SAP SuccessFactors People Stories
Unlock the power of employee data with SAP SuccessFactors People Stories
Transform employee insights into actionable strategies to boost engagement, development, and performance.
Unlock the power of employee data with SAP SuccessFactors People Stories
Turn workforce insights into action with SAP SuccessFactors People Stories. Empower leaders and employees with personalised, data-driven feedback to improve engagement, performance, and retention — all supported by Zalaris’ proven consulting expertise.
Unlock the full power of your workforce data
SAP SuccessFactors People Stories turns your HR data into clear, actionable insights — helping you make faster decisions, predict future trends, and drive better outcomes across the employee lifecycle.
Unified reporting across modules
Consolidate data from multiple SAP SuccessFactors modules into a single reporting tool, enabling comprehensive cross-suite analysis and eliminating the need for disparate reporting systems
Real-time, data-driven insights
Access live transactional data to make timely, informed decisions. Real-time analytics support proactive workforce management and strategic planning.
Advanced visualisation and storytelling
Utilise modern visualisation tools to create interactive dashboards and reports. These visual narratives make complex data more accessible and facilitate better understanding among stakeholders.
Enhanced data security and role-based access
Ensure data privacy and compliance with role-based permissions, allowing users to access only the information pertinent to their roles, thus maintaining confidentiality and security.
Improved decision-making with predictive analytics
Leverage predictive analytics to identify trends and patterns, enabling HR leaders to anticipate workforce needs and address potential issues before they arise.
Seamless integration with SAP Analytics Cloud
Benefit from the integration with SAP Analytics Cloud, which enhances reporting capabilities and provides a robust platform for advanced analytics and planning.
Explore SAP SuccessFactors People Stories
Unlock personalised, data-driven insights to drive engagement, improve performance, and foster a positive employee experience.
Understanding SAP SuccessFactors People Stories
SAP SuccessFactors People Stories is a powerful tool that enables organisations to create interactive and dynamic reports, providing a comprehensive view of their workforce.
By leveraging People Stories, HR leaders can gain insights into employee trends and behaviors, identify areas for improvement, and develop targeted initiatives to drive business outcomes.
People Stories offers a range of features and benefits, including:
- Interactive and dynamic reporting capabilities
- Ability to create custom reports and dashboards
- Integration with SAP Analytics Cloud for advanced analytics capabilities
- Support for legacy reporting tools, including table reports and canvas reports
- Ability to create own metrics and pre-defined metrics
By leveraging People Stories, organisations can revolutionise their HR strategies, drive business outcomes, and create a more engaged and productive workforce.
SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics
Leverage workforce analytics to gain deeper insights into employee trends and behaviours.
SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics is a powerful tool that enables organisations to gain deeper insights into employee trends and behaviors. By leveraging workforce analytics, HR leaders can identify areas for improvement, develop targeted initiatives, and drive business outcomes.
Workforce analytics offers a range of features and benefits, including:
- Ability to transform SuccessFactors data into time-trend ready measures and dimensions
- Support for strategic HR decision-making
- Advanced analytics capabilities, including predictive analytics and machine learning
- Integration with SAP Analytics Cloud for advanced analytics capabilities
- Ability to create custom reports and dashboards
SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics helps organisations gain a deeper understanding of their workforce, drive business outcomes, and create a more engaged and productive workforce.
Tailored employee insights
Deliver real-time, relevant insights to individual employees.
People Stories delivers personalised isights that are tailored to each employee, providing them with relevant, real-time feedback. These insights enable employees and managers to make informed decisions about their development and performance.
- Real-time feedback – Provide employees with actionable, real-time insights.
- Aligned with employee goals – Ensure feedback aligns with individual development goals and business objectives.
- Improves manager-employee conversations – Empower managers with data to guide meaningful development conversations.
Data-driven decision making
Empowering HR with workforce analytics and data-driven insights
People Stories allows HR teams and leadership to make data-driven decisions based on detailed employee feedback, engagement metrics, and performance data. Utilising the story report capabilities available in the SAP SuccessFactors platform, organisations can integrate various data sources, employ modern visualisations, and support strategic decision-making by presenting data in a dynamic, interactive format. By analysing this data, organisations can improve employee experience, performance, and retention.
- Actionable analytics – Identify trends, strengths, and areas for improvement.
- Performance tracking – Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate employee success.
- Predictive insights – Use historical data to predict future workforce trends and make proactive decisions.
Continuous feedback for improved performance
Drive continuous improvement with real-time feedback loops
The real-time feedback functionality enables ongoing, continuous feedback for employees. This feature helps to keep employees aligned with business objectives and improve performance through regular, actionable insights.
- Feedback loops – Enable continuous feedback to help employees grow and improve.
- Immediate, actionable insights – Give managers the ability to act on feedback immediately, ensuring better employee performance.
- Employee engagement – Improve employee engagement by offering regular feedback that drives motivation and growth.
Seamless integration with SAP SuccessFactors
Fully integrate People Stories and Story Reports with your existing SAP SuccessFactors modules.
People Stories integrates seamlessly with other SAP SuccessFactors modules, such as Employee Central, Performance & Goals, and Learning, offering a unified HR ecosystem. This integration ensures consistency and provides a holistic view of employee performance and engagement across the organisation.
- Unified HR ecosystem – Integrate seamlessly with modules like Employee Central, Performance & Goals, and Learning.
- Unified analytics – Pull insights from all SAP SuccessFactors modules for a comprehensive understanding of employee data.
- Simplified HR management – Manage your entire HR ecosystem from a single platform.
Data-driven insights for strategic HR decisions
Transform data into actionable insights that drive strategy
The Analytics & Reporting functionality provides customisable reports on employee performance, engagement, and other KPIs. Stories in people analytics play a crucial role in visualising business insights and enabling data-driven decision-making. These reports give HR professionals and leadership teams the insights needed to make informed, data-driven decisions that improve organisational success.
- Customisable dashboards – Build dashboards tailored to your business needs.
- Predictive analytics – Anticipate workforce trends and proactively plan for future talent needs.
- Embedded reporting – Access real-time data directly within your SAP SuccessFactors workflows.
Related solutions
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Related services
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Implementation Services
Lay the foundation for actionable insights with expert-led setup of analytics and reporting tools.Lay the foundation for actionable insights with expert-led setup of analytics and reporting tools.
FAQ
SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics is the go-to solution for workforce reporting and analysis within SAP SuccessFactors. It replaces legacy reporting tools, providing a modern, cloud-based experience powered by SAP Analytics Cloud. It enables users to create reports, dashboards, and people stories to drive strategic workforce decisions.
People Stories is a feature within SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics that helps users create interactive, narrative-style reports. Using charts, tables, and storytelling elements, it makes it easier to present workforce insights and support business leaders in decision-making.
People Analytics in SuccessFactors refers to the suite’s embedded analytics capabilities that combine data from core HR, learning, performance, and development modules—helping organisations analyse HR data and present it through intuitive reports, dashboards, and stories.
The 7 recognised pillars of people analytics are: headcount and workforce demographics, learning and development, diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition, performance management, succession planning, and employee experience. SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics supports analysis across all these core areas.
Workforce Analytics can be enabled in SuccessFactors through a formal implementation process, which includes configuring the data model, mapping relevant data elements, and ensuring system permissions. This allows organisations to access advanced workforce reports and benchmarks within SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics.
Workforce Analytics traditionally focuses on quantitative data like headcount, turnover, and demographics, while People Analytics in SAP SuccessFactors includes more holistic, narrative-driven analysis. It combines data from multiple modules and enables users to create people stories, providing more strategic, business-relevant insights.
People Analytics enables HR teams and business leaders to analyse workforce data, create reports, and deliver insights that support strategic decisions. It empowers users to manage their own metrics, use pre-defined metrics, and create people stories for clearer communication across the organisation.
People Analytics leverages SAP Analytics Cloud to provide robust data modelling, forecasting, and visualisation tools. This allows users to move beyond basic lists to advanced workforce analysis, enabling comparisons, linked queries, and dynamic dashboards.
By enabling users to create people stories and dashboards with relevant HR data, People Analytics supports better workforce planning, development, and decision-making—helping organisations unlock the value of their HR data and improve business outcomes.
Examples of People Stories are available within SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics, showcasing how customers are using the solution to track key metrics such as headcount, learning, diversity, and performance. Zalaris can also provide demonstrations of real-world use cases.