Connecting 1,500 employees with SAP SuccessFactors
SAP SuccessFactors is your all-in-one solution for revolutionizing HR processes and maximizing talent potential. With its comprehensive suite of modules, you can seamlessly manage every aspect of your workforce lifecycle, from recruitment to retirement. Empower your HR team, engage your employees, and drive organizational success like never before.
SAP SuccessFactors consists of nine modules, any of them can be implemented separately and/or integrated with existing SAP solutions or third-party applications.
Calculate the costKey Features of SAP SuccessFactors
SAP SuccessFactors offers a full suite of capabilities to manage HR, talent, learning, and employee experience in one place. It helps businesses attract top talent, keep teams engaged, and align employee goals with company strategy. Whether you're growing fast or optimizing what you have, SAP SuccessFactors gives you the tools to scale with confidence. Here’s what it can do:
Core HR hub
Employee Central, the primary module of SAP SuccessFactors, enables you to create a centralized hub for managing core HR functions, including employee records, job changes, benefits, and organizational structures. It supports global HR compliance and localization. Built-in workflows and self-service tools simplify daily HR operations for both employees and HR teams.
Payroll and time management
SAP SuccessFactors provides accurate, compliant payroll processing across multiple countries, tightly integrated with time tracking and leave management. Automates complex payroll calculations and reporting. Employees can clock in and out, request time off, and track their hours via desktop or mobile.
Recruiting and applicant tracking
The solution supports the whole hiring process from job posting to offer acceptance. Includes candidate sourcing, intelligent ranking, applicant tracking, and a modern career site experience. Helps attract top talent and reduce time-to-hire with built-in analytics and automation.
Onboarding and crossboarding
SAP SuccessFactors delivers a guided, digital onboarding experience for new hires, internal transfers, and rehires. It ensures smooth transitions with personalized tasks, document management, and integration into other HR processes. It also helps you improve new hire engagement and speed up the productivity of your teams.
Performance and goals management
With a dedicated module, SAP SuccessFactors enables continuous performance tracking, feedback, and goal alignment across individuals and teams. It supports real-time coaching, performance reviews, and objective setting. Helps connect employee output to business results and development.
Learning and development
The solution provides access to personalized learning experiences, including courses, certifications, and external content. Encourages skill development, compliance training, and employee engagement. Integrated with career growth paths and performance goals.
Succession and career development planning
With this software, you can identify future leaders, assess talent readiness, and build succession pipelines in your company. It empowers you to help your employees explore internal career paths and development plans. Supports long-term workforce planning and reduces leadership gaps.
Compensation management
The solution simplifies compensation planning with tools for managing merit increases, bonuses, and equity awards. It also provides tools to align pay with performance and budget controls, ensuring fairness, transparency, and compliance with compensation policies.
Workforce analytics and reporting
With real-time dashboards and predictive analytics for workforce trends and KPIs, this solution enables HR and business leaders to make data-driven decisions regarding hiring, retention, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and engagement. Includes prebuilt reports and customizable visualizations.
Mobile and self-service access
SAP SuccessFactors gives employees and managers access to HR tasks anytime, anywhere via mobile app or browser. Enables functions like leave requests, approvals, feedback, and goal updates. Boosts convenience and employee empowerment.
Benefits of SAP SuccessFactors
Improved efficiency and cost savings.
Streamlines HR processes such as payroll processing, benefits administration, time, attendance tracking, and more.
Better employee performance management.
Provides a better outlook on employee performance and measures to take for career development.
Provides a better outlook on employee performance and measures to take for career development.
Work-life balance for everyone.
Promotes a healthy work-life balance for all employees.
Promotes a healthy work-life balance for all employees.
Streamlined timekeeping and compensation processes.
Automates key HR processes and improves overall employee experience.
Automates key HR processes and improves overall employee experience.
Real-time updates on key metrics.
Helps HR teams improve engagement at work by collecting real-time updates on key metrics such as workforce productivity and team performance.
Helps HR teams improve engagement at work by collecting real-time updates on key metrics such as workforce productivity and team performance.
Integration with existing HR systems.
Allows integrations with existing HR systems, including payroll and benefits administration.
Allows integrations with existing HR systems, including payroll and benefits administration.
SAP SuccessFactors Modules
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central is a comprehensive, cloud-based Human Resource Information System (HRIS) designed to manage your workforce and help your business run more efficiently. It serves as a single source of truth for your HR data, providing a consistent and reliable system of record. The module allows you to automate time-consuming tasks and capture critical information about your company's organization, pay, job structure, and employees.
Benefits
- Global system of record. Gain a unified view of employee data across the organization, regardless of location.
- Workforce management. Automate and streamline time, attendance, scheduling, and absence management.
- Organizational management. Capture and visualize how your organization is structured, making it easy to understand and manage.
- Employee self-service. Allow your employees to manage their data, reducing administrative overhead.
- Manager self-service. Enable managers to handle team-related tasks (like approvals, promotions, and transfers).
- HR service delivery. Provide HR services and support directly to employees through a digital HR helpdesk.
- Compliance and auditing. Ensure compliance with global legal regulations and provide auditing capabilities.
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting helps companies attract, engage, and select the best talent. It combines a powerful applicant tracking system (ATS), job distribution, a responsive career site, candidate relationship management, and analytics into a single solution. This module helps you provide a great candidate experience, streamline recruiting processes, and enable data-driven decision-making.
Benefits
- Applicant tracking system (ATS). Manage the recruitment process, from job posting to candidate selection.
- Job distribution. Advertise job openings across multiple channels to reach a wider audience.
- Candidate relationship management. Nurture relationships with potential candidates, especially for hard-to-fill and critical roles.
- Responsive career site. Build a user-friendly platform for candidates to learn about your company and apply for jobs.
- Analytics. Gain insights into your recruiting process to ensure data-driven decisions.
- Global talent sourcing. Find the best talent from around the world.
- Candidate experience. Enhance the candidate's journey, from application to onboarding.
SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding helps integrate new hires into an organization and its culture. It provides access to tools and information that help new hires set goals and become productive team members.
Benefits
- Standardized onboarding processes. Provide consistent and standardized onboarding processes based on SAP Best Practices.
- Self-service. Allow new hires to complete necessary paperwork, including electronic signatures, on any device.
- Regulatory compliance. Timely react to changes in legislation.
- Cross-boarding and offboarding. Support all employee movements(like internal transfers and employees leaving) in a streamlined and efficient way.
- Real-time people insights. Gain insights into your onboarding process to make data-driven decisions.
- Personalized and interactive features. Engage and retain new hires with personalized, interactive, and engaging features.
- Digital experience. Bring your supporting systems, processes, and people into an intuitive digital experience accessible from anywhere, on any device.
The Performance and Goals module of SAP SuccessFactors helps align, assess, and optimize employee performance and align employee goals with the company's strategic goals.
Benefits
- Goal alignment. Help employees and managers align individual goals to the company's business objectives.
- Performance evaluations. Conduct accurate and bias-free employee evaluations.
- Recognition of top talent. Recognize top talent and continuously improve workforce performance.
- Continuous feedback and coaching. Develop your employees' skills and help managers provide meaningful feedback and coaching.
- Performance calibration. Calibrate performance by reviewing ratings across the company.
- Leadership cultivation. Cultivate leaders and clearly identify not just high performers but potential future leaders.
- Employee engagement and retention. Deliver meaningful reviews to help ensure employee engagement and retention.
- Real-time people insights. Gain real-time people insights with employee goals and performance management.
SAP SuccessFactors Compensation integrates talent management and payroll systems, making it easier to identify and fairly compensate high-performing employees. It displays employee earnings, hours worked, and roles performed. Budgets are easily managed for real-time salary adjustments. The module can help you build and manage strategic compensation programs that align with the needs of your employees, your business, and your budget.
Benefits
- Compensation planning. Support salary and long-term incentive planning.
- Variable pay (bonus) planning. Support short-term incentive planning.
- Reward and recognition. Support cash-based and point-based peer-to-peer award programs.
- Salary planning. High-level steps for planning salaries.
- Compensation program design. Optimize your compensation programs with advanced modeling and forecasting capabilities based on best practices.
- Bonus planning process. Standardize the bonus planning process and break down how the total bonus payout was calculated.
- Employee reward and recognition. Manage rewards and compensation with real-time insights using a single, unified solution.
- Compliance. Ensure that your organization meets all necessary compliance requirements.
SAP SuccessFactors Career Development Planning (CDP) empowers employees with a wide range of development and career planning activities. It provides managers with standardized methods to track the success of their direct reports. The module supports processes that detect, prevent, or eliminate the influence of bias, helping organizations achieve their diversity and inclusion goals.
Benefits
- Development plans. Employees and managers can add, view, and update their development goals.
- Career worksheets. Allow employees to select a future role and compare their current competencies with the ones required for the future role.
- Career paths. Help employees identify interesting future job roles.
- Mentoring. Connect employees of different career levels in a development relationship where a more experienced person mentors a less experienced person.
- Personal growth. Supports employees in undertaking relevant development activities and ensuring follow-through on development plans.
- Corrective remedies. Helps in closing competency gaps with time-bound development plans.
SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development helps identify and develop the talent they need to achieve their business goals. It provides visibility and planning capabilities to support future growth by creating succession plans and nominating the most suitable candidates.
Benefits
- Talent pool management. Group suitable successors together for a particular job role.
- Succession org chart. Provide an interactive display to graphically view the employment health of a team or a talent pool.
- Talent search. Search for talents across the organization.
- Presentation and calibration features. Facilitate discussions between managers and HR representatives about the suitability of specific potential successors.
- Development plans and opportunities. Connect development plans and opportunities to succession and talent gaps to ensure a smooth transition when key employees move on.
- Leaders' accountability. Include leaders in developing successors and hold them accountable for the process.
- Talent pipelines. Identifies and groups talent pipelines for filling positions.
- Role-person nomination. Nominate successors by role/person.
SAP SuccessFactors Learning Management System (LMS) allows users to develop, manage, and access learning content via various channels, including offline and mobile.
Benefits
- Continuous learning experiences. Provide learners with clear development paths and help them develop their skills through learning linked to clear development goals, career paths, assigned profiles, and recommendations.
- Corporate training. Offer skills-based learning and development opportunities to help employees stay compliant, remain relevant, and prepare for the future.
- Learner experience. Allow employees to consume learning conveniently with an intuitive and engaging experience.
- Compliance training. Ensure that your organization meets all necessary compliance requirements.
- Content and innovations. Get regular updates on the latest learning content and innovations.
- Skills-driven learning. Focus on building and strengthening the relevant skills of the workforce.
- Security model. Benefit from a unique security model to control data access.
The People Analytics module of SAP SuccessFactors is a comprehensive solution for reporting, workforce analytics, and workforce planning. It integrates with SAP Analytics Cloud, marking an evolution of SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics.
Benefits
- Role-based permission. Manage access to different sets of information required in a report.
- Filters. Filter out different sets of information you require in a report.
- Drill down. Explore more details about what has been included in the report.
- Scheduling. Schedule/send out action reports when necessary.
- Interactive. Dashboards and Tiles feature enables managers to view a summary of information for their teams.
- Save time with templates. Report templates are available for all SAP SuccessFactors suite core areas, including Performance, Goals, Succession, Recruiting, and Employee Central.
- Simulate and predict. Predicts what could happen next.
SAP SuccessFactors integration
SAP SuccessFactors is powerful on its own – but when integrated with other systems and platforms, it becomes a true engine for smart, connected HR operations. Whether you're looking to streamline internal processes, boost recruitment efficiency, or connect with external learning providers, SAP SuccessFactors offers a wide range of integration options to make it all work seamlessly. Many of these integrations are pre-configured and quick to set up, while others can be customized for your specific business needs.
What can you integrate with SAP SuccessFactors?
Internal SuccessFactors modules
Built-in integrations between modules (like Recruiting, Onboarding, and Employee Central) ensure a smooth, end-to-end employee lifecycle – no data duplication, no gaps.
Career sites and Recruiting Marketing (RMK)
Connect to career sites to attract external candidates and track recruiting marketing campaign performance. Some cases may require specialized setup or custom skills.
Collaboration platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Office 365)
Speed up scheduling and communication in recruiting – auto-suggest time slots, send invites, and collaborate with hiring teams directly within Teams.
LinkedIn integration
Enable features like Quick Apply, auto-populate candidate data, and advertise jobs to a wider talent pool. Both basic and extended integration options are available.
External job boards
Use pre-built connectors to publish job postings to global and regional job boards – no custom setup needed.
SAP solutions
Connect SuccessFactors to your existing SAP landscape (like HCM in your ERP system): SAP provides dedicated add-ons to make integration straightforward.
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
SAC is embedded into SuccessFactors for people analytics – but you can integrate you SuccessFactors with a full version of Analytics Cloud to combine HR data with financials, operations, or customer data for advanced insights.
Time tracking systems and physical devices
Integrate with third-party attendance systems or hardware like access control devices – even punch clocks.
Payroll and compensation platforms
Ensure payroll accuracy and compliance by syncing HR and compensation data with internal or external payroll providers.
Background check providers
Use out-of-the-box integrations to automatically request and receive background checks during the hiring process.
Learning content providers
Connect with third-party learning platforms to give employees access to a wide range of educational content – directly inside SuccessFactors.
Custom external systems
Have something more complex in mind? With SAP Integration Suite (CPI/BTP), we can build tailored integrations with any system you use – from legacy apps to niche platforms.Need a custom integration? Our team at ACBaltica is ready to build it – securely, efficiently, and in line with SAP best practices.
Why choose ACBaltica for SAP SuccessFactors services?
- SAP SuccessFactors expertise. ACBaltica has a proven track record of connecting employees with SAP SuccessFactors and boosting the HR Department's effectiveness.
- Compliance with SAP standards. ACBaltica is a certified SAP Platinum Partner and a Partner Center of Expertise. Thus, SAP has confirmed that we provide the highest level of SAP-related services in compliance with SAP standards.
- Flexible and agile. We'll promptly dive into your project and adjust to your internal processes and procedures, regulations, and compliance to help you maximize the potential of SAP solutions.
- Deep expertise in SAP solutions. For over 20 years, we've been working with only SAP solutions – so we can help you either implement any of SuccessFactors modulesб or integrate them with other SAP products and applications.
- Competitive prices. With our delivery center in Eastern Europe, we can guarantee that our price-to-quality ratio will fit both your needs and budget.
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