Overview
It’s another update packed release with ~360 changes. While this a pretty “usual” volume of updates, it contains the highest proportion of Universal updates in recent times at 73%. Add in the 5% of “Opt-out” features and you’ve got nearly 4 out of every 5 updates that each customer will be getting without any action being taken. By the way, if this terminology isn’t making sense, check out my blog post that explains more about the release.
As always, there are plenty of changes in Employee Central with over a hundred updates as well as more changes in Opportunity Marketplace and new functionality in Dynamic Teams (part of Platform) which is one of the topics highlighted by Amy Wilson in her usual video round up. Amy also discusses new functionality that is part of the Early Adopter programme; skills ontology (to align talent development to ambition of organisation) and growth portfolio (aligning employee’s talent development to their ambitions).
A couple of notable platform changes that are being replicated across the suite is the use of a person’s chosen name and pronouns (in places where legal name is not required) and the roll out of the new Horizon theme for SAP Fiori. The theme is available as an opt-in feature, but once enabled it allows users to enjoy modern visual elements and an updated colour palette. All pages should be updated by the end of 2023.
Enjoy the Articles
Starting today and for the rest of the week, we’ll publish articles on each solution area of the SAP SuccessFactors HXM suite here on our website. Our authors endeavour to focus on the changes affecting end users and communicate them in a clear way. Hopefully you’ve always got the full SAP release notes in the What’s New Viewer to lean on for all the technical details.
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Preview instances of SuccessFactors were updated on 28th October 2022 and the production instances are due to be updated on 9th December 2022.