Leong-Cohen, DonnaDonna Leong-Cohen works in the SAP Customer Success team at SAP to ensure global delivery excellence of SAP SuccessFactors. Until recently, Donna was managing director at Coeus Consulting. She has extensive experience implementing HCM global systems and in business consulting, specializing in HR business process transformation for a broad spectrum of global and domestic clients. Donna has considerable expertise in SAP SuccessFactors data migration and integration solutions, having worked closely with SAP's best practices teams to develop SAP SuccessFactors best practice package solutions. She has also partnered with SAP Education to design and develop various SAP SuccessFactors training courses. Donna's specialty focuses on customer transformations from on-premise SAP HCM systems to SAP SuccessFactors cloud platforms.
Kandi, VishnuVishnuvardhan Kandi leads the SAP SuccessFactors data and integration practice and has been part of several integration implementations at SAP. He has an extensive background in enterprise-class software development, implementation, and management, and more than 15 years of experience in integrations and client-server and web-based technologies. He has experience in managing development teams, as well as architecting, developing, and deploying highly scalable and available systems.
Karthik, RinkyRinky Karthik is a principal solution architect with the SAP SuccessFactors HR Cloud Architect and Advisory team. Rinky has an MBA in human resources and more than 18 years of professional experience in the SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors ecosystem. Rinky started her career as an on-premise SAP HCM consultant and has been part of many SAP HCM global implementations in diverse roles. She's been actively engaged in the SAP SuccessFactors cloud HR suite since 2011, and has many certifications in SAP SuccessFactors: Employee Central, Recruiting, Onboarding, and Learning. She has been a part of many SAP SuccessFactors implementation projects, specializing mostly in SAP on-premise to SAP SuccessFactors cloud transformation projects as a solution architect. In her role as a cloud solution architect, she has provided advisory services associated with core HR/talent management processes, including deployment strategy, instance strategy, cross-module strategy, and optimization efforts for global SAP SuccessFactors transformation projects. Rinky is the author of SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting: A Complete Integration Guide and has contributed valuable content to the SAP HCM ecosystem with her blogs, whitepapers, and articles.
Gan, Seng PingSeng Ping Gan is a technical integration expert who specializes in SAP system integration for SAP C/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, SAP S/4HANA, and other SAP solutions. He has more than 10 years of technical experience in SAP integration projects and has worked with global companies in Asia, Europe, and the USA. His area of technical expertise includes SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Process Integration, Dell Boomi, and ABAP.

... Preface ... 23

... Who This Book Is For ... 23

... How This Book Is Organized ... 24

... Acknowledgements ... 30

... Conclusion ... 30

I ... Integration Concepts ... 31

1 ... Deployment Models ... 33

1.1 ... Cloud Technology ... 34

1.2 ... Full Cloud Deployment Model ... 36

1.3 ... Core Hybrid Deployment Model ... 43

1.4 ... Talent Hybrid Deployment Model ... 49

1.5 ... Side-by-Side Deployment Model ... 53

1.6 ... Summary ... 56

2 ... Integration Tools and Technologies ... 57

2.1 ... Integration Basics ... 58

2.2 ... Import and Export Jobs ... 60

2.3 ... Standard Integrations and Templates ... 62

2.4 ... Integration Center ... 62

2.5 ... SAP Cloud Platform Integration ... 67

2.6 ... SAP SuccessFactors Web Services ... 75

2.7 ... Access and Single Sign-On ... 76

2.8 ... Summary ... 79

3 ... Integration Project Management ... 81

3.1 ... Integration Workstream ... 81

3.2 ... Roles and Responsibilities ... 84

3.3 ... SAP Activate ... 95

3.4 ... Integration Implementation ... 100

3.5 ... Accelerators ... 103

3.6 ... Summary ... 106

II ... Employee Central Integrations ... 109

4 ... Data Migration from SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA to Employee Central ... 111

4.1 ... Starting Your Migration Project ... 112

4.2 ... Replication Migration Process Overview ... 117

4.3 ... Replication Setup with the Business Integration Builder ... 118

4.4 ... Preparation Steps ... 120

4.5 ... Transformation Template Setup ... 127

4.6 ... Field and Value Mapping Configuration ... 131

4.7 ... SAP Cloud Platform Integration Configuration ... 140

4.8 ... Data Migration Execution ... 149

4.9 ... Summary ... 153

5 ... Employee Central with SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA ... 155

5.1 ... Starting Your Integration Project ... 155

5.2 ... Configuring Employee Central ... 162

5.3 ... Configuring SAP Cloud Platform Integration ... 164

5.4 ... Configuring SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA ... 185

5.5 ... Common Integration Scenario Considerations ... 230

5.6 ... Summary ... 232

6 ... Employee Central with Employee Central Payroll ... 233

6.1 ... Starting Your Integration Project ... 234

6.2 ... Basic Settings ... 237

6.3 ... Point-to-Point Configuration ... 252

6.4 ... Employee Data Replication Run ... 282

6.5 ... Summary ... 287

7 ... Employee Central with Third-Party Systems ... 289

7.1 ... Common Third-Party Integrations ... 290

7.2 ... Starting Your Integration Project ... 292

7.3 ... Configuring SAP Cloud Platform for Kronos Integration ... 294

7.4 ... Packaged Integration Mapping Extension ... 313

7.5 ... Employee Central to Kronos UI Integration with SSO ... 322

7.6 ... Summary ... 326

III ... Platform Integrations for Talent Management ... 327