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Guide
Short definitions of terms you often meet in the SAP HR world, and our topic-based guides.
Glossary
Terms are in alphabetical order.
- Change Management
- Change management is the communication, training and support work that helps users adopt a new system or process. In SAP projects it is planned together with the technical implementation.
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- Compensation
- SAP SuccessFactors Compensation is the module where salary increases, bonuses and other reward decisions are planned within budgets and rules. Manager decisions are recorded through an approval flow.
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- Employee Central
- Employee Central is the core HR module of SAP SuccessFactors that holds employee master data and the organization structure. The other modules use this data as their common source.
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- Employee Central Payroll (ECP)
- Employee Central Payroll is a cloud payroll solution operated by SAP. It runs on the employee data in Employee Central and uses country-specific payroll logic.
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- Employee Experience (EX)
- Employee experience is the sum of all the touchpoints an employee has with the organization from hiring to leaving. In HR systems the goal is to make these touchpoints easy, consistent and traceable.
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- Joule
- Joule is SAP's generative AI assistant built into SAP applications. It answers a user's question using application data and can start certain tasks on the user's behalf.
- SAP BTP
- SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) is SAP's cloud platform that brings together application development, integration, data and AI services. It is used to extend SuccessFactors to fit your own processes.
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- SAP HCM
- SAP HCM is the common name for the on-premise HR modules inside SAP ERP. Personnel administration, organizational management, payroll and time management are parts of this structure.
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- SAP HCM for S/4HANA (H4S4)
- SAP HCM for S/4HANA (H4S4) is the edition of SAP HCM that continues to run in an S/4HANA environment. It lets you keep the HR modules while the ERP moves to S/4HANA.
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- SAP SuccessFactors
- SAP SuccessFactors is SAP's cloud-based human capital management (HCM) software suite. It covers HR processes such as employee data, recruiting, performance, compensation and learning in separate modules.
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- Time Tracking
- SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking is the time management module that records working time, absences and overtime. The records can be passed to payroll as input.
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- Türkiye Payroll Localization
- Türkiye payroll localization is the version of SAP payroll adapted to Turkish regulation such as social security, income tax and stamp tax. It includes updating payroll rules when the regulation changes.
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