As of October 9, 2020, SAP has released their documentation for the H2 2020 release.  You can view the full set of documentation in the What’s New Viewer here.  As a reminder, preview release will be October 16 and production will be released November 20^th.  For full details on the release cycle, check out the SAP SuccessFactors official product updates blog here.  For tips on how to manage a release, check out or blog here.  For your convenience, we’ve summarized the highlights of what’s new for 2020 Onboarding below!

Compliance

Not surprisingly for Onboarding, most of the feature enhancements revolve around compliance.  The biggest news is the release of compliance forms for the USA (I-9, E-Verify, W-4. SWF and standard forms).  There were some customers in the USA hesitant to jump into Onboarding 2.0 until this happened.  In addition, you can also create custom compliance forms if any happen to be missing for you country.  Problem solved!

Onboarding is also now included in the platform-wide features of Data Purge, Read Audit, Change Audit, and Information Report.  There was a major overhaul of the Read Audit report screen to assign specific fields as sensitive across most modules (see below screenshot), and onboarding is included in this.  You can use the new screen to pick which fields you deem are sensitive instead of the system only assuming ethnicity, minority, and ssn are sensitive.

Additionally, there’s a ton of features to organize and enhance compliance usability.  There’s now a way to add a compliance step to your standard workflow for the onboarding process (see below).  Compliance forms can also now be categorized based on document type.  Email notifications can also now be sent based on compliance-related events.

SAP has also added reporting on compliance in People Analytics that allows you to query on the status of compliance forms.

Business Rules

Business Rules continue to expand their usefulness in Onboarding as well.  You can now directly edit the event reason in onboarding using a business rule (before you had to make a custom recruiting field for event reason).

Another neat new feature is the ability to customize the user id and employee id formats that get generated automatically.  This is accomplished using a business rule and will allow administrators to organize the ids to follow helpful conventions rather than just being entirely up to the system.

Business rules can also be tied to email events for additional categories as well now too (Suite Mapping Error, Nudge Assignment, and Manage Assets Upload Categories).  Attachments can also be added to email notifications as well.

All in all, there’s 16 items being changed/enhanced in this release for Onboarding and we didn’t cover every detail here.  For more information, check out the What’s New Viewer here.

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