The most viewed page in your SAP SuccessFactors system will be the Home Page. It is also the default landing page and is the first screen your new users will see in the system so having a dynamic and impactful home page should be one of the key actvity in your SAP SuccessFactors implementation project plan.
In this blog I will cover the five admin tool features that you can use to create a home page that can be customized for each employee and still be simple, intuitive and visually appealing. One recommendation is to involve your marketing department to ensure a consistent branding and color scheme and also your IT personnel if you are looking to establish links from your home page to other internal and external systems.
Data Migration is like integration in many ways. They both move data from one system to another. They are both complicated activities that are totally dependent on the system configuration. Decisions about project scope, budget, timing and resources are often made without fully understanding the impact to data migration and integration. As a result any large, global Employee Central project will likely experience multiple challenges with data migration. Here are some mitigation approaches for the more common data migration challenges.
When implementing the SAP SuccessFactors product suite, there are many different deployment options. Each client and implementation partner can have a preferred approach about which module should be implemented first and the deployment sequence for the remaining modules. There are however, some pros and cons to the sequencing of the modules and other factors that should be considered when defining the implementation order. In this blog, I will look at the guidelines and key factors influencing the module deployment decisions for an SAP SuccessFactors product suite implementation.
A request we often get from clients is whether SAP SuccessFactors can be a hub for employees to access other Human Resources Systems. The good news is that this capability is now supported. For many clients, SAP SuccessFactors will be one of the most widely used application suites, and having the capability to use it as a hub for linking to other applications will improve the adoption and benefits that you can derive from SAP SuccessFactors product suite.
Okta has a SuccessFactors app already defined that makes it very easy to setup SSO with SuccessFactors when using Okta as the Identify Provider.
For more details on the setup, you can also reference my Okta SSO Blog. You ca also access my other 3DR blogs from this link.
So you’ve selected the SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite as the core HR and/or Talent Management cloud solution for your company, now what? The next step will impact the overall success of your project, and that is the selection of your internal implementation team and an implementation partner. In the SAP SuccessFactors ecosystem, there are many implementation partners to choose from. In this blog post (which is an excerpt from my book, Implementing SAP SuccessFactors – A Client centered approach) I review the key criteria and approach for selecting an implementation partner.
For the past few years, the integration capabilities of SAP SuccessFactors have expanded significantly. With the introduction of Intelligent Services, there is now support for real-time integrations and a platform to improve cross-module integrations and updates.
In my first blog on how to extend SuccessFactors core capabilities by using Boomi, we looked at the automatic creation of Development Goals in the Career and Development Planning (CDP) module. Here, we will look at compensation data.
In SAP SuccessFactors, Single Sign On (SSO) provides a secure and seamless method for a user to access the system without having to enter their credentials. The SSO methods supported by SAP SuccessFactors fall into two main groups. The first is token based SSO and the second is Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). SAML is based on a pre-defined standard for exchanging authentication information between systems. If your company is already using SAML for SSO with other applications, then that’s what you should use for SAP SuccessFactors as well.
In this final post of my six-part Platform Components series, I will be looking at Rating Scales and the other Core Platform elements. Before I jump into the details, let’s look one more time at the visual I have been using to represent the platform components and review what’s been covered so far.
