HR and payroll software

Manage your workforce with flexible cloud solutions for core HR, time, payroll, and service delivery.
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Meet the needs of your people and your organization

Our mobile-friendly solutions can help you automate processes, improve employee and manager self-service, and strengthen compliance – all on one platform.  

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Single source of truth
Improve HR processes, experiences, and insights with accurate and up-to-date people data.

Connected people platform
Reduce risk and cost with prepackaged integrations across SAP and partner solutions.

Global coverage, local compliance
Adapt to local business practices and laws with a localized core HR solution, supporting more than 100 locales.

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Explore our core HR and payroll management solutions

Our flexible solutions can help you manage core HR, time, payroll, employee benefits, and more.

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Employee self-service
Empower people to quickly update their information and complete HR tasks.

Organizational structures
Visualize your total workforce with an interactive org chart that reflects the true structure of your organization.

Absence management
Enable employees to request time off from any device and give managers visibility into team absences.

Benefits administration
Manage employee benefits across the globe while meeting unique country-specific requirements.

Using SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, we have mitigated the need for manual monthly and quarterly data input efforts from our local HR teams and can now automatically generate reports whenever required with access to global workforce data.

Jing Yin, Global HR Strategy Manager, OMRON Corporation 

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Comprehensive time administration

Improve employee time and attendance processes with auto-approvals, alerts, and embedded reporting.

Flexible time recording

Give employees the option to record time from a desktop, mobile device, or clock terminal.

Global and local coverage

Reduce compliance risk with configurations for local regulations, collective agreements, and company policies.

Integrated time and payroll ecosystem

Connect processes by using pre-delivered integrations with payroll systems from SAP.

It’s a very live and interactive experience for our employees, and time tracking with digital punch clocks is the cherry on top. Since we had the entire suite of SAP SuccessFactors, implementing the time tracking solution was an obvious choice.

Maria Tachataki, Head of People Engagement and Communications, Eurobank

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Unified payroll management
Help ensure employees are paid accurately and on time by harmonizing payroll processes on a single platform.

Automated payroll processing
Remove manual work with built-in retro calculations and off-cycle support.

Data-driven insights
Use actionable payroll recommendations based on key insights and metrics.

Embedded localization
Simplify operations and deliver accurate payroll with a solution localized in more than 50 locales.

Staff can quickly see their leave balances and apply online, managers can access vital information about teams, and people and culture and payroll staff can produce reports efficiently, reducing administrative requests.

Sean Curtain, Executive Director, People and Culture, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

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Digital HR service delivery
Enable employees to contact HR through their preferred channel and empower users with an integrated knowledge base.

HR ticketing
Route HR tickets to the right agent and provide the information needed to quickly resolve issues.

Embedded analytics
Gain insight into employee and HR agent interactions, common issues, and resolution quality.

Compliance reporting
Reduce compliance risk with predefined service-level agreement (SLA) reports.

Purolator has a strategic advantage because of its people. SAP SuccessFactors solutions match our employee experience strategy and our level of dedication to employees.

Ken Johnston, Chief Human Resources Officer, Purolator Inc.

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Centralized document management
Store and manage employee documents from one place.

Simplified access to employee documents
Locate employee documents quickly with full-text search and self-service functionality.

Compliance management
Support legal and regulatory compliance with retention rules and employee file completeness checks.

Automated HR document generation
Use predefined templates to create accurate and personalized employee communications.

We digitalized years of paper-based employee records using SAP SuccessFactors Extended ECM, mass-scanning original documents and automatically saving them to folders that are now searchable with other employee data captured in our HCM solution.

Claudius Mitter, HR Process and Project Manager, RHI Magnesita GmbH

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Digital workplace
Give employees a single-entry point to everything they need for work – applications, processes, and more.

Guided experiences
Streamline complex processes that span various departments and applications across the organization.

Collaborative workspaces
Break down barriers between teams, eliminate information silos, and promote areas of interest.

Personalized experiences
Simplify work with relevant content, recommendations, and insights at an individual level.

SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone is helping us truly empower and engage our employees by creating one space where employees can find everything they need and get virtual support to get their work done – no matter where they are.

Yoav Ventura, Cofounder and Managing Partner, AKT Solutions Limited

See how customers are succeeding with SAP

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Processing HR requests 40x faster

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Lowering HR IT system costs by 60%

Find out how Röhm reduced operating costs and improved efficiency by moving to the cloud.

Collecting regional HR data in seconds

Explore how Astellas Pharma Inc. improved reporting with a unified HR system. 

What are analysts and experts saying?

TrustRadius recognizes SAP as they outperform the competition

Explore what customers are saying about SAP SuccessFactors HCM and why it’s a leading option for organizations of all sizes.

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Core HR and payroll checklist

Evaluate your HR department's readiness to cope with future challenges while driving sustainable growth.

Top 10 reasons to move to the cloud

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6,000+ SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central customers

Learn why thousands of customers are transforming their core HR processes in the cloud with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.

Frequently asked questions

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central is SAP’s HRIS software. The cloud solution can help you standardize processes globally and gain visibility to help make better people decisions. It includes capabilities for managing user profiles, organizational charts, global benefits administration, and absence management.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central includes capabilities for managing your global benefits. A flexible framework helps you standardize the global management of benefits for your entire organization.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll is SAP’s cloud payroll management software. Our HR software for payroll unifies global payroll management on a single platform for more accurate and compliant processing.

Time management capabilities in SAP SuccessFactors HCM provide robust and comprehensive coverage for various types of employees. SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central helps you manage employee absences on a single cloud platform while providing basic time sheets for the salaried workforce. Advanced and complex requirements for hourly and remote workforces are addressed in SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking, which includes capabilities for digital punch clocks and clock terminal integration along with support for complex round-the-clock and cross-midnight schedules.

We have a program dedicated to helping existing SAP ERP HCM customers move to the cloud. Learn how we can help you simplify your move to the cloud.