Integrating SAP SuccessFactors

Donna Leong-Cohen, Vishnu Kandi, Rinky Karthik, Seng Ping Gan

• Publisher: SAP PRESS
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781493219292
• eBook ISBN: 9781493219308
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Computer Science General
• Index: Computer Science

Transitioning to cloud HCM? With this guide, learn how to integrate SAP SuccessFactors into your HCM landscape. Connect Employee Central to SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, and third-party systems, and perform cross-module talent integrations between Recruiting, Onboarding, Learning, and more. Then create custom integrations using APIs, the Integration Center, SAP Cloud Platform, and templates to suit your organization's specific requirements. Chart your own path to HCM in the cloud! In this book, you'll learn about: a. Employee Central Integrations
Configure the packaged integrations between Employee Central and SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA, and migrate your personnel data using the InfoPorter. Learn how to connect to Employee Central Payroll and third-party systems such as Kronos or Benefitfocus. b. Talent Integrations
Integrate SAP SuccessFactors talent modules such as Recruiting, Performance & Goals, Learning, and more. Enable the attract-and-acquire, pay-for-performance, and identify-and-grow processes in your SAP SuccessFactors landscape! c. Custom Integrations
Where standard integrations end, custom integrations begin. Determine whether your requirements merit custom work, and learn how to create your own integrations. Walk through use cases and step-by-step examples for using APIs, the Integration Center, SAP Cloud Platform, or templates. Highlights include:
1) SAP ERP HCM and SAP S/4HANA
2) Employee Central
3) Employee Central Payroll
4) Recruiting and Onboarding
5) Learning
6) Compensation and Variable Pay
7) Performance and Goals
8) Custom integrations
9) SAP Cloud Platform
10) Integration Center
11) Data migration
12) Third-party systems

Part I

Integration Concepts

1 Deployment Models

Your organization must assess and select the model that best aligns with its human resources (HR) business and technology objectives. In this chapter, we’ll describe the main deployment models used and help you decide which deployment model to adopt. We’ll also provide an overview of the architecture and integrations required for each deployment model.

The digital transformation of HR in the workplace is essential to the survival of a business. Competition is fierce in the marketplace, and having the right talent in your organization is key to being competitive. Companies must be innovative in their HR solutions to support talent management, learning, growth, and performance strategies. Having the right strategies in place will encourage increased innovation and diversity in the workplace.

Being first to market, fast to respond, and efficient are all key elements to accelerate value, and many organizations have adopted cloud solutions to achieve these goals. Moving towards the cloud involves many different considerations because companies often have complex IT structures consisting of a mix of on-premise solutions and third-party vendors as well as in-house, custom, and digital cloud solutions.

Why the rush to the cloud? Simply put, the cloud offers plug-and-play solutions that can easily be adopted by users at reduced operational costs in IT and reduced complexity. The cloud can also be more reliable, enabling access from anywhere around the world, along with faster time to value.

Transitioning all HR functions to the cloud can be a company’s ultimate goal to achieve simplicity in back-office functions and frontend user access. With this goal in mind, SAP continues to heavily invest in cloud-based innovations. SAP is at the forefront of helping organizations of all sizes with their digital transformation journey to the cloud.

Realizing integration is key for achieving optimal end-to-end processes with other cloud-based and on-premise applications, SAP’s focus is on providing simple integration solutions, allowing you to adopt any of the cloud deployment options available to suit your business needs.

This book focuses on SAP’s cloud solution for human resources management, specifically SAP SuccessFactors and its related integration solutions to enable your business to manage its workforce effectively.

In this chapter, we’ll focus on the three common cloud deployment models: full cloud, core hybrid, and talent hybrid. We’ll provide detailed use cases, describing the modules and systems involved and helping you understand the solution’s architecture and integrations. We’ll also take a brief look at the side-by-side deployment model, which provides a consolidated view of a company’s workforce data in SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central while maintaining a system of record (SOR) both within the on-premise SAP system (SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA) and the SAP SuccessFactors cloud platform. With this model, multiple integrations are available to connect SAP’s human capital management (HCM) systems into Employee Central although full sets of data must be stored in both systems, which increases complexity and maintenance costs. A few companies have implemented the side-by-side model, but most opt for a simplified approach: either the core hybrid model or the full cloud model.

Note

When we refer to the on-premise SAP system, we mean either the SAP ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) or SAP Human Capital Management for SAP S/4HANA (SAP HCM for SAP S/4HANA) solutions.

1.1 Cloud Technology

Cloud technology offers fast and innovative resources hosted on the Internet providing flexibility, accessibility, and economies of scale. Many HR programs are leveraging digital and mobile technologies to deliver improved customer experiences in the workplace. SAP SuccessFactors provides cloud-based solutions to aid people along the digital transforma...

Table of contents

• Dear Reader
• Notes on Usage
• Table of Contents
•   Preface
• Part I   Integration Concepts
• 1   Deployment Models
• 2   Integration Tools and Technologies
• 3   Integration Project Management
• Part II   Employee Central Integrations
• 4   Data Migration from SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA to Employee Central
• 5   Employee Central with SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA
• 6   Employee Central with Employee Central Payroll
• 7   Employee Central with Third-Party Systems
• Part III   Platform Integrations for Talent Management
• 8   Platform Integration for Basic User Data
• 9   SAP SuccessFactors Learning and Platform Integration
• Part IV   Attract and Acquire Process Integrations
• 10   Attract and Acquire Overview
• 11   Employee Central to Recruiting Management
• 12   Recruiting Management to Employee Central
• 13   Recruiting Management to Recruiting Marketing and Recruiting Posting
• 14   Recruiting Management to SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 2.0
• 15   SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 2.0 to Employee Central
• Part V   Pay for Performance Process Integrations
• 16   Pay for Performance Overview
• 17   Performance Management and Goal Management with Employee Central
• 18   Performance Management and Goal Management with Continuous Performance Management
• 19   Performance Management and Goal Management with SAP SuccessFactors Variable Pay
• 20   SAP SuccessFactors Compensation with Employee Central
• Part VI   Identify and Grow Process Integrations
• 21   Identify and Grow Overview
• 22   Career Development Planning with Performance Management and 360 Reviews
• 23   SAP SuccessFactors Learning with Career Development Planning
• 24   Succession Planning with Career Development Planning
• Part VII   Custom Integrations
• 25   Application Programming Interfaces
• 26   Integration Center
• 27   SAP Cloud Platform
• 28   Custom Integration Best Practices
• A   The Authors
• Index
• Service Pages
• Legal Notes