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Sven Ringling

SAP HXM Solution Advisor at ORBIS People GmbH

Düsseldorf, Germany

Driving Digital HR for clients in EMEA w. SAP SuccessFactors & Qualtrics

Available For: Authoring, Consulting, Speaking
Travels From: Düsseldorf, Germany
Speaking Topics: Digital HR, SAP SuccessFactors, Qualtrics, Employee Experience Management, Cloud HRIS

Sven Ringling Points
Academic 0
Author 168
Influencer 3
Speaker 21
Entrepreneur 40
Total 232

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Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Company
Business Unit: Cloud HR
Theatre: EMEA
Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed
Average Hourly Rate: Undisclosed
Number of Employees: Undisclosed
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed

Areas of Expertise

Analytics 30.58
Business Strategy 30.04
Change Management 30.07
Cloud 35.04
Culture 30.04
Digital Transformation 31.08
Diversity and Inclusion
ERP 32.71
Future of Work 30.22
HR 38.50
Management 30.15
Social 32.36
Digital Disruption 30.14
Marketing 30.65
Payroll 30.50

Industry Experience

Automotive
Consumer Products
Federal & Public Sector
Financial Services & Banking
High Tech & Electronics
Manufacturing
Other
Pharmaceuticals
Professional Services
Telecommunications
Utilities

Publications

25 Article/Blogs
An Uncompromising Talent-First Strategy
LinkedIn
May 21, 2021
We've heard it a lot from thought leaders, CEOs and CHROs and even more since the pandemic has taken over: "We put our people first", "Talent-first strategy", "employee-centric organisation" and our old acquaintance: "our people are our most valuable asset".

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Tags: HR, Business Strategy

COVID-Status-Erfassung in SAP SuccessFactors
LinkedIn
May 06, 2021
Ob Dienstreisen, Meetings oder die Organisation der täglichen Arbeit in Büro, Werkshallen und Außendienst: Informationen zum Corona Impf- und Teststatus von Mitarbeiter*innen wird für Unternehmen noch einige Zeit relevant sein. Zu wissen, wer wann wie geimpft ist oder sein wird und den Teststatus zu kennen ist dabei ebenso wichtig wie die Arbeitssituation (Home Office vs. Büro) und Reiseplanung.

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Tags: HR, COVID19

SAP Teams up with Microsoft - Great news for SuccessFactors Customers
LinkedIn
February 02, 2021
The recent announcement of a closer collaboration between SAP and Microsoft to integrate MS Teams with SAP solutions like SuccessFactors or S4 HANA was certainly welcomed by most customers: https://news.sap.com/2021/01/sap-and-microsoft-expand-partnership-integrate-teams/

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Tags: Cloud, HR

SAP to partially sell Qualtrics in IPO, but remain majority owner
LinkedIn
July 27, 2020
In this official statement from yesterday (Sunday, 26th July), SAP and Qualtrics anounce that SAP will sell a minority share of Qualtrics through an IPO. This is probably unexpected for most people and it remains to be seen, what it means.

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Tags: CRM, HR

Turboboost digital HR: Webinars from Cloud Payroll to Candidate Experience
linkedin
May 25, 2020
Adessa celebrates the fact that a solid foundation for your digital HR strategy and Human Experience Management can actually be fun and engaging with a real fireworks of webinars. The spotlight is on the basics that most of us have in our minds in the box labelled "not very exciting, but must work". I agree with the second part, but beg to differ on the first one, because the foundation of your digital HR strategy can also be engaging and provide a great user experience. Indeed, it has to do so, because for digital transformation to succeed, user adoption and buy-in are paramount. Yes, we are talking about

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Tags: Management, HR, Payroll

Listen to Your Employees, on Your Journey to “Re-Launch”: Qualtrics “Return to Work” Pulse
linkedin
May 19, 2020
SAP Qualtrics is offering several free XM (Experience Management) solutions to help organisations manage the changes enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest addition is the “Return to Work Pulse” meant to provide data and insights for business leaders and HR to prepare and execute the journey to the new normal whilst taking employee feedback and sentiment on board. Supporting, what I call the “Re-Launch” phase with a positive employee experience.

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Tags: HR

Working from Home: an Opportunity at Risk of Being Reduced to a Cost Cutting Exercise
linkedin
May 02, 2020
Working from home will and should become more common even when the Corona pandemic is over - I have very little doubt about this. But organisations using it as a convenient cost cutting exercise without looking at the big picture, will do so at their own peril.

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Tags: HR

Remote Working Experience: Putting People First
linkedin
March 20, 2020
Some guidance and tips on the free Remote Working Survey from Qualtrics
SAP Qualtrics is offering a number of free XM (Experience Management) solutions to help organisations manage the changes enforced by the COVID-19 epidemic. You find an overview of the rapidly changing and expanding offering on this link: heretohelp initiative.

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Tags: HR, COVID19

Watch out! Critical Gaps in Your Retention and Succession Program!
linkedin
March 02, 2020
According to Harvard Business Review most retention (and succession) programs focus on current and future leaders, but ignore 3 roles, which are imo often even more important, because their skills are less generic than leadership skills...

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Tags: HR

Candidate&Onboarding Experience: Sneak Preview Video
linkedin
February 27, 2020
Leverage Qualtrics and SAP SuccessFactors to maximise use of X-Data and O-Data to drive improvement
The Human Experience journey along the talent life cycle starts with Recruiting and Onboarding. This experience not only needs to be positive, but also consistent. It’s no good creating expectations during the candidate journey that clash with reality later on.

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Tags: Management, HR, Recruiting

2 Systems, 3 Experiences, 8 Moments for World Class Recruiting
linkedin
February 25, 2020
Driving Candidate and Onboarding Experience with SAP SuccessFactors and Qualtrics

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Tags: Management, HR, Recruiting

Driving Candidate and Onboarding Experience with SAP SuccessFactors and Qualtrics
Adessa Group
February 19, 2020
Candidate and Onboarding experience drives Employer Brand as well as Product/Service Brand
Most organisations are aware of the need for a positive candidate experience in their recruiting process to drive a positive employer brand and make sure they keep getting the best candidates. Some organisations are also seeing the impact of candidate experience on their overall brand image (“If we reject little Peter as an apprentice, the whole family stops buying our cars”). So, there certainly is a return on investment into a good experience for all candidates to:

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Tags: Culture, HR, Recruiting

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central: Echter Mehrwert statt technischer Pflichtübung
linkedin
February 08, 2020
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) wird oft reduziert auf seine Rolle als Fundament für die anderen, “aufregenden” Module. Das ist natürlich ein wichtiges Element, aber bei weitem nicht alles.

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Tags: HR

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central: Get Business Value, not just a Tech Platform
linkedin
February 08, 2020
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central (EC) is often reduced to the foundation needed to make best use of the other, more "exciting" SuccessFactors modules. Whilst this is an important aspect, it's far from being the full picture.

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Tags: HR

Candidate Experience and Beyond
linkedin
December 23, 2019
Improving Candidate Experience is high up on the agenda of many organisations as they are struggling to find the right candidates. Our recent webinar on using Qualtrics and SAP SuccessFactors to improve Candidate Experience attracted a record number of registrations, confirming this trend.

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Tags: HR

360 Feedback: using Qualtrics EX or SAP SuccessFactors PMGM
linkedin
November 06, 2019
Apparently, Qualtrics Employee Experience and SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals have a competing offering for 360 Feedback. So, given the choice, which one is better? From an isolated perspective, there is very little going for the SuccessFactors 360 in this context. The Qualtrics solutions beats it hands-down on User Experience, flexibility and analytics.

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Tags: HR

Qualtrics Integration with SAP SuccessFactors: State of the Union
Adessa Group
September 18, 2019
The Union between SAP and Qualtrics is now 8 months old, so where does it stand from a SuccessFactors Integration point of view? And what can we do to combine Qualtrics with SuccessFactors data and events.
In a nutshell: even now, it’s early days, but there is a credible and comprehensive plan for integrations in place starting 2020. This leaves short and midterm solutions to be deployed by SAP Qualtrics Partners, such as Adessa Group.

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Tags: Cloud, HR

Musings on Performance Management (1)
linkedin
August 17, 2019
It takes our planet roughly 365 days to circumvent the sun once. But why are we using this as a benchmark for all tasks our employees are meant to perform, when setting their objectives?

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Tags: HR

SuccessFactors Cloud Transformation: Who's Directing Your Journey?
linkedin
July 04, 2019
SAP SuccessFactors and Qualtrics Employee Experience should go hand in hand
What to prioritise as a SAP HCM customer: Upgrade2Success or Qualtrics?

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, HR

Video: HR Analytics with Qualtrics and SuccessFactors X+O Data
linkedin
June 03, 2019
Whilst everybody is talking about combining operational HR Data (O-Data) from SAP SuccessFactors and SAP HCM with Employee Experience Data (X-Data) from Qualtrics, most people still wait (aka: do nothing) for a big hairy analytics tool to do everything or analyse (aka: do nothing) the integration options.

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Tags: Analytics, HR

Combine X-Data & O-Data Today with SAP SuccessFactors & Qualtrics EX
linkedin
May 27, 2019
Ever since Qualtrics joined the SAP Universe we are hearing that combining “X-Data” (Experience Data) and “O-Data” (Operational Data) is the way forward. From an HR point of view, X-Data would be Employee Experience data (or Candidate Experience data) from Qualtrics EX and O-Data would come from SAP SuccessFactors or SAP HCM.

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Tags: Cloud, HR

SuccessFactors Implementation Partners: Not that Bad After All?
linkedin
April 23, 2019
Verfied customer feedback from Raven Intel: SuccessFactors customers more satisifed with implementation partners than Workday customers

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Tags: Cloud, HR

What the Armed Forces Taught me About SAP HCM Migration to the Cloud
Linkedin
April 03, 2019
As with any journey, transformational or otherwise, knowing your starting point is crucial for your Cloud HR migration journey. It seems this holds particularly true for organisations starting with an SAP HCM solution, mainly because the typical(!) SAP HCM customer is very different from a typical(!) first generation cloud customer (SuccessFactors or others). Being used to a very comprehensive system like SAP HCM that allows customers huge flexibility (often more than is good for them) creates a peculiar starting position regarding the level of automation, process variation, tolerance for exceptions, data complexity as well as expectations and mindsets.

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Tags: Cloud, HR, Change Management

Do we Even Know, What Really Tough Change Feels Like?
Linkedin
December 07, 2018
Maybe the headline is slightly provocative. It's meant to be - for "us": employees and line managers working in Europe, North America, Japan and other rich coutries. Of course I'm fully aware that managing change in large organisations can be very hard. The pace of change makes it challenging for many individuals to adopt and there is huge pressure contributing to the increasing number of mental illness cases (although, as often as not, the pressure comes from resistance against change even more than from the change itsself). In any case: I'm the first person to acknowledge that the ongoing change inside as well as outside the workplace is very challenging for many of us, even in the "rich world". However, last month, I met some people, who've mastered positive change on a completely different scale.

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Tags: Change Management, Culture

There is a Workforce Side to Digital Transformation and You Ignore it a Your Peril
SAP Community Network
May 25, 2016
There is huge change ahead and it’s just as well that your business strategy is recognising that and finds ways to exploit rather than suffer from it. However, the old truism “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is still just that: true.

If Digital Transformation is at the heart of your business strategy, but not at the heart of your culture – or, worse: opposed by your culture, then you’ll be in troubled waters soon – or in the doldrums.

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, HR

2 Books
Concur: Travel & Expense Management with SAP
SAP Press
March 31, 2017
New York. Tokyo. Dubai. Berlin. If your business is on the go, learn how to get the most out of Concur Travel, Concur Expense, and Concur Request! Set up this cloud solution to reflect your travel policies, and then learn how to plan trips, settle expenses, and manage critical approvals. Analyze your T&E spending with standard and custom reports and then integrate Concur with SAP solutions and third-party apps. With this guide, you’ll make your T&E processes quick and effective!
Set up and use Concur Travel, Concur Expense, and Concur Request
Find out how to optimize your T&E policies with Concur
Integrate Concur with SAP solutions and third-party apps and services

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, HR

Mastering HR Management with SAP ERP HCM
SAP PRESS
January 01, 2009
This new updated and enhanced edition of the definitive guide to SAP ERP HCM, is written to teach HR managers, functional users, project managers, and others working with HCM about how to use and customize it throughout the entire HR process from recruiting personnel to transferring HR data to accounting – all based on the current release SAP ERP 6.0. This is the one resource the HR team needs to get the most out of their HCM implementation.

Each chapter covers one HCM component and deals with the respective steps in the HR process from recruiting to personnel controlling. For each component related business principles, case studies, best practices, customizing steps, integration aspects, and role concepts are presented. And many new important and timely additions have been added to this third edition, including e-Recruiting, internal monitoring systems (think of Sarbanes-Oxley-Act), and the continuous integration of SAP NetWeaver Portal.

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Tags: ERP, HR, Recruiting

1 Book Chapter
Qualtrics Employee Experience Management in "SuccessFactors An Introduction" (Chapter 14, pp495-516)
SAP PRESS
November 01, 2019
This chapter introduces SAP Qualtrics functionality for employee experience management. It describes the available processes and features at the time of publication (August 2019), without giving step-by-step instructions for their implementation or use

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Tags: Analytics, Cloud, HR

1 eBook
Introducing Employee Experience Management (EXM) with Qualtrics and SAP SuccessFactors
Rheinwerk Publishing
December 31, 1969
What can you learn from your employees? This E-Bite explores Qualtrics’ employee experience management capabilities and shows you how to build personalized surveys that capture employee sentiment. Learn how data analysis and action planning can help you make targeted HR changes and improve employee satisfaction. Finally, see how Qualtrics works with SAP SuccessFactors to achieve seamless integration of all your data. Welcome to the future of HR!
See how Qualtrics gathers employee input to improve HR practices
Walk through an EXM survey project from start to finish
Explore integration with SAP SuccessFactors

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Future of Work, HR

2 Founders
Klood Social Media Marketing
Klood Limited
June 16, 2011
I co-founded Klood limited as a social media marketing agency in 2011 contributing to teh original business plan and strategy during teh seed stage.
I resigned as a director in the same year after it was up and running and subsequently sold my shares. Klood has been sold to an overseas company since.

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Tags: Social, Marketing

iProCon GmbH
iProCon
January 01, 2000
iProCon is a boutique HR Technology consultancy I co-founded with Christian Lübke in Germany in May 2000. It's initial focus was on SAP HCM and HR Process Design. The technology portfolio has since expanded to cloud solutions like SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Concur.
In 2011 I sold my shares in the German entity and established the UK subsidiary iProCon Ltd. which was co-owned by iProCOn GmbH and myself and has later been sold to Dubai based iXerv.

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Tags: Cloud, ERP, HR

1 Influencer Award
SAP Community Network Member of the Month March 2015
SAP SE
March 31, 2015
"Sven Ringling is the SCN Member of the Month for March 2015. Sven is a Director at iProCon UK, where he is a seasoned SAP HCM consultant. He is polished and witty, and draws on many years of international HR deployments to share advice, answer questions and write informative blogs on SCN.

I enjoyed our talk and hearing more about his travels, work experiences and perspective on consulting in today’s environment"

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Tags: HR

1 Presentation
Make SAP SuccessFactors a Market of Opportunities for Your Employees
Mastering SAP Conferences Africa
May 18, 2021
Session in "Mastering SAP HR & Payroll" conference:
New HR solutions are often implemented from a point of view dominated by the HR function. Whilst it is crucial to meet the needs of this important stakeholder group, it often leaves employees and line managers with the question “So, what’s in it for me?”

With SAP SuccessFactors, organisations have the right solution at hand to empower their workforce to take ownership of their own professional growth inside without looking outside. In this session, we explore ways to create a marketplace for opportunities your employees can benefit from instead of turning to Linkedin. A clear win-win is achievable by utilising features readily available in SAP SuccessFactors such as:

Talent profile
Talent pools
Mentoring
Continuous feedback and continuous performance management
Goals management
Learning
Onboarding
Qualtrics EmployeeXM


We’ll walk through use cases from other organisations, live demos, and new ideas to build an exciting vision: Empowered employees and line managers achieve their best personal growth for the benefit of the organisation. The HR function does away from micromanaging and being constantly overloaded to enabling, coaching, monitoring, and setting wide boundaries.

We’ll wrap up by discussing a roadmap to implement change step by step gradually making your SuccessFactors solution the first go-to place for employees seeking growth before Linkedin. If you are ready to let go and re-think some old-school attitudes or if you are already far up that road and would like to discuss it further, please join us for this session.

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, HR

1 Quote
Was der Börsengang von Qualtrics über die neue Strategie des SAP-Chefs verrät
Handelsblatt
July 27, 2020
Quote: "Es sei naheliegend, dass Qualtrics nun auch tief mit den Systemen von SAP-Rivalen wie Salesforce oder Oracle verbunden werde, um möglichst viele Kunden zu erreichen, sagte IT-Berater Sven Ringling von der Adessa Group, der Unternehmen bei der Einführung von Produkten wie Qualtrics oder Success Factors unterstützt. Dann stelle sich jedoch die Frage, welchen besonderen Vorteil SAP seinen eigenen Kunden in Aussicht stellen könne."

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Tags: Cloud

2 Speaking Engagements
Tips for Migrating from the SAP ERP Human Capital Management to SuccessFactors HXM
SuccessConnect EMEA & APAC by SAP SE
October 13, 2021
Learn about the SAP Human Experience Management Movement program, which focuses on helping customers using the SAP ERP Human Capital Management solution move to the cloud to successfully adapt to the changing needs in digital HR

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Tags: Cloud, HR

Dear HR, what's your role in Digital Transformation?
The Eventful Group
March 13, 2017
Session at the "Mastering HR and Payroll with SAP" conference in Johannesburg, South Africa

This session explores the major elements of Digital Transformation and how the HR function can benefit as well as drive (or inhibit) the necessary change.
The session has a particular focus, but is not limited to the role of HR Technology using SAP SuccessFactors as an example in line with the main theme of the conference.

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, HR

5 Webinars
SAP HXM Mornings 13: SAP SuccessFactors Analytics & Story Reporting
ORBIS People GmbH
January 17, 2022

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Tags: Analytics, Cloud, HR

SAP HXM Mornings 12: What is Rise with SAP for HXM?
ORBIS People GmbH
January 05, 2022

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, HR

NAVIGATION DURCH DAS SAP HCM & SUCCESSFACTORS UNIVERSUM
ORBIS People GmbH
November 11, 2021
Ganz gleich, ob Sie

bisher SAP ERP HCM nutzen und eine vollständige oder teilweise Cloud-Migration erwägen
bereits SAP SuccessFactors einsetzen und die Reise für die kommenden Jahre planen
die Möglichkeiten in der on-premise-Lösung im Kontext S/4HANA prüfen
oder bzgl. Ihrer digitalen HR Strategie noch ganz offen sind
Dieser Webcast wird Ihnen bei Entscheidungsfindung und Planung helfen.

Wir betrachten insbesondere folgende Themen:
SAP Produktportfolio im HCM/HXM
Roadmap und Wartungsstrategie für on-premise Lösungen
Überblick SAP SuccessFactors
Hybridszenarien (SuccessFactors und SAP ERM HCM) sowie Integration
die Rolle von SAP Analytics Cloud, Business Technology Platform, Workzone und weiteren Lösungen
spezielle Optionen für Entgeltabrechnung und Zeitwirtschaft
Einfluss von S/4HANA, „Rise with SAP“ und „HXM Move“.

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Tags: Cloud, Digital Disruption, HR

SAP HXM Mornings 11: Why is SuccessFactors Integration so complicated?
ORBIS People GmbH
September 23, 2021

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Tags: Cloud, ERP, HR

Reinventing Candidate Experience with Qualtrics & SuccessFactors
Adessa Group
December 19, 2019
Improving Candidate Experience is a top priority for many organizations, and there is no wonder why: the recruiting process offers a glimpse of the company culture.

A great Candidate Experience is key for a positive employer brand and future recruiting success. And feedback from candidates, whether they were successful or not, is what drives excellence.

Sven Ringling, from Adessa Group, presented a webinar on Reinventing Candidate Experience with Qualtrics & SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, with the purpose of understanding how organizations can achieve a world class recruiting process.

Qualtrics, together with SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, gives the opportunity to have an end-to-end process, feedback based, where candidates can directly help you improve your talent acquisition process.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, HR, Future of Work

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SAP SuccessFactors implementation, roadmap planning, optimisation, continuous improvement, support

Location: Düsseldorf, Germany - availabl    Date Available: January 01st, 2020     Fees: project based

Submission Date: January 06th, 2020     Service Type: Service Offered

Our mission is to be the trusted and experienced guide in your Journey to Cloud HR with SAP SuccessFactors, whatever your starting point and desired pace is. We provide exceptional implementation, support, and enhancement services that improve each customer’s existing business processes and better position them to leverage the latest digital HR innovations and technology. To achieve this, we offer a European-based and GDPR-compliant delivery model that combines on-site and local expertise with exceptional delivery support.

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