Advisory Services
Expert advisory for HR & Payroll transformation
Unlock the full potential of SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors with Zalaris’ expert advisory services. Our strategic guidance, analytics expertise, and digital adoption solutions help organisations optimise HR and payroll operations while ensuring compliance and future-readiness.


Strategic HR & payroll consulting for business transformation
Zalaris provides end-to-end SAP HCM advisory services to support organisations in modernising their HR, payroll, and workforce analytics. Whether transitioning from SAP HCM on-premise to SAP SuccessFactors or optimising existing processes, our expertise ensures you achieve efficiency, compliance, and workforce agility.
SAP HR & Payroll transformation projects delivered
SAP certifications across HR, payroll & analytics
Experience HR & Payroll transformation, across all industries
Strategic advisory for confident HR and payroll decisions
Zalaris helps you align technology, operations, and compliance through expert advisory across SAP SuccessFactors and SAP HCM. From process optimisation to cloud readiness, we guide you every step of the way.
Business Transformation Advisory
Zalaris provides expert guidance to help organisations navigate workforce trends, optimise HR and payroll processes, and align transformation strategies with RISE with SAP.


Reporting Analytics Advisory
Empower your organisation with expert advisory services that enhance workforce reporting, analytics, and digital adoption strategies. Our expertise spans SAP SuccessFactors People Stories & Payroll Reporting, Qualtrics EX, WalkMe, and Time & Expense analytics, ensuring organisations optimise their digital strategies.
HR & Payroll Advisory
Zalaris provides strategic advisory grounded in real-world functional expertise across all areas of HR and payroll. We partner with HR and payroll leaders to share best practices, challenge assumptions, and help shape programs that are fit for purpose, compliant, and aligned with evolving workforce needs.


Training & Digital Adoption Advisory
Zalaris provides tailored advisory services to help organisations enhance SAP SuccessFactors adoption, streamline HR workflows, and ensure system-wide user enablement through structured training and AI-driven digital adoption strategies.
Related solutions
Leverage the power of SAP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors with intelligent solutions that drive efficiency, automation, and workforce agility.
Related services
Zalaris provides expert advisory for both SAP SuccessFactors and SAP HCM On-Premise environments.
FAQ
Zalaris' SAP HCM advisory services help organizations align HR and payroll systems—such as SAP ERP HCM and SAP SuccessFactors—with their broader business transformation strategy. Our experts deliver SAP consulting services tailored for human capital management, supporting everything from process redesign to cloud migration. We help you unlock business value, manage complexity, and prepare for change using proven tools, frameworks, and industry and technology skills.
ur business transformation services for HCM focus on aligning people, processes, and technology to accelerate value. We support:
- HR transformation consulting and operating model redesign
- Cloud HCM transformation and SAP SuccessFactors roadmap planning
- Change management and adoption strategies
- Operational efficiency through automation, data management, and governance
This service helps HR leaders respond to rising costs and high inflation, while enabling digital transformation through SAP.
We bring a leading combination of business and industry knowledge, as seen in SAP-led initiatives with leaders like Maximilian Schmid and Benedikt Scheuermann and Li and Georg Heberle, which emphasise how digital innovation begins with aligning strategy and execution.
Zalaris supports data-driven decision-making in HR with a focus on value delivery. Our analytics advisory includes:
- Enablement of SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics and People Stories
- Custom payroll and HR reporting aligned with compliance and finance requirements
- Deployment of AI-enabled predictive analytics to forecast workforce trends
- Support for data management and reporting strategy in alignment with your landscape strategy and architecture
Our services draw from SAP’s advisory services portfolio, helping organizations define value design and assessment frameworks that are relevant across industries, including consumer products and retail.
Zalaris offers functional knowledge and peer-level support across HR and payroll advisory topics. We provide:
- Payroll compliance and governance advisory
- Hybrid model planning, including SAP Employee Central Payroll (ECP)
- Automation enablement for payroll accuracy and reconciliation
- HR process design for time, compensation, and benefits
This aligns with the expertise found in SAP’s business transformation services for consumers, and supports global companies with tailored solutions backed by our experienced SAP consulting team.
Zalaris provides tailored enablement services to improve user confidence and SAP utilization. This includes:
- SAP SuccessFactors training programs for HR teams
- Enablement strategy aligned with digital architecture and road maps
- In-app enablement and support for HR self-services
- Operational upskilling in payroll governance, automation, and compliance
These services help encourage innovation with help from SAP advisory principles—ensuring your HR teams are empowered to manage systems and change.
Zalaris focuses exclusively on SAP HCM and SuccessFactors advisory, leveraging deep experience in HR, payroll, and compliance. We don’t try to cover the full SAP services spectrum—instead, we offer tailored advisory services with a relentless focus on workforce optimization. Our HCM experts collaborate directly with clients to navigate complexity, deliver transformation with an ERP-aligned mindset, and ensure transformation success.
Like SAP’s own approach, we believe transformation begins with a vision and succeeds through clarity, collaboration, and execution.
Whether you're just starting your HCM transformation journey, building a business case, or refining your SAP SuccessFactors roadmap, Zalaris is ready to support. We offer workshops, assessments, and full project advisory—delivered by experienced business transformation consultants, including chief business enterprise consultants and transformation services management consultants specialized in HCM.
Explore our services or connect directly with our team to learn how Zalaris helps organisations like yours succeed with SAP HCM advisory services.
A Proven Advisory Approach, Built Around You
Our structured, collaborative process helps you move with clarity — from assessing current-state to planning, optimising, and supporting your HR and payroll strategy at every step.

Discover – Understand your current systems, challenges, and business objectives.
Assess – Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities across processes and technology.
Advise – Recommend best-practice solutions aligned with your goals and operating model.
Plan – Define a practical roadmap for optimisation, cloud adoption, or transformation.
Support – Provide ongoing guidance, governance, and expertise at every step.