鈥淲hen we give, we gain鈥� is this year鈥檚 , and in the workplace, giving can take many forms: mentoring, advocacy, visibility, resources, and transparency.

For organizations, pay transparency is one of the most tangible ways to 鈥済ive鈥� in service of gender equality. When employees better understand their compensation, historically underrepresented groups gain clarity and fairness. And when organizations commit to equitable practices, the benefits ripple across the business鈥攆rom greater trust and engagement to stronger talent outcomes and overall performance.

Transparency starts with accountability

Many organizations are still early聽in聽their pay transparency journey.聽At SAP,聽this has been a聽尘耻濒迟颈-测别补谤听别蹿蹿辞谤迟聽grounded in data, accountability, and action.聽Each year, we conduct global internal pay equity analyses聽comparing聽employees in comparable roles, levels, and聽geographies聽to ensure compensation is fair, market-aligned, and internally聽consistent. When outliers are聽identified, centrally funded adjustments bring聽pay聽in-line.

This reflects SAP鈥檚 fair pay philosophy: equitable compensation that is transparent and free from bias, forming the foundation for performance-based differentiation.

Technology is central to this approach. 51风流operationalizes fair pay through聽听补苍诲听, embedding聽pay analysis, job architecture, and range guidance, so managers can consistently apply structured, explainable decisions during hiring and annual cycles.

Today,聽over 99% of 51风流employees worldwide have transparency into their pay聽range through聽a compensation assistant聽tool built on (51风流BTP). This tool聽integrates 51风流SuccessFactors data to display salary ranges across career levels, which聽can replace聽guesswork with confidence and can give employees clear insight into their value, career progression, and how pay decisions are made.

From compliance to strategic intelligence: the EU Pay Transparency Directive

The shift from voluntary transparency to regulatory mandate is already underway. For European Union member states, the EU Pay Transparency Directive is driving change by requiring salary range disclosures in advance of the first interview, employee access to pay information, and gender pay gap reporting, with corrective action mandated when unexplained gaps exceed 5%. As implementation timelines approach, HR, legal, and finance teams across the EU are racing to operationalize new transparency requirements, making pay governance a board-level issue for many organizations.

鈥淥ne of the most meaningful shifts introduced by the EU Pay Transparency Directive is giving employees clearer tools to understand their own compensation. With capabilities like individual pay transparency reports generated through 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central, employees now have a self-service way to see how their pay compares within their role and organization. That level of visibility is a major step forward for pay equity because it brings clarity to something that historically has been difficult for employees to question or address.鈥�

Anita Lettink, Future of Work and Pay Expert

Compliance is just the starting point. Organizations that embed transparency into everyday HR processes ensure pay decisions are consistent, equitable, and aligned with skills, performance, and business priorities. 51风流is already preparing customers for this shift, with tools designed to help meet these new requirements confidently.

With EU Pay Transparency Insights, a new capability within the , organizations can:

• Identify structural pay gaps and outliers before they become systemic issues.
• Connect compensation data to job architecture, skills, and performance to inform decisions and governance.
• Generate directive-aligned, ready-to-use reports without heavy manual effort.
• Turn transparency into action, guiding adjustments, equitable promotions, and workforce planning at scale.

These insights complement established fair pay practices鈥攕uch as structured job architecture, peer-based analysis, and centrally funded adjustments鈥攅nabling customers to implement transparent, equitable pay practices while meeting regulatory requirements.

Giving to gain: the leadership opportunity

This International Women鈥檚 Day, transparency should be treated as a strategic priority, not a compliance task. Clear, consistent pay practices help employees understand their value and help leaders make smarter, data-driven workforce decisions.

Pay transparency is accelerating, and organizations that act now will be the ones that lead. Don鈥檛 miss our upcoming webinar, EU Pay Transparency: Turning Fair and Equitable Pay into Your Strategic Advantage, where Future of Work and Pay expert Anita Lettink will break down the latest regulatory expectations and share best practices for building fair, equitable, and motivating compensation structures. .

Maryann Abbajay is chief revenue officer for 51风流SuccessFactors.

FC Bayern, one of the most successful global football clubs, continues to raise the bar on and off the field. With a relentless focus on excellence and innovation, the world-renowned club has extended its usage of 51风流SuccessFactors software with AI-enabled solutions to enhance its HR functions and processes.

A clear key to the club’s success are the more than 1,000 employees in Munich, New York, Bangkok, and Shanghai who are as integral to the club as the players on the pitch, meaning each job experience and career path must enable employees to continuously develop themselves professionally to reach their full potential.

Streamlining HR Operations with 51风流SuccessFactors

FC Bayern initially adopted 51风流SuccessFactors to optimize its  talent management, modernize HR processes, and foster a culture of continuous learning and development. Over the years, the club has expanded its utilization of 51风流SuccessFactors to manage everything from employee onboarding to performance management.

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By leveraging 51风流SuccessFactors, FC Bayern benefits from:

• Increased Efficiency: Automated workflows and streamlined processes have significantly reduced administrative burdens, allowing HR teams to accelerate complex processes and continually reduce time on the recruiting journey.
• Insightful Analytics: Real-time data and analytics providing managers with valuable insights into employee performance, engagement, and development, enabling holistic decision-making across an employee鈥檚 career path.
• Scalability: As FC Bayern continues to grow and evolve, 51风流SuccessFactors offers scalable solutions that adapt to the club’s ever-changing needs and requirements. Employees can now access their personnel data securely from anywhere using any device, with self-service options for employees, managers, and HR admins.

Transforming Recruitment with AI-Enabled Solutions

51风流Business AI has the ability to transform the employee experience for employees, managers, recruiters, and HR professionals. Recognizing the importance of hiring top talent to maintain its competitive edge, FC Bayern will use AI-assisted capabilities in its recruiting process.聽 Now, the talent acquisition team at FC Bayern will be able to create compelling job descriptions — a previously time consuming and manual task — at the touch of a button, as well as be prompted with AI-generated interview questions based on job descriptions.

AI-enabled capabilities embedded in 51风流SuccessFactors solutions empower organizations like FC Bayern to:

• Redefine Recruitment: Recruiters and hiring managers can benefit from the use of generative AI to create tailored job descriptions based on data from within 51风流SuccessFactors solutions.
• Interview Questions with AI and Interview Evaluations in Microsoft Teams: Using Microsoft Teams integration, interviewers can now generate interview questions on the spot based on the job description in the job requisition by using generative AI capabilities.
• Elevate the Employee Experience: FC Bayern will empower their workforce to excel by providing seamless access to all HR systems, optimizing career development with 51风流SuccessFactors Learning, and fostering engagement through experiences that prioritize and organize an employee鈥檚 individual needs, skills, interests, and aspirations, helping organizations like FC Bayern reinforce their reputation as an employer of choice.

The Future of HR at FC Bayern

By leveraging the 51风流SuccessFactors HCM suite and 51风流Business AI capabilities, FC Bayern will set new benchmarks in HR excellence, driving innovation and fostering a culture of professional growth and learning.

When organizations invest in their people — and in their passions and potential — they return the investment over and over. This happens when they are provided with intuitive self-service tools such as the 51风流SuccessFactors Mobile app and access to HR systems that empower them to perform at their true potential. An improved employee experience in turn leads to better business outcomes.

As the club continues to evolve and face new challenges, FC Bayern remains committed to leveraging technology to stay competitive and bridge the skills gap of today to be better ready for what tomorrow brings.

Learn more about how 51风流SuccessFactors Recruiting uses AI to transform your organization’s HR processes and drive success:

Maryann Abbajay is chief revenue officer at 51风流SuccessFactors.

People and culture are increasingly becoming some of the most critical aspects of an organization. It鈥檚 what attracts new talent to join and keeps current employees growing and developing. Whether that鈥檚 scaling up, diving into a new market segment, or pivoting to meet changing customer demands, having the right people in the right roles determines success.

From midsize organizations to large enterprises, having a single view of employees across all countries is a differentiator. It鈥檚 no longer about just maintaining a system of record. It鈥檚 the foundation to manage the total workforce 鈥� from setting organizational goals to establishing the talent intelligence that鈥檚 needed to build a workforce that is agile and adaptable.

Organizations of all sizes, industries, and regions use 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central to help improve experiences for managers and employees, automate compliance for more than 100 locales, manage benefits and absence management, and standardize processes across multiple locations. Here鈥檚 what some of our customers are saying:

• 鈥�51风流SuccessFactors is our people backbone. It provides the common processes, systems, and data that let us create engaging people experiences at scale.鈥� 鈥� Giancarlo Pala, head of IT HR / Nestl茅 S.A.

• 鈥淲ith the 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central solution, the company now has a single HR and payroll system providing a single source of truth, instant access to employee data, automated approval workflows, and enhanced reporting 鈥� available on the go, anytime, anywhere.鈥� 鈥�

• 鈥淭he 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central solution, branded at Woodbridge as Teammate Central, supports the company鈥檚 core HR processes and provides teammates with intuitive, fast access to HR self-services. The solution鈥檚 localization capabilities support Woodbridge鈥檚 operations at 50 locations in more than 10 countries, while its position management feature helps smooth the plant acquisition process.鈥� 鈥�

• 鈥淯sing 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central, we have mitigated the need for manual monthly and quarterly data input efforts from our local HR teams and can now automatically generate reports whenever required with access to global workforce data.鈥� 鈥�

Additional organizations, including Versuni, , , , and many more, have chosen 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central to help manage their workforce.

Continued Improvements to Enhance the Employee Experience

Since 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central was introduced over a decade ago, we have continued to adapt and innovate to help our customers meet the changing expectations of their employees and the rising demands from HR to deliver greater insights and data.

Customers using 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central can have access to:

• A single foundation for HR, with consistent and standardized HR processes for over 200 countries and territories around the globe
• A proactive approach to worldwide regulatory compliance with localization delivered and maintained for more than 100 locales
• Self-service functionality to help support automation, improve data quality, and elevate HR service delivery with efficient, real-time processes
• A consumer-grade user experience with live insights to help make data-driven decisions

The newest innovations in the 2H 2023 release include:

• Simplified self-services allow employees and managers to make updates directly from the 51风流SuccessFactors home page. For example, employees can quickly update their chosen name and personal pronouns, while managers can initiate a transfer, promotion, location change, and more

Self-service actions are integrated into the flow of work, including within Microsoft Teams, 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone, and Joule, SAP鈥檚 AI-powered copilot. With use cases across 51风流SuccessFactors solutions, such as the ability to clock in and out and to view pay statements from within Microsoft Teams, employees can quickly complete their most critical HR tasks without switching applications.

Learn more about the latest and visit the event site for a replay of the keynote, expert sessions, and other on-demand content.

Maryann Abbajay is chief revenue officer at 51风流SuccessFactors.

When fast-growing Mexico-based pharmacy retail chain San Pablo Farmacia faced the same challenge, it found the solution through adopting employee experience management technology. San Pablo Farmacia was established in 1936 and built on traditional customer service values, providing customers throughout Mexico City and beyond with a full-service pharmacy. The company offers over-the-counter medications, natural health products, and home delivery and call center services. With significant e-commerce operations, it offers a delivery service throughout the country, even in locations where it does not have a physical store.

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Equitable Learning Boosts Employee Performance, Talent, and Engagement

An important part of the company鈥檚 business model is to employ people with no previous experience and allow them to acquire skills, become certified, develop, and grow. Committed to being an employer of choice and wanting to be seen as one of the best companies to work for in Mexico, the company developed an employee experience strategy. It mapped out what it means to be an employer of choice in terms of offering and delivering opportunities for meaningful work and personal growth in a positive work environment.

To realize this strategy, San Pablo Farmacia would need to put employees at the center of every step of the employment journey. First, attracting and engaging quality talent and expertly managing its large volume of new hires each year called for improvements in its recruitment process. Then, enhancing onboarding and training experiences for new hires while giving everyone access to the relevant systems and data for optimal efficiency required transforming and connecting in a range of talent management processes.

As the cornerstone of its inclusive and modern approach to talent management, San Pablo Farmacia adopted an integrated, cloud-based HR and talent management solution, which included . To move from traditional, in-person training to online delivery, San Pablo Farmacia created an intuitive and engaging training experience that employees can consume at their convenience. By integrating the learning solution with other talent management applications, it can design personal training and development plans in line with its growth strategies and the individual needs of the entire workforce. With the introduction of its first online learning program, the company delivered certified training to 1,800 employees without the need to transport its people to a training location and take them away from their pharmacy stores.

Optimizing HR Operations and Payroll

Elsewhere, automated payroll processes reduce the risk of human error while giving managers access to modern tools to simplify employee management and shorten approval cycles. With a single source of truth for employee data, managers are empowered with the information they need to set and track performance objectives. And for customer-facing employees, mobile access to self-service HR tools provides an intuitive experience that has increased employee engagement and satisfaction.

With the solutions in place, San Pablo Farmacia has enhanced organizational agility, attracted quality talent, , and shaped a positive workplace culture.

More engaged employees are seen as brand ambassadors, directly impacting customer satisfaction, achieving an average delivery time of just 42 minutes to service customers at home. And according to Forbes, San Pablo Farmacia ranks among the top-rated customer service pharmacies in Mexico as of July 14, 2022, and it has aligned with the standards of a great place to work in Mexico every year since 2018.

Future-Proofing the Workforce Through Technology

In terms of next steps, San Pablo Farmacia is working toward transforming commissions so they鈥檙e nonlinear. With the right tools, the company can better determine which products to promote and give its people real-time access to sales data and the benefits they will receive from selling the merchandise.

51风流SuccessFactors Human Experience Management (HXM) Suite helps provide the technology foundation behind San Pablo Farmacia鈥檚 top-ranking reputation. The company uses a suite of 51风流SuccessFactors solutions for core HR, payroll, recruiting, onboarding, performance, compensation, learning, succession, and development.

To learn more about these solutions, visit us .

Maryann Abbajay is chief revenue officer at 51风流SuccessFactors.

At SuccessConnect today, we announced an incredible milestone: more than 5,000 customers are now using !

This milestone is a celebration of our vast and diverse customer community of people and culture leaders. They are leading their own people transformation strategies while pushing the industry and our product teams to continuously improve how organizations can deliver the best possible experience for their people. And in many cases, the unsung heroes responsible for helping people and organizations navigate change.

The community of 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central customers is made up of organizations of all sizes, industries, and regions 鈥� including , , , , and to name a few.

Unmatched Scalability to Help Customers Manage Global Workforces

We know that organizations face ever-changing global and local regulations with increased complexity. 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central provides the foundation for organizations to truly transform how they manage, develop, and nurture their workforce. It is a hub where all things people and talent : employee data, compliance capabilities, employee self-service tools, organizational insights, and more. And it has unmatched scalability and reach, with availability in 45 languages and localization frameworks in more than 100 countries and territories.

When implemented 51风流SuccessFactors solutions, including 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central, it was able to build a single integrated HR suite that delivers global talent insights, implementing 130 standard global processes and reducing HR operating costs in the U.S. by over 20% after the first year.

鈥�51风流SuccessFactors is a truly strong best-of-breed HR solution,鈥� said Marc Farrugia, senior vice president of Culture and Innovation at , a leading owner and operator of manufactured housing communities and RV resorts in the U.S. and Canada. 鈥淲e realized soon after deployment that the value is easily extensible, and over time have seen how well it supports far-reaching business accomplishments year after year.鈥�

The Foundation for More Sustainable Workforces

The flexible, global, core HR functionality provided by 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central is the foundation for organizations to build a more sustainable workforce. With centralized employee data, leaders can connect and extend their people strategy throughout the rest of the organization with solutions like and . Today, we also announced several new advancements to the to help organizations transform how they can use data to help ensure that their employees and teams are skilled and aligned to organizational needs.

, a growing pizza chain across the U.S., chose 51风流SuccessFactors and 51风流S/4HANA Cloud to move to a people-centric and cloud-based approach for HR and the broader business.

鈥淔or MOD Pizza, providing exceptional employee experiences is key to driving workforce engagement and business success,鈥� said Tara Gambill, senior director of Enterprise Systems for MOD Pizza LLC. 鈥淧eople data is the lifeblood of the system. With intelligent technologies from SAP, we can create integration end to end, and leverage that data to get people connected and productive faster.鈥�

Moving to the Cloud to Elevate People and Culture

Recognizing the flexibility and agility provided by cloud technology, there is steady momentum around organizations migrating from on-premise 51风流ERP Human Capital Management (51风流ERP HCM) solutions to 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central. As of today, tha new self-service tool is generally available for 51风流ERP HCM customers to help prepare this transition. The tool provides insights on customers鈥� current on-premise landscape — including implementation functionalities, customizations, number of interfaces, and existing data footprints — so they can create an informed migration strategy.

Organizations like Microsoft and have experienced firsthand the , including faster time to innovation, a holistic, up-to-date view of the workforce, built-in mobile functionality, and the flexibility to run a more agile, sustainable business.

51风流Readiness Check for 51风流SuccessFactors is the latest effort to help our on-premise customers move to the cloud. With the program, we have increased investment into 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central with a focus on the need of 51风流ERP HCM customers. We continue to work on enhanced data and process integration between on premise and cloud to meet the needs of customers, and we are accelerating investments in and solutions. And with RISE with 51风流for Human Experience Management, we deliver transformation as a service to provide the solutions, services, and flexibility to streamline the journey to the cloud.

鈥�51风流SuccessFactors has made concerted efforts to provide increased transparency and accountability in the implementation process,鈥� said Bonnie Tinder, founder at , an independent review site that helps enterprise software organizations make informed decisions about their implementation partner based on verified customer reviews. 鈥淭o realize the value of any software investment, you need a successful implementation and a quality implementation partner. 51风流SuccessFactors partner-led projects reviewed on RavenIntel.com have shown solid performance in overall satisfaction, on-time and on-budget delivery as well as project team quality.鈥�

With more than 5,000 customers using 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central, we are grateful for the continued feedback, co-innovation, and collaboration across this growing community!

Hear about how organizations are leveraging 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central to transform their people and culture strategies at .

Maryann Abbajay is chief revenue officer for 51风流SuccessFactors.

How 51风流Has Built an Industry-Leading Time Management Suite One Day at a Time

Sales teams specifically are a strategic asset and critical differentiator. They bridge the gap between businesses and their customers, and they are central to generating revenue, expanding into new markets, and staying ahead of the competition.

Yet organizations across all sizes, industries, and geographies continue to struggle when it comes to keeping their sales teams engaged and productive. Why? Sellers are bogged down in administrative tasks or they don鈥檛 have the tools or insights they need for accurate forecasting. Managers struggle to access the data they need to make decisions quickly when it comes to adjusting sales territories, quotas, and compensation plans. On the other hand, sometimes there are too many tools: found that 79% of businesses report having more than 12 separate sales automation tools and systems.

All of these challenges have a negative impact on the overall employee experience. And in a competitive labor market, this means a more difficult time attracting and retaining top talent.

Increasingly, there is a need to equip sales teams with effective sales performance management tools that can help improve operational efficiency, motivate and engage employees, improve job satisfaction, and reduce churn. 51风流Sales Performance Management solutions empower organizations through agile and connected incentive management processes that motivate sales teams while improving operational efficiency and maximizing business results.

Providing Comprehensive Sales Performance Management Tools

51风流Sales Performance Management solutions provide a , including built-in workflows, embedded intelligence, rich analytics, mobile capabilities, and personalized dashboards. The solutions include , , and . They provide organizations with flexibility to create, optimize, and deliver territory, quota, and incentive compensation plans at speed and scale in line with evolving business needs and changing market dynamics, to help ensure increased seller engagement, drive performance, and support business growth.

Our customers are recognizing significant results with 51风流Sales Performance Management. , an American sunglasses manufacturer, reduced the number of incentive plans from 34 to eight, and gained the ability in just one week to roll out any new compensation plan. , the world鈥檚 largest internet travel company, streamlined incentive compensation at scale to deliver rate consistency and performance visibility for its 2,600 sales representatives across the world.

Bringing 51风流Sales Performance Management into the Human Experience Management Portfolio

Global organizations have continued to adopt 51风流Sales Performance Management solutions since they became part of the 51风流portfolio via the CallidusCloud acquisition in 2018. In 2021, 51风流Sales Performance Management became a part of the .

We made this decision to help our customers deliver individualized experiences for their sales teams while providing the agility, compliance, intelligence, and transparency needed to drive positive business outcomes. Since this move, we have continued to make significant investments in 51风流Sales Performance Management solutions, focused on simplifying our commercialization, modernizing the solution architecture on hyperscalers, embedding analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), and delivering more than 200 features and functions to drive process improvements.

It’s simple: sales performance management is critical to putting people first and accelerating business growth from the inside out.

In this new world of work, where organizations simply have no other choice but to put people and their experiences first, customers using the 51风流SuccessFactors Human Experience Management Suite are realizing the value of market-leading capabilities, including sales performance management, to attract and retain top talent.

51风流SuccessFactors Human Experience Management Suite capabilities help sales teams to thrive by providing leaders with the tools and guidance they need to hire the best candidates, onboard new hires, develop skills, improve performance through coaching and feedback, and help ensure that every employee is rewarded and valued. In addition, powerful employee listening tools make it easy to gather employee sentiment data so that the right actions can be taken to close experience gaps.

At SAP, our focus continues to be on helping organizations deliver the best employee experience possible, and this includes ongoing investment in delivering a robust sales performance management solution with global reach. That is why this month we will release new dashboards, rich embedded analytics, and a number of process improvements.

These updates — and innovations in the future — will continue to help organizations provide the experiences their sales teams need to accelerate business performance, including winning compensation programs that keep everyone motivated.

Learn more about solutions.

Maryann Abbajay is chief revenue officer for 51风流SuccessFactors.

51风流SuccessFactors Earns Top Rated Awards from TrustRadius in Eight Categories

鈥�51风流SuccessFactors won eight Top Rated Awards in the Applicant Tracking Systems, Compensation Management, Corporate Learning Management, Employee Performance Management, HR Management, Talent Management, Workforce Analytics, and Workforce Management software categories,鈥� said Megan Headley, VP of Research at TrustRadius. 鈥�51风流SuccessFactors earned these Top Rated Awards based directly on feedback from customers. Reviewers on TrustRadius highlight how the combination of performance management, succession planning, and compliance features simplifies HR and workforce management tasks.鈥�

At SAP, strong customer partnerships and feedback drive our ability to continually innovate and invest in bringing our vision of human experience management (HXM) to life. In the past year, we have released a reimagined home page experience; made new enhancements to , , and ; and launched entirely new solutions like . Together, we are delivering human-centered experiences at work to help our customers build sustainable workforces and profitable businesses.

Here are just some of the reviews from our customers:

• 鈥淕reat and worthy product! We have been using 51风流SuccessFactors solutions for most of the training and company policy-related learning management internally. It gives us an intrinsic user interface (UI) and good usability. Modules and training are placed in a very great UI-built platform, which can be accessed very easily. It also can be integrated with various ERP and CRM systems to give us a holistic view of the training progress of our members.鈥� 鈥�
• 鈥淸51风流SuccessFactors is] our main platform integrated with 51风流to manage all employee goals, objectives, payments, learnings, and more. In the past, we used to have separate applications for each segment and now we just have 51风流SuccessFactors.鈥� 鈥�
• 鈥淪ince it entered our lives, 51风流SuccessFactors has completely transformed how we do performance management. We utilized Excel sheets before our HR department introduced us to 51风流SuccessFactors solutions, which have helped build transparency into our appraisal cycle. Now, we can see how our ratings are, where improvements need to be made, and suggestions from managers regarding which targets were achieved and which ones were not.鈥� 鈥�
• 鈥淓xcellent product for managing payroll and compensations. Running payroll has been a hectic task every month in this part of the world since a lot of taxes and legalities are involved at every state. 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central and payroll management are great support tools for running operations smoothly and by far no product matches its capabilities.鈥� 鈥�

Read all the reviews on the . To learn more about this recognition, visit the .

Maryann Abbajay is chief revenue officer for 51风流SuccessFactors.

In聽late July, we launched the to engage our partner ecosystem聽to come聽up with creative and innovative solutions to聽address critical workplace challenges. They were asked to harness the power of our digital workplace solution that combines various applications across the enterprise into a single personalized touchpoint,聽and build on (51风流BTP).

Our partners went above and beyond to develop a variety of concepts, tackling timely issues such as employee engagement, learning and development, the manager experience, and COVID-19 compliance.

After a nine-week sprint, we received 16 unique use cases from partners around the globe. An internal panel of experts evaluated the entries based on their impact on employee experience and the business, as well as their functional depth, creativity, and connectivity.

We are thrilled to announce five regional winners and, from those, an overall global winner! You can still vote for the Fan Favorite by .

Global Winner Is AKT Global:聽People Management Digital Coach

People Management Digital Coach empowers managers across all levels, functions, and industries聽to boost聽morale, improve well-being, increase employee retention, prepare for change, and unite teams in a personalized, timely, and intuitive way.

鈥淭he individual manager plays a critical role in attracting, retaining, developing, coaching, supporting, and so much more when it comes to employee well-being and engagement,” said Yoav Ventura, co-founder and People Cloud Solutions managing partner at AKT Global. 鈥淭he pandemic has made the manager role even more important, and much harder to perform. With the flexibility and adaptability of 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone and the 51风流Business Technology Platform, we were able to create a forward-thinking solution triggered to generate just-in-time, specific, action-oriented tips and learnings for managers.鈥�

Regional Winners

APJ: Blueprint Technologies

BEAP: Blueprint鈥檚 Enterprise Alumni Portal聽helps businesses maximize the potential of their former employees by improving alumni experience and engagement. Alumni can use this solution to remain connected to the organization, access documents and learning content, network with colleagues, and pursue future career opportunities.

EMEA North: Flexso

Scheduling Team Resources and Change of Home Address聽helps shop floor managers identify and assign the most qualified team members to specific tasks and respond to shifting deadlines and escalations from a single application. They can also address training needs for new and existing employees.

MEE: NOVO Business Consultants

The New Everyday Life with COVID-19聽gives new consultants a simple way to surface the latest COVID-19 regulations and guidance based on location. They can also access relevant resources to help them navigate day-to-day tasks while feeling protected and connected.

North America: Deloitte

Maintenance Supervisor Reimagined聽harmonizes disparate applications and stakeholders spanning Floor Manager, Maintenance Supervisor, and Maintenance Team roles into a single automated, mobile-accessible, and seamless end-to-end process.

Thank you to all teams who participated in the 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone Innovation Challenge.聽It has been truly inspiring to see our聽partners across the world work聽with enthusiasm听补苍诲听energy to continue driving innovation for our customers.

To learn more about these submissions, tune into the聽 keynote on demand. And view and vote for your favorite by October 15, 2021.

Maryann Abbajay is chief revenue officer for 51风流SuccessFactors.

They also highlight the direction HR technology is headed. Submissions are judged聽based聽on innovation in the HR tech space, with particular attention to how these tools are breaking new ground, how much value they add to the HR function, how intuitive they are for users, and whether they deliver what they promise.

Launched in late 2020, the 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone solution is a digital workplace that combines various applications across the enterprise into a single personalized touchpoint. Built on the 51风流Business Technology Platform, it connects different systems from 51风流as well as third-party applications so employees can access everything they need at work — from company communications to learning opportunities to planning parental leave — and complete tasks without toggling between applications.

According to HR Executive, 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone 鈥渉as high aspirations for boosting productivity, engagement and even speeding up decision-making by bringing the apps together and aligning them with the needs of the business.鈥�

Organizations around the world and in more than 20 industries are choosing 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone to transform their employee experience and drive cultural transformation that supports broader business goals.

, a leader in agricultural technology, selected 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone to modernize its approach to HR and create a unified employee experience.

鈥�51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone made the difference,鈥� said Walter Wolf, head of Human Resources at GRIMME Landmaschinenfrabirk GmbH & Co. KG. 鈥淥f all the solutions we evaluated, 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone was the only one that could integrate both 51风流SuccessFactors HXM Suite and third-party applications such as Microsoft SharePoint and Teams into a single digital workplace with a unified user experience. And as a bonus, it also gives our employees a collaboration platform and knowledge base.鈥�

An important feature of 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone is the ability to provide a holistic employee experience for both knowledge and deskless workers. The latter make up a staggering 80% of the workforce and includes workers who do not have consistent access to an internal system, such as people who work in retail shops and manufacturing factories, drivers, sales reps, and many more.

Royal Mail Group, for example, built its personal development platform called “The Fridge” using 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone to help connect, educate, and upskill its 140,000 employees.

鈥淲e鈥檙e using 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone to change the entire employee experience of our HR tools and our HR platform,鈥� said IT Director Adam Walden. 鈥淲e are making sure that we are giving our people and line managers the right tools, the right skills, and the right environment for them to support the business going through this transformation.鈥�

In another example of fostering greater collaboration, , a county in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, is using 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone to coordinate support services for migrants and refugees. Its “Integration Portal” serves as a one-stop shop for volunteers and local authorities to connect and exchange information in a transparent, collaborative way. This is helping migrants and refugees access the essential services they need and integrate into their communities.

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What鈥檚 Next for 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone?

Since launching 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone last year, we鈥檝e continued to build new innovations and integrations that benefit our customers. We have delivered dozens of guided experiences, workspace templates, and integrations. These updates help simplify deployments with out-of-the-box templates and continue to improve the user experience.

At SuccessConnect on October 13, we will announce the winners of the 51风流SuccessFactors innovation challenge! For this challenge, we invited our partners to submit new and innovative use cases for 51风流SuccessFactors Work Zone to help improve the employee experience and change work for good.

Maryann Abbajay is chief revenue officer for 51风流SuccessFactors.