Introducing SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics for Administrators

SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics combines all facets from Operational Reporting to Strategic Analytics and Planning in a holistic solution. This is critical to drive HR operational and business success whilst also helping to improve the manager and employee experience.

At the very center of People Analytics is the employee experience. On the one hand the HR operational success, on the other hand, the business success. People Reporting with Stories is the first part of the consistent user experience. By embedding SAP Analytics Cloud technology directly in the SAP SuccessFactors platform for People Analytics, SuccessFactors is providing this unified format of reporting called 'Story' for smooth user experience.

For example, you want to find out how many people have registered for a course, or how many people have registered for a course which they've not yet taken this month. This is running off of your live SAP SuccessFactors data.

The next step is to transform the SuccessFactors data, adding it to any other HR related data. With Workforce Analytics, this data is transformed in the way that more complex analytics can be carried out.

For example, is the trend on this particular course going up or down? What is the ratio of the money that was spent on learning to the number of courses that people take for example?

You can also analyze all data from SAP and non-SAP software as it relates to people. SuccessFactors provides a connector between Workforce Analytics and SAP Analytics Cloud Enterprise edition, where it enables SAC to consume more complex result sets and better hierarchy handling.

There reaches a point within advanced Analytics where you will 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 SuccessFactors as well as 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 need to see that sales people who have taken the sales training actually resulted in more sales revenue.

For workforce planning purposes, you fundamentally need all of the business data to generate the people supply.

The value of reporting differs from that of analytics:

• Reporting: The ROI of reporting is the decreased effort required to deliver data to consumers.

• Analytics: The ROI of analytics is the increased business value derived from using data for talent decisions.

Available with the SuccessFactors Suite, People Analytics reporting with Stories provide 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

To get deeper analysis of the data SuccessFactors has Workforce Analytics (WFA).

WFA Provides:

• Standardized HR metrics - 2,000 pre-delivered HR and talent metrics built as a powerful discovery tool for hypothesis testing – Truth or Myth?
• Data trending - Track trends through time and across different periods, such as annual, quarterly, monthly, and seasonal time models.
• Actionable analytics - Answer key questions about your workforce and spot risks and opportunities rapidly with visual, interactive HR analytics.
• Integrated data foundation - Builds on operational reporting from Employee Central with metrics and integrates data from multiple systems to create a solid data foundation.

SuccessFactors also provides a managed service to integrate, govern, refresh, and publish your data for analytics. We provide the staff resources and technologies to manage this for you.

If you want to start with a clean slate and explore data across the organization then SAP self-service options can support your goals.

• · Enterprise Analytics
• · Enterprise Planning

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 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

SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics (WFA) helps customers to gain insights into how investments in talent are impacting business outcomes, increase visibility into workforce trends, risks, and opportunities, and improve the distribution of talent management metrics to front-line managers. WFA offers insight into workforce dynamics and composition, brings focus on areas that matter, and helps a customer find answers to key questions about current workforce challenges and how to solve them. WFA can source its data from SAP core HR, SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) and Talent Solutions, or any 3rd party HR and talent management system.

SAP SuccessFactors employs a modular design that enables customers to focus on metrics most relevant to their organization. These ‘modules’ are referred to as Metrics Packs. Each metrics pack contains a related set of measures and reporting dimensions that:

• Define a standard set of metrics specific to a range of topics (Performance, Recruiting, etc.).
• Define a standard set of dimensions/hierarchies for example high/low performer to support further analysis of the metrics.
• Map metrics to the data needed to populate them.
• Includes common business logic which can be customized by clients.

The modular approach significantly reduces the time to implement multiple data sets avoiding the need to start from scratch and publishes metrics according to pre-built standards and logic. SuccessFactors extensive knowledge of workforce measurement means that each metric pack is specifically targeted to provide insights into the chosen topic.

Through working directly with organization's core data systems, SAP SuccessFactors differentiates itself from other benchmark providers by offering rich and standardized formulas and definitions.

The SAP SuccessFactors benchmarking provides wide coverage of a variety of KPIs often monitored by companies.

SAP SuccessFactors approach to benchmarking provides access to granular data cuts, with minimal time investment for organizations. The benchmark values are embedded in organization’s dashboards and are superimposed onto actual company results for quick visual comparisons.

• Create flexible and configurable reports with drag-and-drop.

• Leverage existing reports and dashboards provided by SAP SuccessFactors via the SAP Help Portal.