SuccessFactors October 2012 Release Highlights - SAP SuccessFactors [PDF]

October 2012

Release Highlights

SUCCESSFACTORS / OCTOBER 2012 RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

October 2012 Release

Personal. Relevant. Actionable. Changing the face of HCM With the October 2012 release, we’ve redesigned our home page so the information displayed is personal and relevant. The tiles update automatically to present data that is always fresh, and if you want to see more details or to take action, those capabilities are just a click away. We’ve taken these same principles of personal, relevant, and actionable, and applied them to SuccessFactors Jam, BizX Mobile, Compensation, and Workforce Analytics. In addition to the new user experience, we made substantial updates across the SuccessFactors BizX Suite. Here are just a few examples: • Global HR made easy. Employee Central has many more languages, currencies and even in region support to comply with local business practices, making it a complete and robust global system. • Turbocharge collaboration. Jam has a new look, numerous performance improvements and a new onboarding wizard to help you reduce the time to contribution from your new hires. • Win more top talent. Recruiting has several updates, making it easier for prospects to apply and recruiters to work together. You’ll also find many further innovations, such as multimedia capabilities in the SuccessFactors Employee Profile, “Actionable Analytics”, and the ability to add external candidates to succession plans. If, in addition to this document, you’d like more details on these highlights, please review the October release summary or join us for one or more OneVoice webcasts.

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The new home page You can personalize the new home page, choosing the tile that shows the updates of greatest interest to you. Arrange and resize the tiles to get the most out of the page. Change the tile size on the fly—the larger the tile, the more detail. In a click, you can get more information or even take action.

Personal. Relevant. Actionable.

Administrators can choose which tiles each user sees and can set the default layout. The tiles reflect which product your company has access to as well as a default set that includes To Dos, My Team, My Info, Quick Links, My Objectives, and Form Status.

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Employee Central: Global HR made easy SuccessFactors Employee Central’s globalization capabilities have expanded significantly with the October release to include system translations for 33 countries, and the ability to operate in over 80 countries by supporting country-specific attributes such as currencies; date, calendar, and address formats; and national ID fields. Additionally, Employee Central is benefitting from SAP’s team of over 200 localization experts to assist in complying with local regulations and reporting in 10 countries in October, expanding to over 50 by the end of 2013. For Employee Central customers seeking to manage payroll in-house via a cloud-based solution, the October release also features data replication and UI integration to the Cloud Payroll solution announced in July. All HR administration and employee-related actions related to payroll (for example, accessing/viewing a recent pay statement) can now be done directly within Employee Central.

Workforce Analytics and Reporting: Actionable analytics When you run reports, you often see items that you’d like to better understand or that you need to fix; however, doing so often has meant navigating to a different product and clicking through several screens. The latest release streamlines the process— when you run a report, if you see an item about which you’d like more information, you can simply click on it. Similarly, if you know you’d like to take action—correct the employee record, update the learning plan, even award a spot bonus—these links appear so you can reach a quick resolution. The links for more information and to initiate action are available from metrics, charts and reports.

Introducing Headlines SuccessFactors Headlines revolutionizes analytics by giving business managers their own “automated data analyst” to help make the best decisions – based on facts, not guesswork. Headlines continually mines an organization’s data, identifies hot spots that require attention, and pushes insights to managers in common business language via mobile devices, email, and the Internet. Managers can not only get more information in a click or two, but also take action – drawing from SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics knowledgebase, which suggests remedies for nearly every situation. See a quick demo here. (Headlines availability is limited to co-innovation customers with the October Release and will be generally available in early 2013.)

The October release also features pre-packaged integrations to strategic partner solutions from Benefitfocus for benefits administration and Workforce Software for workforce management. Integrations include data transfer, as well as single sign-on so that users have a seamless experience across solutions. Additionally, Employee Central’s October release features hierarchical controls for position management, a web-based interface for “time off” requests and approvals, expanded search capabilities, an enhanced “quick card”, and improved administration functionality.

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Employee Profile: Personalizing the work experience for global teams Facilitate collaboration amongst your global teams with new features in the SuccessFactors Employee Profile. With Say My Name, employees can make an audio recording of their name to help others learn how to pronounce their name. The About Me Video lets employees create a video recording to introduce themselves to their colleagues. Learn more about your colleagues in just one click with the employee quick card. Designed to be more actionable, the quick card now has links to more detailed information and other talent

see improved performance with Touchbase, the Org Chart, and when starting the application.

Compensation: Relevant and actionable Those managing the compensation cycle will appreciate the revamped compensation administration experience. The new compensation administration page displays all active plans and summaries, and streamlined navigation makes it easy to take action—such as copying a plan in a single click or creating a new worksheet by following the three-step wizard. You’ll find additional options for creating and managing the distribution of personal compensation statements. If you want to create your own compensation statements within the application, you can customize the new SuccessStore compensation statement template. Add your logo, message, and fields that reflect the culture and tone of your company. Then, release statements in groups to coincide with your company’s manager communication

modules where you can initiate actions.

BizX Mobile: New look and better performance With the October release, SuccessFactors BizX Mobile users on iOS and Android phones and tablets will notice a new tile-based user interface that provides more prominent notifications and simpler navigation. You’ll also

schedule. We’ve also added a new, configurable dashboard. In a glance, you can gain insight to your compensation activities— see if you are within budget and how the process is progressing. The dashboard, like the new home page tiles, is interactive, so you can click on any of the charts or tables to get detailed information. Finally, good news for SAP and SuccessFactors customers: in November, a rapid deployment solution will be available through the SAP Store supporting process integration between Compensation and on-premises SAP ERP Human Capital Management.

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Jam:

More personal, improved onboarding, integrated with Sales OnDemand Turbocharge your work with the new SuccessFactors Jam experience. You can now stay on top of the information you need through the update tiles on the home page or within groups. These tiles deliver critical updates on content, people, groups, data, or tasks. In addition, the new user experience features faster page loading, a simplified navigation structure, and new feed filters so you can more easily locate what you need. Getting employees up to speed as quickly as possible increases their ability to sell more, serve your customers better, and control costs. The new social onboarding capabilities in Jam include a wizard that walks you through the process of selecting pertinent people and groups to follow and offers recommendations—people on the same team or groups that your colleagues participate in and that you should join. Jam is already integrated with the SuccessFactors BizX Suite, but now you can take advantage of Jam with your SAP applications, such as Sales OnDemand. Apply social and collaborative capabilities right where you’re working, whether that’s in your learning management or sales opportunity management systems.

Recruiting:

Team recruiting, simplified application process for vets and LinkedIn users Enhanced configurability in this release allows more than one person to be assigned to each job requisition role, so more users can view and perform actions on requisitions.

Jam: Accelerating Employee Performance

You get a new pool of skilled candidates, and the country’s veterans get a better chance at finding a job to match their skills. With the SuccessFactors military jobs decoder, military and veteran candidates simply enter their Military Occupational Classification (MOC) into the Military Jobs Transcoder on your career site, and that code is translated into a civilian job title keyword search. Relevant jobs are then displayed in a search results grid and linked directly to the appropriate hosted job page. Filling in work history is a time-consuming step in the application process. With the enhancements to the Apply with LinkedIn feature, candidates can pull their work experience and education information directly into the candidate profile from LinkedIn, reducing the time it takes to complete the candidate and application process.

Succession: Nominate external candidates to succession plans Building strong succession plans for the key positions in your company is critical. Those who use SuccessFactors Succession & Development often want to identify external talent—such as alumni or specific industry experts—to high-level succession plans. You spoke, we listened. New with this release, you can use SuccessFactors Succession & Development with SuccessFactors Recruiting to nominate external candidates to succession plans. With this integration, you can find and create records in the recruiting candidate database and nominate external successors directly from the Succession application.

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Learning: Coupons In addition to the multiple payment options already supported by our LMS (i.e., credit cards, POs, credits, vouchers, and PayPal), coupons are now available! With the October release, Learning administrators can now create coupons. Some of the criteria learning admins may use for their coupons include start and end dates, percentage discounts or fixed price in multiple currencies. Coupons also have configurable maximum usage limits on a per user and total activity basis.

But WAIT! There’s more!

These are just a few of the innovations coming on October 26th. For more details and information about enhancements, please see the October 2012 Release Summary in our customer community and sign up for OneVoice webinars. These webinars are moderated by the product managers of each product. Our next release will be in 2013, on February 15th. We’ll be sending you highlights approximately one week before the release. A more detailed release summary is published at least three weeks prior to the release into our customer community. SUCCESSFACTORS / OCTOBER 2012 RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS Please note that for customers who are on our premium release schedule, these features will be available on November 30th. For professional edition customers, some features may not be available, or may become available at a later date. All product features and delivery dates mentioned represent current product development expectations only and not a delivery commitment. These features may not be delivered in the indicated time frame or at all. Customer should base their purchasing, administrative and configuration decisions solely on functionality that is currently available.

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