Level 2 Presentation For SAP SuccessFactors Talent Hybrid Deployment Model

I recently update the level 2 presentation for the SAP SuccessFactors Talent Hybrid Deployment model presentation. It is now available in the internal and partner Jam groups. There is also a white paper that describes all the process integrations in detail.  It is also in the Jam groups.

In this presentation, you will find process diagrams for all packaged integrations that support the Talent Hybrid deployment model. Here is an example of the variable pay integration.

Help Customers Do Things Better

A few weeks back my colleagues from the integrations and extensions team and I were discussing the  main purpose of the team. We discussed that our main goal should be to help customers do things better with the technology and tools we provide them. This will be the guiding philosophy that influences our decisions and investments.

I wish you all a happy and joyful new year.

Rethinking Computers While at Graduate Design School in IIT Bombay

When I was in graduate school at IIT, Bombay (Now Mumbai) many years back I was tired of all the grey computers around and decided to infuse some color into them. So I designed two products. One for children and one for business professionals. I sent them to a student competition hosted by the Lucky Goldstar (LG) group of South Korea. Both the entries won me international student design awards. LG invited me to Seoul for the award ceremony where I was their guest for 3 days.

I was browsing through the design catalog they sent me recently and decided to share them. I called the first one Interact. You could think of it as an iPad connected to a projector using software similar to WebEx or Adobe Connect.

I modeled it for the executives at LG and the judges and explained to them how it might work using the photograph below. They were all using Intel 286 based computers at that time and loved the idea of a slim tablet light computer connected to a projector which is also a computer. I believe the idea was about 20 years ahead of its time.

I called the second one CD-Brain. I thought that a computer could help kids develop their knowledge without boring them to death. Here it is.

JobPts - Motivation, Recognition and Rewards as a Service

I was writing the release highlights for integration and extensions the Feb 2015 release recently. Andy Yen, who own the release highlights for frameworks and extensions suggested that I highlight a certified extension application available in the HANA Cloud Platform (HCP), called JobPts. It is a motivation, rewards and recognition application built on the HANA Cloud Platform using the SuccessFactors Employee Central extensions for HCP. It is pretty cool. Check it out. You can learn more about it in the HANA market place.

Portrait of a South Indian Woman

When I was in school, I was inspired by an Indian artist called Maniam Selvam. I copied his style of drawing and drew many sketches on scraps of paper. Here is a portrait of a South Indian woman. It is done with sketch pens and water brush. You can see Maniam Selvam's drawings here.