Describing Key SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics: Reporting 1H 2025 Features and Enhancements

Administrators can now monitor activities in Opportunity Marketplace using Stories in People Analytics.

Using the newly available table Opportunity under the product schema Opportunity Marketplace, you can visualize the following actions using stories:

Participants bookmark, participate in, and complete opportunities.

We built this feature to provide actionable insights into how employees engage with the Opportunity Marketplace.

You have enabled Stories in People Analytics.

You have the User Permissions Opportunity Marketplace View Opportunity Data in Story Reports permission.

You have the User Permissions Reports Permission Create Story Opportunity Marketplace permission.

Available Data (Schema) in Story Reports

You can now report on the foundation object workflows in Story reports.

The Foundation Object schema now includes the Workflow Step and Workflow Step Approver tables for reporting on workflow details. These tables can be accessed through the Workflow table.

This enhancement supports your reporting needs by providing details of your organization's workflow process. Workflows automate business processes and ensure data quality.

You have the Administrator → Manage Foundation Objects → Manage Organization, Pay and Job Structures permissions.

Creating a Story ReportAvailable Data (Schema) in Story Reports

You can now report on the workflow request details of custom MDF objects in Story reports. This is possible only if you set the pending data field for the specific custom MDF object to "yes" in the Configure Object Definition page.

When you set the pending data field to "yes" on the Configure Object Definition page for a custom MDF object, you can use the Generic Object Workflow Request table as a related table from that specific custom MDF object in Story reports.

Example of the configuration of the custom MDF object

Example of a query where the Generic Object Workflow Request table is joined from a custom MDF table.

This enhancement allows you to easily track who approved a request and when for already approved entries. For pending requests, you can identify who is responsible for approval, giving you greater visibility and control over your workflow processes.

Ensure the value of Pending Data in the Configure Object Definition page is set to Yes for the custom MDF object you want to report on.

Creating a Story Report

You can now report on the compensation structure details using Story reports.

This enhancement allows you to report on the compensation structure data with specific pay structures for different locations, legal entities, and for different types of workers.

Ensure you have configured the compensation structure object using Manage Data.

You have the Administrator Permissions → Manage Compensation Structure Objects → Compensation Structure. You also have permission to edit/view the Compensation Structure item.

You have the Administrator Permissions → Manage Compensation Structure Objects → Compensation Structure Pay Components permission.

You have assigned the necessary permissions from Employee Central Effective Dated Entities → Compensation Structure permission.

You can now use the new Compensation Structure table as a related-table from the Compensation Information table. You can use these tables from the Foundation Objects schema in Story reports.

Creating a Story ReportConfiguring the Compensation Structure Object

You can now report on person-related data in your Story reports without needing to enable the biographical information permission from role-based permissions.

This enhancement helps administrators to get the person-related details of employees in the organization without compromising the sensitive biographical information of the employees. For further information you can refer to the Customer Community Blog.

In the current version, you can report on the person-related data even if the role-based permission for Biographical Information isn't granted. The person-related data include business email information, dependencies, emergency contacts, home addresses, national ID information, personal information, phone numbers, and social accounts.

In the previous version, to report on person-related data using story reports, it was mandatory to enable the permission for Biographical Information. This was necessary because access to other person-related tables was only possible through the Biographical Information related-table from the Personal Information table. Since Biographical Information doesn't have field-level permissions, granting this permission gave access to sensitive information like Date of Birth, Marital Status, and other details.

Creating a Story Report

We've added a new column in the Workflow Request Step table in Story reports to help you report on the specific approver assigned to a workflow request, even when multiple approvers are involved.

When a group of approvers handle the same workflow requests, you can select Assign to Me to indicate you're working on it. Other approvers can see that it's assigned to you on the Workflow Details page, but they can still process the workflow if needed.

In Story reports, you can use the Assigned To column from the Workflow Request Step table to report the details when a group of approvers handle the same workflow requests.

This enhancement ensures transparency and accountability in group approval processes. This feature is useful for tracking who is responsible for handling specific requests, ensuring efficient workflow management.

You have the Administrator → Manage Workflows → Manage Workflow Assignments permissions.

Creating a Story Report

The Story reports now display the job requisition skills and their priority.

You can create a report of the skills you've added to a requisition in Job Requisition Details → Manage Skills. A query on the Job Requisition Skills entity displays the skills, the skill extraction status, and whether or not the skills are validated. Additionally, the Skill Priority column is now part of the story reports to display whether the job requisition skills are Primary or Secondary.

With this enhancement, you can report on Job Requisition skills data and utilize it for review and compliance.

• Enable AI Services Administration → Feature Settings → Recruiting → Assisted Applicant Screening.
• Enable AI Services Administration → Feature Settings → Recruiting → Assisted Job Skills for Career Site Builder.
• Enable AI Services Administration → Feature Settings → Recruiting → Assisted Candidate Skills Recommendations.
• (Optional) Enable Admin Center → AI Services Administration → Feature Settings → Recruiting → Allow Applicants to Manually Add Skills.
• Enable Stories in People Analytics and Recruiting.
• Candidate skills are available when Mobile Apply is enabled from Admin Center → Recruiting → Manage Recruiting Sites.

Enable the Create Story permission in Administrator → Reports Permission.

In the current version, the Job Requisition Skills entity is available to generate story reports that include the Skill, Skill Extraction Status, Skill Validated, and Skill Priority columns.

In the previous version, the Job Requisition Skills entity was not available in Story reports.

Available Data (Schema) in Story Reports

This deprecation announcement has been withdrawn. It was earlier planned that Pixel Perfect Talent Card (PPTC) will reach End of Maintenance on November 15, 2025 and will be Deleted on November 15, 2025.

Future dates are subject to change.

Pixel Perfect Talent Card (PPTC) is not supported in the latest People Profile. You can use the existing PPTC functionality along with the legacy People Profile only.

Visit the SAP SuccessFactors Customer Community Blogfor more information.

Classic reports is Deleted on November 15, 2024.

Future dates are subject to change.

For more information, refer to the SAP SuccessFactors Customer Community Blog.

This deprecation announcement has been withdrawn. Earlier it was planned that the Tiles and Dashboard reports will reach End of Development on November 17, 2023 and will be Deleted on November 21, 2025. However, this plan is now on hold.

Future dates are subject to change.

As the logical next step for achieving our vision of making Stories in People Analytics the go-to solution for all your reporting needs, we had planned to deprecate the legacy reporting tool, Tiles and Dashboard reports. However, due to customer feedback and business needs, this deprecation has been put on hold.

For more information, refer to the SAP SuccessFactorsCustomer Community Blog.

Canvas reports for transactional reporting (Detailed reporting and Advanced reporting) will reach End of Development on November 17, 2023 and will be Deleted on November 21, 2025. This deprecation announcement has been withdrawn.

Future dates are subject to change.

As the logical next step for achieving our vision of making Stories in People Analytics the go-to solution for all your reporting needs, we are deprecating Canvas reports for transactional reporting (Detailed reporting and Advanced reporting).

For more information, refer to the SAP SuccessFactors Customer Community Blog.

For tips and assistance on planning the transition, refer to the community blog, Usage Statistics of Table and Canvas Reports to Plan Transition to Stories.

Table reports will reach End of Development on November 17, 2023 and will be Deleted on November 21, 2025. This deprecation announcement has been withdrawn.

Future dates are subject to change.

As the logical next step for achieving our vision of making Stories in People Analytics the go-to solution for all your reporting needs, we are deprecating the legacy reporting tool, Table reports.

FFor more information, refer to the SAP SuccessFactorsCustomer Community Blog.

For tips and assistance on planning the transition, refer to the community blog, Usage Statistics of Table and Canvas Reports to Plan Transition to Stories.

SAP SuccessFactors made numerous minor visual enhancements in 1H 2025. The following enhancements are of particular note, although many less-visible enhancements have been made.

The entries in the table are of four visual change types:

• Text changes (labels, error messages, roll-over text)
• Iconography (new or changed icons)
• Interaction pattern (new position of interaction, new order of list, new or changed buttons)
• Styling (design treatment, changes to themes, adopting an SAP style)

Each entry may contain one or more change types. Please note that the list is not exhaustive.

We want to provide customers a detailed list of visual changes in each release.

Use the Product, Module, Change Type, and Valid as Of filters to get the list of changes you're interested in. Use the text search in Before and After columns to further narrow down the result. To expand an image, click the magnifying glass .

Review the Technical Details table here.

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Currency Exchange Rate is now reportable in Story reports. You can use this table for currency conversion and analyze financial data by converting multiple local currencies into a single currency.

You can use the Currency Exchange Rate table from the Foundation Object schema in your Story reports.

You can configure the Currency Exchange Rate object using the Manage Data tool. You can configure the source and target currencies for each entity, along with the currency exchange rates. You can maintain conversion rates in both directions, though it's not mandatory. Making the currency exchange rate table reportable wasn't enough for efficient currency conversion. Some data gets calculated automatically without any separate configuration.

To be able to reflect this data, a new column, TYPE, is introduced. This column provides the following data:

Standard: The value when source and target currencies are already defined in the currency exchange rate object.

Example: If you've configured the currency exchange rate object with USD (US Dollars) as the source currency and EUR (Euros) as the target currency, the value in the column of your story report shows as Standard.

Reverse: The value when reverse of the currencies aren't configured but get automatically converted to the required target currency.

Example: If you've configured the currency exchange rate object with USD (US Dollars) as the source currency and EUR (Euros) as the target currency, but haven't configured it with EUR as the source currency and USD as the target currency, the system automatically reverses the currency conversion. In your story report, the value in the column appears as Reverse.

Auto: The value when the source currency is equal to the target currency.

For more information on recommended approaches for using the currency exchange rate table in your story reports, refer to the Customer Community Blog.

This enhancement tackles complex conversion scenarios by eliminating manual intervention and delivers dependable real-time insights. It also enhances decision-making with accurate global compensation comparisons, ensuring great value and consequential impact in the organization. This enhancement is from a Customer Influence Idea.

• Ensure you've configured the Currency Exchange Rate MDF object from Configure Object Definitions.
• Ensure you've configured the mandatory entities of the currency mapping in the Currency Exchange Rate object needed for your reporting from the Manage Data tool.

You have the Administrator → MDF Foundation Objects → Currency Exchange Rate permission.

Setting Up the Currency Exchange Rate

We've added a new permission in the Manage Workflows section that enables you to report on workflow process details using Story reports.

Before this change, you needed the Manage Workflow Requests permission to view workflow process data in Story reports. All existing Story reports with workflow process data relied on that permission. Starting with the SAP SuccessFactors 1H 2025 release, reporting on workflow process data requires the new Report Workflow Process Details permission. To prevent disruptions to existing Story reports with workflow process data, this new permission is automatically granted to you.

If you're reporting on workflow process details for the first time and haven't had the Manage Workflow Requests permission granted before, you must enable the Administrator > Manage Workflows > Report Workflow Process Details permission to create a new Story report. To view workflow process data for new Story reports, ensure you've enabled this permission.

The new permission removes the constraints of the previous permission that you needed to view workflow process details in Story reports. This enhancement comes from a Customer Influence Idea. For further information, refer to the Customer Community Blog.

List of Role-Based Permissions

You can now access the Story Performance Analysis Tool from Report Center. This tool lets Story administrators evaluate the efficiency of a Story report. It helps identify areas for improvement and optimize report performance.

The Story Performance Analysis Tool assists users in capturing performance readings of a Story report. This dashboard provides detailed information and a breakdown of these readings. It also identifies processing times for three major areas: Network, Frontend, and Backend.

The Story Performance Analysis Tool helps to analyze performance numbers for a Story report. With this tool, you can take targeted actions to enhance report performance and improve user experience.

You have the Administrator → Manage Dashboards/Reports → Story Admin

Story Performance Analysis Tool

You can now view the employee's performance management forms (in print preview format) directly from the Story report. You can configure a new deep link in your Story reports to view the performance management form data.

You can configure to use the new deep link: /sf/printPreviewPMForm?fDataId=[Document ID] as a hyperlink in your Story.

This deep link automatically appends the document ID section. It lets you view employees' performance management forms directly from the report in print preview mode. Once the hyperlink is configured, and you've selected the option to show hyperlinks in Table, each document ID record shall be appended to make unique deep links.

This enhancement lets you preview forms to see all the details, including ratings, comments, and more. This feature is useful for efficiently reviewing performance data without navigating away from the report interface. This enhancement is from a Customer Influence Idea.

Ensure you add the following deep link as the hyperlink to the document ID for viewing the Performance Management Form data:

/sf/printPreviewPMForm?fDataId=[Document ID]

You have the User → Performance → Data Access: Story permission.

List of SAP SuccessFactors Deep Links