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Go1 Now An SAP Partner With An SAP Endorsed App, Available On SAP® Store

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BRISBANE, Australia, April 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Go1, the world's content expert and largest learning ecosystem, announced today that it is now an SAP Partner with an SAP Endorsed App, with its solution available for online purchase on the SAP® Store. SAP Endorsed Apps are premium certified by SAP with added security and in-depth testing. Together with SAP SuccessFactors, Go1 will enhance SAP SuccessFactors Learning to simplify discovery and consumption of content and help organizations deliver skill-building pathways for every business need.

"Through our strategic partnership with SAP, we can harness the combined expertise of Go1 and SAP SuccessFactors to increase employee satisfaction, grow capabilities across global workforces, and deliver high-quality education and training," said Marc Havercroft, President of Go1. "In a smart, automated way, we're able to accelerate the ability for employees to achieve their learning goals."

"Having been part of the Global Executive team at SAP SuccessFactors, I know first-hand just how high the bar is for SAP endorsement. Both organizations share a mutual passion and aligned values for solving the needs of global workforces through continual transformational learning and professional development."

As strategic partners, Go1 and SAP SuccessFactors will:

Simplify content sourcing with access to learning content from 250+ global providers across an extensive range of skills, topics, and languages for the entire workforce, made available in SAP SuccessFactors Learning.

Deliver content directly with seamless integrations and single sign-on for SAP SuccessFactors.

Drive learning engagement through curated learning pathways, personalized recommendations, and diverse learning formats, from VR to micro-learning.

Measure learning outcomes in real time, centrally within SAP SuccessFactors.

"Ecosystem innovations are essential to SAP's vision and delivery of the intelligent enterprise for SAP customers," said Darryl Gray, Global Vice President, Software Partner Solution Monetization & Success at SAP. "We applaud Go1 for achieving endorsed app status. Partners like Go1 are positioned to help us deliver a cloud-first strategy with integrated innovations, proven to provide value while solving key business challenges."

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The Go1 solution is available for digital discovery and purchase at SAP Store, the digital marketplace for solutions from SAP and its partners. SAP Store provides customers with real-time access to more than 2,000 innovative solutions from SAP as well as partner solutions that complement and extend their SAP applications, enabling the digital transformation of their business.

About Go1The world's learning and development content expert, Go1 aggregates content from top learning providers to deliver high-quality education and training across a world-leading range of industries and topics. It enables organizations to offer their employees the training and skills that are relevant for them, in the formats that suit them best – all in a single solution. To learn more, visit www.Go1.Com

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SuccessFactors By SAP: Growth And Innovation Continues

Harvard Business Review research shows that 70-90% of corporate acquisitions fail, often driven by an unclear strategy, lack of culture alignment, or poor execution on business integration. When SAP announced the acquisition of SuccessFactors in December of 2011, one could have expected a similarly disappointing result.

Well, over the last five and a half years, nothing could be further from the truth. While the early days of the SuccessFactors-SAP integration were a bit unclear, today the company is growing rapidly, and under the leadership of Mike Ettling, SuccessFactors has started to innovate in ways that lead the fast-growing, highly competitive human capital software market.

While the product set is highly complex (SuccessFactors is designed to manage all people processes across all industries), the company has leading functionality in nearly all areas of HR: from recruiting to performance management to learning. And this includes tools to manage hourly and contingent workers, payroll in more than 37 countries, extensive analytics, and a complete mobile platform. (And a marketplace of partner applications as well.)

Bringing all these products together has taken investment and focused effort. The the product set includes learning management technology from Plateau, social learning tools from Jambok, analytics software from InfoHRM, contingent workforce management tools from Fieldglass, and payroll and ERP functionality from core HCM applications developed by SAP. Over the years these acquisitions have been integrated in many ways: through the user interface, by harmonizing back-end systems, and replatforming to HANA, SAP's strategic database and technology stack.

(It is now common for all major HR software providers to grow through acquisition, so virtually every vendor has multiple product sets engineered to work together behind the scenes. In fact the discipline of back-end and front-end integration is now core to ERP and HCM marketplace success.)

The world of HR, talent, and people management is always changing, forcing HR software companies to continuously innovate. In this category SuccessFactors has been able to stay ahead of the market in many ways.

1. SuccessFactors Is The First ERP/HCM Vendor To Deliver A Next-generation Continuous Performance Management Solution.

SuccessFactors Continuous Performance Management, which embodies most of the new features of continuous feedback and agile goal management, now has more than 250 customers and is in a position to potentially lead this enormous new market segment, now dominated by startups. SuccessFactors' roadmap for new features in this area is impressive: we can expect the company to continue to lead in this segment as it expands into feedback, engagement, and team management.

2. SuccessFactors Has Pioneered The Use Of Chatbots And Cognitive Interfaces, Through The Launch Of "Conversational HR"‌

I have now seen HR software that interacts with users through chatbots, and the potential is enormous. SuccessFactors users can now have conversations with the software through Slack, Siri, Cortana, Amazon Alexa, Google Gsuite and others, dramatically improving productivity. Imagine an interaction like this.

Employee: "I would like to take vacation next Thursday."

Software: "You have a meeting with Steven on Thursday afternoon."

Employee: "Can you cancel that meeting?"

Software: "Yes meeting is cancelled, should I ask your manager for approval?"

Employee: "Yes please"

Software: "Manager approved, vacation approved."

When I first heard about "chatbot integration with HR" I was skeptical, but after seeing demos from several vendors I am now convinced. The applications for this technology are expansive.

Imagine a conversational system that recommends learning, proposes new job opportunities, or tells an employee they are travelling too much and should possibly take some time off.

While Watson from IBM has some of this functionality available in separate products, SuccessFactors is now building this into the core HR suite. And it will probably not be long until you can talk to these systems through your mobile phone or other AI-based voice device. (SAP is now working with Amazon Alexa, Google, Siri and Cortana.)

3. SuccessFactors Developed Innovative Analytics And AI Tools To Help With Diversity, Bias And Inclusion

For over a year SuccessFactors has been delivering tools that help companies remove bias from job descriptions, run reports that show bias in hiring and promotion, and new tools to help remove bias from talent reviews and calibration sessions. SAP's heritage as a leader in diversity and inclusion shows up here: the company is delivering a set of tools HR and business leaders now see as increasingly critical to their challenges in the areas of bias and diversity.  (Called "Business Beyond Bias.")

(Our new research on D&I shows that while 70%+ of companies believe they have a truly inclusive culture, only 11% actually do based on their practices. Measurement systems and tools which hold people accountable are among the most powerful aids in this important area.)

4. SuccessFactors Learning Continues To Innovate And Grow

The L&D marketplace, which is over a $140 billion market in itself (Bersin by Deloitte core HR systems research, 2016 and 2017), is undergoing tremendous disruption. (Read The Ten Disruptions in L&D for more detail).  In addition to offering one of the first video learning solutions, SuccessFactors just released a set of tools to help companies sell and deliver learning to their customers, resellers, and partners (Learning Marketplace). This focus on "extended enterprise learning" again shows SuccessFactors' ability to innovate and deepen its functionality in each area of HR, and also gives the company a bigger market to address.

5. Continued Evolution Of User Experience

SAP also has a strategic alliance with Apple, enabling the two companies to work together on new user interfaces designed for IOS (on iPhone and iPad). The new user experience on Apple and Android devices appears to be best-of-breed, making HR software not only conversational but just easier to access on mobile devices. The company now has a new career-jobsite builder and a variety of new custom tools to build self-service portals and self-service tools, one of the most important new growth areas for HR.

Digital HR Software Is Not Easy To Build

The HR software marketplace is enormously large, complex, and varied in nature. Our research indicates that there are several thousand software companies selling various tools for recruitment, employee management, engagement, compensation, learning, and other parts of HR. For any company like SAP to lead in this market takes investment, focus, and a continuous ability to change.

SAP understands that this is a long game ahead. Features like global payroll, continuous performance management, and scalable learning management take years to build and demand global feature sets, many language and global translation features, and an architecture the enables them to scale and operate with near real-time speed.

SAP and SuccessFactors have proven their ability to execute and innovate, and we can expect more to come. While others continue to innovate and execute as well, I believe SAP deserves credit for both managing the integration of SuccessFactors with tremendous success and continuing to innovate to help drive the world of HR and management software forward.

Eightfold AI Receives 2023 SAP® Pinnacle Award In The SAP Store Category

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eightfold AI today announced that it received a 2023 SAP® Pinnacle Award in the SAP Store category, which recognizes its outstanding contributions as an SAP partner. SAP presents these awards annually to the top partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP and helping customers run better. Winners and finalists in 22 categories were chosen based on recommendations from SAP, customer feedback, and performance indicators.

"SAP's ecosystem plays a key role in our vision to enable every organization and every industry to become a network of intelligent, sustainable enterprises. The SAP Pinnacle Awards recognize and celebrate the winning partners' outstanding commitment to customer value creation, exponential growth, and simplification," said Christian Klein, CEO and Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE.

"We are on a mission to create a future-ready workforce, using our technology to help companies continue to grow and achieve their goal through any market disruption," said Ashutosh Garg, CEO and co-founder at Eightfold AI. "It is an honor to work hand-in-hand with the SAP team, this award further cements our shared vision."

Eightfold and SAP SuccessFactors have been strategic partners since 2018, and in 2020, Eightfold reached Premium Certified Endorsed App status. Together they have supported over 40 customers in accelerating their talent strategies and driving organizational agility. This aligned vision to support customers in building best in class talent functions will continue to drive the partnership.

SAP Pinnacle Awards shine a spotlight on distinguished partners to acknowledge their dedication to teamwork, exceptional innovation, and capacity to help customers achieve their goals.

About Eightfold AI

Eightfold AI's market-leading Talent Intelligence Platform™ helps organizations retain top performers, upskill and reskill their workforce, recruit talent efficiently, and reach diversity goals. Eightfold's patented deep learning artificial intelligence platform is available in more than 155 countries and 24 languages, enabling cutting-edge enterprises to transform their talent into a competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.Eightfold.Ai.

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