At the very center of the diagram above is the employee experience. On the one hand, the HR operational success, and on the other hand, the business success. Stories are the first part of our consistent user experience. By embedding SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) technology directly in the SAP SuccessFactors platform for People Analytics, we are providing this unified format of reporting called Story for a smooth user experience.
For example, you may want to find out how many people have registered for a course or how many have registered for a course they have not yet taken this month. This information is running off of your live SAP SuccessFactors data.
We then extend that and transform the SAP SuccessFactors data, adding any other HR-related data. Workforce Analytics transforms this data for more complex analytics.
For example, is the trend on a particular course going up or down? For another example, what is the ratio of the money we spend on learning relative to the number of courses people take?
We can analyze all data related to people from SAP and non-SAP software. We have a connector between Workforce Analytics and SAP Analytics Cloud Enterprise edition, which enables SAC to consume more complex result sets and better hierarchy handling.
There reaches a point within Advanced Analytics where you need to start combining the people data with the business outside of HR. We offer customer-managed analytics, where customers can do advanced analytics and planning across SAP SuccessFactors and other business sources, including other SAP solutions and non-SAP 3rd party data sources beyond People Data.
For example, to prove the business impact of a training intervention, you may want to see that salespeople who have taken the sales training resulted in more sales revenue.
For workforce planning purposes, you need all the business data to generate the people supply.
People Analytics Supporting the Business Strategy
SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics supports Human Capital Management to drive business success and strategy in an intelligent enterprise.
Let's take a closer look at the characteristics of the solutions:
SAP SuccessFactors Reporting with Stories
Components:
- Report Center for Report Management
- Reporting Types: Story, Canvas, Table
- Report Distribution Tools
Features:
- Live, transactional reporting only on SAP SuccessFactors data
- Stories has an SAP Analytics Cloud UI
- Included in SAP SuccessFactors product license
- Ideal for customers who want real-time reporting on SAP SuccessFactors data
SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics
Components:
- Managed service for data Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL)
- Library of pre-built metrics
- Delivered within SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite
Features:
- Can include data from outside SAP SuccessFactors (e.g., SAP ERP HCM) & non-HR data (for HR analytics only)
- Requires purchase of a license
- Ideal for customers who want SAP SuccessFactors to manage their data and view metrics inside SAP SuccessFactors platform
SAP Analytics Cloud
Components:
- Cross-LoB business intelligence
- Dashboards & visualizations
- Augmented analytics (AI, etc.)
Features:
- Powerful set of tools for business analytics, including HR
- Includes starter templates for HR metrics and extensive partner content
- Requires purchase of a license
- Ideal for customers who want flexibility to manage their own HR data, metrics, & dashboards
SAP Analytics Cloud for planning
Components:
- Headcount Cost Planning
- Supply & Demand Forecasting
- Other Planning Capabilities
Features:
- Enterprise planning with an HR component
- Includes starter templates for workforce planning activities
- Requires purchase of Professional or Standard licenses
- Ideal for all customers who want to build workforce plans