Enterprise Applications Designed Around People's Lives

I strive to design enterprise applications mainly for the people who use them rather than just for the administrators who run them or the executives who buy them. That is one of the reasons why I am very optimistic about the SAP Fiori set of HCM applications. I added a scene in my social and mobile innovations story and created a trailer to convey the importance of making the most commonly used applications simple to use and make them available from any device anywhere.

Real life use cases may not always be to take the day off and go for a picnic. It might be to take the day off and do some plumbing work or spend time with family. What ever the reason, the leave request app will be there when that personal decision is made and will help make life a bit easier for employees.

SAP SuccessFactors Integration Sessions At HR Insider Amsterdam

This is the third in a series of posts where I want to recommend sessions to go to and people to meet at HR Insider 2013 in Amsterdam. Rather than write a generic guide, I decided to write multiple posts for audiences with different purposes. What is more valuable than getting the facts is getting to meet the people who create, market and influence the products you see. Meet them and follow them on Twitter. Many of them share information about their products on Twitter.

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You are an SAP ERP HCM customer or partner who has heard about SuccessFactors solutions, but did not know how SAP customers can buy them, implement them and integrate them with SAP HCM. You would like to get a high level idea and connect with the SAP and SuccessFactors experts in Europe who can help you with resources and answer you questions. If this sounds like you, please go to the following sessions and meet the following people.

1. An introduction to SuccessFactors solutions for HR and their integration with SAP ERP HCM

Sonja van Sleeuwen, SuccessFactors and Margit Bauer, SAP AG
Monday, 10 June, 2013
10:00 - 13:00  G104

This will be a good detailed session for first timers who want to get a deep understanding of the integration.

2. Panel discussion: Leading experts share insights for successfully integrating SAP and SuccessFactors

Moderator: Margit Bauer  SAP AG; Panelists: Jens Roenker, SAP AG; Alexander Woelke, TTS CS GmbH; and Luke Marson, Gavdi Group
Wednesday, 12 June, 2013
12:15 - 13:30 E107

The panel discussion will bring out perspectives of SAP experts and partner experts.

3. An introduction to the integration between SAP and SuccessFactors

Yannick Peterschmitt, SAP AG
Wednesday, 12 June, 2013
9:00 - 10:15  Emerald Room

Ask Yannick about the roadmap. He owns it and can give you a first hand idea of what is coming.

I am Using SAP Travel OnDemand

I was involved in the testing of SAP Travel OnDemand some time ago. I have started using it to fill my expense reports. It has turned out to be a very easy to use product. A lot more user friendly and intuitive than the ones I have used before, including other cloud based expense reporting products.

I like the simple things like attaching receipts to expenses item by item, the ability to recognize my expenses types via icons, and the ability to itemize my Hotel expense without having to type multiple items. Saved me at least 30 minutes when I did it today. We are getting there.

SAP Fiori Leave Request App From Smartphone For SAP ERP HCM

I am working on adding Fiori HCM Apps to my session on Social and Mobile innovations in SAP and SuccessFactors at HR Insider Amsterdam next week.  My colleagues mentioned that there are not many demos of Fiori Apps as they appear on a smart phone. Sapphire demos were from the desktop and iPad. I decided to add the popular leave request app to my story. Here are some of the screen shots from the app as it appears in a smart phone. I am also working on creating these as offline demos so that I can share them with colleagues, partners and even customers when they need it. If you are interested, please leave a comment and I might be able to share them with you.

The important thing to note is that the same HTML5 application can be viewed from a desktop, tablet or mobile device of any kind and the apps will adjust accordingly. I tested this our personally in multiple display screens and it works really well.



My colleague Gertrud Beisel and Jean-Bernard Rolland will be talking about SAP Fiori HR apps at HR Insider in Amsterdam. Reach out to them if you are there to ask them about how SAP Fiori will work for SAP ERP HCM OnPremise customers.

SAP Jam For SAP ERP HCM Customers

There are over 12,000 SAP ERP HCM customers. Only about 620 of them are using SuccessFactors talent management applications today. I got a few questions from SAP HCM customers about how they can start using SAP Jam, even though they have not started using SuccessFactors for talent management yet.

In the video below I explain, how that might work for customers.



My colleague Bianka Woelke who designed integrations between SAP ERP HCM and SuccessFactors created a demo and showed it at ASUG last month. Giovanna Enea, my colleague and product manager for SAP Jam has a session at HR Insider Amsterdam. She will talk about this and other ways Jam can be used for talent management.

I will talk about this at my session on social and mobile innovations as well. If you have questions please stop by at my session or the Ask-The-Experts area. I'll be glad to discuss your needs with you.