SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking
SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking
G-Cloud 14
April 2024
SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. 1
SAP SuccessFactors HCM Overview .......................................................................................... 1
The SAP SuccessFactors HCM Suite Solutions ................................................................... 2
SAP SUCCESSFACTORS TIME TRACKING .................................................................................. 4
ONBOARDING AND OFFBOARDING ............................................................................................. 5
Getting Set Up ............................................................................................................................. 5
Planning Your Implementation Journey ....................................................................................... 5
Roles and Responsibilities ........................................................................................................... 6
Selecting the Right Implementation Partner ................................................................................ 7
Tips for Project Success .............................................................................................................. 7
Ending Your Service .................................................................................................................... 8
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN ............................................................................................................... 9
The SAP Digital Business Services ............................................................................................. 9
SAP Activate Methodology for Cloud Implementations ............................................................... 9
SAP Partner Ecosystem ............................................................................................................ 12
SERVICE LEVELS ......................................................................................................................... 13
Service-level Agreement – SAP Enterprise Support.................................................................. 13
Service-level Agreement – Preferred Success .......................................................................... 14
ORDERING & INVOICING ............................................................................................................. 15
AFTER SALES SUPPORT ............................................................................................................. 16
SAP Enterprise Support, Cloud Edition ..................................................................................... 16
SAP Preferred Success ............................................................................................................. 17
BUSINESS CONTINUITY .............................................................................................................. 20
TERMINATION ............................................................................................................................... 21
INTRODUCTION
SAP SuccessFactors HCM Overview
With SAP SuccessFactors, Public Sector organisations can move beyond facilitating transactions
and supporting HR-driven processes, to focus on creating a human-centred approach. This means
listening to businesses’ people needs and providing the tools and information for people to be
productive and generate real business impact. Our HCM suite helps companies redefine employee
experiences – making people feel connected, empowered, and supported throughout the
employee journey. SAP SuccessFactors also supports organisations to develop an agile and
future-ready workforce suitable for today’s rapidly changing workplace. Transformations have
evolved into increasingly complex and more urgent initiatives. Organisations must accelerate
talent development at scale. The SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite helps businesses equip
themselves to respond to workforce opportunities before they arise – a fundamental part of
successfully becoming future-ready.
For the seventh consecutive time in 2022, SAP is a Leader in the Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Cloud HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises, highlighting
strengths such as our wide-spread network, sales strategy, and geographic coverage.
For more information, read the full report here.
Our HCM suite offers unique foundational elements to help businesses remain compliant and to
fully support data privacy regulations. We deliver our solutions with legal local compliance and
best practices for more than 100 countries, including payroll support for more than 50 countries.
Companies can also extend their HR capabilities with more than 300 partner apps and build their
own apps to connect HR to the broader organisation. Our solutions offer guided workflows and
robust integrations to other systems. Powerful analytics provide insight making it easy to identify
opportunities, risks, and trends and turn intelligence into action.
We provide a suite platform and innovative technology to meet businesses’ specific needs.
Our extensible solutions for core HR and payroll help manage global benefits and payroll,
improve employee self-service, automate HR processes, and strengthen compliance. They can
also make it easier to define and execute successful people strategies and to provide information
and services that improve the employee experience and add value to a business. Solutions
include:
Our talent management software helps companies develop a comprehensive and data-driven
strategy that spans the entire employee lifecycle, from hiring the best candidates, engaging
employees, developing their skills, and rewarding and valuing every employee. Solutions include:
Our sales performance management solutions offer agile and connected incentive
management processes to motivate sales teams, improve operational efficiency and maximise
business results. Solutions include:
• SAP Commissions
• SAP Territory & Quota
• SAP Agent Performance Management
Our HR Analytics and Workforce Planning solutions deliver data-driven insight into all HR
processes, helping to increase the effectiveness and visibility of HR while improving business
decisions about hiring, diversity, turnover. Solutions include:
Our employee experience management solutions help managers and HR leaders capture
employee feedback along the employee journey and take insight-based actions to improve
employee experience and engagement. These capabilities seamlessly integrate with SAP
SuccessFactors HCM Suite to automatically trigger feedback assessments and act within the flow
of work. Solutions include:
SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking includes many of the innovations our customers have been
asking for and will provide greater flexibility for customers of on-premise human capital
management solutions to move to the cloud, such as:
The online customer community is your gateway to the SAP SuccessFactors ecosystem. Once
you have access, you will find a wealth of information and resources related to your new solution.
In addition, the community connects customers, implementation partners and SAP
SuccessFactors solutions product managers, support analysts, and subject-matter experts through
interactive forums, where questions are answered, and knowledge is shared. To navigate the
forums and information in the customer community, we recommend starting with the Centre.
System Access
Once we provision your solution, we will send you at least two e-mails containing access data. The
first contains the URL (the link to your systems) with your usernames and system IDs. The second
e-mail contains your passwords and will be sent only to the person named as “Contact Person IT”
in your SAP SuccessFactors solution contract.
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace, and many chief HR Officers are seeing a
dramatic shift in HR from delivering transactional excellence to architecting digital transformation.
With SAP SuccessFactors solutions, you are now better equipped to optimise value from your
most important resource, your talent.
An essential part of a digital transformation journey is evaluating and standardizing your current
HR processes – or even introducing new HR processes into your company – based on the
industry-leading SAP SuccessFactors solutions. To support you, SAP has developed leading-
practice recommendations in the form of process descriptions and process flows to define your HR
processes and implement SAP SuccessFactors solutions. The material is regularly updated,
enhanced, and published in the online customer community to help you achieve fast, standardized
adoption of SAP SuccessFactors solutions. This will also help you get the most value out of your
solutions.
Clearly defining your organisational objectives and aligning your team will contribute to your
implementation success and HR digital transformation. When you are ready to implement, a
comprehensive range of resources and services are available to guide your implementation
through to a successful launch.
Implementation Preparation
To help prepare for implementation we recommend reviewing our Plan for Success documentation
in the Customer Community Empowerment Centre to learn how to optimise your implementation,
find certified Partner Consultants and understand which SAP Consulting Services may be right for
you.
Resource Planning
Effective resource planning is crucial to the success of your project. The right employees,
consultants, and experts need to be in the right place at the right time. To make this task easier for
our customers, we have provided system administration guidelines and considerations to help you
plan resources for your project, ongoing system administration and support.
As your organisation start its journey with SAP SuccessFactors solutions, key team roles and
responsibilities are necessary for you to succeed with your new solution. They are described here:
SAP
• Supports the design, planning, and implementation of the functional and technical
aspects of the project and recommends actions to mitigate risks
• Transfers technical, functional, and methodology knowledge
• Evaluates and recommends best practices that correspond to the business
requirements of the Project
Customer
Choosing the right implementation partner is crucial to the success of your project. Whether you
select the SAP Digital Business Services organisation or one of our many partners worldwide, your
partner will play a critical role. The partner will help you build, implement, extend, configure, and
enrich our technology platform and software for innovative and tailored solutions that meet your
exact needs.
SAP Digital Business Services and our partner ecosystem are committed to helping you succeed
by providing guidance at every stage of your HR transformation journey.
Getting professional certification for SAP SuccessFactors solutions is the highest level of
achievement in our cloud certification program. It testifies to practical and technical implementation
expertise for an SAP SuccessFactors solution. Using consultants that hold and maintain a
professional certification helps ensure projects are delivered with the highest quality.
Follow these tips for selecting and working with your partner:
• Look for a partner with specialized expertise in your selected products and industry
• Evaluate your corporate culture and align the delivery model accordingly
• Provide a clear understanding of deliverables, expectations, timelines and your HR
• transformation vision
• Agree to terms that are fair, including mutually fair pay structures based on key
deliverables
• Build a true partnership based on honesty, transparency, and mutual respect
• For further considerations on how to select and work with your HR Transformation
partner please
• use the online Partner Certification Search and review the Factors to Consider
During your Partner
• Selection.
When you are ready to implement, SAP offers a comprehensive range of resources and services
to accelerate your efforts. Here are a few tips to help you get the best out of your implementation
and operation of SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
Change Management
Must start early in the project to ensure collaboration of stakeholders and users and to mitigate
fear of change.
Executive buy-in
Must be visible, or the project will not have the appropriate priority to meet deadlines.
(As applicable) should be represented on all teams, bringing their unique skills, expertise, and
knowledge to foster synergy and collaboration on the project.
Industry-specific requirements,
such as regulatory reporting requirements or processes should be identified up front so that you
can work together with SAP and your consultants to address them in your project.
Training
At the end of the contract customers are offered the opportunity to extend their commitment,
should they decide not to continue with the service, they must ensure that all data is extracted
before the access to the service is terminated on the contract end date. SAP support will be able
to provide advice and guidance on this process.
You can export your data at any time during the subscription term. Data can be retrieved in a
readily readable, structured and documented format, such as CSV. This is a self-service feature
that allows you to download data from the system at any time, without any special request to us.
Customers may also request that our support services provide them with a full data extract.
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Clients have a choice of Implementation approaches which can be delivered by either SAP or via
our extensive echo system of partners referred to later in this section. Each project will have
unique characteristics but generally incorporate a set of common characteristics outlined below.
Implementations are uniquely priced per project.
• Organisation helps our customers run at their best. We empower customer success
with SAP solutions through business insights developed from 46 years of SAP
delivery experience working across 25 industries. Earning the trust of more than
425,000 customers, our services, support, and tools guide, simplify, and accelerate
our customer’s journey with SAP’s digital platform, intelligent suite, and intelligent
technologies. We deliver our services under one organisation for simplicity and
accountability, or we provide them complementary to the services of system
integrators.
• Our commitment to success spans the full scope of innovation and transformation.
This commitment is backed by a range of expert services, including:
• Advisory and innovation services to discover, create, and achieve new possibilities
• Project success services to realise solution benefits faster and safer
• Continuous customer success and support delivery to drive enablement, adoption,
and business
• continuity
• SAP MaxAttention for holistic strategic engagements personalised to our
customers’ needs with SAP board and executive management attention
• Intelligent tools that apply best practices to guide, simplify, and accelerate each
customer’s journey.
The SAP Activate methodology is our agile methodology for the implementation and/or upgrade of
SAP solutions. Built on our experience from tens of thousands of projects, the SAP Activate
methodology provides pre-built implementation content, accelerators, tools, and best practices that
help consultants deliver consistent and successful results across industries and customer
environments. The SAP Activate methodology can be run for distinct projects or as a component
within an SAP Premium Engagement.
The SAP Activate methodology for cloud implementations provides an implementation framework
to support subscription-based software where the system installation and management occur
outside of the project (“Software-as-a-Service” or SaaS). It is less intensive than a traditional
project methodology making it ideal for smaller project teams. This methodology is easily
integrated with larger, on-premise projects to create a hybrid implementation approach with a
single agile methodology.
The SAP Activate methodology is structured around the following key principles and approaches
that have been proven to significantly accelerate project delivery, improve business
engagement, and lower the cost of implementation and ownership.
The methodology is structured into six project phases, each containing a list of deliverables and
supporting tasks. Within the project phases hierarchy project teams can find accelerators like
project plans, templates, and examples to support their SAP implementation projects.
The six phases of SAP Activate provide support throughout the project lifecycle of SAP solutions.
Underlying these phases is a series of value delivery and quality checks to ensure that the
solution, as implemented, delivers the expected value.
SAP implementations and change projects require a disciplined approach to project management.
The SAP Activate methodology aligns with SAP Best Practices recommended by the Project
Management Institute (PMI), making it possible to minimise risk, streamline and accelerate the
implementation project, and reduce the total cost of implementation or upgrade.
The SAP Activate methodology incorporates a standardised work breakdown structure (WBS) that
helps project managers define and manage project work in a deliverable-oriented, outcome-
focused manner. It is structured around these key project work streams:
During each phase, the project team produces a prescribed set of deliverables that serve as inputs
to subsequent phases. The SAP Activate methodology provides examples of key project
deliverables, including procedure descriptions explaining how to prepare and complete the
deliverables. It also provides accelerators for each phase, work stream, deliverable, and task.
Accelerators include templates, questionnaires, checklists, guidebooks, and other tools that
facilitate the efficient, consistent, and repeatable delivery of SAP implementations and upgrades.
Stay in Step with Updates in Solution Technology SAP continually invests in updates to the SAP
Activate methodology. These updates help us keep in step with developments in solution
technologies, providing the tools needed to get the software up and running quickly, and to keep it
operating at peak levels. SAP has enhanced the most recent version of the SAP Activate
methodology to:
• Help customers integrate their business processes and objectives with their IT
solution(s).
• Reduce the total cost of implementation by starting implementation with SAP Best
Practices or SAP Rapid-Deployment Solutions.
• Provide SAP Best Practices for business process management, including streamlined
solution
• validation and solution design.
SAP provides customers with industry-leading solutions and methodology for project
implementations to ensure success and change the way a customer's business runs to remain
competitive. SAP understands this and has enhanced the SAP Activate Methodology to maintain
the transparency of value delivery throughout the lifecycle of the SAP solution. The methodology
defines a consistent process that keeps the focus on value delivery in every phase of the project.
This process:
The value delivery process keeps the project focused on delivering a solution that adds value to
the business and helps SAP customers to achieve their business objectives.
To manage rapidly changing business and IT needs, organisations seek tailored solutions,
supported and delivered by an “ecosystem of the best.” The SAP ecosystem is an innovation-
driven business network made up of software and hardware partners and providers of outsourcing,
content, hosting, education, support, and travel services. This network also includes developers,
industry specialists, and users of SAP software. Among them are well-known companies as well
as thousands of smaller vendors. Serving as a cornerstone of our strategy and value proposition,
our partner ecosystem promotes customer choice by providing a rich array of complementary
hardware, software, and service solutions. As an open, collaborative, and interactive community,
the SAP ecosystem helps customers to access products and services that expand and augment
the SAP portfolio with offerings based on their unique business needs.
At SAP, we rely on our ecosystem of more than 17,000 partners to make our solutions more
relevant and attainable to companies just like yours. To find a partner to help you identify, build,
implement, support, and run the SAP solutions that best fit your needs, visit Find an SAP Partner.
SERVICE LEVELS
SAP SuccessFactors offer two levels of support which are detailed further in the after sakes
support section of this document.
Details of the most current service levels for products can be found in the SAP Trust Centre
Service-level agreements stipulate quick times for initial reactions and corrective action plans to
solve incidents fast and effectively and minimize costly system downtime. In emergencies, YOU
can be sure of the continuity of its business processes and enjoy greater security during project
planning.
Once we have received your purchase order, we will configure the services to your requirements
of provide access to a self-configuration portal for you to configure the services depending on the
options you have chosen. We will issue you with an invoice for the services you have procured.
On a monthly basis, we will complete the necessary Management Information returns for
Government Procurement.
SAP Enterprise Support is SAP’s foundational support offering for customer success. Its focus is
safeguarding mission-critical processes, optimizing hybrid landscapes, and driving innovation and
business outcomes. SAP Enterprise Support delivers proactive, predictive and preventive support
for customers across all deployment scenarios. SAP Enterprise Support, cloud edition is included
in your cloud subscription fees.
• Provide easy collaboration with SAP experts through SAP Enterprise Support
Advisory and Next-
• Generation Support tools such as Expert Chat or Schedule an Expert.
• Empower personnel to build the necessary skills through the SAP Enterprise Support
Academy
• program and through customer journey guidance with SAP Enterprise Support Value
Maps and best practices.
• Drive innovation and value realisation by identifying business and IT improvement
potential through business KPI benchmarking and smart tools such as SAP Innovation
and Optimisation Pathfinder.
• Protect business continuity with mission-critical support for incident management,
including service- level agreements.
Enterprise Support
SAP Enterprise Support builds on collaboration, empowerment, innovation and value realisation,
and mission-critical support to help you implement, operate, innovate better, and integrate better
for driving value in hybrid environments. It also helps you to leverage your cloud solutions better
by providing cloud business users a higher satisfaction.
Key Benefits
With SAP Enterprise Support, YOU can expect these core benefits:
Key Deliverables
The collaboration section focuses on expert guidance. Through close collaboration with YOU, our
goal is to help increase efficiency, drive down costs, and speed innovation. You benefit from a
proactive engagement plan, jointly developed with our support advisors. You can also leverage
SAP Enterprise Support Value Maps for a guided access to the knowledge, skills and services
needed to address your business challenges. Remote services and several social communities
are available for you to collaborate with experts and industry peers.
The empowerment section focuses on enablement. YOU can get support, best practices, and
training through the SAP Enterprise Support Academy program. The SAP Learning Hub platform
also provides learning content and services to help you build competency and expand skills.
The innovation and value realisation section focuses on new features and business outcomes. As
part of maintenance, we provide releases, updates, patches, and targeted analyses and reports for
you to better understand your current landscape and gain recommendations for improvement.
Furthermore, SAP Enterprise Support Advisory Council can provide YOU with opportunities to co-
innovate with SAP.
All support deliverables are backed up by SAP Solution Manager, which is a key toolset covered
by your maintenance agreement to better manage your solutions.
SAP Preferred Success is a subscription program which runs concurrently to the license contract
and provides an advanced, personalised support experiences including:
• Feature Adoption Planning and Success Checks: personalized Adoption plans, quality
reviews, and targeted analysis of your customer’s specific business case to optimize their
solution use.
• In-depth Release Guidance: Tailored release plan for faster release preparations and
improved feature adoption, and innovation. Many customers do not have any release
planning processes or resources, and this assistance is invaluable.
• Targeted Training Programs for key users and administrators with knowledge on relevant
topics and best practices
• Advanced Support and Enhanced Target SLAs. Faster responses when there’s an incident
and quicker resolution targets for non-defect issues.
• Access to Customer Success Experts who will assist customer and orchestrate exclusive
SAP Preferred Success content and access to specialized product resources when
required, and help with the planning customer adoptions strategies.
The Expanded Edition includes all services included in the standard plus
• Solution stabilisation reviews,
• Proactive Monitoring
• Key Feature Activation
• Access to Products Specialist
Picture 1: Example Service Plan including Preferred Success Standard and Preferred Success
Expanded Edition for SAP SuccessFactors
BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Business continuity management provides security that business can respond and adapt rapidly to
threats posed against SAP’s workforce, business, and reputation. Business continuity
management is a holistic management system that identifies potential threats to an organisation
and their impact on business operations. It provides a framework for building operational resilience
with the ability to respond effectively if those threats are realized. This helps safeguard the
interests of an organisation’s key stakeholders and its reputation, brand, and value- creating
activities.
SAP has implemented business continuity management aligned to ISO 22301 as part of SAP’s
management framework for business continuity and operational resilience, of which corporate
continuity, IT service continuity management and Cloud continuity are parts.
The governing principles for corporate continuity and IT service continuity management as well as
interfaces to Cloud continuity are centrally managed. This continued central governance ensures
and documents common principles and requirements providing guidance on implementation of
respective procedures. Implementing procedures according to central governance is performed by
all units at SAP as necessary and upon existence of critical products and services.
Cloud continuity covers disaster recovery for specific scenarios, like the total loss of a Data
Center, which could seriously impact the availability of the Cloud infrastructure, as bundled in
service models and delivered as-a-service. It enables SAP to meet Customer demands for higher
operational resilience of on-demand products and services with respective offerings and
commitments.
TERMINATION
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