SAP SuccessFactors – HR That Grows With Your Business
Employee master data, recruiting, learning and payroll in one system – deployable worldwide, updated quarterly, GDPR-compliant. We support you from the initial analysis through to ongoing operations. So your HR department has time for people instead of system maintenance.
What SAP SuccessFactors Delivers for Your HR Department
A Single Source of Truth for All Employee Data
Employee Central consolidates master data, organisational structures, working time and benefits in one place – for all locations worldwide. Country-specific requirements are already integrated: GDPR, local labour law, payroll interfaces. Your employees and managers handle routine tasks themselves via desktop or app. The HR department stays in control without having to process every request manually.
Find, Develop and Retain Talent
From the first application to succession planning: SuccessFactors maps the entire employee lifecycle. Recruiting with a candidate pool, structured onboarding, continuous feedback instead of rigid annual reviews, compensation planning with variable components. The system automatically identifies skills gaps and suggests suitable development measures. You fill critical positions faster and lose fewer high performers.
Learning That People Actually Use
The Learning module delivers personalised learning paths instead of standard catalogues. Integration with LinkedIn Learning, Udemy and internal content. Available on mobile, consumable in short units, documented with certificates. The skills database covers over 50,000 qualifications and shows each employee which competencies are needed for their next career step. HR can see at a glance where skill development is needed across the organisation.
Decisions Based on Data, Not Gut Feeling
People Analytics reveals what usually stays hidden: which teams have elevated turnover? Where are bottlenecks forming due to upcoming retirements? How does your salary structure compare with the industry? Predictive models provide early warnings of resignation risk. Workforce planning simulates scenarios for growth, restructuring or acquisitions. You make the case to leadership with numbers instead of assumptions.
What Our Customers Say About Us and Our Services
These customer story videos are currently available in German only.
Krones: Digital Group Processes Connected Efficiently Worldwide
Krones talks about the group-wide integration with SAP Business One and their collaboration with Versino.
Crown Technics: Greater Transparency for International Growth
Crown Technics Ltd. explains how SAP Business One provides transparency and, together with Versino, paves the way for international growth.
Rocholz: Tradition Meets Digital Efficiency
Rocholz GmbH shows how this long-established family business uses SAP Business One to create transparent KPIs, streamline processes and build the foundation for sustainable growth together with Versino.
Efinger-Instruments: Paperless Medical Technology
Efinger Instruments shows how a fully digitalised, transparent production environment was created using SAP Business One and the eWorks add-on, realised in partnership with Versino.
Engel Naturtextilien: Sustainable Textile Production with Digital Transparency
By introducing SAP Business One, Engel gained significantly more transparency, was able to map bills of materials and textile processes seamlessly, accelerate workflows from goods receipt to dispatch, and efficiently support further growth without increasing headcount.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the most important questions about SAP SuccessFactors and the digitalisation of your HR processes.
For mid-sized businesses in particular, the quality of people management is a key competitive differentiator. Skills shortages, rising turnover and growing compliance demands often hit companies with 100 to 1,000 employees harder than large corporations – because every open position has a tangible impact. SuccessFactors gives your HR department the tools to find talent faster, develop people more effectively and retain them long-term. At the same time, it eliminates manual routine tasks that can easily consume hours each week.
SuccessFactors is modular by design – you start where the greatest need exists. Many of our customers begin with Employee Central as a digital HR record and then add Recruiting, Performance Management or Learning. Each module delivers standalone value while integrating seamlessly with the others. This lets you spread investment and change management effort across manageable phases without losing sight of the overall vision.
Employee data is among the most sensitive information a business holds – and SAP has designed SuccessFactors with that in mind from the ground up. It runs in European data centres, offers granular permission concepts down to field level and supports GDPR requirements natively: retention periods, rights of access, consent management and data processing agreements are all integrated as standard. For works councils in particular: access rights can be configured to ensure co-determination obligations are met at all times.
SuccessFactors integrates flexibly with your existing payroll solution – whether that is a local accounting system, SAP HCM or another provider. Via Employee Central Payroll, SAP also offers its own cloud payroll that fully covers local tax and social security legislation across supported countries. In either case: master data changes flow automatically into payroll processing without manual transfers. We will identify the right approach based on your current system landscape and requirements.
An HR system only works if people actually use it. That is why change management is a fixed part of every project. We involve managers and employee representatives early, train key users as internal champions and make sure the benefit is immediately tangible for every user – whether that is requesting leave via app, transparent goal setting or access to learning opportunities. Experience shows that acceptance rises significantly when employees see that the new system takes work off their plate rather than creating additional bureaucracy.
This is exactly where SuccessFactors excels. The system supports over 100 country versions with local labour law, public holidays, absence rules and statutory reporting obligations. You roll out consistent HR processes worldwide – from performance reviews to compensation planning – while adapting local specifics, all without running separate systems. For growing mid-sized businesses, this means: if you open a new location in Poland, Switzerland or the US tomorrow, your HR system is already prepared.