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Administrator Resources
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How to Engage with SAP Using Product Support Accreditation |
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The Product Support Accreditation program is designed for SAP users who want to explore the benefits of tools and features from Next-Generation Support and learn how to easily engage with Product Support as well as how to achieve faster, easier closure to technical issues or incidents. Learn more. |
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Information to help you manage the US Form I-9 Changes in Onboarding (2.0) |
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Read Shaun Brown’s informative blog on managing the 2H 2020 and 1H 2021 changes with the U.S. Form I-9 and E-Verify Availability in SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding (2.0), here. |
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Health and Vaccine Status Tracking Block/Portlet in SuccessFactors People Profile - Welcome to the SAP SuccessFactors Community! |
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Updates in the 1H release aim to help you safely bring employees back to the office, including the free health and vaccination monitoring portlet in the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central solution. Employees can voluntarily share their vaccination status and organizations can use that data to help create reopening strategies, provide travel recommendations, and identify and support employees deemed high risk due to their location, age and area of work. Additionally, SAP Work Zone for HR has a new guided experience that provides personalized information and recommended actions employees need to take to return to the office. Learn More. |
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SAP SuccessFactors Qualtrics Design Advisors Program |
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SAP SuccessFactors is putting people at the center of our business in times of disruption. We seek to listen, understand, and respond to employee needs and experience gaps to ensure employees are resilient and productive with our Qualtrics Employee Engagement solution. We recently launched the SAP SuccessFactors Qualtrics Integrations Design Advisors Program and are excited to welcome customers into our program! Learn more about the program! |
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Driving Learning Insights with People Analytics Stories – Adoption Readiness Program |
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As part of our HXM journey we are about to take another important step with the introduction of Learning reporting capabilities with Stories in People Analytics from late June / early July onwards; see the release schedule across all data centers. Make sure you sign up and join the new Solution Adoption Readiness Program, “Drive Learning Insights with People Analytics Stories,” to find out what is needed to enable and benefit from this new capability. Learn more & register. |
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Field and Section Permission in the PM Form |
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We are starting off our "Customer Outreach" series in the Performance and Goals community strong, first touching on a common issue that many of our customers have issues with: Field and Section permissions. Edipo outlines information about using these permissions to your advantage in this edition. |
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Digital Platforms Drive Innovation in HR |
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HR organizations could and should leverage a digital platform to accommodate changes in employee needs, skills, and preferences rapidly and with agility. Read about why HR leaders are heeding this advice by adopting SAP Business Technology Platform in this blog. |
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Driving Your Journey: Launch & Sustain Value with SAP SuccessFactors |
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We have partnered with HXM Services Delivery to organize a series of events focused around launching and sustaining value of SAP SuccessFactors solutions. Take part in this introduction event on May 25 and start learning from the experiences of your peers and SAP consultants. Register here. |
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Executive Connection |
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Driving Your Journey: Launch & Sustain Value with SAP SuccessFactors |
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For the third consecutive year, SAP SuccessFactors has been named a Customers’ Choice in the 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises. As we evolve the human capital management (HCM) market toward human experience management (HXM), innovation at SAP is driven by our customers. The feedback and partnership with each of these customers is what drives our ability to innovate and push the boundaries of what HR technology is capable of. Read about it in Marc Havecroft's blog. |
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New Implementation Assets |
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Implementation Design Principles (IDPs) provide the leading practices critical to your company's successful implementations. To view the IDP page, navigate to the Community's navigation bar > Resources > Implementation Design Principles or click here. |
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New IDPs Published |
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These newly published IDPs provide various recommendations, implementation considerations and more. To learn more, view the following abstract:
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Resources to Help Navigate Today's Challenges |
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To help support your HR team, please review the complimentary resource below.
Although not explicitly endorsed by SAP SuccessFactors, many administrators have recommended this incredibly helpful Coronavirus Resources guide. |
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Innovation Alerts |
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Prepare for feature migrations and deprecations which require additional change management and communication. |
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Reimagined Home Page First Half 2021 Release: What’s Coming |
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We are excited to announce the following innovations within the 1H 2021 Release. For a full list you can review the What’s New Viewer and listen to the Release Highlights .
Reimagined Home Page will be universally applied to both preview and production environments with our 1H 2022 release. You can also learn more by visiting the SAP SuccessFactors Community. |
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SAP Cloud Identity Authentication (IAS/IPS) Resources |
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To provide a secure login experience and ensure access to new functionality like Stories in People Analytics, please view helpful resources, migration guidance, and open office hours on the SAP SuccessFactors Community. |
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SAP SuccessFactors Stories in People Analytics – Design Best Practices and Additional How-To Videos |
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Be sure to leverage the new ‘Visual Formatting Design Guidelines’ resource for best practices on formatting and styling Stories. In addition, we’ve added new how-to videos to help you get the most out of Stories in People Analytics. This functionality requires only a few steps to implement and combines reporting, insights, and dashboards into a truly dynamic environment. To learn more and ask questions, visit the SAP SuccessFactors Community. |
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SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding |
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Whether you’re looking to go digital with your compliance forms (US Form I-9, E-Verify, and Canada TD1 among them), enhance your offboarding experience, or further automate and customize your onboarding processes, the First Half 2021 (1H 2021) release for SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding has several enhancements you’ll want to take note of. For a quick snapshot of the highlights and benefits to expect in a few key areas, check out this SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding: Snapshot of 1H 2021 Release blog. |
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Data and Tenant Management Policy Updates |
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Please note the Purge Audit Data, which was previously applied to Preview instances, will now extend to Test and Development instances within the First Half 2021 Release. In addition, we’ve clarified the impact related to the 'Attachment Storage Limits Experience Change'. Learn more. |
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Previously applied to Preview instances, this experience is coming to Test and Development instances within the First Half 2021 Release. After July 23, 2021, attachments stored in the Document Management System within a Test or Development instance will be replaced with blank attachments based on a defined retention period. Learn more on the SAP SuccessFactors Community. |
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The Learning Administrator Native login was removed within the First Half 2021 Release. The general availability of Identity Authentication Services (IAS) based authentication for Learning user authentication (for both Sites and standard user) is planned for the Second Half 2021 Release and an updated webinar recording is now posted. Learn more. |
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Goal Execution Deprecation Within First Half 2021 Release |
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As a final phase in this deprecation, Goal Execution’s Status Report and Meeting Agenda will be deprecated within the First Half 2021 Release. Learn more. |
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In our continued effort to move data models to admin tools, applicable instances’ Event Reason Derivation XML rules will be upgraded to business rules with a Universal, or automatic, upgrade in the 1H 2021 Production Release. We highly recommend activating this ‘Admin Opt-In’ feature. Learn more. |
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Migrating Competencies from Job Profile Builder to Center of Capabilities Framework Within First Half 2021 Release |
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Our next-generation skills framework, Center of Capabilities, fundamentally changes the way skills, competencies, and overall capabilities are captured. The first phase of this transition includes a universal migration of Competency Framework to Center of Capabilities and changes how administrators manage both Competencies and the Competency Library/Categories. Learn more. |
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Employee Central New Time Sheet User Interface (UI) Available Within First Half 2021 Release |
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As part of the First Half 2021 release a new Employee Self-Service (ESS) Time Sheet User Interface (UI) for attendance recording was made available and will eventually replace the current UI. This new and innovative UI is part of UX Reimagined and supports accessibility standards and can be used on both desktop and mobile devices. Learn more about this new UI and begin your transition to it on the SAP SuccessFactors Community. |
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Universal Compound Employee API Change Rescheduled to the Second Half 2021 |
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Already applied to Preview instances, the three-month restriction of the “Last Modified On” and “Snapshot Date” fields within applicable instances’ Compound Employee API will be applied with the Second Half 2021 Release. Review resources and key considerations on the SAP SuccessFactors Community. |
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Legacy Picklist Management End of Support Within Second Half 2021 Release |
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With the Second Half 2021 (2H 2021) Release we will be ending support for the legacy Picklist Management process. After that time, any new features or enhancements will not be included in the legacy picklists. Also, following 2H 2021, as new features are released, possible issues may occur in the legacy picklists. We highly recommend any non-migrated instances be migrated as soon as possible. To learn more about the steps to ensure a smooth migration, please review this SAP SuccessFactors Community Innovation Alert. |
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Legacy Admin Alerts Deprecation and Universal Transition to Admin Alerts 2.0 Within Second Half 2021 Release |
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Within the Second Half 2021 Release, Legacy Admin Alerts will be deprecated as part of a universal transition to Admin Alerts 2.0. Admin Alerts 2.0 allows administrators to easily manage data integrity and surface certain processes which may be stalling. In addition, this next-generation functionality is more configurable than ever and can show specific alerts. Learn more on the SAP SuccessFactors Community. |
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Stay Atop Innovation |
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For an overview of all active initiatives, please visit and subscribe to the SAP SuccessFactors Community Innovation Alerts Dashboard. Additional initiatives include: 2021: First Half 2021: Second Half
2022: First Half
2022: Second Half
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Virtual Events |
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For a summary of product or process related training, virtual webinars, and opportunities to influence product features, please check out the SAP SuccessFactors Community's Events & s page and subscribe to our monthly Events Newsletter. |
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