Welcome to
SAP® SuccessFactors®
Solutions
The Best Run Together
Contents
Welcome
Get Started
- Getting Set Up
- Planning Your Implementation Journey
- The Key Players
- Selecting the Right Implementation Partner
- Tips for Project Success
Enhance Your Success
Welcome
Welcome to
SAP®SuccessFactors®
Solutions
Thank you for choosing SAP® SuccessFactors® solutions, and welcome to the family of SAP products! Our goal is to run together with you throughout your organization’s digital transformation journey to help ensure that you gain optimal business value from your investment.
HR leaders today are challenged to make employees’ digital work life comparable to life in the consumer world. SAP SuccessFactors solutions address this challenge by helping HR personnel respond faster to change and become more strategic as they pilot a digital transformation journey unique to their organization.
Your recent choice of SAP SuccessFactors solutions empowers you to provide experiences for your organization that will help sharpen the company’s competitive edge in the market. These industry-leading solutions will enable your team to maximize each employee’s unique potential and put people at the heart of digital transformation.
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We are with you every step of the way, from planning your implementation to helping you get the most out of your solution. This “welcome” e-book will introduce you to a wealth of knowledge, resources, tools, training, and support available to you as a valued SAP customer. You’ll find useful information and easy access to a variety of assets, contacts, and communities that can help your users get up and running with SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
Please share this e-book with other members of your team. We look forward to a long and successful partnership together.
Important
Your SAP ID (S-user ID) is your key to accessing the many
resources that support SAP SuccessFactors solutions. These
include the online customer community and Administrator
Learning Center, both focused specifically on SAP
SuccessFactors solutions, as well as the SAP Support Portal
service. For new customers, SAP creates the initial S-user for
the primary cloud administrator at your organization.
From that point forward, the company's user administrators
manage S-user IDs and authorizations. For security reasons,
SAP is not allowed to create additional S-user IDs for
customers or assign authorizations. If you are unable to
identify your cloud administrator to get your S-user ID, please
contact your SAP Local Support Center.
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Getting Set Up
Customer community for SAP SuccessFactors solutions
The online customer community is your gateway to the
SAP SuccessFactors ecosystem. Once you have access,
you will find a wealth of information and resources related
to your new solution. In addition, the community connects
customers, implementation partners and SAP SuccessFactors solutions
product managers, support analysts, and subject-matter
experts through interactive forums, where questions are
answered and knowledge is shared.
To navigate the forums and information in the customer community, we recommend starting with the Empowerment Center.
An S-user ID is necessary to register for the customer community; if you do not have your S-user ID, please contact the cloud administrator in your company. If you have additional questions, please review our FAQ.
System access
Once we provision your solution, we will send you at least two
e-mails containing access data. The first contains the URL
(the link to your systems) with your user names and system IDs.
The second e-mail contains your passwords and will be sent
only to the person named as “Contact Person IT” in your
SAP SuccessFactors solution contract.
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Your digital transformation to optimize business value
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, and many
chief HR Officers are seeing a dramatic shift in HR from
delivering transactional excellence to architecting digital
transformation. With SAP SuccessFactors solutions, you are
now better equipped to optimize business value from your
most important resource, your talent.
The process library for SAP SuccessFactors solutions
An essential part of a digital transformation journey is
evaluating and standardizing your current HR processes –
or even introducing new HR processes into your company
– based on the industry-leading SAP SuccessFactors
solutions. To support you, SAP has developed leading-practice
recommendations in the form of process descriptions and
process flows to define your HR processes and implement
SAP SuccessFactors solutions. The material is regularly
updated, enhanced, and published in the online
customer community to help you achieve fast, standardized
adoption of SAP SuccessFactors solutions. This will also help you
get the most value out of your solutions.
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Planning Your
Implementation Journey
Clearly defining your organizational objectives and aligning your team will contribute to your implementation success and HR digital transformation. When you are ready to implement, a comprehensive range of resources and services are available to guide your implementation through to a successful launch.
Implementation preparation
To help prepare for implementation we recommend reviewing our Plan for Success documentation in the Customer Community Empowerment Center to learn how to optimize your implementation, find certified Partner Consultants and understand which SAP Consulting Services may be right for you.
implementation, please note that the partner‘s methods may
differ from ours, which means some resources in the success
guide may not apply to you.
Resource planning
Effective resource planning is crucial to the success of your project. The right employees, consultants, and experts need to be in the right place at the right time. To make this task easier for our customers, we have provided system administration guidelines and considerations to help you plan resources for your project, ongoing system administration and support.
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The
Key Players
Roles and responsibilities
As your organization starts its journey with SAP SuccessFactors solutions,
key team roles and responsibilities are necessary for you to succeed
with your new solution. They are described here.
SAP
- Provides the technological platform as specified in the contract
- Provides oversight and guidance to develop strategic road maps that accelerate business outcomes, help ensure business continuity, and assure value from the technology investment
Implementation services partner
- Supports the design, planning, and implementation of the functional and technical aspects of the project and recommends actions to mitigate risks
- Transfers technical, functional, and methodology knowledge
- Evaluates and recommends best practices that correspond to the business requirements of the project
Customer
- Provides appropriate qualified resources to execute the relevant project tasks
- Understands and adopts technical and functional
recommendations of the solution provider
- Builds an internal project team to keep the project on track with stakeholders from HR, finance, IT, administrators for the SAP SuccessFactors solutions, executive sponsors, plus other relevant lines of business
- Develops a well-conceived change management plan, including engaged change champions and communication schedules
- Gains commitment from all project team members to take advantage of free, 24x7, on-demand product training to increase knowledge and help ensure decisions are well informed
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Selecting the Right
Implementation Partner
Choosing the right implementation partner is crucial to the success of your project. Whether you select the SAP Digital Business Services organization or one of our many partners worldwide, your partner will play a critical role. The partner will help you build, implement, extend, configure, and enrich our technology platform and software for innovative and tailored solutions that meet your exact needs.
SAP Digital Business Services and our partner ecosystem are committed to helping you succeed by providing guidance at every stage of your HR transformation journey.
Getting professional certification for SAP SuccessFactors solutions is the highest level of achievement in our cloud certification program. It testifies to practical and technical implementation expertise for an SAP SuccessFactors solution. Using consultants that hold and maintain a professional certification helps ensure projects are delivered with the highest quality.
If you have yet to select an implementation partner, check out the resources below for assistance.
- To learn more about and engage with SAP Digital Business Services, click here.
- Learn more about using partners to provide professional services, and about our professional certification process in the online customer community.
Follow these tips for selecting and working with your partner:
- Look for a partner with specialized expertise in your selected products and industry
- Evaluate your corporate culture and align the delivery model accordingly
- Provide a clear understanding of deliverables, expectations, timelines and your HR transformation vision
- Agree to terms that are fair, including mutually fair pay structures based on key deliverables
- Build a true partnership based on honesty, transparency, and mutual respect
For further considerations on how to select and work with your HR Transformation partner please use the Partner Certification Search and review the Factors to Consider During your Partner Selection.
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Tips for
Project Success
When you are ready to implement, SAP offers a comprehensive range of resources and services to accelerate your efforts. Here are a few tips to help you get the best out of your implementation and operation of SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
Setting up a governance model will make it easier to establish a clear structure and define responsibilities.
Change management must start early in the project to ensure collaboration of stakeholders and users and to mitigate fear of change.
Executive buy-in must be visible, or the project will not have the appropriate priority to meet deadlines.
Project management status and tracking must focus on timelines and ensure quality.
Lines of business and IT (as applicable) should be represented on all teams, bringing their unique skills, expertise, and knowledge to foster synergy and collaboration on the project.
Industry-specific requirements, such as regulatory reporting requirements or processes, should be identified up front so that you can work together with SAP and your consultants to address them in your project.
Training is a critical component of a successful project. As part of your subscription to SAP SuccessFactors, you have prepaid access to the SAP SuccessFactors Admin Learning Center: on demand training resources for every role.
Enhance Your Success
Get More Value from Your
Software with Education and Training
Global training for SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite develops and delivers targeted learning experiences with high-impact content that enables our customers to execute and grow in their roles.
Kick-off (Onboard)
- Project team orientations (PTOs) prepare key stakeholders and decision makers for upcoming configuration workshops and business process decisions with the implementation consultant.
- PTOs provide a knowledge transfer on core product functionality and enable participants to think about use cases and scenarios around functionality and configuration.
- PTOs should be taken around the time of the project kickoff.
Enable (Implement)
- Administrative training courses enable administrators and power users to oversee the daily management of their company’s SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
- Administrative training covers front-end setup, key concepts, features, and terminology, as well as practice of necessary skills.
- New customers should take administrative training before go-live; existing customers can utilize administrative training to stay up-to-date or when responsibilities change.
Global training for SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite develops and delivers targeted learning experiences with high-impact content that enables our customers to execute and grow in their roles.
Launch
- Downloadable job aids provide an overview of the basic tasks performed by administrators and functions available to end users within the SAP SuccessFactors solution.
Utilize
- Confirm your expertise as an administrator of your SAP SuccessFactors solutions accreditation.
For more information and links to access the training material, please see our training page on the online customer community for SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
Enhance Your Success
Run at Peak Performance
with SAP Enterprise Support
Get more value from your SAP software with SAP Enterprise Support services. We offer a range of support services, including long-term plans, remote technology support (including an Expert Chat service), a self-service portal, and more.
Getting started with SAP Enterprise Support
Access the introduction to the four dimensions of SAP Enterprise Support and other essential information and guidance. For further information, visit the support Web site.
Learn more about our support offerings
SAP offers multiple support options for
customers – visit our Offerings & Programs
page
to review them.
The Schedule an Expert service offers customers the chance to schedule a 30-minute call with an SAP expert at a time convenient to them to collaborate on a specific inquiry or incident. Visit the main page to find out more. You can book a time for the Schedule an Expert service in SAP ONE Support Launchpad.
SAP Enterprise Support value maps
SAP Enterprise Support value maps help you navigate intuitively through the support services, offerings, and tools available through SAP Enterprise Support. You have on-demand, 24x7, worldwide access to a collaborative social network platform, connecting you directly with SAP experts, engineers, and peers. Unlock the relevant support offerings to assist you in reaching your specific objectives. Explore SAP Enterprise Support value maps for SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
Enhance Your Success
Evolve Your
Digital Journey
The technology behind SAP SuccessFactors solutions is constantly evolving to meet the changing needs of our customers. To plan new processes and help ensure you get the most up-to-date information about the future value you can attain for your organization, make sure to visit the Release Updates & Road Map page on our Customer Community to access product road maps, the road to the release and release highlights. You can also influence the development of the road maps for SAP SuccessFactors solutions by submitting your ideas for future product innovations.
Product road maps
Product road maps describe how features and functions of an
SAP product or technology are planned to progress over time.
The cloud has a rapid innovation cycle so SAP SuccessFactors publishes road maps quarterly. These road maps provide the following:
- Detailed information about the current version of the product, with features grouped by value and function
- Detailed information about the planned innovations of the product, with features grouped by value and function
- A summary of the future direction for the product View current SAP SuccessFactors product road map
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Release highlights
SAP SuccessFactors solutions lead the industry, not only in
functionality and features, but also in the frequency of release
updates. This is how we keep you on the cutting edge of
innovation. We deliver new and enhanced functionality that you
can check out and then activate, as needed. This means you are
always up-to-date, know what is coming next, and can plan early
to adapt your processes for a more satisfying user experience
and greater organizational impact.
Road to the release
Helping you take advantage of the improvements in each
release is a major tenet of SAP SuccessFactors solutions value
proposition. However, to realize this, it is imperative that
we clearly explain our release program and provide helpful
administrative guidance and tips.
Visit the road to the release to understand the release approach, different types of updates, how to prepare and where to access essential information each quarter.
Influence the road map for SAP SuccessFactors solutions
As a customer of SAP SuccessFactors solutions, you can help us
define the future of our products when you submit product
enhancement ideas using our web tool to influence the
solution road map.
Enhance Your Success
SAP SuccessFactors Solutions
in Action: Webinars
In our free, online marketing webinars, you can find out more about current HR trends, innovations, and SAP SuccessFactors solutions. Experts share their experiences and will gladly answer any questions you might have. Register for upcoming webinars.
Hear from your peers and experts on SAP SuccessFactors solutions on YouTube. This special channel offers a full program of customer stories, product road map highlights, product demos, and our very own HR team sharing their experience implementing and using SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
Enhance Your Success
Run Together:
Engage with the Customer Community
There are many ways for customers and SAP SuccessFactors solutions subject-matter experts to exchange information of mutual interest and value. Our top community users are industry thought leaders, and engagement with them through the online customer community adds profound value to your success throughout your customer journey. Review information below about a few of the tools and programs we offer in the customer community.
Peer match search
The peer match search provided by the
online customer community gives you the
opportunity to connect one-on-one with other
customers with similar requirements in order
to share experiences, expertise, and best
practices. Our goal is to create an interactive
community and encourage networking. We
would appreciate any contributions you make
about your expertise on a specific topic. You
can do this easily by becoming a peer match
advisor once you are live with your products.
Customer Adoption & Empowerment Programs
The Value and Innovation in Practice (VIP) program hosts in-person events to help you adopt your solutions
and maximize your investment in SAP SuccessFactors solutions by sharing HR strategies and leading practices.
Our Customer Empowerment webinars provide virtual forums focused on a variety of topics related to solution
adoption, HR strategy, product expertise and release innovations. Please visit the Events & Recordings tab
on the customer community to find out more. You can also subscribe to our monthly events newsletter
which highlights the upcoming webinars and in-person events.
Enhance Your Success
Groups
Community groups are organized by
customers specializing in HR and IT who want
to share their knowledge and best practices
of SAP SuccessFactors solutions with their
peers. Groups are organized by region,
industry, and product or topic. Visit the
Groups page on the online customer community to learn more.
Product Forums
Access Product pages via the Product tab in the Customer Community.
Each product page includes a consolidated Product Forum where you can search previous posts, and ask questions.
Product Forums facilitate peer-to-peer interactions and best practices and solutions to how-to questions.
Product pages provide feature highlights, quarterly release information, hot topics and announcements.
Enhance Your Success
Keep In Touch
We hope you find this “welcome” e-book useful as we run together on your digital transformation journey with SAP SuccessFactors solutions. We will be with you every step of the way and want to make sure you maximize your investment.
Please use the links in this e-book to access the information, services, and tools available to our customers. These aids will help optimize your experience working with us. Stay informed by signing up for The Compass monthly customer newsletter.
If you cannot find what you need, please do not hesitate to let us know.
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