Successfactors Time Management – new features in H1 2022

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Core, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

This time we have lots of smaller albeit not less important enhancements. The scenarios are however not so complex, so I don´t need much words to explain them. As usual, let´s start the journey into the new features with a short overview on what we provide. For more details you can then jump into the […]

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Principal Propagation in SAP Integration Suite from external system to SuccessFactors

SAP Integration Suite, Cloud Integration, SAP BTP, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP Business Suite

Introduction This blog post covers the use case for communicating an external system or client (for example Postman) with SuccessFactors using Principal Propagation in SAP Integration Suite, that is forwarding the identity of a user across several systems. Prerequisite for that to work is that the propagated user has an e-mail assigned to him and […]

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Let’s call the iRPA 2.0 bot from CAI to update SuccessFactors

SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation, SAP BTP, SAP Conversational AI, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

I wrote about how we can create an automation which is calling a SuccessFactors API for performing upsert operations. The automation however also needs to be invoked. For this I worked on developing a chatbot which would call the API based trigger of the automation. I read many blogs on parts of the topic. I […]

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Choosing the Right Budget Configuration for Your Organization

SAP SuccessFactors Compensation, HCM (Human Capital Management), SAP SuccessFactors Platform

Introduction Budgets are arguably one of the most important elements of the Compensation Module configuration. It is where the business needs and requirements meet the module to define set rules that affect downstream guidelines and eligibility for the entire program. The budget can make or break the entire success of the program to ensure that […]

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Extend SAP SuccessFactors on SAP BTP with CAP – Add Business Logic

SAP Cloud Application Programming Model, SAP BTP, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Fiori Elements, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors Platform

Create Code File The business logic of the application is implemented via custom service handlers for the various operations executed on its entities (create, read, update, delete, etc.). Those handlers are defined in a module within a JavasScript file with the same name of the service but with the .js extension. So, let’s create it! […]

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Integrate Onboarding 1.0 data to Custom MDF object / portlet in Employee Central – COVID-19 Vaccine Tracking portlet

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting

Context: Many of us might have had customer requirements to integrate Onboarding 1.0 data to Custom MDF object / portlet in Employee Central. For example., Integrate COVID 19 Vaccine Tracking data from Onboarding 1.0 to an MDF COVID 19 Vaccine Tracking portlet. While this requirement is identified as a product enhancement, there is an alternate […]

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Authentication between SAP Cloud Integration and SAP SuccessFactors using oAuth

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP Integration Suite, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

Introduction Basic authentication has been the way of communication between SAP Cloud Integration and SAP SuccessFactors. However, progessing to more secure ways of authentication mechanisms both SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Cloud Integration have enhanced capabilities to support oAuth based mechanisms. In this blog, the primary focus is on configuring connectivity between SAP SuccessFactors and SAP […]

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