Walldorf, Germany — Feb. 14

SuccessFactors, an SAP company, has announced several updates to its HR portfolio, SuccessFactors’ Business Execution (BizX) Suite.

Among the latest updates:

SuccessFactors Employee Central continues to expand its global capabilities in 12 new countries, with Cloud Payroll available for 20 countries. With these new features, SuccessFactors Employee Central aims to strengthen its position as one of the most “glocalized” cloud core HR services, providing an intuitive user experience and global efficiency fine-tuned to help meet local needs.

Additionally for SAP customers, an add-on for integration of SuccessFactors Employee Central to SAP Business Suite software for employee mini-master data integration, including Cloud Payroll, is available.

SAP Jam Social Software platform aims to adds expert mentoring, forums and improved content creation capabilities.

Expert mentoring aims to provide support and guidance to help shorten learning curves, expand subject matter expertise quickly and develop future leaders. Employees can invite a broad group of mentees to a single group while creating private folders for each mentee to deliver one-on-one coaching, post documents and create or share videos.

New forum capabilities aim to capture the collective wisdom of the group and turn ideas into results. This feature aims to help foster employee and partner innovation, drive interactions and feedback on new HR programs or benefits and highlight subject matter experts who can deliver insight to the organization. Additionally, internal and external participants can post questions and answers, as well as share, discuss and rank ideas.

Enhanced document management capabilities aim to increase the velocity of content creation and compliance for HR strategy development, new program planning and communications and building cross-division summary reports for management, with built-in editing, folder URLs and controls for content monitoring and usage.

Source: SuccessFactors