The Resources option can be found in the Company Info section. Select Company Info from the Home drop-down menu (Figure 53).
Figure 53. Company Info > Resources
Similar to how you edit the Welcome portlet, click the edit icon to edit the content for Resources.
Conclusion
In this lesson, you were provided with information to customize the Welcome portlet.
You should now be able to: Describe the Welcome portlet Configure the Welcome portlet Access SuccessFactors Resources
Knowledge Check
1. What is the purpose of the Welcome portlet?
2. True or false:
The Welcome portlet can be customized by department and/or region.
Module 5:
Overview of SuccessFactors
Product Bundles
This course provided the foundation you need to administer the other SuccessFactors products more effectively and efficiently. This section provides an overview of the SuccessFactors products.BIZX
PLATFORM
SuccessFactors Business Execution (BizX) Platform provides a foundation for talent management and strategic human resources management. It contains a core set of functionality that is
common across the entire SuccessFactors BizX software suite. Companies can ensure a comprehensive view of employee skill sets, expertise, experience, and career interests. People can easily find the expertise they need, and leverage social collaboration to work together virtually. The BizX Platform includes Employee Profile, Reporting and Talent Insights, basic Jam, and admin training from Success Academy (which you just completed).
PERFORMANCE AND GOALS
The Performance and Goals provides capabilities such as performance management, goals management 360 multi-rater assessments, stack ranker, and calibration. They ensure aligned, clear goals and objectives, and accurate talent assessment.
With SuccessFactors Performance & Goals, you’ll be able to clearly and objectively:
Help employees and managers align individual goals to company business objectives.
Deliver meaningful reviews to ensure employee engagement and retention.
Calibrate performance by providing objective ratings across even the largest company.
Develop employees and help managers provide meaningful feedback and coaching.
Cultivate leaders and clearly identify not just high performers — but potential future leaders.
COMPENSATION
SuccessFactors Compensation provides capabilities such as compensation, variable pay, and calibration. It assures
compensation professionals that rewards are not just calculated correctly, but fairly — to help retain top performers. Plus,
compensation data can be combined with additional business data for comprehensive compensation insight.
SuccessFactors Compensation delivers and ensures:
Simplified, more accurate compensation management. Intuitive, highly configurable base salary and variable pay (bonus, stock, equity) processes with defined, streamlined workflows.
Calibration with Performance Management to ensure fairness and employee retention. Integrated with the BizX suite,
performance data is calibrated across the company and seamlessly used with SuccessFactors Compensation.
Insight for total compensation analysis. Pre-built reports and dashboards for budget rollups, exceptions, legal compliance, employee details and perform-and-reward analysis. Plus, compensation data can be combined with other business data for more comprehensive insight.
Assurance that budgets are used wisely. Automated monitoring of compliance with variable pay guidelines, keeps payouts in line with budgets. Plus, save time as bonus and merit
recommendations are automated from employee performance data. Run "what-if" scenarios to instantly see how increasing merit pay to top performers will impact budgets.
Significantly reduced risk with improved audit compliance. Data for audits is automatically stored, greatly reducing this burden for compensation administrators.
SUCCESSION AND DEVELOPMENT
The Succession and Development bundle includes Succession, Career and Development Planning, and Calibration.
Building and developing bench strength is a key element of how businesses prepare themselves for real results. You need to be able to proactively plan for company change, and balance that with the ambitions of the employee. If necessary, you should be able to turn on a dime and quickly reshuffle talent when a new business opportunity arises or a key player suddenly departs.
SuccessFactors Succession and Development helps identify, develop, and retain talent at every level of your company. Use the succession application to map every staffing move — across teams or across the world. Plus, take action by creating new department hiring plans, create new development plans to address gaps — all while providing employees with greater visibility into the future of their careers.
Succession planning provides proactive identification of your “go- to” employees. Using this information, you can develop them for upcoming job transitions without losing your valuable internal knowledge base.
LEARNING
As an integrated part of the BizX Suite, SuccessFactors transforms how the workforce learns by combining formal, social, and
extended learning together with unprecedented content
management, reporting, and analytics. SuccessFactors Learning also supports mobile devices — ensuring a convenient and easy way to deliver and administer learning on-the-go.
The result is improved performance and learning that is easily verifiable. With SuccessFactors Learning, HR and learning leaders can:
Align business goals with individual employee learning and development so everyone is working on the right things. Efficiently manage learning resources. House all learning
activities in a single location, reducing administrative and training costs, and creating greater visibility and control.
Accelerate performance by blending formal and informal learning, powered by SuccessFactors Jam, to increase retention and accelerate performance.
Link learning activities to business results. SuccessFactors provides learning metrics that leverage learning data with additional talent and business data.
Ensure compliance. Track, train, and automate the certification and training assignment process.
Significantly improve content administration and delivery. SuccessFactors’ unique iContent, Content-as-a-Service, removes the burden of online content management, reduces costs, and increases efficiency.
RECRUITING
SuccessFactors Recruiting is the solution that improves the ability to identify, attract, and engage the right candidates, with a complete Recruiting Management solution to improve the ability to select and hire the best candidates faster. This creates the only complete Recruiting Execution (Rx) solution that will take your hiring to the next level.
SuccessFactors Recruiting allows you to:
Take control of social networks, search engines, and mobile devices. You need help posting to the right mix of channels. And you need robust sourcing analytics to see exactly how each of those channels performs, so you can invest accordingly.
Initiate relationships and systematically maintain contact with candidates, much as you would engage with customers as part of any marking strategy.
Improve the effectiveness of your talent selection process with objective decisions that are both collaborative and fast. And because you’re focused on business execution, you need to be sure that your talent selection fits in with your overall talent and business strategy.
Provide the critical effective onboarding process. Make sure the process starts before day one, with online forms and workflow, and then immediately engage your new hires and make them productive by automatically connecting them to the people and resources they need.
PREMIER JAM
Jam is the social collaboration software in SuccessFactors that is available to all customers. It connects social networking to the enterprise, allowing employees and partners to collaborate on projects, learn, and innovate together.
Jam provides features such as polls, activity feeds, video and document sharing and versioning, blogs, wikis, and public and private groups to help your employees quickly connect to create and share critical information. With Jam’s integration with the mobile BizX application, your employees can stay connected with one another anytime, anywhere.