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My top curiosities going into SuccessConnect 2025
Please note: the opinions and comments expressed below are solely my own and do not reflect the views of SAP, SAP SuccessFactors, or the SAP Confidant Program.

In a few weeks, many colleagues and I within the HR Tech industry will attend SAP SuccessFactors’ annual conference, SuccessConnect 2025 in Las Vegas. This year will prove to be a good one, as there are several recent events that will shape the portfolio for years to come.

Selfie during this year’s SAPPHRIE conference in Orlando

I have listed some of my top curiosities below. Please feel free to add comments to indicate some of your own questions or expand on any of my thoughts.
1. Strategic direction of Talent Acquisition The acquisition of SmartRecruiters was recently closed, so how will this shape Talent Acquisition in the years to come for SuccessFactors customers? For those customers currently implementing SuccessFactors Recruiting or those who were looking to do so in the months to come, what will the guidance be from SAP? Certainly integrations will become a main discussion item, as pre-delivered integrations will need to be created and maintained in order for these two systems to sync. It will be interesting how these two solutions will co-exist within the SAP HCM eco-system… I feel like we are back 30 years ago, revisiting ‘best of breed’ vs ‘best-of-suite’, especially with all the recent acquisition news between SAP and Workday.
2. Talent Intelligence Hub (TIH) Over the last year, I have been fortunate to work with several customers on TIH scoping, visioning, and implementation. Still in its (relative) infancy, this framework is extremely important to support Talent processes across the SAP SuccessFactors suite. Since TIH stores/maintains the skill and competency catalogs for the organization, it’s critical to get TIH design correct from the start (e.g. ensuring that you choose your rating scale since it’s irreversible!). A few important holes remain in the solution including:
  - When will advanced permissions be added to make rolling out to employee self service and manager self service viable? I’ve seen 1H 2026 from community blogs but let’s hope we hear officially from Product Management soon. We need this improvement in order to make permissions more specific to a particular set of competencies / skills. Could we expect permissions to use the Tag as the way to discern? Let’s wait to see what Product comes up with.
  - When will custom attribute types (not just the standard ones, i.e., skills and competencies) be available throughout all functionalities in Talent (e.g. career worksheet). Custom attributes are already integrated into the Job Profile Builder (JPB) but only integrate to the Growth Portfolio and not many of the legacy features yet.
3. Onboarding 2.0 “Oh ONB 2.0, where shall I begin with thee?” This is a special module. Special kudos to the SAP Product Management team for delivering constant improvements in the recent years. This module has been a challenge to implement but features are slowly catching up with the ONB 1.0 offering.
  - Many are interested to see what’s in store over the next few releases, particularly in the US Compliance area (e.g. Form I-9, E-Verify WTPA for NY and CA).
  - User experience continues to be a challenge with this product but I understand improvements are on the way so we shall see!
  - How will SmartOnboard play into the onboarding space? Will be interesting, as ONB 2.0 is extremely tethered to Employee Central.
  - Earlier this year, I wrote a blog Top 5 tips when Implementing SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding 2.0 it’s a quick read and could help some out!
4. Report Stories continue to be a challenge for customers to adopt. Between issues with IAS syncing and overall end user experience, customers have been struggling to adopt. SAP has been offering training which I recommend for customers still needing assistance. FYI, People Intelligence in SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is not replacing Report Stories (or ad hoc, for that matter). We know Ad Hoc was resurrected but we can eventually expect a new date. I am interested to hear more about People Intelligence and BDC during the conference.
5. Can AI within SAP SuccessFactors gain traction in 2026? So far, AI use cases (for my implementations at least) have been discussed but not implemented. I believe 2026 will be the year where customers finally start moving the needle to use AI in SuccessFactors Talent Management. Currently, most customers are still trying to grapple with the foundational aspects of Talent with TIH, Opportunity Marketplace, and the rest of CTD (Career and Talent Development) and AI is mostly considered a “phase 2 item”. Let’s see if that changes in 2026.
Please let me know if you’ll be attending SAP Connect 2025 in person, send me an email info@worklogix.com and let me know!

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September 21, 2025
SAP SuccessFactors 1H 2023 What’s New in People Analytics / Reporting
SAP SuccessFactors has released new features for your People Analytics solution. They can be found in detail here (S-User ID required). Filter on Solution for People Analytics to review all the latest changes. Under the Description for each, you can click on ‘See More’ to see screenshots and detailed information.

Preview release was available on April 28 with the production release scheduled for June 2. For full details on the release cycle, check out the SAP SuccessFactors official product updates blog here. New to the release process? For tips on how to manage a release, check out our blog here.

After reviewing all of the changes in this release, we narrowed the list down to the 1H 2023 SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics Top 3 Features:
- Availability of Optimized View Mode in Story Reports
  - Users can now see an optimized story experience in the visualization of Story reports.
  - The optimized view mode is automatically enabled in the new stories that are built using the optimized design mode. Existing stories can be duplicated and then the optimized view mode can be enabled in the copied version.
Undo and Redo functionality lets users reverse or restore actions in Story reports
- Optimized Loading Time for Workforce Analytics Reports
  - Load time has been reduced for Workforce Analytics reports since the widgets now appear on the screen as they are ready.
  - Previously, the screen would not render until all widgets were ready to view.
- Dynamic Teams Data Available in Story Reports
  - Users can create a Story report with new data from Dynamic Team, Dynamic Team Member, Objective, Objective Status, Key Result, Key Result Comment, or Key Result Contributor.
  - After necessary role based permissions are setup, users can report on the usage of Dynamic Teams across the organization.
Dynamic Teams can now be added in the Query Designer

Do you need help implementing or supporting your SAP SuccessFactors system? Contact info@worklogix.com for assistance, download our support services brochure, or visit https://www.worklogix.com/implementation.html for additional information.
May 4, 2023
SAP SuccessFactors 2H 2022 What’s New in People Analytics
SAP SuccessFactors has released new features for your Analytics solution. They can be found in detail here (S-User ID required). Filter on Solution for Analytics to review all the latest changes. Under the Description for each, you can click on ‘See More’ to see screenshots and detailed information.

Preview release was on October 28 and production will be released December 9. For full details on the release cycle, check out the SAP SuccessFactors official product updates blog here. New to the release process? For tips on how to manage a release, check out our blog here.

After reviewing all the changes, we narrowed the list down to the 2H 2022 SAP SuccessFactors Analytics Top 3 Features:
- Granular Proxy Rights for Reporting
  - Users can choose the Report Center reports that a proxy user can access and the tasks in reporting that a proxy user can perform on behalf of the account holder.
  - Instead of the proxy rights being all or nothing, users can decide on an individual basis what reports a user can access and what reporting actions a user can perform as a proxy.
- Status of Sync Report Center Search Jobs on the Scheduled Job Manager Page
  - Users have the ability to check the status of the sync jobs initiated from the Sync Report Center Search page in the Job Monitor and the Job Scheduler tabs on the Scheduled Job Manager page.
  - Role-based permission changes Manage Dashboards / Reports –> Manage Report Center are required to access Admin Center –> Sync Report Center Search.
- Manage Favorite Reports from the Report Center Page
  - Users can use Report Center to add or remove favorite reports that are available on the home page.
  - For the favorite reports to appear on the latest home page, ensure that Favorite Reports quick action is enabled in Admin Center –> Manage Home Page.
Do you need help implementing or supporting your SAP SuccessFactors system? Contact info@worklogix.com for assistance, download our support services brochure, or visit https://www.worklogix.com/implementation.html for additional information.
November 7, 2022
What’s New in SuccessFactors Onboarding 2.0 H2 2022

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.

For your convenience, we’ve summarized the highlights of what’s new for 2H 2022 Onboarding 2.0 below.

New Hire Enhancements

New Hires got enhancements to their email notifications. Welcome emails will now get sent after completing the New Hire Data review step if the onboarding process is restarted after onboarding initiation but before New Hire Data Review. Before the email never got sent in this scenario (oops!) There’s also new tokens for Legal Entity and Position available for email notifications.

There’s also now a new guided experience for onboarding in SuccessFactors Work Zone. Admins can configure an experience based on the 3 phases of “Before Your First Day”, “Your First Day”, and “Your First Three Months”.

Hiring Manager / Admin Enhancements

The Onboarding Dashboard (New) has been improved with multiple new UI enhancements. For example you can now view contact information of new hires and hiring managers by clicking the business card icons next to their names. Also, notification badges now let you more easily scan how many tasks you have for a particular category. The status shown for each onboarding task is now an interactive button that can take you to the task details page to complete the task. Also, instead of a “View Details” button for each row of data, there is now a > which takes you to the task details page.

Admins can also now preview what a new hire’s data will look like in a form by using a new “Document Template Mapping Preview” MDF object. This allows you to better troubleshoot issues with the onboarding user’s data. You can see in the screenshot below that the incoming data shows as an XML to further help troubleshoot this data:

The UI of the Onboarding General Settings screen and how responsible groups work got enhancements as well. Now, all responsible groups can be displayed – when more than 10 groups are created a “More” option appears to view the extras. Responsible groups can now also be searched by ID or name and sorted by name. Up to 200 people from roles, static users, or dynamic groups can be added to a single responsible group.

Country Specific / Compliance Form Updates

There continues to been large numbers of compliance form updates in the system – so many in fact that SAP will stop tracking these individually in the What’s New Viewer. You can now look these up in a new location here: https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SUCCESSFACTORS_ONBOARDING/d099b9437bda4e8aa965c3591c282d83/88a5dd3b98e34ea9ab28e27d2c4362ee.html

It is also important to note that DocuSign has switch to OAuth – so if you use DocuSign for Onboarding or recruiting, you’ll need to update your authentication method (no more basic authentication!). Do this before March 31, 2023!

Croatian Currency will change to the Euro on January 1, 2023

General Process Enhancements / Behind The Scenes Enhancements

At its core, an onboarding system is designed to streamline the onboarding process and make sure accurate data is flowing into the HRIS and other systems to that the new employee’s onboarding and day 1 experience is successful, productive, and easy. We can definitely seem some enhancements that speak to this greater goal in this release!

One helpful process enhancement is that when you complete the New Hire Data Review, it no longer triggers the follow up processes in position such as adapt hierarchy, adapt the to-be-hired status on the position, reclassify or transfer positions, and job relationship sync. Instead this only occurs after hire completion in manage pending hires. I can see where this makes more sense to push down stream in the process and will help data integrity – you generally wouldn’t want to make these kinds of changes until the actual hire (e.g. avoids situations where you’ve changed position data and the person is a no show or the hire is never finally made).

Another helpful process change is that you can now rehire with old employment data within the manage pending hires tool. This is setup for admin users by adding the corresponding permission to their permission role(s).

Data validation also got multiple enhancements. For example, the onChange and onSave events in Employee Central can now access Employment_Info, Comp_Info, Job_Relations_Info, Pay_Component_Recurring, and Pay_Component_NonRecurring. This is great for example if someone is crossboarding and needs to update these entities and trigger subsequent system actions. Another example is that redundant job relationship entries when the job relationship is passed from recruiting to onboarding. You also no longer have to pass dummy data from Recruiting to Onboarding in order to retain original values for dates like original start date, hire date, service date, etc. Country-specific field mappings can also now occur when data is passed from recruiting to onboarding. All of these new data integrity enhancements are activated by turning on the “Enable Enhanced Internal Hire Process” switch on the “Onboarding General Settings” screen.

Cancelling an onboarding process also got simplified. The errors shown when a cancellation is requested are more clear now and less permissions are required in order to be able to cancel (e.g. previously this required OData permissions).

The ability to rehire using old employment data is now generally available (was previously just an early adopter feature).

Integrations / APIs

There is a new helpful field called “isRehireOnOldEmployment” in the createOnboardee OData API function import. The idea is that this field identifies if the person is a rehire so that the system tries to find the old employment record which will then be activated. By exposing this to the apis it allows external ATS systems to use the rehire functionality and not just SuccessFactors Recruiting.

There’s also a new getUserNameOfNewlyHiredEmployee API that gets the username of the of the onboarding new hire. This is a great function in my opinion! Many times the benefit of an onboarding system is that it can allow a new username to be setup and shared across systems so that access to multiple systems is ready to go on day one. Given that the HRIS system is often the system of record for the username, it makes a lot of sense to use this API to provision users across multiple third party systems.

Conclusion

The SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding product continues to grow and become increasingly more robust! This does not represent all of the enhancements in the H2 2021 release – only the highlights we found most compelling. Check out the What’s New Viewer here for the complete list of enhancements.

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

Contact info@worklogix.com for any assistance supporting and implementing your SAP SuccessFactors Modules, or download our support services brochure.

November 4, 2022
SAP SuccessFactors 1H 2022 What’s New in Compensation
SAP SuccessFactors has some exciting new features for your Compensation solution. They can be found in detail here (S-User ID required). Filter on Solution for Compensation to review all the latest changes. Under the Description for each, you can click on ‘See More’ to see screenshots and detailed information.

As a reminder, preview release was on April 15 and production will be released May 20. For full details on the release cycle, check out the SAP SuccessFactors official product updates blog here. New to the release process? For tips on how to manage a release, check out our blog here.

After reviewing all the changes, we narrowed the list down to the Highlights for H1 2022 SAP SuccessFactors Compensation Features:
- Help Text for Column Fields When Designing Plan Worksheets
  - Info icons can be added to provide additional details to managers as they are completing their planning.
  - There’s a maximum of 10 fields with help text per template and these can be configured in multiple languages.
Example of info icon being used to explain further what the column is showing
- Mass Upload of Spot Awards
  - An administrator can download a CSV file for a mass upload of awards for Reward and Recognition that contains multiple award programs with multiple nominees.
  - No approval permission process is provided, the mass upload assumes approval.
Spot Awards can be uploaded in mass
- Role-Based Access to Compensation Lookup Tables
  - Currently an administrator is allowed access to all lookup tables. Permissions can now be set to limit access to specific lookup tables.
  - Role-based permissions need to be configured to select which tables the role can access.
Enable Role-Based Permissions for Lookup Tables is now available under Company Settings
- Plans List in Compensation Home Filtered by Template Type
  - Compensation Administrators on the Compensation Home view can now search and see results for Compensation, Total Compensation Plan, or Variable Pay plans.
Searching for plan can now be done by template type
- New Filter Options for Compensation Plans
  - In Executive Reviews, planners now have the option to apply Employee Name and Comp Rating filters to their compensation plan.
Employee Name and Compensation Rating have been added to filter options in Executive Review

Do you need help implementing or supporting your SAP SuccessFactors system? Contact info@worklogix.com for assistance, download our support services brochure, or visit https://www.worklogix.com/implementation.html for additional information.
May 1, 2022
SAP SuccessFactors 1H 2022 What’s New in People Analytics
SAP SuccessFactors has some exciting new features for your Analytics & Reporting solutions. They can be found in detail here (S-User ID required). Filter on Solutions for People Analytics to review all the latest changes. Under the Description for each, you can click on ‘See More’ to see screenshots and detailed information.

As a reminder, preview release was on April 15 and production will be released May 20. For full details on the release cycle, check out the SAP SuccessFactors official product updates blog here. New to the release process? For tips on how to manage a release, check out our blog here.

After reviewing all the changes, we narrowed the list down to the Highlights for H1 2022 SAP SuccessFactors Analytics/Reporting Features:
- View Tile Reports Quick Action from the Latest Home Page
  - View Tile Reports quick action enables users to view Tile reports that are available in Analytics, based on permissions.
- New Permission to Access Tile Reports from the Latest Home Page
  - The newly added Access Tiles from Home Page permission on the Reports Permission tab enables users to view Tile reports from the latest home page.
  - After the initial one-time migration, users can enable or disable the Access Tiles from Home Page permission for roles to manage their access to the View Tile Report quick action.
Quick Action – View Tile Reports has been added to Latest Home Page
- Learning Queries in Story Reports has increased Number of Columns
  - The number of columns for Learning queries has been increase to 120 from 30.
- Change of Behavior of Tabs on the View Schedules Page in Report Center
  - The View Schedules page in Report Center now displays user’s previously selected tab, instead of its default tab. This will remember the tab the user was last working on instead of returning to the default My Jobs tab.
- Enhanced Signed Date Column in Story Reports
  - Story reports now shows the date and time when the form was signed.
Signed Date and Time appears in Story Report details

Do you need help implementing or supporting your SAP SuccessFactors system? Contact info@worklogix.com for assistance, download our support services brochure, or visit https://www.worklogix.com/implementation.html for additional information.
April 29, 2022
SAP SuccessFactors Platform H1 2022 Release Updates

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SAP has announced the latest updates and changes for SuccessFactors for the first half of 2022.

Preview release was on April 15 and production will be released May 20. 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.

For your convenience, we’ve summarized the highlights of what’s new in the 1H 2022 Platform release below.

Overview

SAP continues to invest in numerous updates into the platform, topping most of the other modules for the past few releases. Due to the large number of updates (89 in this release!), we’ve highlighted only some of the most significant changes below. We’ve categorized the updates based on who the affected audience for each change: User Experience Updates, Admin Updates, and System Updates.

User Experience

SAP continues to remind customers that the Universal release of the Latest Homepage will be in June 3rd for preview and June 24th for production environments. If you haven’t reviewed the changes and opted-in, you should do so now and plan your communication strategy so your users aren’t caught wondering why their homepage changed!

SAP also continues to add more quick actions to the latest homepage, thus increase its usefulness as a quick way to access needed areas of the system without having to click through navigation. The actions added include “Candidate Talent Pools”, “Learning Administration”, “Mobile Activation”, “View Company Documents”, and “View Tile Reports”. The homepage also now allows for grouping of custom cards within the Organizational Updates section as seen in the screenshot below:

Screenshot of Card Groupings within the Organizational Updates Section

You can also see an example of the new half sized custom cards in the screenshot above.

There are also various updates to the opportunity marketplace including allowing Assignment offer approvals, allowing assignment owners to see descriptions of capabilities including proficiency levels when creating assignments and applicants to see their own capability details. The capability picker also got updates you can read about in our blog here: https://worklogix.blog/2022/04/17/sap-successfactors-1h-2022-whats-new-in-succession-and-career-development/

The org chart also got a nice update where you can change the order of direct reports below a manager. Check out the configuration steps here: https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/cloud/en-US/780a0273693342c79ded9930b9057110.html

You can also now turn on a data privacy consent form for uploading photos that is shown to users as in the example screenshot below:

Screenshot of data privacy consent message for employee photos

Also related to photos- you can now have just one photo for a person on global assignment with multiple employments.

After many years of service, quickcards have finally got an upgrade across the system. This gives a better look and feel consistent across the platform. An example is shown below:

Updated Quickcard

Admin Updates

Do you still love to use the old admin page like me? I’m sorry to say the nostalgic use of the OneAdmin page will end on May 20th this year. Time to start using the NextGen admin page.

SAP also continues to increase the list of jobs available to monitor in the Scheduled Job Manager. You can check out the list of jobs here: https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/cloud/en-US/55e3deb65bf14190b102ff7ad1f803fc.html

Are you an admin that loves unstucking stuck workflows or resolving HR data issues? You might be interested in the new custom fields you can add to admin alerts! Check out the list here: https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/cloud/en-US/055e9cd78d2543d283fd556cbca2132d.html You can also now see the name of the current approver for stalled workflows within admin alerts.

If you are a security or compliance admin, you’ll be happy to know you can now perform read and change audit reports on multiple users for up to 30 days now. The storage limit has also been increased from 1GB to 10GB.

The still evolving transport system in SuccessFactors also got an enhancement in the form of Bundle Management in Configuration Center. You can now create bundles, edit them, and even share them with others! Checkout the screenshot below:

New Bundle Management Feature Screenshot

There’s also now a handy import history report available for download in the Configuration Center as well!

The Check tool has now been integrated into the instance refresh too. Admins will now get an email that includes a summary of check tool results when a refresh is processed and can also download an error log. The list of items the check tool checks has also been updated. The detailed list can be found here: https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/cloud/en-US/354e3d1428d8493d89dfb7487e5dcedf.html

Security admins will also be glad there’s a new potentially neck-saving notification when they change a role that impacts a large number of users. Don’t worry – you can select the threshold of users so you aren’t getting unwanted pop-ups! Checkout the configuration steps here: https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/cloud/en-US/c7b923c87ca3494c8416349431fa8a49.html

The RBP admin screen also got a new facelift! You have the option to turn this one on by selecting the option on the old screen. Check it out below!

New RBP Admin Screen

System Updates

Access to APIs based on HTTP Basic Authentication will no longer be supported on November 17 2023. This gives customers about a year and a half to adapt any existing interfaces that log on to the APIs directly to OAuth 2.0.

The APIs will now also start to be throttled. Probably a smart move on the part of SAP to keep system stability, but but news if you have interfaces that make lots of calls. Don’t worry – the limit is now 40 requests per second so you’d have to be doing A LOT of calls to be affected.

The APIs have also been enhanced with more linking between a variety of entities. Check the main What’s New Viewer page for specifics.

Wrap Up

We have now covered the Platform update highlights for 1H 2022! SAP continues to invest greatly in the platform to expand the overall capabilities of the system, concentrating on consistent and enhanced user experience while giving admins more helpful tools.

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!

April 20, 2022
H2 2021 SAP SuccessFactors Compensation Features
SAP SuccessFactors has released new features for your overall Compensation solution. They can be found in detail here (S-User ID required). Filter on Solutions for Compensation to review all the latest changes. Under the Description for each, you can click on ‘See More’ to see screenshots and detailed information.

As a reminder, preview release was on October 15 and production will be released November 19. For full details on the release cycle, check out the SAP SuccessFactors official product updates blog here. New to the release process? For tips on how to manage a release, check out our blog here.

After reviewing all the changes, I narrowed the list down to the Highlights for H2 2021 Compensation:

1. Create Benchmarking Ranges and Color Values for Compensation Plans Using Display Settings
- Compensation administrators can now update benchmark ranges and color settings for Compa-Ratio and Range Penetration in the compensation plan template under Display Settings.
- Previously this was done in XML.
Additional settings have been added to allow Compensation Administrators to make changes via configuration

2. Enhanced Default Sorting by Employee Name for Compensation Plan Worksheets
- There is now a new setting for sorting of employee names by First Name or Last Name as well as by Ascending or Descending order.
- This allows end users to be able to find employees more easily.
Additional settings have been added to enhance usability

3. Enhanced Ability to Add Newly Eligible Employees to Compensation Worksheets
- Users can now update settings to add eligible employees, not just new hires, to worksheets for a compensation plan.
- These selections must be made on both the Update all worksheets settings and the Update a specific worksheet settings.
Both checkboxes should be selected for updating new hires as well as those newly eligible

4. Guidelines Using Entered or Calculated Values for Compensation Planning
- Calculated or editable fields defined in the Design Worksheet can now be used as attributes for Guideline tables in Compensation, Variable Pay, and Total Compensation Plan templates.
- This is very helpful for when customers have specific guidelines they wish to use that would have otherwise been difficult to incorporate via a workaround.
Custom columns can be created and then used as part of guideline configuration

5. Show Compensation Recommendations Outside of Guidelines or Salary Range by Using a Filter in Executive Review
- Compensation planners can create a filter showing employees with compensation recommendations that are outside of guidelines or salary ranges.
- This is now a standard option that doesn’t require any additional configuration.
Filter can be set to show all employees, show only employees within guidelines, or show only employees outside of guidelines

6. Improved Collaboration for Planners in Updating Worksheets
- Save & Close button was added to allow easier collaboration for planners updating the same worksheet.
- In the previous version, although a planner chose Save to save the updates made to the worksheet, the worksheet remained inaccessible to the other planners until the current planner exited the worksheet.
Save & Close button has been added to allow less restrictions for multiple planners on same worksheet

7. Define Population Views Using Manage Advanced Executive Review Filters
- Compensation Administrators can now turn off Executive Review filters that are not relevant to their company.
- Some of these additional filters were confusing to end users as they were not being used.
Filters can now be turned off via Company Settings – Manage Advanced Executive Review Filters

8. Enabling Bulk Print Feature in Specific Compensation Plans for Executive Review
- Compensation Administrators can now set Enable Bulk Print in Executive Review from Plan Setup in the Settings page.
- This change allows for plan specific control over bulk printing.
Enable Bulk Print in Executive Review checkbox is now found under plan specific Settings – General Settings

9. Integration of My Jobs Window for Bulk Print Statements in Executive Review
- Users can now view the status and download Bulk Print statements from the My Jobs window that is now integrated with the Executive Review page.
- Choosing Check print job status from this window redirects you to the Reporting – Report Center – View Schedules – My Jobs page.
Users now have an easier time navigating and find statements that were bulk printed

10. Publish Report for Detailed Logs on Compensation Publish to Employee Central
- Compensation Administrators can now create a detailed report of the publishing status logs for employees and identify the issues during the publishing process for a given template.
- The report is available in the Complete Compensation Cycle – Publish Data – Employee Central Publish Report area of the compensation plan.
To view report, Administrator – Manage Compensation – View Employee Central Publish Report permission has to be set in role-based permissions

Do you need help implementing or supporting your SAP SuccessFactors system? Contact info@worklogix.com for assistance, download our support services brochure, or visit https://www.worklogix.com/implementation.html for additional information.
November 1, 2021
What’s New in the SuccessFactors Platform for H2 2021

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On October 9, 2021, SAP released documentation for the H2 2021 release. Preview release is October 15 and production is November 19. In this article we take a quick look at the latest updates for SAP SuccessFactors Platform. It’s a huge list for Platform this release – so we’ve tried to summarize the most interesting items. You can view the full set of documentation in the W hat’s New Vie wer here. For full details on the release cycle, check out the SAP SuccessFactors official product updates blog here. Let’s get started! We’ve categorized the enhancements below for you starting with the most compelling in our opinion!

Of Special Interest

What stood out to me as the most interesting part of this release is the introduction of a Digital Assistant! As with most digital assistants, the feature is basically a natural language processing program that appears in the form of a chat window. Right now SAP is reporting they have over 250 scenarios programmed on the web version and over 20 on the mobile app. This feature is currently only available to early adopters.

What Everyone Needs to Know

In this release, SAP announced a Tenant Preferred Time Zone feature. SAP is migrating servers to the UTC timezone. If you want to keep your server time zone where it is today, check out the link here: https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/cloud/en-US/d5e86fa8bb564058820592217d3a21d4.html

The Center of Capabilities continues to expand its functionality. There is now a proficiency rating scale available that allows you to quantify the skill level of employees in the skills within the Center of Capabilities. There are also a new Center of Capabilities Library Reports for Stories in People Analytics.

There have also been some general UI Enhancements to the center of capabilities functionality overall. In addition, the capabilities portfolio is now available which is the main experience that shows the list of capabilities for a worker.

There are a large number of new To-Do Tasks across all modules available on the latest home page. Examples are shown below. Check out the full list here: https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/cloud/en-US/34c3515e0de14431b35d76525dfb00df.html

In addition, there are a lot more Quick Actions available on the latest homepage. For example, there is a My Team quick action for managers to review info and take actions on their team members. Clock Time lets you clock in and out. Complete Payroll tasks, Delegate Workflows, My Profile, Org Chart, View Admin Alerts, and View Team Absences all pretty much do exactly what you would expect them to do as well. You can check out the full details here: https://help.sap.com/doc/62fddbd651204629b46bbccbabf886ba/cloud/en-US/f6d92d1c4a834f29b8b1998c7b845d1b.html

Also the header page now conforms to Fiori standards. This is always great news to me to see more and more parts of the system align with Fiori – have you notices how much better the web system looks on your mobile phone these days? That’s thanks to Fiori!

If you are still on the V12 Employee Profile, its time to move to the latest employee profile! This functionality is finally deleted.

Security

Certificate-Based authentication is now supported for standard third party integration packages for Boomi and CPI. My sources inside SAP tell me that certificate-based authentication will be the preferred method of authentication going forward for interfaces in general. Aligned to this, SAP also announced the depication of HTTP Basic Authentication for APIs. End of maintenance is November 19, 2021 and deletion will be November 1, 2022! Get your certificates ready!

You can also now Restrict API Access to Specific Users through OAuth 2.0. Additionally, you can now restrict individual user’s login to specific IP addresses. These allow for an extra layers of security in your integrations and general user access.

Also of Note

There were also some minor curiosities for me in this batch of platform enhancements that I thought were pretty…pretty good! For example, you can now provide a Zip file for the job that updates employee photos en masse. Before this was a bear for anyone who suffered through putting a bunch of uncompressed photos on an SFTP server and waited for the large data transfer!

There’s also deep linking now available to go straight to someone’s employee profile. I could see this being useful for succession planners or managers talking about employees and wanting to share their profiles.

The employee import email also now includes a new troubleshooting section to help you figure out what went wrong on the import. Nice!

Conclusion

The SAP SuccessFactors product continues to grow and become increasingly more robust! This does not represent all of the enhancements in the H2 2021 release – only the highlights we found most compelling. Check out the What’s New Viewer here for the complete list of enhancements.

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

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October 28, 2021
H2 2021 SAP SuccessFactors Analytics/Reporting Features
SAP SuccessFactors has some exciting new features for your Analytics & Reporting solutions. They can be found in detail here (S-User ID required). Filter on Solutions for Analytics to review all the latest changes. Under the Description for each, you can click on ‘See More’ to see screenshots and detailed information.

As a reminder, preview release was on October 15 and production will be released November 19. For full details on the release cycle, check out the SAP SuccessFactors official product updates blog here. New to the release process? For tips on how to manage a release, check out our blog here.

After reviewing all the changes, we narrowed the list down to the Highlights for H2 2021 SAP SuccessFactors Analytics/Reporting Features:
- Audit Trail Now Reportable in Stories in People Analytics
  - Users can now use Stories in People Analytics to report the audit trail records of form completed steps, including step owner and step action.
  - This new feature allows you to track the routing details of Performance Management forms in a consolidated report.
Additional columns available to report on step details
- Increase in the Number of Columns Supported for Learning Queries in Story Reports
  - The number of columns that you can select while creating a Learning query has been increased from 30 to 120.
    You can now create more complex queries due to the increase in number of columns.
- Notes of People Profile Now Reportable in Stories in People Analytics
  - Users can now use Stories in People Analytics to report the notes of People Profile. Information about notes that can be reported includes:
    Note content
    Note titles
    Note creators
    Note recipients
    Last modified dates
    Creation dates
Notes of People Profile are now reportable
- Query Validation for Story Reports
  - The queries in Story reports are now checked for errors whenever you choose Preview or Finish on the Query Designer page.
    The validation checks return a list of missing or erroneous columns, calculations, and filters used in the query.
- Inline Translation for Story Reports
  - You can now add localized values for widget titles and page names in Story reports.
  - Note: After you enable inline translation in a story, you can edit it only in the source language. When you enable inline translation in the story, your current locale becomes the source language for the story.
The ability to add localized widget titles and page names enhances the user experience for Story reports.

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October 25, 2021