The SAP Customer Evolution Kit for HCM: Accelerating migrations for a successful, AI-enabled future
In today's fast-paced business environment, digital transformation is no longer just an option for companies—it has become a necessity. With rapidly evolving technologies, changing customer and employee expectations, and a growing need for agility, organizations are continuously looking for ways to stay ahead of the curve. SAP, a global leader in enterprise software solutions, understands these challenges and is committed to helping its customers navigate the path to a successful digital future.
One of the key areas where SAP is assisting its customers is in human capital management (HCM), which is a critical function for businesses of all sizes. With the SAP Customer Evolution kit for HCM, organizations can accelerate their migration journey to SAP SuccessFactors, the next-generation cloud-based HCM suite, ensuring they are ready for the end of mainstream maintenance in 2025, and the end of compatibility pack rights in 2025.
What is the SAP Customer Evolution Kit for HCM?
The SAP Customer Evolution kit for HCM is a cost-free, quick, and efficient engagement that provides a clear and seamless path for businesses and the partners who support them to accelerate transition from their on-premise SAP HCM solution to SAP SuccessFactors. It is delivered virtually by real live SAP experts, featuring a set of tools, methodologies, and services designed to simplify and streamline the migration process, while minimizing risks and ensuring business continuity.
This SAP Customer Evolution kit helps customers address the challenges associated with migrating critical HCM data, configurations, and integrations from their on-premises systems to the cloud. With its step-by-step guidance, customers can plan, execute, and validate their migration strategies, ensuring a smooth and successful transition to SAP SuccessFactors.
In Part 1 of this blog series, I shared some of the features and benefits of the SAP Readiness Check for SAP SuccessFactors solutions. While SAP Readiness Checks can be run on a self-service basis, they are a bit like medical MRIs or X-rays in that, even if you could snap the picture yourself, the images are best interpreted by an expert trained in how to interpret the findings and recommend treatment plans. The SAP Customer Evolution kit for HCM provides you with the business equivalent of a radiologist, to provide expert readout of your organization’s unique SAP Readiness Check results, along with recommendations based on the findings.
Accelerating migrations for customers facing the end of maintenance or compatibility pack rights
For businesses currently running on SAP HCM on-premises solutions, the clock is ticking. SAP has announced that mainstream maintenance for older enhancement packs of the on-premises HCM solution ends at the end of 2025. Many SAP S/4HANA customers running HCM and Finance together in the same environment also face expiration of compatibility pack rights at the end of 2025. This means that customers need to act now to ensure they are ready for the future while maintaining compliance and performance, as well as tapping innovations like Joule to bring relevant, reliable, responsible AI to HCM and the broader enterprise.
The SAP Customer Evolution kit for HCM offers a unique opportunity for these customers to accelerate their migration journey. Over the course of three half-day sessions, and at no charge, it provides a roadmap and best practices to assess existing landscapes, identify gaps, and define a customized migration plan that aligns with unique goals and requirements.
During these SAP Customer Evolution kit engagements, we’ve seen customers make all sorts of realizations about their legacy systems. These often include “Aha!” moments, when they realize that their current highly customized processes could be moved back to standard, easily supported standard functionality within SAP SuccessFactors HCM. Examples of such “Aha!” topics include:
- Legacy customizations supporting Concurrent Employment that required multiple PERNRs in on-prem could be more readily supported using standard configuration capabilities in Employee Central
- Grade step progression logic to support collective bargaining agreements that required custom infotypes in HCM could be supported using standard SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and Compensation functionality
- Support for Higher Duties and Grants and Funds accounting for Public Sector are available in SAP SuccessFactors.
These kinds of insights can rapidly demystify the legacy environment, clarify the state of the possible and provide expert guidance on how best to move forward to the cloud with the utmost confidence that all required business processes will be supported.
So, if you’re looking for a free, fast, and helpful way to get organized around your HCM move to the cloud, we have the workshop to get you going.
Lead times to engage our experts are stretching as 2025 deadlines approach. Please sign up for your free SAP Customer Evolution Kit for HCM today!
Please also mark your calendar and click to register for an upcoming webinar on May 16th titled "Fast-track your HR journey to the cloud with SAP partners"
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