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Table of Contents

3    Executive Overview

4    Workforce Experience and the
     SAP SuccessFactors Mobile App

5    Solution Highlights

11   Where to Go for Additional Information

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Executive Overview

Digitally Transform Workforce Experiences with
the SAP® SuccessFactors® HCM Suite

We are pleased to announce the following innovations for SAP® SuccessFactors®
HCM Suite, which will help improve workforce agility, inspire performance, and
motivate everyone to deliver your organization’s purpose and mission.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
•• Redesigned, intuitive, and innovative Android mobile app
•• New U.S. benefits options for cafeteria savings plans, simplified administration of benefits, and new
   notifications that better guide employees
•• Improved support for your global workforce with enhanced multilanguage support for documents
   in the SAP Jam™ collaboration platform
•• Expanded use of machine learning (with SAP Leonardo) for enhanced learning recommendations

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Workforce Experience and the SAP SuccessFactors
Mobile App

We’re excited to announce our new                          Employees can leverage enhancements in
SAP SuccessFactors Mobile app for Android.                 learning and continuous performance manage-
In partnership with Google, we have rede­signed            ment, thereby supporting ongoing talent and
our Android app to take advantage of more native           development across both iOS and Android devices.
Android device functionality. This app gives               In addition, employees can search learning courses
employees a familiar, intui­tive experience that           as part of larger learning programs, creating
translates typical mobile device interactions              on-the-go learning that is better aligned with the
such as tapping and swiping into powerful                  desktop experience. Employees can link courses
actions, functionality, and capabilities of                to continuous performance management (CPM)
SAP SuccessFactors solutions. For example,                 activities and achievements directly on a mobile
the app’s new home screen uses a card-based                device, creating a close link between learning and
design that concisely displays relevant information,       development and day-to-day performance, even
such as time-off balance or number of hours                for employees who are on the go.
logged in a time sheet, and enables employees
to initiate follow-on activities directly from the         Download the SAP SuccessFactors Mobile app,
home screen.                                               available for iOS and Android devices.

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Solution Highlights

EMPLOYEE CENTRAL GLOBAL BENEFITS                         reimbursement accounts (DCRA). These accounts
With this release, we have expanded support for          allow for employer contributions and catch-up
U.S. benefits with a new top-level benefits pattern      contributions, coverage tier levels, and annual and
for Section 125 cafeteria savings plans. This allows     per-pay-period minimum and maximum amounts.
employees to choose among a variety of offerings
to create a benefits package that best meets their       In addition, we’ve enhanced functionality for bene-
needs and those of their family.                         fits dependencies with simplified administration
                                                         and an improved employee enrollment experience.
We have added health savings accounts (HSA),             Benefits administrators may now set conditions
flexible spending accounts (FSA), limited flexible       for enrolling or not enrolling in benefits plans from
spending accounts (LFSA), and dependent care             a new benefits dependency page.

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EMPLOYEE CENTRAL SERVICE CENTER                         HR professionals can now add internal notes
In this release, we have updated our HR help desk       or attachments to tickets that are not visible
experience to harmonize the user experience             to the employee who submitted the ticket. This
across solutions. This aligns the HR professional       enables agents to collaborate with colleagues
experience with the rest of the SAP SuccessFactors      while resolving a ticket, without bothering the
solutions, and it provides enhanced usability and       related employee. For full transparency, the HR
channel support with “live activity” (matching          professional can choose whether to share
caller information on incoming call notifications)      these comments with the employee.
and new e-mail response options. In addition,
we now offer a unified ticket list and the ability to
restrict access to subtickets.

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VISA AND PERMITS MANAGEMENT                             process their dependents, new data query
In this release, we’ve added enhancements to            and export options for transactional data, new
simplify and improve the employee experience            advanced cost analysis functionality, and new
and to optimize HR service delivery options, such       connectivity options for business-to-government
as new notification features, a new dashboard for       (B2G) activities.
HR professionals, the ability for employees to

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RECRUITING                                      functionality to manage one-to-many, responsive
We have continued to evolve our candidate       e-mail marketing campaigns to candidates so
relationship management capabilities embedded   recruiters and sourcers can engage with talent
in the SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting solution   pools and track campaign results for deeper
and are happy to announce e-mail campaigns.     CRM insights.
This builds on the one-to-one correspondence

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LEARNING                                           applying machine learning algorithms. Employees
We have added personalized learning recommen-      help maximize relevance by indicating topics of
dations enabled by machine learning capabilities   interest, which focuses the recommendations
with SAP Leonardo. These targeted recommen-        engine on delivering best-fit learning recommen-
dations are based on taking what we know about     dations that match their preferences.
an employee, such as their learning history, and

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MULTILANGUAGE SUPPORT FOR SELF-SERVICE                automatically based on their preferred language.
KNOWLEDGE ARTICLES                                    For example, HR can provide benefits information
This release includes enhancements to drive           in the employee’s preferred language, which helps
HR efficiency and employee experience by              with understanding and clarity. The SAP Jam
providing access to self-service information with     mobile app now offers multilanguage support
the SAP Jam™ collaboration platform. There is         for documents, automatically presenting the
new support for multilanguage knowledge-base          user with the correct language version of the
articles. Content owners can provide pretranslated    document, based on the employee profile.
knowledge articles that are presented to users

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Where to Go for Additional Information

RELEASE DETAILS, WEBINARS, AND MORE                       For the SAP SuccessFactors Professional Edition
For details and information on other enhancements         solution, some features may not be available or
in the Q3 2018 release, please see the full               may become available at a later date.
“Release Information Document” in our customer
community.                                                Please note: All product features and delivery
                                                          dates mentioned within represent current product
You can also register and listen to the recordings        development expectations only and not a delivery
of our information-packed Release Information             commitment. You should base your purchasing,
Webinars moderated by the product managers.               administrative, and configuration decisions solely
If you are not already a member of the customer           on functionality that is currently available.
community, please register at community
.successfactors.com to get access to product
information and engage in discussions with
your peers.

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