SAP, SuccessFactors to offer HCM solutions

 BANGALORE, INDIA: SAP AG and its subsidiary SuccessFactors on Wednesday announced their unified product direction for human capital management (HCM) solutions.

The combined portfolio will provide end-to-end integrated solutions to help with some of the biggest challenges that business leaders around the world are facing across all lines of business: managing their talent to top performance and turning their strategies into actions and results, the company claimed in a press release..

The two companies are combining SuccessFactors Business Execution (BizX) Suite with SAP solutions to provide an innovative HCM offerings to benefit existing and prospective customers.

SuccessFactors Employee Central solution is the go-forward core human resources (HR) offering in the cloud.

For talent management, SuccessFactors Performance Management, Compensation Management, Recruiting and Learning Management with social learning from SuccessFactors Jam will be the go-forward solutions.

Analytics will continue as an important focus area within both SAP ERP HCM and the SuccessFactors product portfolios, leveraging significant assets such as Workforce Analytics, Workforce Planning, the SAP HANA platform and solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio.

People analytics will be revolutionized by putting Workforce Analytics on HANA. Together SAP and SuccessFactors can make unparalleled aggregate HR benchmark insights available in the cloud to hundreds of thousands of customers.

The combination of SuccessFactors software and SAP HANA is one of the key priority areas for development of the BizX Suite, as it will help increase customer value by dramatically speeding existing processes, enabling access to large amounts of data in shorter periods of time and providing real-time access to information tailored to individual requirements.

“We’ve delivered this unified product direction for our BizX Suite within days of our tender offer close, demonstrating our agility and the power of our combined people, know-how and technologies,” said Lars Dalgaard, founder and CEO, SuccessFactors.

“We are providing immediate clarity on our BizX road map to ensure we deliver the best possible suite of solutions for our customers. The customer must always win. We cannot wait to share more of what we’ll offer our customers in the next few months,” he concluded.