What is SAP human resources (SAP HR)?
SAP provides innovative human capital management (HCM) solutions to address your critical workforce transformation needs.
SAP HR supports the evolution of human capital management
Human capital management (HCM) empowers individuals to reach their full potential at work while strengthening the connection between human resources HR and business operations, helping organizations create a sustainable workforce and profitable business.
The SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite extends typical HR processes to create truly dynamic, engaging, and employee-centered experiences. The suite is designed around what people need, how they work, and what motivates them – supporting people throughout their careers and enabling HR and leaders to accelerate business growth.
Using SAP SuccessFactors solutions can help you put the right talent in the right positions, provide meaningful employee experiences, and build a highly motivated workforce in sync with your corporate objectives. You can put the power of our data-based insights into the hands of your HR department, your managers, and, most important, your employees. What’s more, analysts consistently recognize SAP SuccessFactors solutions as the leading products in our industry.
Guided workflows
Merge best practices to integrations from other systems using guided workflows.
Localization frameworks
Remain compliant with local legal best practices for more than 100 countries, including payroll support in nearly 50 countries.
HR analytics and insights
Gain the insight you need to identify opportunities, risks, and trends with powerful HR analytics that turn intelligence into action.
Extensible foundation
Extend your HR capabilities by tapping into the power of SAP HR solutions and more than 300 partner apps.
What makes SAP HR different?
HCM solutions from SAP can help you improve business outcomes in ten ways.
1. Simple and intuitive user experiences: Deliver engaging, individualized experiences that span HR and business applications, with embedded feedback loops to consistently monitor and optimize key moments across the employee journey.
2. Depth and breadth of capabilities: Address your critical workforce transformation needs, such as intelligent career exploration, comprehensive self-service options, and individualized recommendations for built-in guidance, with strategic, innovative solutions.
3. Automated compliance: Leverage localization frameworks in more than 100 countries for core HR and 46 countries for payroll. We have more than 120 local product managers dedicated to understanding country-specific and regional regulations that impact HR, privacy, and security.
4. Cross-enterprise insight and intelligence: Increase visibility into your total workforce, workforce impact, and HR costs with insights into data from across the business and use artificial intelligence for planning.
5. Rapid innovation: Access prebuilt extensions, more than 300 HR partner apps, and an open cloud platform for building, extending, or integrating applications, so you can address unique business requirements with the flexibility and independence you need.
6. Unmatched services and support: Complete your implementation in a timely and cost-effective manner by leveraging industry-leading best practices and a ready-to-use, preconfigured system to accelerate cloud adoption and business outcomes.
7. Bottom-up approach to skill development: Realize greater potential across the entire workforce by understanding the evolving capabilities, desires, and needs of every individual, so you can build the skills and agility needed for the future.
8. Technology for a more inclusive workforce: Drive inclusion and belonging and help eliminate inherent biases at the point of decision-making with powerful features embedded across the suite that are accessible by users of all abilities.
9. Flexibility to start anywhere: Start where you want based on your critical needs, without the requirement of launching core HR first, so your journey reflects your strategy at the pace you want.
10. Partnership with a recognized leader: Maximize results with a recognized market leader in human capital management, enterprise resource management, data integration, analytics, and platform as a service – with proven success for thousands of customers across all industries, sizes, and geographies.
Why choose SAP HR solutions?
SAP SuccessFactors solutions bring together the intelligent technology, data and insights, and connected business processes that are critical to making fast and efficient workforce decisions. They enable you to drive productivity, business agility, and people practices so you can compete and thrive today and in the future. You can leverage innovation from SAP SuccessFactors solutions and intelligent technologies as well as the power of solutions such as SAP Business Technology Platform. Discover how our innovative solutions can help you empower individuals and teams to reach their full potential and enable your organization to create a sustainable workforce.
Manage a global workforce:
Reduce costs with a simplified landscape for managing your total workforce, global benefits, payroll, time management, document management, and HR service delivery
Increase productivity and employee satisfaction with end-to-end service experiences and consistent, standardized HR processes
Improve decision-making with real-time insights into your people data, aligning your HR and business strategy
Unlock human potential:
Enhance recruiter efficiency and improve the candidate and new hire experience with simplified, personalized, and intuitive processes
Increase learning agility, efficiency, and mobility with clear, compelling career paths and development opportunities that cultivate talent
Empower your managers to connect with, motivate, and inspire employees through continuous coaching and feedback
Improve employee engagement by helping employees understand how they’re valued through visibility into their total compensation package
Drive consistent employee engagement:
Collect feedback from employees at key touchpoints, so you can drive improvements in real-time
Leverage built-in guided action planning to improve engagement and retention
Identify the optimal benefits package based on employee feedback and driver analysis
Make better people decisions:
Strengthen your HR leadership with powerful, personalized insights that influence decisions and stimulate action for your workforce
Enable organizational agility and improve business results through comprehensive reporting and analytics that provide insight across the organization
Reduce risk by getting early insight into trends that can be disruptive to your workforce strategies
Accelerate innovation and agility:
Enhance employee efficiency by automating HR tasks with AI and ML
Increase engagement by creating dynamic processes and applications to accommodate when, where, and how your employees work
Improve business agility by connecting and automating your business processes with integrations, connectors, APIs, and best practices for a faster ROI
The SAP approach to HR innovation
Our innovation strategy is built on three dimensions. At the base, we build products by using transformative technologies that impact the entire HR value chain. From there, we build best-of-breed solutions and engage leading partners, pushing the boundaries of HR innovation and solutions.
Transformative technologies
Reimagine your user experience by using next-generation technologies – such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, mobile solutions, and chatbots – to change the way HR functions. Now, you can deliver a dynamic, intuitive experience that’s personalized for each employee, so they feel supported and confident.
Partner ecosystem
Maximize your investment in HR solutions with open innovation and partner engagement. With SAP Business Technology Platform, you and your SAP partner can leverage packaged integrations, tools, and technologies to build applications quickly, integrate with applications smoothly, and extend new applications with greater ease.
Innovation, integration, and extensibility
HR teams and executives must manage increasingly complex technology landscapes. To maximize visibility and enhance workforce management, you need applications that are agile and flexible enough to connect and extend as needed. Our SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite and SAP Business Technology Platform help you connect to and make sense of this challenging landscape. Using our cloud integration technologies along with applications offered by our extensive partner ecosystem, you can connect HR to the broader business and help ensure that your company is laser focused on innovation and agility. With SAP Business Technology Platform, you can create innovative new applications, extend SAP SuccessFactors solutions, or integrate with and across existing solutions, such as finance, travel, and procurement.
SAP Store
Discover enterprise application extensions in our SAP Store, the central marketplace for SAP and our partner offerings, including HR technology solutions, to maximize your SAP SuccessFactors investment.
Integration
Application extensions built on SAP BusinessTechnology Platform are natively integrated to improve productivity and increase connectivity within and across organizations, and differentiate your HR organization to gain competitive advantage.
Hear from SAP HR customers
Get started today with SAP HR software
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