SAP SuccessFactors Succession and Development is a comprehensive solution designed to help organizations identify, develop, and retain talent to meet critical business objectives. By fostering a continuous supply of internal talent, it enables employees to reach their full potential and aligns their growth with organizational goals.

SAP SuccessFactors Succession and Development Features

  1. AI-Assisted Career Development:
  • AI-Assisted Writing: Introduced in the 1H 2024 release, this feature aids employees in crafting meaningful and aspirational development goals. By inputting a brief description of their objectives, employees receive AI-generated suggestions for goal names, descriptions, metrics, start dates, due dates, and milestones. This streamlines the goal-setting process and ensures alignment with personal growth plans.
  1. Integration of Mentoring with Continuous Performance Management:
  • Mentors can now access continuous performance management tools directly from the mentoring program page. This integration facilitates a dedicated collaboration channel for meetings and activities between mentors and mentees, enhancing the effectiveness of mentoring relationships.
  1. Enhanced Succession Planning Tools:
  • Simplified Talent Pool Nominations: In the 2H 2024 release, succession planners can add successors directly from talent pool sections on the position card within the Succession Org Chart or Position Tile view. This improvement streamlines the nomination process, reducing the need to navigate between different interfaces.
  1. AI-Powered Skills Identification:
  • The Talent Intelligence Hub now includes AI-assisted skills identification, which helps learning administrators maintain skills-based attributes by extracting skills from course descriptions and automatically linking them to corresponding learning items. This ensures that employees’ growth portfolios are closely aligned with their roles and organizational needs.
  1. User Experience Enhancements:
  • The application of the Horizon visual theme has been extended to succession planning and presentations pages, providing a consistent and modern user interface across the platform. Additionally, the integration with Microsoft Teams allows employees to submit and approve time-off requests, view upcoming absences, and sync holidays to their calendar directly within Teams, enhancing accessibility and convenience.
  1. Comprehensive Career and Talent Development Solution:
  • SAP SuccessFactors has unified the capabilities of Succession & Development and Opportunity Marketplace into a single solution. This integration offers employees personalized recommendations for skills development, job opportunities, learning courses, and mentorships, all tailored to their aspirations and aligned with organizational career paths.
  1. Security, Privacy, and Compliance:
  • SAP SuccessFactors adheres to stringent security and compliance standards, including Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 Level A and AA, US Section 508, and EN 301 549 Chapters 9, 10, and 11. These measures ensure that the platform is accessible and secure for all users.

By leveraging these features, organizations can cultivate a future-ready workforce, ensuring that talent development and succession planning are seamlessly integrated into their strategic objectives. The continuous enhancements in SAP SuccessFactors Succession and Development reflect a commitment to providing tools that support both organizational growth and individual career advancement.