iProCon Newsletter 2016-08: Payroll Rollout, SuccessFactors Biz Case, Continuous Performance, Concur Tips and more…

With the SAP HR and Payroll front pretty quiet since our last newsletter, this edition is very much cloud focused – more on-premise content coming after the summer break. But the longest and most widely shared article about Your Employee Central Roadmap and Business Case is also interesting for on-premise customers doing some long term planning. We also have a lot of information on Goals and Performance and various smaller tips on Concur. The topic most widely discussed in Concur is the new standard integration we’ve featured earlier and where we offer fixed price implementations.
Also check out the upcoming conferences, our new packaged training offerings, the 50th SAP HCM Insights Podcast, and our demo request forms for SuccessFactors and Concur.

Content Overview:

Payroll

Success Story: Malaysia SAP HR Payroll Rollout in 4 months

Synthomer managed to implement SAP Payroll for their Malaysian subsidiary in a challenging schedule with the help of iProCon consultants. (Find out more.)

Trainings and Conferences

• iProCon will exhibit at the European SuccessFactors conference SuccessConnect 28/29 November 2016 in Vienna. Arrange for a meeting at our stand or just drop by to
  • Discuss your SuccessFactors Business Case and Implementation Roadmap
  • Learn about our ready2use products, trainings and bespoke services around the various SuccessFactors reporting and dashboard tools
  • See a Demo
• We will also have a stand at the Concur Fusion Exchange conference 5th October 2016. Talk to us to
  • understand your options with Concur-SAP integration
  • discuss your scope, implementation and change management strategy
  • see a demo
• We offer new training packages to help you getting more out of your cloud solutions:
  • Trainings in SuccessFactors Reporting Tools
  • Trainings in Concur Intelligence and Analysis
• As a contractor or simply anybody, who wants to have her or his individual access to SAP Learning Hub to learn more and prepare for certifications, you can subscribe without being associated with a SuccessFactors partner or customer. To learn more and claim your discounted price, fill in this online form and put “iprocon” into the referral code field: http://ow.ly/4mZuHu

HR/HRIS Strategy

There is a Workforce Side to Digital Transformation and You Ignore it at Your Peril

If your organisation is somewhere between the top 50% and top 3% top performing players in your industry — no matter what that is — „Digital Transformation“ has probably popped up in a business strategy paper recently (the top 3% stopped mentioning it explicitly, because it’s an inherent part of their actions). (Keep reading.)

Brexit requires a Talent Management Response Now – not just in 2 years

So, Brexit has happened. If you are based in the UK, you woke up Friday morning, 25th June, to realise your organisation’s attractiveness as an employer on the global labour market has plunged quite a few points – just like Sterling. Now, we need to make the best of it and in Talent Management just as in most other areas it is about damage limitation in the short term. Insecurity isn’t just bad for markets, it’s bad for workforce performance, too. So, no matter what you expect the final outcome to be, you should act now. (Keep reading.)

SAP HCM Insights Jubilee Podcast: looking back on predictions 5 years ago

We started podcasting 5 years ago and since then have published 50 of them! In this podcast we look back to that first one because it was all about the Future of SAP HCM.
There is an element of nostalgia in this edition of our trans-Atlantic fire side chat featuring Steve Bogner, Luke Marson, Brandon Toombs, Martin Gillet, and Sven Ringling from iProCon UK, but this wasn’t the SAP HCM Insights Podcast team, if there wasn’t some pointers for the future to help customers with decision making. Click here to listen.

SuccessFactors

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Your Business Case & Roadmap into SuccessFactors Employee Central

“When should we start with Employee Central, how to stage it, and what’s the business case?” Anybody, who tries to sell you one single right answer for these questions should be chased off your premises right away. Roadmaps and business cases are as diverse as organisations are, but let’s discuss a few options and points to consider, so you can build your own schedule, roadmap and business case for SuccessFactors Employee Central. (Continue)

Learning: Making Search Simple

Ease of access to information is key.  Searching is a key functionality and the right data should be available quickly. In SuccessFactors Learning the search capability plays an important role in overall usability. This blog will help to improve the search response time in fetching LMS data faster and more easily. Find out more…

Goals Management: Threaded Comment field in Goal Plan

Comments are a note of fact or opinion, or a remark of attitude towards the Goal, and the comment field has now been improved to allow users to edit or delete their own comments. Users can collapse or expand the layout and edit or delete their own comments saved with a date-stamp and username. Previously, the field becomes read-only after it is entered. 

The existing comment field in v12 goal plans now includes a new user interface/treatment that allows users to edit or delete their own comments. Read on…

2016 Performance and Goals Management Updates summary

 It’s time for new update cycle 1608 release, and SuccessFactors has announced some incredible new capabilities in Performance and Goals Management. Have a read through our summary of the most important 2016 SuccessFactors Performance and Goals Management features which has confined the new dimensions for organizations to reinvent their performance review process.(Continue reading.)

SuccessFactors Continuous Performance Management Makes Sense, Because…

… line managers are simply human, too. (Continue.)

Video Demo of Continuous Performance

SuccessFactors Continuous Performance Video Link

Concur Travel & Expense

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Travel & Expenses Has Just Become So Much Better in the UK & Europe!

You may have read articles from me about Concur Travel & Expense before. They may have talked about the dramatic improvement for T&E processes, the project management pitfalls that stop many customers from achieving them or all kinds of technology innovations. Very often, I would have shown the T&E process we are using at iProCon and the majority of EU customers would have asked: „How do they do this? We don’t seem to have all these fancy features.“ Find out more…

Concur Travel: New User Interface from 17 June 2016

The user experience for Concur Travel has changed from 17th June 2016, most notably for searching transport and hotels. Find out more…

Concur Release Highlights June 2016

Despite the wet start to ’summer‘, at least this June brings enhancements released by Concur across the Travel and Expense solutions which should make your travellers lives easier, these include adding attendees to expenses on the mobile app, a new payment type, train travel usability improvements and more. Read on…

Concur Knowledge Base Available in 4 Languages

So far Concur provided most knowledge base articles in English only. From now on, the most important articles will be available in German, Spanish and French as well. Learn more…

What to expect from Concur Expenseit

ExpenseIt is an app that scans and recognises your receipts, auto-populates the most important fields and creates an expense item in Concur for you. It does make your Concur based expense process even more efficient, but it’s important to manage expectations. Read on…

Additional Reporting Language Changes in Concur Coming Soon

Concur has confirmed that they are in the process of making enhancing reporting with additional language availabilities, which is a great update but may cause you a problem if you have any of the standard reports scheduled to run in Concur. Read in this article what exactly will change and how you can recognise new Concur Reports. Stay in touch with us and follow the our blog for news… (Read more.)