This is a collection of the most useful SuccessFactors resources: documents, blogs, reports, and videos. This includes links that will cover an introduction to SuccessFactors, the acquisition by SAP, SAP's strategy, the SuccessFactors HCM suite, integration, and other related documents and resources. It is also recommended to join the SAP and SuccessFactors group on LinkedIn or on Google Plus, as this is the leading community for the latest and greatest information on SuccessFactors.
Overview
SAPexperts | SAP and SuccessFactors – An Overview (SAPexperts)
SuccessFactors with SAP ERP HCM (SAP PRESS)
Integrating SuccessFactors with SAP (SAP PRESS)
SuccessFactors Terminology and Abbreviations
The Best Security for Your Cloud Part 3: How We Address Data Security in Europe and Canada
SuccessFactors Cloud Architecture
SuccessFactors: all you need to know about Authorizations and Security
Market, Customer, and Consultant-related
How to Transition from an SAP HCM to a SuccessFactors Consultant
SuccessFactors Training and Certification FAQ
SuccessFactors and SAP HCM consulting: The Wild West of 2013
The Future of SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Consulting - 2013 : CloudAve (Cloud Avenue)
Future of SAP HCM (SAP HCM Insights Podcast)
The state of Talent Management in SAP HCM & Impact of SuccessFactors - With Thomas Otter (SAP HCM Insights Podcast)
SuccessFactors, The Future of SAP HCM Consulting, Project Execution, Training & more! (SAP HCM Insights Podcast)
Cloud: When & Why Whitepaper (SuccessFactors)
Business Execution for Dummies (SuccessFactors)
SAP Forum: Life after Lars (diginomica.com)
How Siemens took its HR IT into the cloud (ZD Net)
Impact of DevOps and Cloud on SAP and ERP System Administrators (YouTube)
How significant is SAP’s on-premise and Cloud licensing swap announcement?
Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suites 2013 (Gartner)
SuccessConnect 2013: Wrap-up and 5 Key Takeaways
SuccessFactors Talent Management Seminar 2013 Wrap Up (Jeremy Masters)
SAP and China Telecom Expand Strategic Partnership to Provide SAP Cloud Portfolio to Customers and Partners in Chin… (SuccessFactors)
Charting Your Course in 2014: SAP HR and SuccessFactors [podcast] (SAP Insider)
Journal on Product Design and Development (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
Stages In The Decision Making Phase Of Your Journey To The Cloud (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
Improving Customer Service Experience at SuccessFactors with new Cloud-based Support Portal
Journey to the SuccessFactors cloud for SAP Consultants (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
SAP Bolsters Cloud Leadership, Names Former NGA Human Resources CEO Mike Ettling as Cloud for HR Lead (SuccessFactors)
Finding the Right Partner for your SAP SuccessFactors Implementation
SuccessFactors and SAP HCM consulting: How the West was Won!
Should you move your HR operations to the SAP SuccessFactors cloud? (SearchSAP)
Live from the SAPinsider Studio: SuccessFactors Customer Panel Hosted by Luke Marson [video] (SAP Insider)
Preparing for a SuccessFactors initiative: Project Strategies to Ensure a Smooth Deployment [video] (SAP Insider)
Journey To The SuccessFactors Cloud For Utilities (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
SAP HCM (Cloud, On Premise, Hybrid) Curricula and Certification
Improving HCM Adoption with SAP SuccessFactors [video] (YouTube)
SAP Named a Leader in Gartner 2014 Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suites (SuccessFactors)
Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suites (Gartner)
SuccessFactors Cloud Learning Center
How SAP use SuccessFactors Learning and SAP Jam for its new SAP Learning Hub
Know your options: Three SuccessFactors software deployment models (SearchSAP)
The Challenge of Finding Experienced SuccessFactors Consultants (LinkedIn)
SuccessConnect 2014: Opening Keynote [video] (YouTube)
SuccessConnect 2014: Transforming the Way Organizations Work [video] (YouTube)
SuccessFactors Cofounder Aaron Au: How SAP Brought "Discipline" to Cloud HCM Vendor (ASUG News)
Q&A: Mike Ettling on the future of HR, customers, and putting the Service in SaaS
Thoughts on the SuccessFactors consultant skillset (LinkedIn)
SuccessFactors Recognized as a Worldwide Integrated Talent Management Leader in 2014 IDC MarketScape
SAP Simplifies Cloud Adoption With New SAP® Best Practices Packages for SuccessFactors® HCM Suite (SAP News Center)
The Customer Engagement Executive for SuccessFactors Cloud Customers (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
Exciting Upcoming Changes for SAP Cloud Certification
The pitfalls of becoming an HCM SaaS consultant (Diginomica)
Planning a SuccessFactors HCM suite implementation (SearchSAP)
SAP On Cloud HR: Q&A With Mike Ettling (Information Week)
Solutions: Employee Central
Employee Central handbooks from SAP [s-user required]
SuccessFactors Employee Central - list of countries with Localizations
SuccessFactors Employee Central - list of languages
What’s New in SuccessFactors 1302 release for Employee Central, Platform and Admin Tools
SuccessFactors Employee Central – Time Off and other new features in the 1308 release
SuccessFactors November Release: Employee Central
Implementing SuccessFactors Employee Central with a SAP background
Eat like never before: SAP Networking Lunch
Manage Mass Changes in SuccessFactors Employee Central [registration required] (SAPexperts)
My Thoughts on SuccessFactors Employee Central
Employee Central Is Not A User Interface for SAP ERP HCM OnPremise (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
SuccessFactors Employee Central Time Off - Made for You! - YouTube (YouTube)
Time Off in SuccessFactors Employee Central: demonstration
Enhancing SuccessFactors Employee Central v12 Home Page - to HCP or not?
Here’s to 2013 and Employee Central !!!
How to Configure and Manage Workflows in SuccessFactors Employee Central [registration required] (SAPexperts)
Part 3: SuccessFactors Employee Central - What is the integration roadmap & FAQ's
Looking back 12 months at SuccessFactors Employee Central and the February 2014 (1402) release
Creating Metadata Framework Objects in SuccessFactors Employee Central [registration required] (SAPexperts)
The Side by Side HCM Deployment Model (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
SAP SuccessFactors Side by Side HCM Design Patterns (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
Historical data in SuccessFactors (Cloud HCM blog)
New features making SuccessFactors Employee Central more extensible (SearchSAP)
Side-By-Side HCM Overview Update (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
SuccessFactors EC and Cloud HCM Kickaround
Q&A: Time & Attendance with SuccessFactors and WorkForce Software
Five SuccessFactors Employee Central myths busted (SearchSAP)
Service Center support in SuccessFactors (Cloud HCM)
Create SuccessFactors Metadata Framework objects, rules with ease (SearchSAP)
Panel discussion on Side by Side Distributed Scenario [webinar] (SuccessFactors)
Packaged Integrations ease the flow of data between Employee Central, SAP ERP (SearchSAP)
SuccessFactors- 1408 Release-Employee Central Service Center – this is not your parent’s helpdesk
The SuccessFactors Employee Central Organization Structure
Q&A with SAP Mentor Luke Marson on SuccessFactors Employee Central (SAP Insider)
SAP Identity Management 8.0: SuccessFactors Connector
The SuccessFactors Employee Central Pay Structure
Expert tips for moving to SuccessFactors Employee Central (SearchSAP)
SuccessFactors Employee Central Time Sheet and Time Valuation
Solutions: Employee Central Payroll
Employee Central handbooks from SAP [s-user required]
SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll - list of supported countries
New SAP and SuccessFactors Cloud Payroll Offering
Solutions: Talent, Analytics, and Mobile
Employee Onboarding: Taking a Fresh Approach to Employee Engagement and Retention (SuccessFactors)
Calibrate Employee Performance Through SuccessFactors [registration required] (SAPexperts)
Comparison Between SAP ERP HCM E-Recruiting and SuccessFactors Recruiting [registration required] (SAPexperts)
SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics or SAP Business Intelligence for Human Resources?
SuccessFactors August Release: Faster, easier adoption of the latest innovations
SuccessFactors Salary Budgeting based on the Custom Fields
What I Like about SuccessFactors b1311 - Recruiting Management
SuccessFactors Release Management: Four Tips from Talisman Energy
SuccessFactors Q4 2013 Release: Reporting and Analytics
SuccessFactors November Release: Empowering Managers to Build Robust Bench Strength
SuccessFactors November Release: Onboarding - New Hires On The Go
SAP and SuccessFactors Launch Presentations for Dynamic Talent Reviews (SAP News)
Introducing SuccessFactors Presentations (YouTube)
SuccessFactors Q1 2014 Release: SuccessFactors Mobile
How to Enable, Create, and Manage the New SuccessFactors Metadata Framework-Based Talent Pools [registration required] (SAPexperts)
The New 'Programs' in SuccessFactors Learning (b1405)
SuccessFactors Q2 2014 Release: Reporting and Analytics
Q&A: Analytics with BI and SuccessFactors (ASUG)
SuccessFactors 1408 release: talk with Kevin Simpson from IBM on Compensation
Solutions: Learning
SuccessFactors LMS vs SAP LSO – Some observations (NTT Data Solutions)
SuccessFactors LMS: Power in Assignment Profiles
Configuring And/Or Prerequisites in SuccessFactors Learning
SAP Education Takes Learning to the Cloud (SuccessFactors)
SAP Learning Hub (YouTube)
SuccessFactors Learning - iContent Overview (YouTube)
Using Period-Based Curricula to Manage Training Due Dates in SuccessFactors Learning (Part I)
High-Performance Training Evaluation with SuccessFactors Learning
The New QuickGuides in SuccessFactors Learning
The Evolution of Search in SuccessFactors Learning
Configuring And/Or Prerequisites in SuccessFactors Learning
Solutions: SAP Jam
SAP Jam - Useful Resources and Documents
Technical, data model, and configuration
Mapping SAP OM objects to SuccessFactors For a Hybrid Model
SuccessFactors: The X Factor of Data Models
Employee Central Entities and Interfacing
Extending SuccessFactors with the Metadata Framework
Rules and Picklists in the SuccessFactors Metadata Framework
Configuring SAP HCM & SuccessFactors: A Comparison
Picklists Management and Cascading Picklists in SuccessFactors [registration required] (SAPexperts)
Two Paths To Full Cloud HCM (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
SuccessFactors Extensions
SAP HANA Cloud Platform: Turbocharge SuccessFactors Applications (YouTube)
Talking HCP: Building SuccessFactors apps on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform
New features making SuccessFactors Employee Central more extensible (SearchSAP)
Chris Paine on building extensions to SuccessFactors (YouTube)
Integration Strategy
SAP and SuccessFactors talent hybrid model: what lies ahead, plus a few small hidden jewels
SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Integration Packages: an overview
The Real Truth about SAP and SuccessFactors Integration
SAP and SuccessFactors - "Proven" Integration is Hype
Middleware Technology Options for Integrating SuccessFactors (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
Five critical factors to integrating SAP SuccessFactors with SAP HCM (SearchSAP)
How A Customer Connected 8 HR Systems With SuccessFactors (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
SAP Cloud Deployment Models and Their Evolution (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
ASUG C2C: KARL STORZ's SuccessFactors and SAP HCM Integration Story (ASUG News)
What are Packaged Integrations? (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
Analyzing SAP SuccessFactors Integration Add-On Downloads Using R (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
Integration and SAP Packaged Integrations
SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Integration Packages: an overview
Integration Add-on 1.0 for SAP HCM and SuccessFactors
Integration Add-on 1.0 for SAP HCM and SuccessFactors: Support Package 2
Integration Add-on 2.0 for SAP HCM and SuccessFactors
Integration add-on 2.0 for SAP ERP HCM and SuccessFactors BizX – SAP Help Portal Page (help.sap.com)
Integration Packages Administration Guide on SAP Service Marketplace [S-user required]
Pilot Test of the Integration add-on for SAP ERP HCM & SuccessFactors BizX
Integration Q&A: Managing employee compensation using SAP HCM and SuccessFactors
Integration Q&A: Real-World Impressions on SAP and SuccessFactors Integration Add-On’s
SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Biz X Employee Basic Data Integration RDS Demo - YouTube (YouTube)
SAP HCM and SuccessFactors Biz X Compensation Integration RDS Demo - YouTube (YouTube)
A few missing pieces for SuccessFactors and SAP integration.
Dell Boomi AtomSphere for SuccessFactors (Dell Boomi)
How to integrate SuccessFactors talent data into SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse?
SAP Jam ABAP Integration - Configuration Guide for SP Level 5
SAP Jam ABAP Integration - Configuration Guide for SP Level 6
LSO-to-SuccessFactors LMS RDS | hyperCision, Inc. [HyperCision]
PI Configuration Example (NWPI 1.0 SP2-4 & 2.0 SP0) [S-user required]
PI Configuration Example (NWPI 1.0 SP6 & 2.0 SP2) [S-user required]
Part 3: SuccessFactors Employee Central - What is the integration roadmap & FAQ's
SuccessFactors Adapter in SAP HANA Cloud Integration (SAP HCI)
SuccessFactors (SFSF) Adapter for SAP NetWeaver Process Integration
1405 Release - SuccessFactors Competencies and Curricula Integration With SAP ERP Qualifications
Hands-On – Testing Integration with SuccessFactors SFAPI
Hands-On – Testing Integration with SuccessFactors OData API
SAP ERP HCM Integration with SuccessFactors Talent Solutions Overview by Prashanth Padmanabhan (Gibbon)
PI.SFSF.DOC – SFSF OData Dynamic query “$filter" clause at runtime.
Packaged Integrations ease the flow of data between Employee Central, SAP ERP (SearchSAP)
SuccessFactors Variable Pay Integration With SAP ERP HCM (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
SuccessFactors Customer Community For APIs and Integration (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
Integration Add-on 3.0 for SAP HCM and SuccessFactors
Integration Add-on 3.0 for SAP HCM and SuccessFactors: Service Package 1
SAP SuccessFactors - Talent Hybrid Integration Hands On Training (Prashanth Padmanabhan blog)
How to setup SuccessFactors Adapter with SAP Data Services
OData Adapter in SAP HANA Cloud Integration (SAP HCI)
Tips and Tricks
Tip: Creating a single URL for logging directly into SuccessFactors BizX demo instance
Single Sign-On to SuccessFactors from SAP HCM
Single Sign-On between SAP Portal and SuccessFactors
Acquisition by SAP and Roadmap
Thoughts on SuccessFactors, Holiday Wish Lists for SAP HCM, and UNICEF [podcast] (SAP HCM Insights Podcast)
SAP and SuccessFactors Acquisition Q&A (Cloud Avenue)
News Analysis: SAP Buys SuccessFactors for $3.4B Signals SAP's Commitment To Cloud, HCM, and Social (Constellation Research)
SAP to Buy Into Software as a Service With SuccessFactors Deal [PDF] (Garnter)
SAP To Buy SuccessFactors: Major Shift In Talent Management Market (updated) (Bersin by Deloitte)
SAP and SuccessFactors Roadmap Analysis (Cloud Avenue)
SAP and SuccessFactors HCM Roadmap - With Amy Thistle [podcast] (SAP HCM Insights Podcast)