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Integrating SAP® SuccessFactors® Solutions and SAP S/4HANA®

Putting People at the Heart of Their Intelligent Enterprise

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 Table of Contents

3 Connecting SAP SuccessFactors Solutions and SAP S/4HANA

4 Challenges of Custom Integration

5 Integration Packages from SAP – Tailored by Our Experts

6 Integration Tools from SAP: Simple, Powerful, and Innovative

7 SAP’s Integration Strategy Gives You Unmatched Flexibility

8 Putting People at the Heart of Intelligent Enterprise Transformation

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9 Integration Creates Great, Holistic User Experiences

10 Satisfied Customers

11 Quick Facts

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 Connecting SAP® SuccessFactors® Solutions and
SAP S/4HANA®
Intelligent enterprises effectively use their data
assets to achieve their desired outcomes faster
– and with less risk. SAP® SuccessFactors®
solutions and SAP S/4HANA® software are
key solutions for the Intelligent Enterprise. The
deep connection between them enables digital
transformation to become reality.
Together, SAP SuccessFactors solutions and SAP
S/4HANA provide a future-proof infrastructure that is
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ready for continued innovation. HR technology is always
at the forefront of the evolution of human capital and advancing HR transformation, and it creates deep
management. Both products are part of a broader family
of best-in-class solutions from SAP that combine to form
the intelligent suite.
For current SAP customers, prepackaged integration
content from SAP ensures that system administrators
no longer have to worry about maintenance as part of
release cycles, saving significant time and money.
Integrating SAP SuccessFactors solutions and
SAP S/4HANA is instrumental in further elevating
connections to the business.
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 Challenges of Custom Integration

Custom integration can be a breeding ground for time-
consuming and expensive problems. One of the biggest
challenges is the risk of integrating people data, due to
the sensitivity and the mission criticality for so many
business processes.
Non-SAP HR solutions require custom integration to
SAP S/4HANA that introduces significant risks. Custom
integration highly impacts cost and resource allocation,
not just for the initial effort but also for ongoing mainte-
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nance. Furthermore, there is the risk of the integration
breaking due to upgrades or patches, causing an unex-
pected disruption in your business.
Other custom integration challenges include quarterly
release cycles, middleware technology, and the required
implementation skills. Organizations must also take care
of maintenance, monitoring, data formats, upgrades,
standardization, and security when considering custom
integration options.

Prepackaged integration content from

SAP enables you to build the intelligent
suite and fully leverage the innovative
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 Integration Packages from SAP – Tailored by Our Experts
Simplified integration between SAP SuccessFactors
solutions and SAP S/4HANA is available today. It brings
immediate business value by allowing you to implement
standard processes quickly and more easily.
The integration content for integrating SAP SuccessFactors
solutions and SAP S/4HANA provides an unmatched depth
– it includes over 150 data fields and covers more than 50
business processes. The integration content is designed,
built, delivered, and maintained by SAP experts and is just
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one of a broad ecosystem of integration packages main-
tained by SAP and leading partners.
On top of that, SAP provides standard integration pack-
ages with other SAP solutions, including SAP Fieldglass
and SAP governance, risk, and compliance solutions, and
the SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication service.
These packages enable you to build the intelligent suite
and fully leverage the innovative power of SAP software.
Using this extensive repertoire of prepackaged, integrat-
ed content significantly reduces costs and risk while
extending the scope of business processes and providing
innovation.
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 Integration Tools from SAP: Simple, Powerful,
and Innovative
On top of our prepackaged integration content, organiza-
tions will always want to build additional custom integration
content, for example, to connect legacy applications or
external service providers. SAP tools help build this
content simply and effectively.
One such tool is the integration center tool, which is
an easy-to-use tool to build, maintain, and monitor inte-
gration. With the integration center tool, your business
users can easily create simple integration content
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without any coding.
“I’m really impressed with the
integration center. . . . I’ve never come
across a tool as nicely done.”
John Nutile, Director of Integrations, EBI Inc.
For more complex scenarios, SAP offers standard middle-
ware: the SAP Cloud Platform Integration service. SAP
Cloud Platform Integration is engineered for the cloud
based on modern open-technology standards. It pro-
vides multilevel security, prepackaged content, and a
community and marketplace as part of the standard
offering.
In addition, we offer a directory of APIs for custom inte-
gration efforts: SAP API Business Hub. The hub empowers
you to build interfaces using open standards.
Along with our partners, you also can use the intelligent
services tool to build event-driven integration content
for disjointed business processes that can span several
solutions.
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 SAP’s Integration Strategy Gives You Unmatched Flexibility

Maintaining and advancing your overall landscape of
business solutions can be a painful exercise. While other
vendors often offer only a “rip and replace” approach,
SAP’s strategy has always been to give our customers
flexibility in defining the optimal road map so that each
customer can achieve its specific business goals and
objectives. With integration content and tools from SAP,
you can choose from multiple implementation options
on the road to becoming an intelligent enterprise.
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For example, you might keep your current core HR sys-
tem and start by implementing SAP S/4HANA and add
some of the talent management solutions from SAP. Or
you might go for a side-by-side approach, where certain
business units or countries move to the new solutions
while others remain on their current ones and follow
later. These options are all supported by SAP, and the
corresponding integration content is available for such
hybrid scenarios.

SAP’s strategy has always been to give

our customers flexibility in defining the
optimal road map so that each customer
can achieve its specific business goals and 7 / 11
objectives.
 Putting People at the Heart of Intelligent Enterprise
Transformation
Simply put, choosing SAP SuccessFactors solutions
and SAP S/4HANA makes good business sense. Both are
best-in-class software and become even more valuable
when used together through prebuilt integration packages
from SAP.
Organizations have many critical business processes
outside of HR that depend on accurate, up-to-date people
data. From budget planning to procurement approvals,
user authorizations to service plans, the list is long and
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reaches across all business units. When that information
is inconsistent, it creates issues that ripple throughout
the business.
With SAP SuccessFactors solutions and SAP S/4HANA,
you can support digital, end-to-end business processes.
This eliminates redundant data entry and errors from
inconsistent data and accelerates execution.
Combining SAP SuccessFactors solutions and
SAP S/4HANA gives you what you need to deepen
HR’s connection with your business and accelerate
digital transformation. Integration among the processes
supported by the solutions runs smoothly, helping ensure
accurate data as a basis for intelligent decisions.
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 Integration Creates Great, Holistic User Experiences

With the integration between SAP SuccessFactors
solutions and SAP S/4HANA, you can create great user
experiences for everyone across your business. This is
possible through SAP’s holistic approach to integration
that covers three levels.
At the data level, integration ensures that essential infor-
mation, such as employee master data or cost-center
data, is synchronized in real time. At the process level,
you can execute complex business processes, such as
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Take, for example, SAP RealSpend, a solution for line
managers that runs on mobile devices. A manager can
review the current budget situation, monitor spend, or
execute complex scenarios such as headcount planning.
In the background, the relevant people data is pulled in
real time from SAP SuccessFactors solutions and the
relevant finance data is pulled from SAP S/4HANA. For
the manager, this is all brought together into one unified
user interface, making it simple to execute business
processes or make decisions.

recruiting or salary reviews, smoothly across solutions.

At the user-interface level, the SAP Fiori® user experi-
ence brings it all together in a consistent way.

SAP continues to innovate its portfolio of talent and HR modules in

SAP SuccessFactors solutions and is making significant investments in
user experience to drive more adoption and deepen value within its client base.
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Source: IDC Talent Management Suite Marketscape 2018
 Satisfied Customers

Customers that have deployed SAP SuccessFactors
solutions and SAP S/4HANA to solve unique business
problems and enable future innovation and growth
include companies such as Aasonn LLC, Alacer Gold
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Corporation, delaware International, Idorsia Pharmaceu-
ticals Ltd., Larsen and Toubro Infotech Limited (LTI), Liga
Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (LaLiga), MOD Super Fast
Pizza LLC., Moderna Inc., Productos Metalúrgicos S.A.
(Promesa), Oclaro Inc., and Ryan Specialty Group LLC.

Combining SAP SuccessFactors solutions

and SAP S/4HANA gives you what you
need to deepen HR’s connection with
your business and accelerate digital
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 Quick Facts
SUMMARY
Integrating SAP® SuccessFactors® solutions and SAP
S/4HANA® helps you connect people to your organization’s
purpose by putting the workforce at the heart of their intelligent
enterprise. By combining HR solutions and a digital core, you
enable your workforce to do more with less and create an
engaging experience.
OBJECTIVES
• Ensure a smooth transition for customers using the
SAP ERP application
• Help HR build deeper connections to the business and
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provide continuous innovation
• Lay the foundation of the Intelligent Enterprise and increase
data accuracy, employee engagement, and business agility
SOLUTION
• Uniquely deep and flexible integration packages for
SAP S/4HANA as well as other solutions from SAP and
SAP partners
• Integration center tool and SAP Cloud Platform Integration
service to adapt application integration to individual needs
• Intelligent services tool to simplify complex processes
BENEFITS
• Digital, end-to-end business processes on a future-proof
platform
• Integrated user experience across components
• Fast implementation and maintenance at low risk and low
cost
• Readiness for future growth and innovation on the road to
becoming an intelligent enterprise
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