Industry analyst and legend Pete Tiliakos returns to the podcast to talk about the new payroll profession confidence survey he is doing with his company 3SixtyInsights. Hear Pete talk about how this survey is different from other ones in the marketplace including how there is no plan to make money from it. Understand what kind of profiles he is looking for to fill it out (Anyone around payroll), How long it will be open until (Spoiler it will be open until late March 2024), when and where the results will be unveiled, along with the long term vision behind this research.

• Fill out the survey here (https://zohsy.com/Ok2w)

Rebecca Murray and Brandon Toombs join the podcast to talk about the recent news of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) crossing 6K customers as a follow up to the podcast Imran and Becky did when EC crossed 4K customers.

Topics include:

• The history of Employee Central & Employee Central Payroll
• The evolution of Employee Central over the years
• Thoughts on doing HR transactions outside of the system (Ex: MS Teams) in the flow of work
• Growing difference between Employee Central and SAP ERP HCM
• AI adoption across HR and employees
• Future predictions

Relevant Content

Subscribe to Brandon’s YouTube Channel Employee Central Intelligence which is in fact the universe’s leading source of EC videos.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Grows to 6,000 Customers

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll Natively Supports 50 Locales

Imran Sajid and Steve Hunt discuss how Core HR platforms enable and constrain the ability of companies to rethink work and create more agile and adaptable companies. Steve talks about the impact of job design on recruitment, and the effect Core HR systems can have on how people work, how they are paid, when they work, and where they work. We share real life examples that show how customers have used Core HR platforms to create better employee experiences.  And explore where more innovation is needed in Core HR platform if large companies are to become true skills-based organizations.

• The Skills Management Revolution: one-year, two-year, and three-year predictions
• No one is good at everything: why the evolution of HR Technology depends on partnership ecosystems
• Why the Intelligent Enterprise is the “Holy Grail” of Human Resource technology

Imran Sajid and Sid Bhattacharya discuss the rise of Artificial Intelligence and what it means for HR Tech and SAP SuccessFactors. Hear Sid’s opinion on if AI will take over jobs, what mass adoption of this technology means, what he hears from customers and partners around this technology, how SAP Business AI is critical for the enterprise, and how someone can learn more and get started on their AI journey with SAP.

Reference material:

• SAP.com – Artificial Intelligence
• SAP Community: AI Topic
• SAP Blogs: AI Foundation for developers
• SAP Blog: Generative AI Hub Out Now
• Roadmap - Generative AI
• How SAP’s Generative AI Architecture Redefines Business Applications
• Open SAP - Gen AI Course
• SAP SuccessFactors: Joule
• SAP News: SAP Advances Vision of Business AI with Investments
• Australian School Returns to Pen and Paper
• Generative AI Voice Likeness
• References to Hallucinations in LLMs
• Top 10 Takeaways
• Open AI Prompt Engineering working with LLM

With SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) crossing over 6,000 customers globally, join Imran Sajid and Nick MacIlvaine⁠ as they discuss how customers have deployed EC using a phased approach. Some customers don't want to engage in a big-bang, rip and replace global project. Instead, EC customers sometimes choose to start smaller, by focusing on particular countries or business units. Hear us talk about real customer projects where they start small and focus on solving the most urgent challenges. Nick has over 25 years of experience currently serving as the Global VP Core HR & Onboarding CoE. In this role he has a focus on go-to-market strategy, field sales enablement and supporting sales cycles. He's been with SAP SuccessFactors for over 16 years in a variety of capacities with prior industry experience with Peoplesoft and Oracle. Nick has experience as an instructor teaching people how to implement HR software who has trained over a thousand project team members across industries with a specialization in working with large, global organizations.

Blog referenced:

• https://news.sap.com/2023/12/sap-successfactors-employee-central-6000-customers/

Imran Sajid and Duncan Scott discuss all the ways SAP is helping existing SAP on-premise customers move to the cloud with SAP SuccessFactors. Topics include:

• Helping make a business case.
• Helping analyze your existing system.
• Helping customers follow best practice guidelines.
• Helping customers speed up implementations.

Relevant Links

1. SAP Infoporter-The Secret Weapon For Employee Central Migration by Brandon Toombs
2. An Economic Validation of Moving from SAP ERP HCM to SAP SuccessFactors Solution
3. Move to the Cloud Website

Imran Sajid, Danielle Larocca, and AJ Whalen⁠ discuss the latest from SuccessConnect 2023 held in Las Vegas in October 2023. Details include:

• Major announcements including AI/Joule
• Keynote specifics
• Session breakout stories and innovations (Analytics, Payroll and more)
• Takeaways from customers/partner/Confidant interactions
• Customer extensibility examples
• What we enjoyed most

Relevant Links

1. 3 top takeaways from 2023 SAP SuccessFactors SuccessConnect by Danielle Larocca
2. Video Overview: SAP SuccessFactors SuccessConnect 2023 Wrap-Up by Brandon Toombs
3. SuccessConnect 2023 – Expectations met and exceeded by Chris Paine
4. My SuccessConnect 2023: The best one yet! by Imran Sajid
5. Experience. Matters. Connecting with Career Success by Sherryanne Meyer

Imran Sajid and Frans Smolders provide an inside look into Time Management within SAP SuccessFactors. With substantial investments over the past few years, the product has matured rapidly and experienced significant customer growth on a global scale (Millions of users deployed in over 150 countries including multiple customers over 100K employees). It has become a viable option for SAP ERP Time Management customers. Tune in to discover the latest strategies and investment areas, including innovations like geofencing. Gain insight into critical future, such as the plan to solve cross-application time. Learn about the future of Time Management from the experts themselves. Imran Sajid⁠ is a Senior Director at ⁠SAP SuccessFactors⁠, where he focuses on Core HR and Payroll. He has extensive experience in implementing and supporting both on-premise and cloud deployments for a dozens of customers. In addition to his work, Imran is a well-known speaker at conferences around the world, founder of a popular podcast that has reached listeners in over 80 countries, a published author of three books, recognized SAP Expert at SAP Insider, a volunteer for the Americas' SAP Users' Group, and has created his own globally taught course on SAP.

Twitter Handle: ⁠@ImranSajidATL

Frans Smolders leads product strategy for SAP SuccessFactors, with a focus on Time Management solutions. He has been at SAP for 15 years where he began as an SAP HR consultant and has since worked in various roles across marketing, sales, and product management. Throughout his career, Frans has maintained a strong interest and expertise in the Core HR & payroll domain.

Twitter Handle: @FransSmolders

Relevant Articles & Blogs

https://blogs.sap.com/2021/12/21/how-does-sap-successfactors-time-management-compare-to-sap-hcm-time-management

https://www.sap-press.com/introducing-time-management-with-sap-successfactors_5720/

https://sapinsider.org/expert-insights/looking-at-the-growth-of-sap-successfactors-time-management/

https://training.sap.com/course/thr94-sap-successfactors-time-management-academy-classroom-064-g-en/