SuccessFactors Compensation Management 1H 2021 Release Quick Preview by Deloitte Germany

1. Quick Review
Compensation Management
Release 1H 2021
Hazal Yagci, Deloitte Germany, 04/21/2021

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General Dates, Facts and Files (click on the links to be redirected to the source)
Release Information Sources
Release Schedule
Release Preview Production
Q1 2019 (1902) March 8th April 5th
Q2 2019 (1905) May 10th June 7th
Q3 2019 (1908) August 9th September 6th
Q4 2019 (1911) November 8th December 6th
2019
 What’s New Viewer for Release Summary 1H 2021 (S-User required)
 First Half 2021 Release Q&A Series - Registration Platform
 Product Release & Roadmap Info at the SuccessFactors Community Site
 SAP Roadmap Explorer (S-User required)
 Known Issues for the 1H 2021 Release
 Notable Fixed Issues 1H 2021
Release Preview Production
First Half 2020
April 10th,
April 11th
(DC18, 22 & 23)
June 5th
Second Half 2020 October 16th November 20th
2020
Release Preview Production
First Half 2021 April 16th May 21st
Second Half 2021 October 15th November 19th
2021

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Compensation: Compensation Worksheets – Features
1H 2021 Quick Review – Compensation Management H igh M edium L ow
Impact / Importance
Title Description Config Type Impact
Current and Final
Pay Ranges
Configurable
Through the
Compensation
Column Designer
Previously, there were only two fields (Current Pay Range and Final Pay Range) in the min-mid-max format. With
this release, minimum, midpoint, and maximum are available as independent fields per Current Pay Range and
Final Pay Range. Adding fields to the Column Designer reduces the Administrator's work load, potential
configuration errors and use of custom fields. Additionally, the system converts values for the fields when you
change the currency view.
Universal
Compensation
Worksheets
Support Five
Custom Validations
With this release, you can define up to five custom validations for fields in Compensation templates and configure
how the system responds when validations fail, with either a warning or an error. The system processes the
worksheet only after the error is corrected. Previously, the maximum number of validations per template was
three.
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Ability to Map
Employee Profile
Fields to Employee
Central Enabled
Worksheets
As of 1H 2021 release, you can map information from Employee Profiles to Employee-Central-Integrated
Compensation Worksheets.
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Adjustable Widths
for Enumerated
Fields on
Compensation
Templates
Now, you can specify the width of enumerated fields in Compensation templates as different than the default
value of 6. This is a user-experience related improvement which will ease of writing and reading of the relevant
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Compensation: Compensation Worksheets – Features
1H 2021 Quick Review – Compensation Management H igh M edium L ow
Impact / Importance
Title Description Config Type Impact
Custom Views
Supported for
Stock and Bonus
Tabs
You can now add custom views for stock and bonus tabs in Compensation worksheets.
Customers requested that stock and bonus tabs support custom views, previously only supported for salary and
variable pay templates.
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Ability to Hide
Columns With
Custom Validations
on Compensation
Worksheets
You can now configure Compensation Worksheets to hide columns containing custom validations. This is an user-
experience related improvement which will help to navigate within the form as reducing the number of columns
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Compensation: Compensation Worksheets – Executive Review
1H 2021 Quick Review – Compensation Management H igh M edium L ow
Impact / Importance
Title Description Config Type Impact
Filter Enhancements
Added to
Compensation
Executive Reviews
In 1H 2021 release, many enhancements to filtering functionality on Compensation Executive Reviews are
introduced. The expansion of Executive Review filtering includes long waited capabilities to:
The expansion of Executive Review filtering includes the capabilities to:
• Filter based on standard or custom reportable columns, similar to Excel-based filters.
• Filter on the basis of field type: for example, contains for string fields, between for date fields, greater than for
number fields, and so on.
• Clear all selected attributes of an applied filter.
• Save filters, and view or edit saved filters.
• Filter on compa ratio and range penetration.
• Filter for Compensation planners.
• Filter on whether there are entries for any comments field.
• Filter on second manager hierarchical relationship.
• Filter on employees who have been promoted (if you use either Employee Central Promotion Integration or Job
Selector).
• Filter on the basis of route map status.
• Perform system validation of filters and filter criteria.
• Make multiple selections (or Select All) for applicable filter criteria.
• Search multiple users simultaneously using Find User on the Population filter.
• Include Inactive Users in Team View searches.
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Compensation: Compensation Worksheets - Configuration move to UI
1H 2021 Quick Review – Compensation Management H igh M edium L ow
Impact / Importance
Title Description Config Type Impact
Addition of
Eligibility Fields to
Compensation
Worksheets
As an improvement of previous release in which you could only add eligibility fields to worksheets by manually
updating the appropriate XML files, you can now add standard eligibility fields to Compensation Worksheets from
Compensation Admin tools. This improves efficiency and flexibility when configuring worksheets without
provisioning access.
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Salary Validation
Rules Added to
Compensation
Worksheets
From Compensation Admin tools, you can now create and apply salary-based validation rules to merit, lump sum,
lump sum2, and extra amounts in Compensation Worksheets, which forces the defined action in the case of fall
below or exceed of either compa-ratio or range penetration as result of salary increase.
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Ability to Configure
Force Comments
on Compensation
Worksheets
With this release, you can configure the Force Comments functionality from the Compensation Admin tools.
A new page, Define Standard Validation Rules has been added to the Design Worksheet tab to support this
functionality. But of course, the Force Comments feature is optional and can be configured accordingly to your
design decisions.
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Compensation: Compensation Worksheets Administration
1H 2021 Quick Review – Compensation Management H igh M edium L ow
Impact / Importance
Title Description Config Type Impact
Application of
Eligibility Rules for
Individual
Compensation
Worksheets After
Launching
You can now reapply eligibility rules to a specific Compensation worksheet that you have already launched. In
previous releases, you could only reapply eligibility rules to all worksheets. In this way, form updates after form
launch becomes more precise and less risky.
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Update Lookup
Table Formulas and
References When
Cloning
Compensation
Templates
As of 1H 2021 release, during cloning of Compensation templates, you can update your lookup tables and
references for the cloned template at the same time. A new section has been added to the Copy Plan Templates
page, enabling you to view and edit the custom formulas and references from lookup tables on the original
template. Universal
Publish
Compensation
Employees to
Employee Central
by Import Using
CSV File
The Publish Selected Employees in Employee Central page has a new option, Import Employees. As it was not
easy to select employees one by one for this purpose, this is definitely an enhancement which will reduce reduces
the Administrator's work load.
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Compensation & Variable Pay
1H 2021 Quick Review – Compensation Management H igh M edium L ow
Impact / Importance
Title Description Config Type Impact
Administrative
Permissions for
Individual
Compensation
Templates
As different from previous releases in which you could only give access to all or no compensation template, you
can now assign administrative permissions at the Compensation template level.
A new Role-based Permission (RBP) has been added to the Compensation and Variable Pay section of the Admin
Center's Manage Permission Roles module. Universal
Deletion of Disable
Secure Statement
Template
Transformation
Setting in
Compensation
The Disable Secure Statement Template Transformation setting in Provisioning is deleted as of May 21, 2021.
Previously, when the setting was enabled and if customers were using their custom XSLT file for bonus
assignment, Compensation, Variable Pay, and Combined personal statements, the file could potentially include
insecure XSL tags that could cause security issues during the statement generation. The setting is deleted now to
provide a safe and secure statement generation.
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Variable Pay & Total Compensation
1H 2021 Quick Review – Compensation Management H igh M edium L ow
Impact / Importance
Title Description Config Type Impact
Configure
Performance
Management Ratings
From User Interface
in Compensation
With 1H 2021 release, you can now configure overallPerformance, overallCompetency, overallObjective, and
overallPotential rating types for teams and individual ratings directly from Variable Pay and Total Compensation
Plan programs. Please note that the ratings types are available only for non-assignment-based Variable Pay
programs.
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Compensation: Overall
1H 2021 Quick Review – Compensation Management H igh M edium L ow
Impact / Importance
Title Description Config Type Impact
Calibration,
Succession, and
Compensation and
Variable Pay Reports
Now Available for
Download in Report
Center
With 1H 2021 release, you can download the output files of Calibration, Succession, and Compensation and
Variable Pay reports from My Jobs page within View Schedules in Report Center. Previously, these reports were
available for download on the Scheduled Reports page in classic view.
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Retention of Reports
for Download on My
Jobs Page
As in alignment with the retention period of all reports, you can now download a Compensation and Variable Pay
reports from My Jobs in Report Center only up to 14 days after job completion, irrespective of the report type.
Beyond 14 days, the download links of the reports are disabled. The previously configured retention periods don't
apply, and you can no longer configure the retention period of any report.
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Enhanced Role-
Based Permissions in
Compensation
Now all the production instances are being upgraded to use the enhanced role-based permissions in
Compensation.
With the enhanced granular permissions, each Compensation admin action is now controlled using its own
permission value in the Permission settings page.
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Reward & Recognition - Features
1H 2021 Quick Review – Compensation Management H igh M edium L ow
Impact / Importance
Title Description Config Type Impact
Ability for Approvers
Who Are Budget
Holders to View
Remaining Spot
Award Budgets
You can now configure Spot Awards to display the remaining budget amount - in functional currency - to
approvers who are budget holders. The remaining budget value displays on the award approval page as part of
the approval process. Universal
Budget From
Nominator's
Hierarchy for Spot
Awards
Previously, when the awards were submitted, the budget allocation was based only on the nominee's managerial
hierarchy. As of this release, you can allocate the budget for spot awards from the nominator's managerial budget
hierarchy. The functionality is supported only for programs that are associated with a budget. Universal
Create Award
Certificates
With this release, users can view, save, and print certificates for Reward and Recognition awards they've received,
and managers can view, save, and print certificates for awards given to their team members.
Precondition of this enhancement is to have an Employee Central license, as the system creates award certificates
using Document Generation, a feature of Employee Central.
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Enhancements to
the Deletion Process
in Spot Awards
As different from the previous version, you can delete spot awards, irrespective of their status, that are associated
with Points and Thank You program types using the award IDs. Additionally, deletion of currency awards no longer
purges the awards.
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Standardized
Reward and
Recognition Page
Navigation
This release standardizes page navigation within Reward and Recognition, displaying the hierarchy of pages and
subpages of your current location within the system. This enhancement aims to simplify use and improves clarity
when you're working within Reward and Recognition.
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Reward & Recognition - Administration
1H 2021 Quick Review – Compensation Management H igh M edium L ow
Impact / Importance
Title Description Config Type Impact
Reward and
Recognition Program
Name Can Be
Localized
You can now define a localized program name that the system displays to end-users in addition to the Program
name that the system uses as unique identifier. Universal
View Available
Balance for All
Points-Based Award
Recipients
Using the Admin Center's Import and Export Data tool, administrators can now run a job to display - in a CSV file
- the current points balance for each recipient of a points-based spot award. In this way, Administrators requested
are able to forecast outstanding points balances to help manage their redemption partner relationships.
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Configurable Access
of Message to
Approver Box
During Award
Nominations
With this release, Administrators can now configure when the Message to Approver text box appears when users
nominate others for spot awards. You can configure the message box to appear for every nomination, for none, or
only when the proposed award amount is above guidelines. Universal
Downloaded Spot
Award Budget
Reports Support
More Than 1,000
Records
When you download Spot Award reports to a .CSV file, there’s no longer a 1,000 record limit. The upper limit is
now 10,000.
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Hazal Yagci
Specialist Lead
Human Capital | SuccessFactors
Germany
hyagci@deloitte.de
+49 (0) 151 5807 4756
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