Eight tech startups have been selected to engage in the latest SAP.iO Foundry Shanghai Spring 2022 programme to develop solutions centred around The Future of Work in collaboration with SAP SuccessFactors, a major provider of cloud human experience management solutions. The accelerator programme cohort is comprised of companies that drive human resource management innovations in Greater China and are located in major tech hubs in Asia including Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Launched in December 2021, the Foundry Shanghai reinforces SAP.iO’s mission to support tech startups around the world as well as SAP employee ventures scale growth leveraging SAP technologies and extensive exposure to the SAP ecosystem. SAP’s accelerator programme has empowered innovators to expand partnerships and accelerate product development to bolster customers’ journey to becoming best-run enterprises.

Shanghai’s Spring 2022 Tech Startup Incubator

The chosen tech companies in the HR domain have been evaluated by a jury of SAP experts, partners, customers, and investment funds and will be working around two themes– intelligent recruitment and talent management– to support The Future of Work. Here are the selected tech startups of SAP.iO Foundry Shanghai’s second cohort:

• AI RecruiTas: Subsidiary of a business design and innovation consulting service company specialising in AI recruitment Shanghai Jinyu Intelligent Technology Co., AI RecruiTas harnesses the JYI (JinYu Intelligence) Super Brain in delivering an intelligent talent acquisition management. The platform advances the traditional applicant tracking system by leveraging JYI, which applies holistic content and context semantics recognition along with an AI multi-modal algorithm designed for Human Resources capabilities. The company’s intelligent recruitment management system AI Dexian Recruiter provides customers with automated recruitment services and multiple AI recruitment service scenarios such as one-click publishing, AI resume analysis, remote real-time video interviews, AI video interviews, and AI interview chatbots, among many others.

• Cool College: Beijing-headquartered Cool College is on a mission to connect the top 500 empowered employees to the 43 million enterprises and organisations in China by leveraging its four-in-one product concept that integrates content operations to advance enterprise learning platforms and application scenarios. Designed to function as an enterprise-level SaaS learning development platform and a learning management system, Cool College accelerates business and talent development by providing customers with collaborative e-learning platforms and extensive training services to drive digital intelligence.

• Gaia Works: Suzhou-headquartered Gaia Works offers enterprises a cloud-based workforce management system with enhanced user experience. Leveraging machine learning algorithms, the platform covers a broad range of HR needs from workforce planning to labor supply and salesforce management. Gaia Works operates in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuhan, and Windsor, Canada. Some of the tech’s global clients include LVMH, 7-Eleven, Costco, Sodexo, Four Seasons Hotel, and China Railway Shenyang Bureau.

• Joyowo: The tech startup offers comprehensive HR digital solutions such as job, business, and recruitment process outsourcing, workforce management, commercial insurance risk control, and corporate consulting training. The Joyowo’s HR SaaS+AI three-dimensional capability advances enterprise talent management and digital intelligence by covering an employee’s entire life cycle.

• Mesoor AI: Shanghai-based Mesoor AI is the first talent intelligence platform in China. The platform has supported the HR transformation of medium and large enterprises including Geely, Taikang, Lenovo, and Unilever harnessing Mesoor AI’s capabilities to provide full-scenario data aggregation, ETL, and data transformation as well as self-developed AI platform and BI data lake system. The tech start-up offers a wide range of HR products and services including Resume Analysis, Talent Portrait, and Smart Interview.

• Moka HR: One of the fastest-growing HR SaaS vendors in China, Moka HR offers enterprises data-driven intelligent HR SaaS products powered by cutting-edge technology to propel their talent strategies. The tech company has provided services to over 1,500 customers including Xiaomi, McDonald’s, Anta Group, and Shopee.

• Neufast: An award-winning HR tech company, Neufast’s technology is anchored in I/O psychology research and AI computing. It offers enterprises a cloud-based HCM SaaS with a proprietary AI-powered multi-lingual video interview talent assessment system, championing diversity and inclusion for the Future of Work. In addition, the company’s platform is complemented by a team of HR professionals and experts from major industries to support an organisation’s recruitment and talent management needs.

• ZMBeidiao: Headquartered in Beijing, Zhima background check is an SaaS platform that leverages big data to streamline job seeker information management.

For 16 weeks, the participants of the Shanghai tech startup incubator programme will have the opportunity to learn from SAP experts through curated mentorship, have access to SAP technology and application programming interfaces (APIs) as well as collaborate with SAP customers. 

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Following the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic last year and subsequent vaccine availability, employers felt the need to track the health and vaccination status of employees as a critical measure for bringing them back to the office and planning for work-related travel.

Leveraging the open innovation model of SAP.iO Foundry Singapore, one of SAP’s global network of equity-free startup accelerators, Accredify aims to enable SAP customers to reopen safely during the pandemic. SAP.iO Foundries are designed to help startups like Accredify in integrating with SAP solutions and accelerating their entry into a curated, inclusive ecosystem with offerings that SAP customers can easily access and deploy.

Through SAP SuccessFactors integration, the Singapore-based company that creates and issues verifiable documents intends to assist clients in verifying an employee’s COVID health credentials through its verification portal. Eileen Chua, Managing Director, SAP Asia Pte. Ltd., Singapore, stressed that this timely collaboration with Accredify through the SAP.iO open innovation model revolutionizes the future of work in reimagined workspaces.

“People are our business and core to the success of any organizations globally. Every employee experience matters, and more so as we are returning to the new normal. Workplace health and safety management measures will be top of mind, and companies who are intending to enhance existing policies or implement new processes will need to leverage technology to enable a seamless, exceptional employee experience,” she maintained.

Managing Workplace Health Through SAP SuccessFactors Integration with Accredify

As businesses prepare to reopen physical office buildings safely, questions have been raised among organizations concerning the availability of a cost-effective and efficient mechanism to check an employee’s COVID health status. SAP SuccessFactors integration with Accredify’s app aims to address this concern.

Commenting on the collaboration, Quah Zheng Wei, Co-Founder and CEO at Accredify, said: 

“As economies around the world look toward reopening workplaces, employee welfare and safety remains a key concern for organizations. We are delighted to be working with SAP to provide assurance and an easy way for businesses to manage workplace health.” 

COVID medical credentials like swab test results and vaccination records should be uploaded by employees into Accredify’s verification portal on the SAP SuccessFactors platform. Employers will then be able to keep track of an individual employee’s COVID medical records on the platform once data has been uploaded and verified.

Moreover, organizations using SAP SuccessFactors can validate medical records that have been issued by different healthcare providers as Accredify’s verification portal is agnostic to various COVID medical standards and schema issued around the world. Accredify’s application in the SAP SuccessFactors platform, on the other hand, will not be limited to COVID health credentials verification.

SAP customers will be assisted with the provision of valid corporate training credentials, as well as the verification of academic credentials presented by potential candidates. The app will be available to all SAP SuccessFactors subscribers. The platform is currently used by more than 7,400 customers globally.

Last year, the German software giant released similar key updates to the SAP SuccessFactors Visa and Permits Management solution plus partner app Guardian by AlertEnterprise. This allows organizations to gain control of the process of safely bringing employees back to the workplace while automating enforcement of evolving and complex COVID-19 health and safety protocols.

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