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nickkruger
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The First Half 2025 Release brings a range of exciting enhancements to SAP SuccessFactors Learning. The latest updates lay the foundation for the future of Talent Management with innovative capabilities to drive skills management, learning, and development. Our 1H 2025 Release brings a vastly improved experience for learners and managers alike, all underpinned by an array of AI-powered capabilities.

Here's a quick overview of what's included in this release:

Improved Manager Experience

Building on the new manager view unveiled in our 2H 2024 release, our latest innovations allow managers to easily navigate their reporting hierarchy to view their teams' learning progress as well as encourage developmental learning progress. Managers can also preview and edit notification nudges to their teams when they need some focused attention on overdue learning, increasing manager efficiency and oversight while driving overall compliance adherence.

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Hierarchy View

Enhanced Integrated Learning Experience (ILX)

Across recent releases, we’ve continued to evolve the Integrated Learning Experience (ILX), offering learners greater clarity and helping them prioritize what they must, should, and want to learn. With our latest release, we’re excited to announce further enhancements to the Integrated Learning Experience. Surveys have been enabled for end users which allow employees to share their feedback, helping administrators and instructors measure learning effectiveness and improve outcomes.

Optional curricula items are now displayed on the user’s Important Learning section for additional relative learning options they can explore, providing greater discovery to the most relevant material.

Finally, administrators will get the help they need to troubleshoot with Proxy support, allowing them to seamlessly step into users’ views to diagnose and address issues quickly while ensuring timely compliance. 

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Optional curricula items

Unleashing the Power of AI

With our custom AI-Assisted Image Generation, employees can now reduce complexity and improve efficiency in finding and creating relevant, contextual and custom images. This will also improve user engagement by capturing their attention using unique, high-quality images rather than generic stock photos. 

We are also thrilled to announce additional Learning capabilities in Joule available with our 1H 2025 release. With Joule, work efficiency can be improved by using conversational language to assist users in knowing the required learning, training, assignment, and timelines. Additionally, administrators can boost compliance rates by delivering quick access to required training, ensuring users stay informed and on track. Approvals are also streamlined with Joule, giving approvers a faster, more efficient way to take action on pending requests, thus improving the user experience. 

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AI-Assisted Image generation

Want a First-hand look?

Visit the SAP SuccessFactors 1H 2025 Product Release page to download the full release brochureoverview video featuring Bianka Woelke, and demo highlighting skills focused learning opportunities in the growth portfolio.

2 Comments
RZAlexander
Newcomer

While the Improved Manager Experience seems to provide some good benefits, there are a dozen or more tools available for free or low-cost AI image generation. I can't speak for anyone else but this is not something that brings a lot of value.

The only thing I have been watching for is the xAPI support. It has been pushed from 2023 to now Q4 of 2025, and I imagine it will be pushed again when we get closer to that date.

It's imperative that we get xAPI as soon as possible. It's a more robust communication protocol, provides significant improvement for the user experience and the learning administrator, and will solve many problems that are being caused by our need to use SCORM 2004 for scoring quizzes. It's the only thing on your roadmap I have been following and that I care about, yet it's been moved back every single release cycle. Please provide more details on the challenges your team is experiencing and/or why this is not a higher priority for SAP.

gyoung
Explorer

I would like to echo @RZAlexander's comments -- xAPI/cmi5 support would be excellent!

We experienced some issues with session timeouts using SCORM content and it took quite a long time to resolve. It appears the LMS' interpretation of historical AICC standards for parsing exit behaviour calls results in issues with sessions, unless workarounds (i.e. manually excluding cmi.core.exit functionality by editing the relevant .js files) are performed by modifying SCORM wrappers (that otherwise work without issue in other LMS' our organization works with).

Looking forward to xAPI/cmi5 support - and the related documentation - improving the experience for administrators, learners, and content developers!

Some links for historical reference: