
Why IDPS
To know more about why IDPs are required, check the blog post on Implementation Design Principles. Please provide feedback on this blog post.
Implementation Assets

Claim IDP Rising Star Badge
SAP SuccessFactors partners and consultants: you can claim an SAP knowledge badge called SAP SuccessFactors IDP Rising Star after passing the product web assessment available in the SAP Learning Hub. Below are the links to the SAP Learning Journey (LJ) & Learning Program (LP) that you can access to claim your respective IDP Rising Star badge:
- SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics Reporting LJ, LP & IDP Rising Star badge
- SAP SuccessFactors Learning LJ, LP & IDP Rising Star badge
- SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding LJ, LP & IDP Rising Star badge
- SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central LJ, LP & IDP Rising Star badge
- SAP SuccessFactors Platform LP & IDP Rising Star badge
- SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone LP & IDP Rising Star badge
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
Administration
Employee Central: Managing Alerts and Notifications
Document | Blog Post | Webinar
Employee Central: Implementation Considerations for a Phased Rollout
Employee Central: Recognizing Gender Diversity (Updated)
Document | Blog Post
Employee Central: Optimizing Business Rules for Select Business Scenarios
Document | Blog Post
Employee Central: Processing Mass Transactions
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Position Management: Design Considerations and Recommendations
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central: Job Information Entity Configuration Considerations
Integration
SAP Fieldglass and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Integration: Solution Design and Implementation Considerations (New)
Manage Pay
Employee Central: Managing Pay Scale Based Salary Increase
Employee Central: Managing Indirect Valuation of Pay Components
Employee Central: Managing Pay Scale Progression (Updated)
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Employee Central: Managing Payroll Relevant Data Changes
Document | Blog Post | Webinar
Manage Employments
Employee Central: Managing Employments in SAP SuccessFactors Suite (Updated)
Manage Localization
Employee Central Country Specific: Recording Work Permit Information with Different Document Formats
Employee Central Country Specific: Managing Legal and Union specific Dismissal Protection
Some country specific laws or union agreements, especially in LATAM countries for example in Brazil, An employee is protected from termination if he goes on certain types of leaves. Regardless of the reason why the employee is under this condition, whether legally or due to union agreement, the company is at risk of paying taxes and even court sanctions in case this process is not respected. The content of this IDP addresses a way to manage protection records based on time off events according to the criteria satisfied by the employee condition. This protection management covers both the creation and the inactivation of records automatically.
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Integration to SAP Business Suite
Side-by-Side
Employee Central Side-by-Side: Deployment and Solution Architecture Considerations
Core Hybrid

Cross-System Workflow for SAP SuccessFactors Solutions (Updated)
Employee Central Core Hybrid: Data and Process Distribution Details
Employee Central Core Hybrid: Organization Structure Design Considerations (Updated)
The document explains the basics of organization management structures and describes the factors that influence organizational structure design. Difference structure designs are presented in this document with the advantages and disadvantages of each option including the recommendation of which option can be used and when.
Data Migration
Employee Central Core Hybrid: Migrating Contingent Workforce to EC (Updated)
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Employee Central Data Migration: Cutover Optimization Using Infoporter
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Employee Central: Employee Data Migration Strategy and Implementation Considerations
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SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll
Employee Central Payroll
Employee Central Payroll: Migrating from ERP HCM Payroll to Employee Central Payroll
Document
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll: lntegration to SAP S/4 HANA On-Premise
This document will review typical integration scenarios between SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll and S/4 HANA for the available deployment options. It will enlist some of the best practices underlying these integration scenarios by explaining the critical configurations needed to run the processes seamlessly.
SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite & People Analytics
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management and Employee Central Integration
SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite Integration
SAP SuccessFactors Suite: Identity & Access Management
This document describes the enablement of secure user access using single sign-on for customers with a landscape consisting of SuccessFactors in the cloud, on-premise consisting of SAP applications, SCP extensions, as well as other third-party applications. It also explains some of the single sign-on scenarios involving internal employees as well as externals/contractors, besides explaining the upcoming features and updates regarding Identity Authentication with SuccessFactors.
SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite: Configuration Life Cycle Management
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SAP SuccessFactors Compensation: Design and Integration of Different Salary Structures in One Global Compensation Template
Document | Blog Post | Webinar
SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics
SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics: Story Report Design & Implementation Considerations (Updated)
Document | Blog Post | Webinar
SAP SuccessFactors Learning

SAP SuccessFactors Learning: Setting up an Open Content Network Provider
SAP SuccessFactors created the Open Content Network (OCN) framework to partner with Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) providers to provide content to SAP SuccessFactors Learning solution. SAP SuccessFactors partners can leverage the resources to build and deliver these learning courses at minimal cost and development efforts using a single implementation framework and a common set of APIs. This document helps to understand how different components in SAP SuccessFactors Learning are used to deliver courses hosted by different Open Content Network vendors in a customer landscape.
SAP SuccessFactors Learning: Impact of implementing SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
Document | Blog Post | Webinar
SAP SuccessFactors Learning: Implementation Considerations for Efficient Security Design
Document | Blog Post | Webinar
SAP SuccessFactors Learning: Sustainable System Design
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SAP SuccessFactors Learning: Employee Centered Learning Experience
SuccessFactors Learning is extremely flexible in terms of its configuration and can reflect the changing learning needs in customer’s organization, while still maintaining the essential functionality that customers need. This Implementation Design Principle document addresses design considerations to define a better user experience for the learners as well as make best use of the capabilities available to customers today to not only improving the learner experience but also meet business needs.
SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding
SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding: Furnish Equipment integration to External Application
This document provides the equipment requisition process integration for Onboarding with any procurement or ticketing system. Onboarding offers the task of creating a request for equipment. Once the request is created, an intelligent service event is triggered. This event could be used for creating a request in the ticketing/procurement application.
Document | Blog Post
SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding: Configuration Optimization Techniques
Document | Blog Post

SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding Rehire Process
The Onboarding functionality within SuccessFactors supports the ability to rehire employees but is currently limited to rehiring employees with new employment. Rehiring employees on their existing inactive employment when a person is brought back after a period can be accomplished using workarounds suggested in this document. Each of the proposed options comes with certain advantages and limitations that need to be weighed in by the customer whilst picking up an option. This document provides recommendations to guide the customer while implementing these workarounds.
SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding: External HRIS Integration (SAP ERP HCM)
SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding: Role-Based Permission Guidance (Updated)
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SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace
Implementation Considerations for SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace and Talent Intelligence Hub
SAP SuccessFactors Opportunity Marketplace solution connects employees to opportunities - such as learning, mentoring, roles, short-term assignments, and open jobs- by considering their skills and competencies, plus their capabilities, interests, and aspirations. As the solution has rapidly evolved over the last few releases, the upcoming IDP document is focused on supporting two streams. Firstly, customers who want to enable the classic Capability portfolio & Center of capabilities in a b2211 instance. Secondly, to also explain all configuration settings for the b2211 EAC customers who want to implement Talent Intelligence Hub & Growth Portfolio.
Document | Related Blog Post
SAP SuccessFactors Time Management

SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking: Clock In Clock Out Configuration Considerations
SAP SuccessFactors Platform, SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone & Integration
SAP SuccessFactors Integration: Migrating EC-ERP Productized Integrations from Dell Boomi to Cloud Integration
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SAP SuccessFactors Integration: Integration Center and Cloud Integration
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SAP SuccessFactors Integration: Best Practices using SAP SuccessFactors APIs for Custom Integrations
This document provides advice on the technical design of SuccessFactors custom integrations using OData APIs and Compound Employee APIs. It covers comprehensive guidelines for picking the right API for different use cases, delta and deletion handling, handling date/time data with API, batching API request, accessing workflow data and writing data into Employee Central.
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Data: Integration Best Practices and Considerations
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central is a Core HR Information System which enables businesses to manage/maintain Organization, Job & Pay Structure data and Person & Employment data. This Implementation Design Principle describes best practices for extracting data from Employee Central in addition to security considerations when exchanging the data between SAP and Non-SAP Systems. It also explains the choice of Employee Identifier depending on the downstream system and landscape.
SAP SuccessFactors Integration Patterns – Bidirectional Identity Integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory
This IDP focuses on the bidirectional integration aspects of identities between SAP SuccessFactors and Microsoft Active Directory(MS AD) and Microsoft Azure Active Directory(MS Azure AD). It explains how a customer landscape can evolve from SAP on-premise with SAP IDM to an integrated landscape with SAP SuccessFactors where MS AD, MS Azure AD and SAP Identity Authentication Service coexist.
SAP SuccessFactors Integration: Migrating SAP SuccessFactors API calls from Basic Authentication to oAuth2.0
Document | Blog Post | Webinar Part 1 | Webinar Part 2
Platform
SAP SuccessFactors Suite: Instance Management to Support Project Implementation Lifecycle
Document | Blog Post | Webinar
SAP SuccessFactors Suite: Design and Implementation considerations for Role Based Permissions
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SAP SuccessFactors Reimagined Home Page: Key Considerations
SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone: Migration and Implementation Considerations
This Implementation Design Principle addresses some of the essential architecture, migration and implementation concepts to be considered while planning and executing an implementation of SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone.
Document | Related Blog Post | Webinar
SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone: Developing and Extending Content (Updated)
This Implementation Design Principle document provides guidance on using SAP BTP Services (as part of SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone) to create new extensions and/or modify standard content as per customer’s needs.