SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) is a platform-as-a-service offering from SAP that provides a set of integrated tools and services for developing, extending, and operating SAP applications and solutions.
The Cloud ERP products within the BTP ecosystem include solutions for financial management, spend management, supply chain management, human capital management, and customer experience. SAP Fieldglass is uniquely positioned to serve as both a financial management and spend management solution. However, by leveraging the tools available in SAP BTP, organizations can extend SAP Fieldglass to streamline their external workforce management processes.
For example, let’s consider WorkingNet, a leading manufacturer of data networking equipment. It’s using SAP Fieldglass to manage their contingent workforce. They have integrated SAP Fieldglass with SAP BTP, which is used as the development platform for their internal applications. With this integration, WorkingNet can develop custom applications on SAP BTP that leverage the data from SAP Fieldglass. For instance, they can build an application that provides real-time visibility into the status of contingent workers, allowing managers to easily track their assignments, performance, and payment status.
WorkingNet can also leverage integrations with other SAP BTP solutions such as SAP SuccessFactors for human capital management and SAP Ariba for supply chain management. These integrations allow WorkingNet to have a unified view of their entire workforce and external services procurement process within the SAP BTP ecosystem. WorkingNet uses the data and insights gained from SAP Fieldglass in their broader enterprise applications and processes, leading to better decision-making and improved visibility into their external workforce and services spend.
Overall, SAP Fieldglass plays a crucial role in the SAP BTP ecosystem by providing a comprehensive solution for managing external workforce and services, and by enabling seamless integration with other SAP solutions to drive greater efficiency and effectiveness in workforce management and procurement processes.
Key Areas of Cross-functionality
Some key areas where SAP Fieldglass plays a vital function, as well as can leverage the other solutions within SAP BTP, include:
- SAP Analytics Cloud: An integration with SAP Analytics Cloud brings the ability to combine data from SAP Fieldglass with data from other SAP systems, such as SAP S/4 HANA and SAP Ariba, which can provide an complete view of a company’s procurement spend.
- SAP SuccessFactors: Layering SAP SuccessFactors into the analytics integration provides a complete view of an organization’s workforce—not just of the external workers, but of internal employees as well. By creating an interactive total workforce management dashboard in SAP Analytics Cloud, WorkingNet can visualize the distribution of its workforce on a heat map showing its global offices and reallocate workers to other areas if and when necessary.
- SAP Ariba: Combining SAP Fieldglass with SAP Ariba give companies the ability to place both goods and services orders on the same purchase order, simplifying the process of services procurement.
- SAP Master Data Integration service (MDI): SAP Master Data Integration service serves as a central integration point for master data integration, ensuring a consistent view on master data across the customer’s SAP landscape. This allows all of the solutions within the BTP ecosystem to share common data elements, such as cost centers and business units.
- Identity and Access Management (IAM): SAP provides a set of SAP Cloud Identity Services as Kernel Services at no charge for use with SAP Cloud applications. This allows for easy User and Role management across applications in the BTP ecosystem.