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SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central – 2H 2025 Delta Release
SAP SuccessFactors released its 2H 2025 Delta Update with the introduction of a fresh wave of innovations and improvements across Employee Central.
This release has focused majorly on data quality, workflow flexibility, localization expansion, position management clarity, and document generation enhancements—in order to strengthen HR operations and elevate the experience for employees, managers, and HR administrators.

In this blog, we run through the most impactful enhancements from the Employee Central (EC) 2H 2025 Delta Release.

🔍 1. Position Management Enhancements

Position Management remains as one of the most enhanced area in the 2H 2025 release, with several new ability that improve accuracy in workforce planning.

⭐ Key Highlights

✔ Expanded fields in the “To Be Hired” status change use case

The following fields are now supported when changing a position to “To Be Hired”:
- multipleIncumbentsAllowed
- standardHours
- incumbent
- company
- targetFTE
This gives admins more precise control and ensures alignment between job, position, and hiring processes.

✔ Improved synchronization between Position and Job Info

Data consistency is strengthened through better propagation and validation rules.

✔ Cleaner audit trails

Event tracking for position changes is more transparent, improving governance.

👤 2. Employee Data & Employment Information Improvements

The 2H 2025 release intensify HR data reliability with several backend and UI upgrades.

⭐ What’s New
- More accurate validation frameworks across Personal & Global Information sections
- Enhancements in Employment Information to support changing labour regulations
- Refined error-handling messages to minimise admin rework
- Smarter country-specific rules for identifiers, addresses, and eligibility fields
Together, these updates improves global HR master data accuracy.

⏱️ 3. Time Management Enhancements

Time Management continues to progress with performance improvements and richer rule-based automation.

⭐ Key Enhancements
- Improved absence request validations across multiple countries
- Faster loading of daily, weekly, and monthly timesheet views
- Strengthened calculation logic for overtime, breaks, and premiums
- Better work schedule and public holiday configuration capabilities
These changes improve payroll readiness and simplify the daily experience for time-dependent roles.

🌏 4. Localization & Compliance Updates

Localization continues to be a core pillar of SuccessFactors strategy, and the 2H 2025 release extends this further.

⭐ Updates Include
- New statutory fields across multiple countries
- Country-specific data formats, regulation updates, and identification rules
- Localization improvements in hire, termination, and job event workflows
- Improved document templates for certain regions
This makes sure global companies stay compliant without relying on custom development.

📄 5. Document Generation Enhancements

Document Generation receives remarkable upgrades in this release and is one of the most prominent improvements.

⭐ New Capabilities
- Support for expanded dynamic placeholders
- Enhanced stability and formatting control
- Greater compatibility with multilingual templates
- Optimized merge performance for large document batches
This is specifically useful for generating contracts, letters, onboarding packs, and compliance forms at scale.

🔗 6. API, Integration & Event Handling Improvements

The 2H 2025 release sharpens EC’s integration framework, ensuring ideal connectivity across SAP and non-SAP systems.

⭐ Improvements Include
- More resilient OData APIs
- Enhanced support for future-dated events
- Better coordination with SAP HCM Payroll and SAP ERP
- More descriptive integration error messages
The improved event-handling logic makes downstream systems more consistent and reduces integration failures.

🎨 7. User Experience (UX) Enhancements

A modern UI remains central to SuccessFactors’ roadmap. This release introduces indefinite but impactful improvements.

⭐ UX Refinements
- Clearer field grouping and section headers
- Streamlined workflows with simplified approval screens
- Better mobile responsiveness
- Faster portlet rendering performance
These improvements provide a cleaner, more available experience for all users.

📌 Summary – Why the 2H 2025 Release Matters

The SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central 2H 2025 Delta Release is designed to help organizations:

✔ Intensify data quality and governance
✔ Enhance hiring alignment with enhanced Position Management
✔ Elevate efficiency through Time Management improvements
✔ Stay globally pilable with localization updates
✔ Deliver documents faster and with greater precision
✔ Achieve seemless system integrations
✔ Improve employee and HR admin experience

This release is not just an incremental update—it’s a strategic step toward a more rationalized and future-ready HR core system.
November 21, 2025
SAP SuccessFactors 2H 2022 What’s New in Employee Central
SAP has announced the latest updates and changes for SuccessFactors for the second half of 2022.

Preview release was on October 28 and production will be released December 9th. You can view the full set of documentation in the What’s New Viewer here . For full details on the release cycle, check out the SAP SuccessFactors official product updates blog.

For tips on how to manage a release, check out our blog here.

Let’s quickly take a glance on what’s there on 2H 2022 Employee Central.

Configuration Type: Universal

Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) validation.

Watch over on “Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)” validation because system is not going to perform a Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) validation check for positions that have more than 1000 target FTEs for the below scenarios.
1. Save Job Information through Centralized services, either through import or on the Job Information history.
2. Save a position target FTE with a value greater than 1000.
Employee Central API Permissions are no longer required!

Employee central entities “EmpEmployment and EmpJob” Permissions are only required to access the Employee Central Service Center.

Below Permissions settings will help to view a tickets in Ask HR.
- User > Employee Central Effective Dated Entities > Job Information
  - Select permission View for items Job Information Actions and Company.
- User > Employee Data >Employment Details
  - Select permission View for item Employment Details MSS.
Enhancement in Time Sheet UI required custom fields

Restrictions in creating required custom fields on the EmployeeTimeSheet and TimeSheetValuationResults objects

Required custom fields on the EmployeeTimeSheetEntry and Allowance objects are restricted to the below primitive data types:
- String
- Number
- Decimal
- Time
- DataTime
- Date
- Boolean
End of Development Time
- Benefits Auto Enrollment Job – End of development on May 20, 2022 and will be deleted on May 19, 2023.
- Old time sheet – Maintenance end on December 9, 2022 and will be deleted on May 19, 2023.
- Savings Plan related fields – End of Development on December 9, 2022 and will be removed on May 19, 2023.
- HTTP Basic authentication with SAP Cloud for Customer – End of Development on May 20, 2022 and will be Deleted on Nov 17, 2023.
Employee Central Payroll endpoint URL subscriptions

New Event Subscription Management tool supports the following events
- Employee Hire
- Employee Rehire
- Employee Termination
- Payroll Data Maintenance Task Configuration Change
New subscriptions can no longer be created; Existing subscriptions related to Employee Central Payroll will be automatically migrated to Event Subscription Management.

Configuration Type: Admin Opt-out

Centralized Support on the UI action save.

Yeah!!! Now, Centralized Support has extended their hands on saving the following action on UI, based on role-based permission.

Admin Center > Company System and Logo Settings >
- History UI of Compensation Information and Recurring Pay Components
- Global Assignments
- Employment Details
- Contact Information
- Employment Details for a Higher Duty or Temporary Assignment
By default, Saving changes on UI and data imports for Emergency Contacts are enabled. No role based permission required.

Centralized Services Support through MSS.

Using role-based permission, centralized services now support making changes to an employee’s records when changes are made in the Manager Self-Service (MSS).
- Change Job and Compensation Info
  - Company System and Logo Settings > Enable Centralized Services to Save Changes on the Manager Self-Service UI for Change Job and Compensation Info.
- Termination Information
  - Company System and Logo Settings > Enable Centralized Services to Save Changes on the Manager Self-Service UI for Termination Details.
New Key Property in OData API EmpWorkPermit.

In order to maintain multiple work permit of employee with same document details, the new composite business key ‘issueDate‘ has been introduced.

Whenever the employee work permits is renewed, we can create a new record without touching the old one.

Configuration Type: Admin Opt-in
- We can validate employee’s and their dependents addresses using SAP DQM Microservices that is hosted on SAP BTP (SAP Cloud Platform) which requires X.509 Certificate authentication, that the customers would manually adopt.
  - The DQM Microservices in SAP BTP account must be configured on Cloud Foundry and download the X.509 Certificate.
  - The downloaded X.509 Certificate needs to be uploaded in .pem format in the Security Center.
  - Set up the OAuth Configuration in the Security Center against the OAuth Configuration tile.
  - Configure the Destination Settings in the Security Center.
- WBS Element can be used as a standard field without having to maintain the WBS Element as a custom field. Using WBS Element as a standard field, you can replicate the complete WBS Element information from SAP S/4HANA to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. You can also migrate WBS Element from a custom field to the standard field.
  - Admin Center > Manage Permission Roles > Industry Features > Download Employee Cost Assignment Migration Data
- New token ‘TIME_OFF_STATUS’ is available for e-mail notifications on Time Off, which helps to differentiate the email notification by the status of the absence.
In Conclusion

We have now covered the highlights of the Employee Central related updates for 2H 2022.

Do you need help managing your SuccessFactors Release cycles? Download our support services brochure or email info@worklogix.com to see how we can help.
November 9, 2022
H2 2020 SAP SuccessFactors – Employee Central New Features and Enhancements.
SAP SuccessFactors has some exciting new features for your Employee Central. They can be found in detail here (S-User ID required). Filter on Solutions for Employee Central to review all of the latest changes. Under the Description for each, you can click on ‘See More’ to see screenshots and detailed information.

Highlighting some of the interesting points on the new features and the Enhancements released in H2 2020 Employee Central.

Lets drill down based on the configurational type Universal, Admin opt-in and Admin opt-out.
New Features added with the configuration Type: Universal

Using any mobile browser, Enrolments and claim employee benefits can be done.

Using changeWfRequestApprover, you can change the approver of a workflow step through API, apart from the Manage Workflow Requests tool.

The duration to pull the data from the Employee Central CompoundEmployee API fields last_modified_on or snapshot_date is limited to a maximum of 3 months.

Moving all the hire-related permission settings into one category “Manage Hires” is more efficient while granting access to HR admins and managers.

Delete assignments/ Edit dates within a temporary work schedule assignment is now available with regular work schedule pattern.

To trigger the workflow, new business scenario: Trigger Workflows option is available under the Employee Central Core category on the Configure Business Rules page.

New Day View includes cross-midnight absences and planned working times for Team Absence Calendar. Employees/ managers can view absences and planned working times.

New Features added with the configuration Type: Admin Opt-in

Qualtrics surveys with Benefits to get feedback from your employees when they add a benefit during a cart-based enrollment action, such as for New Hires, Rehires, or the Company Open Enrollment process.

Simplified process for sending a survey in an email.

Intelligent Services events to send employee information to Qualtrics, so that you can send a Qualtrics survey via email to them when they are assigned to concurrent employment.

Intelligent Services events to send employee information to Qualtrics, so that you can send a Qualtrics survey via email to them when their manager changes.

Intelligent Services events to send employee information to Qualtrics, so that you can send a Qualtrics survey via email to them to find out why they’re leaving the organization.

Customized Configuration of New Hire:

You can create templates where you specify only the blocks needed for the type of employment you are hiring for, meaning that you can add, remove, and rearrange the order of the blocks as well as add standard and custom MDF objects to the configuration.

https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/2011/en-US/7c87858cc3384c67b5cb923587005502.html

New Job option ‘ Create or Update Benefit Enrollments for Employee Master Data Changes’ is available to process the records of the employees who have changes in their master data. Existing ‘Benefits Auto Enrollment Job’ processes runs for all the employees even when there are no changes as per the eligibility rule.

Rules must be configured for the master data objects maintained in the benefit eligibility.

Create Benefit Tracker for Employment Info Changes ()

Create Benefit Tracker for Employment Info Changes with Effective Date ()

Create Benefit Tracker for Personal Info Changes ()

Create Benefit Tracker for Personal Info Changes with Effective Date ()

Custom data block ” Live Profile User Information” can be added to your People Profile to display and manage additional information about contingent workers. Not required to import data using Employee Central Imports or OData APIs to modify information that’s not available on the contingent worker’s profile.

Address Validation: Added validation mapping for all address fields for Brazil and Belgium. Legal entities in Brazil and Belgium are required to store the addresses of employees and their dependents in a way that is legally compliant.

Local Version of Ghana and Suriname includes National ID, Personal Document Types, Personal Information, Job Information, Disability Information, Dependents Information, Home Address and Corporate Address.

Added a new option to allow the data replication when employees are flagged for a payroll correction run (Matchcode W).

Now, configure the Internal Job History block in the People Profile as a read-only to view a summarized version of an employee’s job history at the company. Based on the rule scenario configured, job history for an employee will be displayed and only visible to the HR Admin.

Accruals Transfer date can be adjusted automatically in the following scenarios:

Unauthorized leave

Leave without pay

https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/2011/en-US/50252735bfe84d8cbd606df49d604432.html

New Features added with the configuration Type: Admin Opt-Out

Work Permit Importing on Centralized Services – Now validation is based on the business keys to ensure their uniqueness, adopt the Full Purge mode, and import data based on user ID, instead of person ID. The shift from the legacy approach to this new one to importing work permits improves data quality and reduces maintenance costs.

https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/2011/en-US/47e77878716b49369d31534ca3c642bf.html

Enhancements in H2 2020 Release:

Filter option has been enhanced on the OData Entities: Custom string fields’ custom-string1, custom-string2, and custom-string3 can be included in the filter while querying the Employee Central OData APIs PerPerson and EmpEmployment.

Integration of Position Management with SAP Fieldglass: No manual effort of creating and attaching a business rule to map fields. When you create an Fieldglass requisition from position organization chart, the entire position object is now passed to SAP Fieldglass.

Enhancements to the Deduction Start Date: Options in the Deduction Start Date field is changed across benefit types. The options available for the Deduction Start Date field are

As of Enrollment Effective Date

Always Next Pay Period

Next Pay Period Based on Pay Check Issue Date.

Event Reason drop down field is introduced while Hiring or Rehiring Contingent Workers.

‘onChange Rules’ can be executed across blocks when an employee is transferred within your organization using the Manage Pending Hires tool. You can also trigger changes based on rules set for fields across blocks. For example, when there’s a transfer leading to a change in the company code, the pay group is changed based on ‘onChange’ rules in your instance.

Scheduled job belonging to Off Cycle Event Batch and Employee Data Imports are cancelled if there are at least 100 failures reported within a span of 90 days.

The rules ‘check_Bank_Uniqueness, validateMainPaymentMethod_PaymentInfo and proposeIBAN_PaymentInfoDetails’ are being removed from the pre-delivered content for Payment Information.

To have more accurate address data for customers in Thailand, new fields are added and existing fields are modified.

Administrators can configure a rule function to split advance leave payment across fiscal years.

NAF Office Number Home Address information is removed due to a requirement change in Norway. Removed the <Region> field from the Home and Corporate Address content because this is not required in address content for Norway.

See this great article for useful information on how to prepare for a SAP SuccessFactors Regular Release.

Also, check out this interesting article about the Job Profile Builder.

Do you need help implementing or supporting your SAP SuccessFactors Modules? Contact info@worklogix.com for assistance, download our support services brochure, or visit https://www.worklogix.com/implementation.html for additional information.
October 19, 2020
1H 2020 SAP SuccessFactors – Employee Central Features
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central has come out with several enhancements and features for 1H 2020. All of the latest enhancements can be found here (S-User ID required). Scroll down to the ‘What’s New Viewer’ to review the changes.

Filter on Solutions for Employee Central to review all the latest changes. Under Description, click on ‘See More’ to see screenshots and detailed information.

This post will be highlighting some of the top enhancements & features:
1. Show Full Name in History Pages
Users previously had difficulty finding out who made the change solely by their user name in the History page. But now SuccessFactors has made it easy for users by showing the full name of the person who made the change along with the user name in the “Last modified” field of the “History section” for the below pages:
- - Job Information
  - Job Relationships
  - Compensation Information
  - Personal Information
  - Dependents
  - Addresses
1. Synchronize Data from Work Order to Job Information
Manual steps has been reduced – Yes!! Manual steps are no longer required in updating the job information of contingent workers when there is a change in their work order.

Now Synchronization is automatic between the work order and job information for the common data of contingent workers. This can be achieved by creating a business rule while adding a new work order or modifying an existing work order.

Detailed Information can be found here: Click Here
1. Check Tool for Contingent Workforce Management
New checks have been created to help users identify and resolve potential configuration and data issues with the contingent workforce management application.

To save time and effort, a few checks have been added to highlight issues related to application configuration and contingent worker data along with resolution tips to help users resolve them by themselves.

Detailed Information can be found here: Click Here
1. Export and Import of Corporate Data Model Information
The Corporate Data Model can be now be imported and exported from the Admin center. Users can incorporate their changes in the exported XML and import them back in from the Admin Center.

This includes Country or Region-Specific Corporate Data Model. This removes the need to do the Import/Export of the CDM on the provisioning side.

Detailed information can be found here: Click Here
1. Rule Contexts During Import
Now while importing a data model, the original values of the rule contexts will be preserved. Previously when users imported a data model by default, all rule contexts were reset to Yes.

Detailed information can be found here: Click Here
1. Accept or Reject Auto Delegation Requests
SuccessFactors has now offered the chance to users whether they wish to accept or reject delegation request. Users can now respond to auto delegation requests on a new tab called “Delegation Requests for Me”. Workflows are delegated to them only when they have chosen to accept the request.

Detailed information can be found here: Click Here
1. Specify Start Time and End Time of Auto Delegation
Delegators will now be able to choose a period for the auto-delegate to remain effective. Users have the option to choose the start date and end date when they configure the delegation.

During the specified period, the workflows will be triggered automatically for the delegates to approve. When the “end date” has been reached, the auto delegation feature will turn off automatically and hence no manual work is required to turn it off.
1. Customizable Key Details on the My Workflow Requests Page
An enhancement has been made to include the custom key details for workflows in the “My Workflow Requests (Advanced To-do)” page.

Now workflow decisions can be made by seeing the summary without having to open the workflow detail page for position workflows.

Detailed information can be found here: Click Here
1. Time Sheet Custom Fields are now supported for the iOS and Android Mobile Apps
The SAP SuccessFactors Mobile apps now support the following Time Sheet custom fields: Date, Boolean, Number, Decimal, and String.

This feature creates better alignment between the iOS and Android Mobile apps and the web application.
1. New Rehire Event Reason for Replication of Employee Master Data
A new event reason has been created that supports the scenario where an employee is rehired after termination. Job information records will be extracted from the rehire date with PSEUDO_REHIRE event reason.

Do you need help implementing or supporting your SAP SuccessFactors Modules? Please Contact info@worklogix.com for assistance, download our support services brochure, or visit https://www.worklogix.com/implementation.html for additional information.
August 27, 2020