The SAP SuccessFactors implementation, internally known as ‘Infogram’, is expected to help the organisation to close the gap between strategy and execution, harmonise business processes, and create a performance-driven environment.

“Infogram is a transformational initiative for YASH that will enable us to attract, develop, and retain talent while accelerating innovation and enhancing employee experience,” said Dharmendra Jain, CFO and head – HR, YASH Technologies.

“Our strong employee engagement practices have been the driving force in being recognised as one of the best employers by Great Place to Work Institute,” he added.

Jain also said that the implementation will empower the company’s workforce to deliver better outcomes for its customers.

“To enhance success in this digital economy, it is now necessary to innovate HR, drive digital transformation, and deliver an engaging experience for employees across the organisation,” said Moushumee Basu Roy, head of SAP SuccessFactors sales, SAP India.

Implemented in two phases, Infogram includes Recruiting – Onboarding, Employee Central, Compensation, Succession Planning, Performance – Goals, Learning Management, and Workforce Analytics – Reporting.

YASH is currently implementing an organisation-wide collaboration platform leveraging SAP’s cloud-based social media platform, SAP Jam, as the next step in its HR digitisation journey.

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Chimelong Group Co., a leading Chinese tourism brand which owns and operates theme parks and leisure entertainment businesses, will use SAP S/4HANA as its foundation platform, and will use SuccessFactors and Hybris solutions to build a modern HR, sales and marketing operation, as well as a digital boardroom solution to provide executives with real-time information across the operation.

KENGEE, a bakery and food brand undergoing rapid regional expansion, will bring together solutions from SucessFactors, Hybris Commerce and Marketing, and SAP Ariba solutions, as well as S/4HANA. The aim is to create an end-to-end HR system, omnichannel marketing platform, centralise group procurement and integrate its financial and operational departments.

In the retail space, MINISO Co. Ltd is a Japanese designer brand with headquarters in China and more than 2400 stores in over 60 countries. The company has also chosen S/4HANA as its core platform, with SuccessFactors solutions to help optimise performance management and enable HR self-service capabilities. MINISO will also implement the SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer to provide customer-specific personalised design, support sales revenue growth and assist in gaining market share. The company plans to establish a new retail model supported by the combined systems.

“It’s exciting to see continued momentum around the globe with companies who recognise the power of SAP for the way we can uniquely address their business transformation needs across all systems,” said SAP SuccessFactors president Greg Tomb.

SAP SuccessFactors now has more than 6400 customers globally.

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Neeyamo’s Unbox HR package is categorised into four parts – Align, Hire and Align, Enable and Align, and Business Transformation – designed to be deployed rapidly to maximise results for the particular stage of the customer’s transformation journey.

Guhan Ramanan, SVP, business transformation, Neeyamo, said, “Neeyamo has had some record-setting deployments in the past and has helped multiple customers realise their highest potential with SAP SuccessFactors.

“The ‘Unbox HR’ packages is a testimonial to Neeyamo’s ability as a proficient partner that helps deliver agility and innovation. One of the core differentiators of our methodology is that it goes beyond go-live and hopes increase user adoption and enhance user-experience with ‘Userflows’, a customised interactive guide for SAP SuccessFactors users.”

Roger Kock, senior director, SAP, said, “The Unbox HR Packages from Neeyamo, combined with their strong delivery capacity, provide customers with everything they need to do a fast, reliable and very comprehensive deployment of the SuccessFactors solution.”

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Designed to overcome obstacles companies face in embracing cloud solutions, the tool integrates data from disparate systems to make it available for use by other SAP enterprise applications, such as S/4HANA. Once implemented, customers will be able to provide their staff with access to new consumer-friendly tools such as the recently redesigned mobile HCM app for iOS devices, to gain mobile access to organisational charts and employee profiles.

“With many organisations in the midst of digital transformation, the most dynamic ones have realised that putting people first guarantees the best result,” said SAP SuccessFactors president Greg Tomb.

“Access to rich data is pivotal to any people-first strategy. But many organisations are having trouble effectively centralising information stored in a range of legacy systems. SAP recognises the role seamless connectivity plays in enabling an intelligent enterprise, and we’re thrilled to launch SAP SuccessFactors People Central Hub to help customers turn purpose into performance by unlocking their people and organisational data.”

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The announcement was made at this week’s SuccessConnect event in Las Vegas.

SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Planning is a cloud-based solution to enable ongoing operational headcount planning throughout the year, in response to changing business conditions and shifting organisational needs, while SAP RealSpend, part of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud for finance portfolio, provides live access to budget and spending information.

Together, the two solutions will interoperate to provide increase accuracy of headcount forecasts through access to real-time detailed financial data included ‘hidden expenses’ such as workspace costs and travel; improved cost controls through being able to respond to actual spending data; and have data from both HR and finance shared in the same source, for closer alignment.

The connection will be generally available with the SAP SuccessFactors Q3 2017 solution release.

“Today’s dynamic organisations have access to new levels of data and operating insights, yet cannot achieve their goals for digital innovation without empowering their workforces at the core of their strategies,” said SAP SuccessFactors president Greg Tomb.

“SAP recognises that seamless connectivity between enterprise systems and applications is fundamental to digital transformation. We are committed to making sure that our customers’ digital and workforce planning strategies are more intelligent, automated and insightful than ever before.”

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The new features will enable enhanced mentoring and coaching with the SAP SuccessFactors Succession and Development solution. Mentors and mentees will more easily share knowledge across various coaching programs, and they can create private mentoring groups.

Also introduced is self-service information for HR help desk, to assist in streamlining operations and reducing help desk resolution time, with an optional integration for the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central solution. Visibility into the SAP Jam knowledge base from directly within the ‘Ask HR’ application, which allows employees to access the same information available to service desk agents.

“In today’s competitive business environment, human resources professionals need modern tools to streamline administrative and employee support processes so they can focus on developing and supporting talent,” said Daisy Hernandez, SAP global vice president, product management, enterprise collaboration.

“SAP is committed to blending online mentoring experiences with valuable real-life connections, helping to make important employee development programs like mentoring and coaching the best they can be.”

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The platform will provide customers with the ability to engage with their learners on a daily basis, using gamification and feedback to drive high levels of engagement.

“We see great importance in becoming an SAP partner,” said Gal Rimon, founder and CEO, GamEffective. “Many learning and development organisations understand that the future of learning is evolving from course completion to continuous learning, with on-demand knowledge available to learners as they need it.

“Leaders in learning and development see great importance in driving learning and measuring knowledge growth, through a model of daily engagement with micro learning. They also would like to direct learning to learners, based on what learners actually do and on their real-time on-the-job performance.

“Gamification platforms enable just that, and content can be created for them. But they also need to connect to the organisation’s underlying learning management system, or LMS, to ‘feed’ its content to users, and to both push and pull information into the LMS. The gamification platform serves as a ‘system of engagement’ on top of the LMS, which serves as a ‘system of record’.”

The platform can tap into real-time performance metrics, assessing who needs learning reinforcement, spaced learning or repetition and when, and can then offer this learning automatically.

GamEffective for SAP SuccessFactors Learning is now available on the SAP App Center.

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Among the key sessions are:

Opening keynote: SAP executive board member Robert Enslin and SAP SuccessFactors president Greg Tomb
Wednesday 30 August, 8:30am (PDT)
Robert Enslin and Greg Tomb will cohost the opening keynote focus on the purpose and promise that SAP SuccessFactors delivers to customers to drive improved workforce experiences and meet employees’ expectations by delivering consumer-grade, cutting-edge HCM solutions. Also speaking during this session will be Amy Wilson, global head of product, SAP SuccessFactors; James Harvey, global head of engineering and service delivery operations, SAP SuccessFactors; Christy Pambianchi, senior vice president of HR, Corning Incorporated; Jana Kanyadan, CIO, Mohawk Industries; Penny Stoker, global leader of HR services, EY.

Keynote: SAP executive board member Jennifer Morgan and Harvard Business School Professor Frances Frei
Thursday August 31, 11:15am (PDT)
Jennifer Morgan and Frances Frei, Uber’s first senior vice president of Leadership and Strategy, will cohost an engaging and lively keynote that will cover the future of work, the culture challenge facing every C-suite and boardroom, and the changing nature of leadership in the 21st century.

Leadership luncheon: SAP North America HR head Jewell Parkinson and Constellation Research founder and principal analyst Ray Wang


Thursday August 31, 12:15pm (PDT)
Sponsored by PwC and hosted by Jewell Parkinson, this luncheon will feature Ray Wang speaking on the need to create responsive and responsible leadership to succeed in digital transformation and jump-start growth inside organisations. Instead of taking a classical binary or rigid approach, learn the five immutable core traits and develop a balance of 14 foundational attributes as a guide to successful and sustainable dynamic leadership.

Keynote: author and positive psychology expert Shawn Achor and Cake Boss Buddy Valastro 


Thursday, August 31, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, and Buddy Valastro, author of The New York Times best-selling book The Cake Boss, will discuss how optimism, social support and stress mitigation are vital to workforce and corporate success, sharing research, stories and personal experiences to help expand thinking on what successful business strategies can look like.

Keynotes, breakout sessions and interviews with executives, customers, partners and influencers will be streamed live from the show floor for virtual participation here.

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Among the Chinese companies choosing SuccessFactors this year were:

•    Apparel company Bosideng International Holdings Limited will use SuccessFactors solutions to develop a new HR management platform to decrease manual paperwork, increase employee engagement, and provide greater career and performance capabilities.
•    Leading retailer E-Life Mall will use SuccessFactors solutions with SAP S/4HANA and SAP Ariba to enable an enterprise-wide digital transformation, including the standardisation and centralisation of core processes, for its 340 stores.
•    Private investment bank GF Securities has deployed SuccessFactors Performance and Goals to provide employees with a leading workforce management platform to support talent development and align business targets for cloud-based, strategy-driven systems.
•    Hubei Xin Yang Feng Fertiliser, which has chosen SAP S/4HANA as its digital core, as well as SAP SuccessFactors solutions as its HR platform, to help it continue to attract and retain top talent.
•    Ningbo Economic and Technical Development Zone Holding Co, which operates logistics, real estate, financial investment and environmental protection public utilities businesses, which will adopt SucessFactors solutions together with S/4HANA and SAP Leonardo services. This will enable the company to power a new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Centre in Ningbo to speed development of intelligent manufacturing.
•    Shanghai Qiniu Information Technologies chose the SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and Performance and Goals solutions to help engage and retain its most talented employees and enable greater efficiency through real-time information and data analysis.
•    Suzhou Anjie Technology, a provider of functional insulting and cushion materials, will pursue an Industry 4.0 strategy using digitally enabled technologies, data tools and analytics across the value chain, powered by SAP SuccessFactors and S/4HANA. The company expects to gain return on investment from employee training, as well as improved productivity and employee satisfaction.

“In today’s global environment, businesses need cloud-based HCM solutions that not only provide a unified and engaging employee experience for the global workforce but also address the unique needs of each operating environment,” said Greg Tomb, president, SAP SuccessFactors. “We’re excited to provide our newest customers and their employees with a world-class HR experience in Greater China and the ability to scale the power of their people internationally.”

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Tomb has been with SAP for 19 years, and most recently led the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud business, as well as sales for SAP’s Global Services organisation. Previously, Tomb served as president of SAP’s North America region and as executive vice president of global cloud sales.

Tomb also served as CEO of Vivido Labs and held management positions at Accenture Consulting and Cqomergent Technologies.

“Greg understands the importance of the cloud and the critical role of HR in building the employee experience and culture it takes to win in the digital economy,” said Robert Enslin, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE and president of Cloud Business Group, SAP.

“I couldn’t be more delighted that such a proven, respected and trusted executive will drive our SAP SuccessFactors business and leadership in the HCM market.”

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