted to continue well into 2022 and beyond.  We know these trends are happening, but how can we help ensure employees are given the support they need so that they....

Basic authentication has been the way of communication between SAP Cloud Integration and SAP SuccessFactors. However, progessing to more secure ways of authentication mechanisms both SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Cloud Integration have enhanced capabilities to support oAuth based mechanisms. In this blog, the primary focus is on configuring connectivity between SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Cloud....

This video tutorial series extends the Getting Started with the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Kyma environment tutorial playlist with two videos about SAP SuccessFactors system registration. For the video tutorials covering how to create the SAP BTP Kyma environment, see SAP BTP Kyma Runtime Getting Started | Video Tutorial Series For the video tutorials....

SuccessFactors Onboarding (aka Onboarding 2.0) is gaining popularity, with many customers going live, many more are in flight, and a lot more are in planning, kick-off stage. The product has definitely matured in its offerings compared to even a year ago. Every upgrade is bringing in new innovations, and it is one of the exciting products....

  Over the last 3 years, I have had an amazing opportunity at SAP to work in the business process integration area related to the red-hot HR and cloud ERP space. SAP under Christian Klein is boldly moving forward with its cloud strategy, innovating at cloud speed, and delivering on the promise of the Intelligent Enterprise....

Continuing the trend of last year, I am excited to share the innovations and changes in 2021 for the Framework area. Hope this helps you to get a quick recap and get all ready for 2022! SAP Task Center SAP Task Center is the central inbox for tasks in the Intelligent Enterprise. It supports approvals from....

Realizing the full value of your SAP SuccessFactors investment requires a focus on application lifecycle management (ALM). SAP Cloud ALM is our application lifecycle management offering for cloud-centric customers. SAP Cloud ALM for SAP SuccessFactors: Delivers a self-guided and content-driven implementation workspace based on SAP Activate Supplies operational monitoring for business processes and integrations to minimize disruptions Is included with....

As we know, while using an integration between SF Employee Central and SAP Employee Central Payroll the customers can face some “integration issues” due to standard validations that are made only at the ECP level, and not on EC (the core system). One of these cases is about the PIS (Social Integration Program), a very....

The way we work has changed, and priorities for businesses and employees are shifting. Now, more than ever, employees are demanding their voices be heard and that employers do what is best for them. And when these demands are not met, people are looking elsewhere. A recent Qualtrics study revealed half of leaders and employees plan to....

Introduction SuccessFactors is designed very intuitive and navigation is quick an easy, especially with the new Reimagined Home Page: Nevertheless, at some point you might want to add custom quick-links and short-cuts to navigate within SF or jump externally or change labels to make daily use of SuccessFactors even more easy for your users. This blog....

Last weekend’s SAP Analytics Cloud Business Content Innovation release marked another milestone for Workforce Planning with SAP SuccessFactors. The SAP Best Practices for SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning has been made available in the Content Network and provides extended process coverage for strategic as well as operational workforce planning, more extended valuable features, and a brand new scope item for Operational Headcount Planning by....

With the SAP SuccessFactors 1H 2021 release live in production, there is a lot of good and exciting news to share with the SAP Best Practices for SuccessFactors community. Especially around SAP Best Practices for SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central integration with SAP ERP HCM Payroll‎. The 1H 2021 Support Package of the Integration Add-on (PA_SE_IN) now includes SAP....

If the past year and a half has taught us anything, it is that plans can change quickly. With COVID-19 the world has changed dramatically overnight and with that our personal and professional lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has also forever altered the pace of digital transformation in the learning and development space. According to Fosway’s....

Introduction SAP recently announced the launch of SAP Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (for better readability I will use the term SAP Cloud ALM ) , a brand new cloud-based solution built on SAP cloud platform for managing all lifecycle aspects of cloud and hybrid solutions. This blog post gives an overview of what SAP Cloud....

Hi Everyone, Hope you are staying safe and healthy. I would like to highlight one of the key features that SuccessFactors provides, with which the admins would be able to mass update the Job-related master data of the employee in a simple and efficient way.  I could not see much information available on this, so....

With the first half (1H) 2021 release now in preview, I wanted to provide a quick overview of some of the enhancements for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting. One key theme with this release is flexibility. You’ll see several enhancements designed to give your teams direct access and control over areas that previously required professional services or....

Introduction: This post is a part of the “SAPRPA2.0_TutorialChallenge2021”. When I heard about this challenge, one of the scenarios which came up was career path creation within the career development module in SuccessFactors system. Based on my interactions with customer admins during implementation, I realized that the current process for career path creation was data intensive,....

Overview As of H1 2021, the Configuration Center tool will allow to view, download and transport SAP SuccessFactors application configuration. The tool will be available post B2105 deployment. It will allow transporting EC, Talent Management, People profile, and Qualtrics configurations between two instances. Configuration Center simplifies the user’s experience around configuring the change management process, viewing configurations,....

When SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics released General Availability with June’s 2005 version, this truly marked an important milestone creating excitement throughout the HXM reporting community. SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics offers a single tool for reporting, insights and dashboards that enables cross-suite reporting based on live transactional data across the SAP SuccessFactors HXM suite. One of the multifold....