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  1. How Sealed Air Is Transforming Its Employee Learning Experience

    Published: 20/December/2019

    Reading time: 5 mins

    Recently, employee experience has been dominating headlines and solution roadmaps across human capital management (HCM). While much of the discussion has been about the need to transform employee experience on a macro level through measuring and analyzing experience data, there continues to be significant development and focus on improving employee experience in other ways, including…

  2. SAP Cybersecurity in an Age of Uncertainty

    Published: 16/December/2019

    Reading time: 5 mins

    by Jhansi R Bandaru, PMP-Certified IT SAP Security/Compliance Lead According to Risk Based Security’s 2019 MidYear QuickView Data Breach Report, the first six months of 2019 saw more than 3,800 publicly disclosed cyber attacks exposing more than 4 billion compromised records, with 3.2 billion of those records exposed by just eight breaches. Making matters worse,…

  3. Change Is Coming to Financial Planning and Analysis:

    Published: 11/December/2019

    Reading time: 4 mins

      Financial professionals are extremely focused on FP&A (financial planning & analysis). As SAPinsider prepares our 2020 studies, “The State of the Market for SAP Financial Planning and Analysis” and “The State of the Market for SAP Finance – a Benchmark Study,” we had a chance to converse with Bryan Lapidus, FPA&A Director, FP&A Practices…

  4. To Outsource or Not to Outsource: The Role Payroll Can Play in Cloud HCM Adoption

    Published: 09/December/2019

    Reading time: 7 mins

    SAPinsider recently spoke with Mike Ellis, President, Rizing HCM APAC, to discuss the state of SAP SuccessFactors market today, global trends he is hearing from clients, and options for SAP customers in the area of outsourcing payroll specifically. Ellis, who has nearly 30 years of experience in HR transformations, cloud implementations, and payroll outsourcing, was…

  5. The Rise of Intelligence in Talent Acquisition and Retention

    Published: 05/December/2019

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Few areas of human capital management (HCM) are as closely tied to the measurement of HR’s success as talent acquisition and retention. In a recent SAPinsider survey of SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors customers, two key talent acquisition and retention metrics – employee retention rate (38%) and time-to-hire (36%) – were identified as top measures…

  6. The Present and Future of Financial Planning and Analysis

    Published: 03/December/2019

    Reading time: 5 mins

      Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) professionals benefit from understanding new practices that make their peers successful. SAPinsider’s research report on Assessing Intelligent Automation in Finance examines how leaders are choreographing their success in the dance between technology vision and business pragmatism. Combined with the FP&A elements of our Deploying SAP S/4HANA research, some interesting…

  7. Key Performance Indicators Need Their Own KPIs

    Published: 26/November/2019

    Reading time: 3 mins

    While trying to figure out why performance is so hard to measure, companies often learn the hard way that it actually is not. Over-reliance on non-effective measurements can fail to deliver useful insight, and, insult to injury, obscures visibility to more effective approaches. Why do (did) financial measurements dominate KPIs? The obvious convenience to financial…

  8. SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Azure

    Published: 15/November/2019

    Reading time: 5 mins

    On October 21, 2019, SAP announced Microsoft Azure as the key cloud platform for SAP S/4HANA. Building on the “Embrace” project SAP announced at SAPPHIRE NOW in May 2019, this new cloud partnership between SAP and Microsoft focuses on creating industry-specific bundles to simplify migration to SAP S/4HANA on Azure, creating a joint sales and…

  9. SAPinsider Q&A: A Chat with New SAP SuccessFactors Head of Product Meg Bear

    Published: 07/November/2019

    Reading time: 9 mins

      Over the last several years, human capital management (HCM) solutions have been evolving to integrate technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and more recently, experience data (X data) in an effort to offer human resources (HR) leaders a better understanding of employee engagement and the ability to generate greater strategic insights from their data.…

  10. Measuring the Success of Recruiting Efforts and Investments

    Published: 05/November/2019

    Reading time: 4 mins

    Over the past two decades, recruiting applications have evolved from back-office applicant tracking systems to very intelligent cloud-based recruiting and recruiting marketing solutions – allowing organizations to engage with more and better candidates while tracking the success of their investments. To achieve key human resources (HR) business goals around time to hire, cost to hire,…