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WDittrich
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To help customers and partners understand how and when to leverage the different implementation assets available, we created this blog post.  We are going to talk about the following assets:

  • Architectural Leading Practices (ALPs) - Management level overview on critical architecture topics conforming to guardrails and referencing IDPs for further details where applicable.  ALPs work as a perfect front end to detailed Implementation Design Principles.



  • Process Library - HR processes and related Leading Practices supported by SAP SuccessFactors. Designed end-to-end across modules of SAP SuccessFactors.  Solution relevant steps including manual steps are depicted in process flows.



  • SAP Best Practices - Proven set of HR business process configuration: Conforming to Implementation Design Principles and Process Library.  Provides what most customers require, based on the experience and learnings from customer implementation projects. allowing automated and modular deployment.



  • Implementation Design Principles (IDPs) - Expert level guidance beyond Implementation Guides on implementation design and strategy addressing how to leverage SAP SuccessFactors to fulfill customer requirements end-to-end while conforming to guardrails and product roadmap.



  • Implementation Guides - Explain in detail all available configuration options usually specific to a module. Typical audience include Designers and Configurators (Functional, Integration), as well as Solution Architects, and Customers.


Please see the figure below for the definition as well as details regarding use-case, audience, deliverables, and delivery channels of various assets and artifacts produced by SAP SuccessFactors Professional Services and Product Teams.



As indicated above, always linking to the same content, all the assets are available via different channels to make them easier to find.  For example, the Empowerment Center on the Customer Community provides links to most of them.  We recommend consuming them along the phases of the SAP Activate Methodology as follows:

  • Discover - Architectural Leading Practices, Process Library



  • Prepare - Architectural Leading Practices, Process Library



  • Explorer - Process Library, SAP Best Practices, Implementation Design Principles



  • Realize - SAP Best Practices, Implementation Design Principles


Jointly the assets listed above provide a holistic framework on how to leverage SAP SuccessFactors in the best possible way to achieve the desired customer business goals as well as reduce implementation challenges overall.

The assets rank from an architecture level down to detailed design and configuration level addressing the different needs depending on the audience and/or the project phase.  SAP’s intent is to have the assets as redundant free as far as possible and complementing each other.

Furthermore, additional implementation assets including the ones listed above have been released through the roadmap viewer available through support linked here.

This blog post was jointly written by the SAP SuccessFactors Professional Services and Product teams.
15 Comments
I060852
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
Hi Wolfgang,

 

Thanks to you and team for consolidating everything in one place.  This was the need of the hour. This really helps and I am sure will help several others in implementations around the world.

 

Thanks again,

Gurpreet
RinkyKarthik
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
Thanks for summarizing this info!
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Hi Wolfgang,

Many thanks for this consolidated version

It seems that there is an error in the link for the   Implementation Design Principles (IDPs)

Thanks again

Filippos

Thanks for the index, Wolfgang. It is always confusing chasing information, with all the website re-organizing and consolidation. We definitely need a SPOE (Single Point of Entry, I just made that up) for all SFSF implementation searches.
Smitha
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
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Hi Filippos,

The link on IDPs is working for us. Can you let me know what error are you getting?

Best regards,

Smitha
former_member24324
Participant
Wolfgang-

 

This is an EXCELLENT blog!  It's a shame it's just a blog (which tend to get buried over time).  This really belongs as a summary first page in the Empowerment Center, especially the diagram!
Anigam
Explorer
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Excellent !!
Smitha
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
Hi Brandon,

Thanks for your feedback and we are glad you find these details helpful. I am from Wolfgang’s team and can say that we have plans to update these details on SAP SuccessFactors Customer community shortly.

Thanks again,

Smitha
RinkyKarthik
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert
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brandon.toombs_cultiv8consulting.com  Thanks for the feedback. While all these documents are available in the Empowerment center, it's a great idea to share the diagram as well! I see that Smitha is already working towards that!
former_member881
Participant
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Great Job and thank for blog!!
Barin
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Product and Topic Expert
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I301725
Advisor
Advisor
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Great blog and should be more visible
Bashir_Hussain
Active Participant
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Thank you so much for sharing this summarized information.
Jana_Rakusan12
Participant
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Hello @WDittrich ,

I am getting IDP Newsletter from you. I would like to advise my colleagues, how to subscribe to receive it, but can't find instructions where/how to subscribe for the Newsletter.

Kindly advise how to subscribe.

Thanks,

Jana

WDittrich
Associate
Associate
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Hi  @Jana_Rakusan12,

Thank you for the question.

In case your team or other partners are interested in subscribing to the SAP SuccessFactors IDP newsletter, you can write to our team’s email address SAPSuccessFactorsIDPDoc@sap.com using the subject "Subscribe SAP SuccessFactors IDP Newsletter".

Kind Regards,
Wolfgang