Introducing SAP HR Analytic Solutions

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After completing this lesson, you will be able to explain SAP HR Analytic Solutions

SAP SuccessFactors HR Analytics Overview

Introduction

SAP provides comprehensive solution for all reporting and analytics.

SAP SuccessFactors provides a tiered approach to reporting and analytics, ranging from real-time operational reporting to strategic workforce planning. This ensures that organizations can move from basic data collection to actionable intelligence and long-term strategic alignment.

Operational Reporting with Stories

Operational reporting is primarily delivered through Story Reports. This is the standard reporting tool for SAP SuccessFactors, designed to provide real-time insights into transactional data. Stories are visually oriented, allowing administrators to create dynamic dashboards that incorporate everything from key statistics and images to various charts and graphs.

Because Stories are cross-topical, you can report on data across any SAP SuccessFactors module in a single view. More importantly, these reports reflect live transactional data, ensuring that decisions are based on the most current information available. Stories are included as part of the standard SAP SuccessFactors license.

Analytics with People Intelligence and AI with Joule

The second tier of the analytics portfolio focuses on People Intelligence. This powerful offering helps organizations identify deep patterns and gain the insights necessary for complex decision-making. Unlike standard reporting, this solution provides prebuilt insights with automatically connected data sources.

These capabilities extend beyond traditional HR data, allowing users to access intelligence across various lines of business (LoB). This tier also integrates Joule, SAP’s AI-powered copilot, which enables users to access analytics and insights through a natural language chat interface. Please note that these advanced analytics and AI features require an additional license.

Workforce Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud

For strategic alignment, SAP offers workforce planning through SAP Analytics Cloud for planning. This solution helps organizations align their human capital with overall business objectives and financial goals. It supports critical activities such as:

Headcount and Cost Planning: Analyzing the financial impact of personnel changes.
Supply and Demand Forecasting: Identifying future talent gaps and surplus.

To accelerate implementation, this offering includes starter templates for both operational and strategic workforce planning. SAP Analytics Cloud for planning is a premium offering and involves a separate purchase or license.

Summary

Story

People Intelligence

SAP Analytics Cloud with planning

Cross-topical, visually oriented reports on data from SAP SuccessFactors solutions

Live, transactional data

Reporting on data available in SAP SuccessFactors

Included in the license for SAP SuccessFactors

Prebuilt insights with data automatically connected

Intelligence across lines of business

AI and Joule

Powerful analytics tools, advanced AI and machine learning, data science, and data engineering

Purchase of a license required

Headcount cost planning

Supply and demand forecast

Enterprise planning with an HR component, with starter templates for operational and strategic workforce planning included

Purchase of a license required

Strategic Business Outcomes by Solution

Each solution is designed to answer specific questions based on the depth of data analysis required, from current facts to future predictions.

Stories in People Analytics (Operational Reporting)

Focus: "What is happening right now?"

How many engineers do we currently employ and who are they? (Headcount & Profiles)
How many engineers have been promoted during the current quarter? (Transactional activity)
Where are our new engineering hires coming from? (Recruitment sourcing)

People Intelligence (Analytic Insights)

Focus: "Why is this happening and what are the trends?"

What are the promotion trends for engineers, and do they differ for High Potentials? (Trend analysis & Segmenting)
Is there a correlation between engineer promotion rates and voluntary termination? (Cross-topical correlation)
How are our key talent metrics projected to look in the next six months? (Predictive insights)

SAP Analytics Cloud (Workforce Planning)

Focus: "What should we do next and what will it cost?"

What is our projected gap between the supply and demand of engineers for the next 3 years? (Gap analysis)
What are the total financial costs associated with filling our engineering talent gaps? (Cost planning)
Which locations offer the most cost-effective balance for hiring versus retaining engineers? (Strategic decision-making)

Operational Reporting with Stories

Stories help make informative decisions.

Available within the SuccessFactors Suite, Story reporting provides the following to help you make better decisions:

Stories have the following advantages:

Everything organized and accessible from one place to create and deploy all reporting needs
Intuitive, guided experience to create and share content; role-based sharing and simple scheduling
Based on live transactional data for all customers
Drill-to-detail and take action
Flexible ad hoc reporting
Standard reporting accelerated with report templates
Filter and aggregate live data
Easy formatting of data and distribution
Create and configurable dashboards with drag-and-drop

SAP Business Data Cloud

SAP Business Data Cloud (SAP BDC) is a fully managed Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that unifies and governs data from SAP and non-SAP applications to power advanced analytics and AI. SAP BDC includes many new innovations that are required to power a data platform that is able to handle the demands of AI now and in the future.

SAP BDC was developed to meet the challenges faced by organizations who want to build a modern data fabric to support current and future AI powered applications, but are held back by their current data platforms.

shows layers of the SAP BusinessData Clould

SAP BDC provides the data layer that bridges the applications and AI. SAP BDC provides a data platform to manage all SAP and non-SAP data and is used to build advanced analytical applications and AI.

SAP BDC is not a single software product. SAP BDC is a platform that includes multiple software components that work together to provide all the services required of an AI-ready data platform. Customers choose which of the listed SAP BDC components they want to use depending on their use case. They can start with a simple SAP BDC landscape and grow this as their requirements evolve.

SAP Business Data Cloud Intelligent Applications

The figure shows the SAP's Business Data Cloud strategy for enterprise data, featuring Business AI, Data Fabric, SAP and non-SAP apps, and integration options.

Intelligent applications are AI-powered, data-rich dashboards that provide insights on real-time data and make recommendations to the business user. They are delivered and fully managed by SAP and are ready to use out-of-the-box with a simple, automated installation.

Intelligent applications are built using SAP Analytics Cloud stories that consume data models from SAP Datasphere. The data models of SAP Datasphere connect to the data products of SAP BDC.

A key feature of an intelligent application is the built-in AI co-pilot known as Just Ask. Just Ask supports the business user who asks questions using natural language. For example, a business user asks the question: "List the regions that showed the best growth for e-scooter sales since last year". The AI co-pilot quickly returns results and provides additional insights, illustrated with graphics and text.

Intelligent Packages

Intelligent applications are delivered by SAP in Intelligent Packages.

Here are some examples of Intelligent Packages:

Cloud ERP Intelligence
People Intelligence
Supply Chain Intelligence
Spend Intelligence
Travel and Expense Intelligence
Retail Intelligence
Consumer Products Intelligence
Revenue Intelligence

The Working Capital Insights intelligent application is included with the Cloud ERP Intelligence Intelligent Package.

Intelligent Packages are the commercial wrappers for intelligent applications. Customers subscribe to individual Intelligent Packages so that they are entitled to install the individual intelligent applications of those Intelligent Packages.

People Intelligence Package

People intelligence intelligent applications and the insights they provide.

The People Intelligence package in SAP Business Data Cloud is a people 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.

The People Intelligence package offers the following intelligent applications:

Workforce Composition Insights: Provides you visibility into workforce trends, it empowers HR leaders to strengthen employee satisfaction, boost retention, and build trust.
Compensation Insights: Helps you analyze compensation data to uncover pay disparities and provide actionable recommendation for adjustment.
Skills Insights: Helps increase organization-wide transparency into skill proficiency.
Learning Insights: Provides actionable insights into employee training, development, and skills acquisition across the organization.
Goals Insights: Provides powerful insights into goal-setting and progress within the organization by various segments.
Performance Insights: Empowers organizations to maximize workforce performance, ensure equity, and align talent with business strategy—ultimately driving better business outcomes.
Succession Insights: Empowers HR, talent management, and executives with actionable insights to build strong succession pipelines, enhance leadership readiness, and ensure long-term organizational success.
Career Development and Planning Insights: Offers actionable insights into workforce development progress and areas of focus to support organizational growth and talent strategy.
Recruiting Insights: Empowers HR and leadership teams to optimize hiring processes, improve resource allocation, accelerate time-to-hire, measure effectiveness, and ultimately support business growth through smarter talent acquisition strategies.
HCM Time Management Insights: Enables HR and management to monitor, analyze, and address patterns in employee absences by providing a detailed analysis of employee absences within an organization.
Onboarding Insights: Provides a comprehensive view of the organization's onboarding process that enables HR teams to monitor, improve, and ensure a smooth and efficient onboarding experience.

For more information on People Intelligence, see the Help Documentation for People Intelligence.

Enterprise Analytics with SAP Analytics Cloud

By utilizing Enterprise Analytics, you can investigate data throughout the entire organization and provide valuable insights when making important decisions.

Enterprise Analytics enables you to explore data across the organization and deliver insights at the point of decision. While no content is pre-delivered content, with this solution you can:

Gain insights and take action in context of business processes
Analyze, predict, plan, and execute within your business process for instant insight to action
Increase engagement, and accountability with built in collaboration capabilities

Design multi-page reports with sections, dynamic fields, tables and charts; schedule publications to SAP Analytics Cloud and non-SAC recipients.

Enterprise Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud for planning

With Enterprise Planning, you can effectively implement your business strategy by ensuring that the appropriate individuals with the necessary skills are available at the optimal time and cost.

Enterprise Planning enables you to execute your business strategy with the right people, with the right skills, at the right time and cost. While no content is pre-delivered content, with this solution you can:

Act in the moment by planning, analyzing, and simulating your data directly within your enterprise solution
Continuously collaborate with your team on plans within context for increased accountability
Discover predictive planning by uncovering top performance influencers with predictive forecasting and machine learning tools

Summary

SAP offers a tiered reporting approach ranging from real-time stories to strategic workforce planning and AI-powered people intelligence.
Story reports provide live, cross-topical transactional data across all modules and are included in the standard license.
People Intelligence uses AI and the Joule copilot to uncover deep patterns and trends across different business lines.
SAP Analytics Cloud supports strategic workforce planning, including headcount cost planning and supply and demand forecasting.
The SAP Business Data Cloud unifies SAP and non-SAP data to power advanced analytical applications and AI models.

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