SAP SuccessFactors Platform: Reporting Overview
The People Intelligence package in SAP Business Data Cloud is an analytics solution that unifies HR, skills, and business data for actionable, AI-powered insights - helping organizations make better decisions and overcome the challenge of fragmented information.
SAP Business Data Cloud
SAP Business Data Cloud is a Software-as-a-Service solution equipped with data and analytics services needed in a modern world. Together with SAP Business Technology Platform providing foundational services, SAP Business Data Cloud combines strategic solutions such as SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Datasphere, and SAP Analytics Cloud and their capabilities in one single solution.
What makes SAP Business Data Cloud so powerful, is that it offers the tools and technologies to meet all data and analytics requirements of a modern and agile organization. It uses the latest technology to support scenarios such as:
- Out-of-the-box reporting.
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence.
- Advanced data modeling and data warehousing.
- Powerful planning and reporting.
- Intelligent data management.
SAP Business Data Cloud provides data warehousing features including predefined standard content for insights on business-related data, a manual data integration and data modeling approach, AI and Machine Learning based extensions of data models as well as innovative out-of-the-box reporting capabilities side-by-side. With this wide range of functions, it covers all the requirements of a modern data and analytics solution and thus serves different target audiences with different requirements.
SAP centralizes data from SAP and non-SAP sources into a unified semantic layer, unlocking a new dimension of insights, advanced analytics, and AI capabilities. By integrating cross-company data, businesses gain actionable intelligence to bridge transactional processes and drive AI-powered growth. SAP’s AI agents leverage accurate, context-rich data from both SAP and non-SAP systems to deliver advanced automation, seamless cross-solution collaboration, and innovative decision-making, enabling businesses to adapt, innovate, and thrive at scale. Every part of the business is deeply connected, driving today’s digital first world.
SAP Business Data Cloud Intelligent Applications
A key highlight of SAP Business Data Cloud is its out-of-the-box reporting capability, featuring SAP Business Data Cloud Intelligent Applications, which create business insights with a single click, empowering informed decision-making. The concept of this feature is based on predelivered artifacts and objects that may remind you at first glance on the well-known business content in SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, or SAP Analytics Cloud. But there`s a significant difference to the existing concepts. Unlike before, all artifacts, objects, and process steps for a ready-to-consume full-stack application are included and fully managed by SAP.
By deploying SAP Business Data Cloud Intelligent Applications, you can already gather many insights into your SAP data. However, what if you needed to execute some machine learning algorithms on top of that data? To save you the trouble and the cost of copying the data into another Machine Learning Platform, SAP decided to provide Databricks as a service with SAP Business Data Cloud. As it's been tailored to the specific needs of SAP, and does not include the complete Databricks architecture and capabilities, this component is called SAP Databricks.
People Intelligence
The People Intelligence package in SAP Business Data Cloud is an analytic solution that unifies HR, skills, and business data for actionable, AI-powered insights - helping organizations make better decisions and overcome the challenge of fragmented information.
People Intelligence automatically transforms HR, skills, and broader business data—such as that from SAP SuccessFactors HCM and other connected sources—into readily available insights. Its primary goal is to help organizations drive improved people and business decisions.
People Intelligence offers several core advantages:
- Enables a smarter, faster, evidence-based workforce and business decisions
- Automates delivery of actionable insights using AI and analytics
- Eliminates data silos by harmonizing data from SAP and third-party sources
- Provides self-service, business-friendly dashboards and a copilot (Joule AI) for easy access to metrics and forecasts
- Accelerates the value of HR data and supports business agility and optimization
People Intelligence HCM Insights
People Intelligence encompasses multiple insights delivered and managed by SAP, providing valuable insights into human capital management. The data is sourced from SAP SuccessFactors. Insights have been designed as low-code apps that are delivered to users as SAP Analytics Cloud stories, supported by content prepared and modeled in SAP Datasphere.
It includes:
- Workforce Composition Insight
- Gain organizational insight: understand the composition of the workforce by role, organization, location, org structure a common demographic attributes.
- Monitor employment shifts: analyze talent flow to understand movement across roles, departments, and regions.
- Workforce Skills Insights
- Evaluate core expertise: identify existing skill strengths to pinpoint critical gaps and suggest potential development strategies and opportunities.
- Strengthen future readiness: align workforce capabilities with organizational priorities to help ensure readiness for future challenges.
- Measure growth potential: compare current skills to target proficiency levels needed to achieve business goals.
- Workforce Compensation Insights
- Visualize pay equity: evaluate pay levels by visualizing the compa-ratio.
- Assess pay trends: understand the average annual salary of the workforce by role, organization, location, grade and common demographic attributes.
- Strengthen compensation strategies: optimize compensation structures to attract top talent and retain high performers.