Integrating SAP SuccessFactors with SAP HCM With cloud solutions like SAP Success Factors, it is common for organizations to provide approval to their HR team to implement a new solution with support from IT. With user acceptance often cited as the biggest challenge to overcome many would argue that the work required getting an HR solution up and running is the largest hurdle. SAP offers many pre-built standard integrations between SAP HCM on-premise and Success Factors. While it is clearly an asset for HR to be at the lead of an implementation, we fully encourage you to begin the IT team into the project so that you’re qualified from a technical and integration perspective. IT can add value by giving the professional background of your existing SAP HCM investment, finally increasing your return on investment. The following are tips that we suggest to all of our clients who are using a hybrid SAP HCM and SAP Success Factors model.
The integration add-on enables integration of the following types of data: Recruiting data, employee data, organizational data, compensation data, data required for evaluation purposes, and qualification data. When moving to SAP SuccessFactors, there is almost certainly a need to integrate with either the existing SAP ERP Human Capital Management (HCM) system, other parts of SAP ERP, and/or with one or more third-party systems. When doing so, there are multiple factors that must be considered. There are five critical aspects to integrating SAP SuccessFactors with SAP HCM For industry use, the add-on carries the following integration summaries: Recruiting data Information about positions to be staffed from the SAP ERP system to Success Factors so that corresponding job requisitions can be created or changed there.