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What Is SAP Talent Management?
SAP Talent Management products are offered in the SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management suite. The solutions offer capabilities that go beyond traditional core human resources (HR) software, enabling companies to provide more employee-centric HR programs from recruitment to retirement and beyond. SAP Talent Management also encompasses non-HR functions, such as sales performance management.
Talent management has become increasingly important at companies as they have realized the value of employee retention and employee satisfaction. This has encouraged organizations to offer better experiences in key areas such as talent acquisition, onboarding, development planning, training, and goal setting.
The SAP Talent Management modules include:
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
- SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding
- SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals
- SAP SuccessFactors Compensation
- SAP SuccessFactors Learning
- SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development
- Sales Performance Management
- Opportunity Marketplace
Many companies offer SAP Talent Management services that help customers implement SAP SuccessFactors as part of their HR strategy, such as Alight and Deloitte. Other companies offer products that integrate with SAP SuccessFactors to expand on SAP Talent Management capabilities. For example, Phenom provides a Candidate Experience Management solution that can complement SAP SuccessFactors capabilities.
What Is SAP Talent Management?
SAP Talent Management products are offered in the SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management suite. The solutions offer capabilities that go beyond traditional core human resources (HR) software, enabling companies to provide more employee-centric HR programs from recruitment to retirement and beyond. SAP Talent Management also encompasses non-HR functions, such as sales performance management.
Talent management has become increasingly important at companies as they have realized the value of employee retention and employee satisfaction. This has encouraged organizations to offer better experiences in key areas such as talent acquisition, onboarding, development planning, training, and goal setting.
The SAP Talent Management modules include:
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
- SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding
- SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals
- SAP SuccessFactors Compensation
- SAP SuccessFactors Learning
- SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development
- Sales Performance Management
- Opportunity Marketplace
Many companies offer SAP Talent Management services that help customers implement SAP SuccessFactors as part of their HR strategy, such as Alight and Deloitte. Other companies offer products that integrate with SAP SuccessFactors to expand on SAP Talent Management capabilities. For example, Phenom provides a Candidate Experience Management solution that can complement SAP SuccessFactors capabilities.
Key SAP Talent Management Considerations for SAPinsiders
- SAP Talent Management offerings are cloud-based. SAP SuccessFactors made its name in the talent management software-as-a-service (SaaS) space long before it was purchased by SAP in 2012. A decade later, SAP SuccessFactors is SAP’s primary focus for HR software development, with the cloud-based talent management modules getting twice-yearly updates.
- Many on-premise SAP ERP HCM customers also use SAP SuccessFactors talent modules. The SAP SuccessFactors suite is offered in a modular way — which means customers can choose specific functionalities without investing in a full cloud HR suite. On-premise SAP customers have often added on SAP SuccessFactors talent modules such as Performance & Goals or Recruiting to their existing HCM offering as a way to test the cloud HR software waters.
- Companies are increasing focus on a potential employee’s first impression. In our recent HR Technology State of the Market report, recruiting and onboarding solutions were in use or being implemented at just 36% and 29% of respondents’ organizations, respectively; however, they were the top two HR technologies in planning or evaluation mode. This suggests companies are beginning to understand the importance of a first impression when it comes to meeting requirements — particularly in areas such as talent acquisition and retention.
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SAP Announces Acquisition of SmartRecruitersAug 1, 2025 — SAP has announced its acquisition of SmartRecruiters to enhance its SAP SuccessFactors suite with advanced talent acquisition capabilities, including AI-enabled recruiting, aiming to streamline the hiring process for customers and ensure compliance and responsible AI usage.
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How The Davey Tree Expert Company Expanded Reach of Recruiting Efforts and Reduced Time to HireJan 2, 2020 — In a recent SAPinsider research survey, SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors customers were asked to identify which metrics were most important for measuring the success of their HCM strategies and actions. The leading answer was employee satisfaction (48%), but two measurements critical to talent acquisition were close behind in the results – time-to-hire (36%) and […]
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Town Hall: Is Managing the “Whole” Employee too Big a Bite to Take?Jul 22, 2022 — There is a growing consensus that the more you can understand about your employees the better you can manage them. Additionally, allowing employees to be part of their own career journey encourages retention of talent. But how do we get there?
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Kennametal’s Global Rewards Journey with Xoxoday and SAP SuccessFactorsApr 1, 2022 — How do you make rewards appealing to your employees? They need to be relevant to their daily lives. That can be a challenge when you have employees in different countries around the world. Kennametal overcame that challenge and increased engagement in its rewards program by providing localized awards with the help of Xoxoday and SAP SuccessFactors.
Xoxoday provided Kennametal with a global, standardized platform for redemption, but provided employees with regionally-relevant awards. Kennametal also worked closely with Xoxoday to ensure the platform met their specific needs, even down to company culture—aligning rewards and recognition to Kennametal’s core beliefs.
“There were things we challenged Xoxoday to do for us that maybe they hadn’t done with other clients, but now they can bring those solutions to other clients,” says Lippa. “We have a relationship to be a little innovative in how we are going to use the program and how we are going to leverage recognition for our employees.”
In this SAPinsider Technology Insight video, hear:
How Kennametal transformed its rewards and redemptions program with Xoxoday and SAP SuccessFactors integration.
Why offering relevant and localized rewards was key to the success of the program.
Kennametal’s co-innovation journey with Xoxoday to build a unified rewards and recognition platform aligning with its core company beliefs that could be applied globally across multiple countries.
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HR: Case study: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota’s journey to an integrated talent management systemMar 4, 2019 — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota created a focus group of employees that said it needed a more user-friendly, integrated, and accessible HR solution. It collected data from its existing HR system and found that the issue log highlighted problems with data, access, and cross functional reports. Also, the HR team knew that it needed a more integrated talent system to track turnover, critical talent flight risk, engagement, and skill needs. After a lot of scrutiny that included multiple stages of questions, demos, and analysis, the team agreed on SAP SuccessFactors as a solution for talent management.
In this deck, you will learn how to:
• Migrate to SAP SuccessFactors talent including succession planning and performance management.
• Evaluate the need for a talent system change.
• Collaborate with different teams (IT and HR).
• Increase adaptability of HR professionals through training, marketing, and promotion of the new system.
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Live from SAPinsider Studio: Jeremy Masters on Hybrid TalentApr 5, 2017 — Jeremy Masters, Managing Partner, Worklogix, discusses talent hybrid scenarios during an interview with SAPinsider at the SAPinsider HR 2017 event in Orlando, Florida. Topics of this discussion include: What it means to establish a true talent hybrid set-up using SuccessFactors employee portfolio and standard integrations Pros and cons of using SAP Process Integration or HANA […]
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Increase Sales with Alumni-Specific Community BuildingOct 28, 2021 — More than four million Americans resigned from their jobs in May 2021, according to analysis published by Gallup. The same analysis says that close to half of the U.S. working population is actively looking for another job or at least watching for openings. Employee turn-over gets a bad reputation, but could the Great Resignation also pose a strategic business advantage?
PeoplePath, a global leading provider of cloud-based platforms designed to engage and manage relationships with everyone in the employee lifecycle (candidates, employees, and alumni), says that an employee leaving can create new opportunity.
SAPinsider met with the company’s Vice President for Customer Advocacy, Jenn Pedde (JP), to understand how businesses can engage with talent throughout their entire careers, build lifelong relationships, and ultimately experience long-term benefits for the company through lasting connections.
Read this article and find out:
- How to use your former employees as valuable assets for your organization.
- How PeopePath can help you turn former employees into current resources.
- The importance of organizing your contacts with former employees.
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How Sealed Air Is Transforming Its Employee Learning ExperienceDec 20, 2019 — 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 […]
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