SuccessFactors follows a quarterly release cycle and their most recent update was released on July 27th. One of the things that struck me at SuccessConnect in San Francisco was the fact that although SuccessFactors is providing information on the updates in several channels there still seemed to be many customers that were unaware of what had been delivered in earlier releases. In this article I will focus on some of the new functionality and fixes that SuccessFactors has made available in this and in the past release for Employee Central.
Employee Central 2.0 July 27, 2012
Employee Central 2.0 April 20, 2012
Just to recap what was released in the last release in case you missed.
In speaking with the team at SuccessConnect their future roadmap will focus on continuing to build out position management, absence management, mass changes, global expat assignment, real time analytics and global payroll while adding functionality for mergers/acquisitions and external workers. There are also future plans to enhance the architecture to support a MetaData Framework (Naomi Bloom will be happy) and an ongoing investment in the integration platform as well workflow and rules engine.
Employee Central has been bought by 110 customers with about 60 live and some solid momentum as SuccessFactors has signed several large new global customers with 50K+ employees already this year. It is extremely obvious that SAP and SuccessFactors are committed to building out their cloud HRMS offering as per Bill Kutik they re-assigned about 500 experienced product managers and engineers to the development effort as well asSuccessFactors VP Engineering Adam Kovalevsky is moving to Germany to manage the team. My initial view is Employee Central is somewhat light in functionality when compared to what is currently offered in SAP HRMS but given the competitive pressures and large development team I will be watching the future releases very closely as I have high expectations.
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