how does SuccessFactors Employee Central integrate with on-premise SAP Payroll systems

SuccessFactors Employee Central, a modern, state-of-the art cloud solution for core HR operations is slowly gaining momentum. Many customers are moving to the SaaS model for core HR.

But how does SuccessFactors Employee Central integrate with on-premise SAP Payroll systems? What are the challenges and the various considerations in terms of data migration, configuration and synchronization in such an undertaking.

This paper talks about how we and SAP partnered together in designing and improving integration between core SAP HR and Success Factor Employee Central. The innovative collaboration lead to a very successful go-live at a client site and some of the solutions applied on this engagement became part of the subsequent integration releases in versions 1405 and 1408 by SAP.

We and SAP partnered together to design, develop and enhance the current integration solution for a fortune 100 client who was planning to deploy Employ Central as their core HRIS system of record and continue to use SAP Payroll on-premise.

During the initial design and build sessions for integration, several challenges were identified which could have derailed the project.

Fundamentals of EC to SAP HR integration.

The current preferred method and recommended approach by SAP for cloud integration is Dell BOOMI based iflows. SAP has developed standard iFlows, which are pre-packaged integration flows. The maintenance and upgrade of these Iflows are handled by SAP. The platform enables customers to design cloud-based integration processes called Atoms and transfer data between cloud and on-premises applications.

The standard Iflows delivered by SAP are -:
1) Org Structure Replication. – Syncs foundation objects in EC to Org Objects in SAP
2) Employee Master Data to Payroll. – Syncs EE master data between systems
3) Org Assignment replication. – Creates EE to Org Management Object relationships