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Elevate every employee’s story with SAP SuccessFactors HCM
The 1H 2025 SAP SuccessFactors HCM release brings more than 250 new features and enhancements. From expanded AI capabilities and mobile innovations to updates across learning, recruiting, and time management, this release is further building on our commitment to connect every part of the employee experience, streamline operations, and support a workforce that’s ready for the future. These updates align with our four innovation focus areas and are designed to help employees bring out their best.
Elevate the Experience
AI: Smarter support for employees, managers, and HR teams
Joule, SAP’s AI copilot, is now available in 10 more languages and on mobile, giving employees and managers even easier access to answers, actions, and insights - anytime, anywhere. New AI features include guidance on pay statements, time-off requests, learning updates, and admin support.
In Performance & Goals, we’ve introduced a new form experience along with AI-assisted comments and insights to make performance conversations more useful and personalized. A new sentiment analysis for 360 reviews helps highlight opportunities for development.
Mobile: Helping employees stay connected on the go
The mobile app now includes an expanded people profile view with data from benefits, payroll, and learning. A new time summary feature keeps employees up to date, while custom learning cards help admins promote key content wherever employees are.
Microsoft Teams: HR in the flow work
Our Microsoft Teams integration now supports multiple tenants, making it easier for global organizations to stay connected. We’re also enhancing SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central quick actions in Microsoft Teams, enabling users to create one-time payments, update marital status (with attachment support where needed), and log time directly from Teams - including tracking missed punches.
Build a Future-Ready Workforce
Skills-focused learning opportunities in the growth portfolio
For learners, we are offering skills-focused learning in the growth portfolio with a curated list of learning opportunities to improve key skills and competencies. Users can discover filtered learning options tailored to their upskilling needs, supporting organizational transformation.
Career and talent development made smarter
Managers can now evaluate successors with AI-assisted insights that highlight experience, skills, and growth potential. Team development insights provide a better view of skills and interests across the team, and updates to the improve internal mobility and assignment matching.
Guided application experience for recruiting
With this release, we are pleased to share a redesigned application experience in the SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting solution. A guided, modernized user interface helps applicants dynamically enter their information while simplifying and accelerating the application process, reducing application drop-offs. AI-assisted interview summarization and writing speed up recruiter workflows.
Alumni experience
We are thrilled to launch the alumni experience in the SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding solution. The alumni experience helps departing employees manage personal information and gives them access to support, documents, and resources. Additionally, AI-assisted offboarding through Joule helps enable task completion and provides departing employees with a wellstructured offboarding experience.
Deliver HR agility and compliance
Employee Central: A better profile, and faster, easier actions
Building on the successful launch of our updated people profile, we’ve continued to enhance the user experience by bringing in additional content from across SAP SuccessFactors solutions, including benefits, payroll, and learning. Additionally, Managers can now create job requisitions directly from the My Team Positions view, reducing the need to navigate between pages.
Global Benefits: More choice, clearer decisions
Employees can now enroll in a wider range of benefits, including lifestyle options like gym memberships and parking. Admins get more flexibility with new tools for plan comparisons, localization, and deductible management.
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll
With this release, employees can easily understand details of their pay statements by simply asking Joule, reducing HR inquiries and tickets, lowering service delivery costs, and boosting employee satisfaction.
We are also introducing the integration of the position budgeting control workbench with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll. Along with existing integrations with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, this provides payroll administrators with real-time insights into position budget utilization and costs. The wider visibility enables better management of allocated funds and grants, offering a comprehensive view of salary costs, committed budget, and available funds for personnel expenses.
SAP SuccessFactors Time management solutions
The latest SAP SuccessFactors release makes managing time easier for everyone. Employees can now submit time-off requests through Joule for a faster, more intuitive experience, while new quick-create tools in Time Tracking streamline time-sheet entry across multiple days.
Managers get more control too, with single-record approvals, workflow triggers for exceptions like overtime, and new flexible time-sheet periods that align with local payroll needs. It’s all about reducing admin, boosting accuracy, and supporting timely, compliant payroll around the world.
Integrate and extend HR
SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone: One place for everything employees need
New homepage quick actions make it simple for employees and managers to handle everyday tasks like checking pay, tracking time, or completing training. Learning-specific cards for managers help keep teams on track and compliant.
System administration and security
This release brings powerful new tools for system admins. Joule now helps resolve login and access issues using natural language, simplifying identity management through intuitive support. We’re also piloting a bulk translation tool using generative AI, making it easy to localize UI labels into 100+ languages quickly and cost-effectively.
Plus, with support for event-driven architecture, SAP SuccessFactors now connects in real time with SAP and third-party systems via SAP Event Hub, enabling seamless, enterprise-wide integrations triggered by key HR events like new hires.
These are just a few of the many innovations in the SAP SuccessFactors First Half 2025 Release. Learn more with the resources below:
- Check out Product Release & Roadmap Information on the SAP SuccessFactors Community (registration required) or HCM Innovations on sap.com to see additional release resources, including the release brochure, product videos, and solution specific blogs.
- Watch the 1H 2025 release highlights video with Bianka Woelke, GVP, Head of Application Product Management
Here’s to another great release - and to making every employee a success story.
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