SAP HR SUCCESS FACTORS

SAP HR SUCCESS FACTORS

It is related to Talent Management
                      Self services
                      Reporting
                      ESS
                      Time Management
                      Payroll
                      Organizational management (OM)
                      Personnel Administration  (PA)
                      Benefits (BN)
                      Processes and Forms (HCMPF)




SuccessFactors Implementation At AspireHR, Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) is what we do. This focus and specialization, as well as being a user of SuccessFactors, has helped us build a reputable model for successful implementations of and releases within SuccessFactors. AspireHR has the experience and knowledge to ensure that your SuccessFactors implementation or release project is completed quickly and efficiently.

SAP SuccessFactors Hybrid HCM customers are those customers who use SAP for Core HR and SuccessFactors for one or more of the talent management, social collaboration, planning and analytics applications.

SuccessFactors is an American multinational company headquartered in South San Francisco, California, providing cloud-based human capital management (HCM) software solutions using the Software as a service (SaaS) model.

Contents 1 Corporate history 1.1 Acquisition by SAP America 2 Current focus 3 Operations 4 References

Corporate history

SuccessFactors was founded in 2001 by Lars Dalgaard. In November 2007, the company went public on the NASDAQ Global Market under the stock symbol SFSF. On April 6th, 2011 SuccessFactors announced plans to move to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NYSE Euronext, and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Deutsche Boerse), becoming the first triple listed technology company. In July 2011, SuccessFactors successfully completed the move to the NYSE (press release), NYSE Euronext (press release), and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Deutsche Boerse)(press release). It has its services translated into 32 languages and currently has more than 3,500 customers with over 15 million users in 60 industries in over 185 countries.
On October 17, 2010, SuccessFactors announced its acquisition of YouCalc, a Denmark based SaaS service.^[2] on October 18, 2010, SuccessFactors launched the first ever Calculator in the Cloud technology.The calculator in the cloud allows business users to do analysis of real-time data for insight and predictions. ^[3]

Acquisition by SAP America

On Dec 3, 2011, SAP AG and SuccessFactors, Inc. announced that SAP's subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., has entered into a definitive merger agreement with SuccessFactors to acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of SuccessFactors. It was also announced that SuccessFactors will remain independent and be named "SuccessFactors, an SAP company". ^[4] The acquisition was completed on February 16, 2012.
On Dec 6, 2011, SuccessFactors Inc., the software company that SAP AG is buying for $3.4 billion,^[5] announced the purchase of closely held Jobs2Web Inc. for $110 million in cash.^[6] Minnesota-based Jobs2web is expected to be a part of SuccessFactors before the SAP acquisition is complete. SAP spokesman, commented SuccessFactors is still a separate company and it has the prerogative to make deals until the SAP acquisition closes.^[7]

sucessfactors implementation process (BizXpert Methodology

It is similar to ASAP methodology.to implement success factors we follow BizXpert methodology

BizXpert Methodology – Phases :

 Sales: As per SLA the scope of project is decided . The scope includes the technical and functional scoping. During this phase the transition from the sales cycle to consulting is initiated.

Prepare: During the Prepare phase, the PTO (Project Team Orientation) is initiated. This phase includes project planning, on-boarding the team, kick-off meetings, and conducting workshops for requirements gathering. it is similar BBP

Realize: During this phase, the Success Factors instance is configured. Based on user inputs, the requirements are refined and reflected in the configuration. Data migration, technical developments, integrations (data imports/exports) are also initiated. This phase includes unit testing as well configuration verifications.

Verify: Integration testing is conducted during this phase, followed by User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Go-live training is initiated during the end of this phase.user training should be there

Launch: During this phase go-live planning and the cut-over plan is initiated. This phase includes transitioning the instance to the customer and start of go-live support. On successful transition to the customer, the project is closed.

Each phase includes check-points, which are listed in Table 1.

BizXpert Methodology phase	Checkpoint
Sales	Sales to PS transition
Prepare	Scope and Project readiness
Realize	Configuration
Verify	Testing / UAT
Launch	Production - Go - Live