Orange County Convention Center

Orlando, Florida | June 3-5, 2014

Extending your SuccessFactors Employee Central

Solution with SAP HANA Cloud Portal
Asi Messica SAP

Chris Paine Discovery Consulting

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 SAP Portal Portfolio - Overview

Fiori Launchpad
SAP NetWeaver Portal SAP HANA Cloud Portal

Secure, proven on premise Real-time, contextual, role-based and Portal Platform as a Service (pPaas)
user experience platform for personalized aggregation point for lean portal for creating business sites and
analytics, applications and content business functions and applications extending on-premise or cloud scenarios

Next generation, contextual aggregation hub powered by SAP HANA Platform (UI integration services)

Hana's real-time data and user interface (UI) integration service capability to enhance a range of more advanced capabilities, such as
relevance and search, recommendations (including dashboard functions), and web analytics & optimization.
Gartner, Horizontal Portal Magic Quadrant 2013
 SaaS solves key business and IT issues

For the business

Up and running quickly
Core capabilities
Easy to use
Faster innovation

For IT
No infrastructure needed
Rapid deployment
Agility
Reduced carbon footprint
But each customers business is UNIQUE and
demands special requirements

Data Products and

services
Industry Employees
demands

Business Customers,
processes partners,
suppliers
Competitors
 By adding the power of platform-as-a-service
customers can take the cloud to the next level

On Premise Software SaaS

(Software as a Service)

Flexibility Agility Control Cost Flexibility Agility Control Cost

+ Customized to your business - One size fits all

- Expensive & difficult to maintain / update
+ Completely under IT control
SaaS + PaaS
(Software as a Service + Platform as a Service)
- May not work with existing applications/data
+ Scalable, cost effective
Best practice business processes
+

+ Customized to your business

+ Easy to maintain / update
+ Integrated with existing applications/data
Flexibility Agility Control Cost + Differentiated business process
 SAP HANA Cloud Platform for SuccessFactors

Value Proposition

For SuccessFactors Customers , Extensions enable to add

custom functionality to their implementation. Extensions are well
integrated into the administration as well as the consumption
experience. With a growing eco-system of partners developing
extensions (available through the embedded MarketPlace), customers
can enrich their SuccessFactors functionality easily with low TCO

ForPartners , Extensions enable a low threshold entry point to

SuccessFactors customers. Using the HANA Cloud Platform to
develop and run applications based on open standards combined with
a lean certification process, the path to SAP / SuccessFactors
customers has never been easier.
 SAP HANA Cloud Platform for SuccessFactors

Executive Summary
The SAP HANA Cloud Platform extension package for SuccessFactors
is a packaged solution, available since Q3/2013.

It enables you to extend SuccessFactors Employee Central scope with Extension Apps
running on SAPs Platform as a Service in order to meet growing business needs.

Key Layers and Functions of the Platform Extensions:

Harmonized Admin and End-user Experience
Extension Development
Application certification + SAP HANA Marketplace
 SAP HANA Cloud Platform for SuccessFactors

The Offering
Starting from the existing Administration
console, access to the extensions is easy
and intuitive:

Extensions catalog is available for

publishing to users. Extensions can
either be developed and published
by you or obtained from the SAP
Store.
 SAP HANA Cloud Platform for SuccessFactors
InApp Integration with SAP Store
Embedded marketplace within Success Facotrs to ease
consumption (available from admin tools for all customers)

Bridge the gap, customer demand vs. partner offering to increase

adoption rate

Fully integrated with the public HANA Market Place

Zero touch - Automated and dynamic update of market place

items

MarketPlace items suited to target customer platform preferences

Fully automated Trial capability for selected certified partner

extensions
 SAP HANA Cloud Platform for SuccessFactors

High Level Architecture Shared

Services
SAP and 3rd
Party apps

SSO
UI Theming Home BizX
& Web Page Entities
Navigation

OData API
BizX
SF Extension Lifecycle mgmt
Software Theming Application Entities (MDF)
as a Service API

Integration API
Integration

UI Theming Extension
& Navigation Application
OAut
h
HANA Cloud
Extension Extension Entities
Application and Files
Platform
Web Pages Etc.
as a Service
Portal Services Platform Services
Success Factors EC Extension
Scenarios
 Introducing SAP HANA Cloud Platform,
extension packageworking
Two main components for SuccessFactors
together to extend EC
Extend using configuration and rules engine UI
SuccessFactors Host extensions within EC
Employee Central Use delivered objects to create extensions and logic
(EC) Build simple extensions of EC that do not require coding
Automatically generates simple UIs for extensions
Extensions are tightly coupled with EC entities, no duplication of data
Included with both EC and SAP HANA Cloud Platform

Develop using JVM or HANA based integrated development env.

Host apps within SAP HANA Cloud Platform
Custom code objects and logic
Create new apps/complex extensions that require coding

SAP HANA Cloud Build engaging UIs for mobile or other channels

Platform (PaaS) Direct access to EC business objects using OData APIs

Access MDF as a shared service
 Platform Extensions at a Glance
Features Highlights
Harmonized Navigation
and User Experience

Out of the box services for

development of
extensions like Single
Sign-On, direct Data
Access, Theming and
Provisioning

Out of the box home page

integration using
native BixZ tiles. Allows
every user to get a
customized Home Screen.
 Platform Extensions at a Glance
Deeper Insight
Native second-level
navigation

OpenSocial standard
widgets, allowing flexible
UI configuration and
ordering depending on
user needs

Out of the box home page

integration using
native BixZ tiles. Allows
every user to get a
customized Home Screen.
 Platform Extensions at a Glance
Deeper Insight
Managed from within
BizX admin tools

UI + app logic developed in

Java or JavaScript on SAP HANA
Cloud Platform. Bundled and
imported together, while at the
same time running isolated
from BizX

Customize and rearrange

the UI according to
customers needs. Full
control over the access
and launch to employees.
Real Life example

The HANA cloud platform has three main consumption

scenarios
Real Life example

The HANA cloud platform has three main consumption

scenarios
SuccessFactors Extensions

Whats not standard here?

SuccessFactors Extensions

Whats not standard here?

Seamless Extension

Why is consistency in UI important?

Instead ask: What are the effects of inconsistency?

Confused users, helpdesk calls, rejection of tools.

Why is consistency in UI important?

Confusion reduction, ease of adoption, intuitive (hopefully)

solutions

Consistency is just one (important) part of good UX

Which Module of SuccessFactors?
Which Module of SuccessFactors?
Using the HANA Cloud Portal - learnings

SAPUI5 using the proxy wrapper XHRwrapper

Simple way to port UI5 apps into portal and gain theming
Proxy caching
How to make the speed of your app not suck because of
proxy
SSO
SAML needs to logoff too!
Shindig & SAP when a gadget become a widget
SAP using open source
SuccessFactors CSS injection/adoption
Seamless UI means better UX
DEMO
 SAP HANA Cloud Platform for SuccessFactors
Time Tracking Additional Scenarios
Simple Time Tracking requirement replacing Excel

MDF saved customer from having to implement an expensive, complex system

Health and Safety

Tracking incidents and responses with heavy reporting requirements

Country specific objects and behaviors, Workflow, security, imports.

Benefits Tracking

Heavy integration with EC to support eligibility, Custom objects to store

benefits data

Workflow, security, imports, reporting, effective dating, rules

Data Cleansing

Clean imported data and Verify completeness

Customizable rules + Country specific rules

KEY LEARNINGS
HANA Cloud Platform and Portal Extensions
package for Success Factors enable customers to
gain cloud deployment benefits with flexibility and
control.
Additional business flows can be developed by
either own (custom) development or SAP certified
partner solutions.
Developers can focus on the specific business
solution leveraging pre-packaged UI integration,
connectivity and provisioning by SAP.
1-click Trial for selected certified SAP partner
extensions
 SAP HANA Cloud Portal Resources

Cloud Portal on SAP.com:

http://sap.com/cloudportal

Cloud Portal Experience Site:

http://tiny.cc/CloudPortal

Cloud Portal Community:

http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-cloud-
portal

Cloud Portal YouTube Playlist:

http://tiny.cc/cp-youtube

Cloud Portal on SAP Store:

http://tiny.cc/cp-store
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