SAP SuccessFactors is a human capital management and employee experience service. With its foundations in ERP and technologies that provide functions related to systems of record, SAP has spent a good part of the post-millennial years finessing the structure and components of its suite, often through strategic acquisitions.īefore we look into some of the key tiers of the SAP suite in more detail, let’s make sure we know what some of these software solution components are and where they logically sit together on the SAP family tree.
Often presented with a homogenised user interface layer to breed familiarity and encourage use, the integrated nature of a software suite is designed to provide interlinked and overarching experience for the user.Īlthough many platform and suite offerings fall into the personal productivity ‘Office’ type category, Adobe’s Creative Suite is clearly a different type of beast, as is the total package offered by SAP. Suites on the other hand need to be composed of a collection of logically related software applications and data services. Platforms need to represent a technology base and substrate layer that can be built ‘on and on top of’, which generally necessitates the existence of a functioning set of software tools that align to the platform work surface.
In order for a technology vendor to be able to call its IT stack a ‘platform and suite’ it needs to meet a few core criteria. Come on a tasting menu tour around SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, SAP CX and SAP Fieldglass, with an important side order of SAP SuccessFactors. A tour around the sometimes lesser-known elements of the SAP software suite is guaranteed to provide additional insight into how the company has built a whole which has always intended to be greater than the sum of its parts.
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