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SpinifexIT and CodeBot accelerate SuccessFactors Migrations and Implementations

The first end-to-end solution that accelerates HCM to HXM migrations while simultaneously enabling ongoing customer digital transformation.
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SpinifexIT and CodeBot accelerate SuccessFactors Migrations and Implementations

The first end-to-end solution that accelerates HCM to HXM migrations while simultaneously enabling ongoing customer digital transformation.

You may have seen our recent press release that announces a partnership between SpinifexIT and CodeBot for SuccessFactors (If not: See here). As part of our partnership, we bring complementary software to our partners and customers a unique opportunity to accelerate the movement and configuration of SuccessFactors and SAP HXM.

This blog helps to explain the value points that each of the companies deliver both separately and when combined.

In summary, the SpinifexIT solutions are fantastic accelerators when migrating your employees and configuration into SuccessFactors, as well as supporting ongoing testing. The Codebot solution provides an automated way to streamline initial and ongoing configuration and testing related activities. When these solutions are used in combination the implementation and maintenance process for both SuccessFactors and SAP HXM is accelerated and simplified reducing risk and enhancing time to value.

SpinifexIT Easy Migration and Easy Go Live Solutions

These two SpinifexIT solutions typically are used by customers to accelerate many of the processes around either an implementation of SAP HXM and Employee Central or a Migration from SAP HXM ECC to either ECP and S/4HANA.

The SpinifexIT solutions cover the following key use cases:

  • Analysis of SAP Configuration prior to a migration

  • Migration of Configuration to a new SAP Environment (Lift & Shift)

  • Extraction of SAP Configuration for quick loading into Employee Central

  • Extraction of Employee Data from SAP for loading into Employee Central

  • Migration of Employees from SAP ECC to ECP or S/4HANA

  • Parallel Run Testing

In addition: SpinifexIT also offers many HR and Payroll operational solutions for customers on SAP HXM or SuccessFactors even after the initial implementation, such as advanced reporting solutions across HXM and SuccessFactors, employee document generation and data cloning and anonymisation to name a few.

CodeBot

The SFCodeBot solution is used by customers who are configuring SAP SuccessFactors, (including Employee Central), helping manage the configuration and allowing for easier migration of configuration to a new system (Dev -> Test -> Production).

Think of SFCodebot as an Advanced Configuration Management Solution.  Codebot follows the SAP approach using excel type workbooks automatically extracting your configuration documentation, and rather than needing to manually enter new configuration details into SuccessFactors, it will automatically update the configuration directly into the system.

Key Use Cases

  • Automatic Comparison of current configuration to a partner’s leading practices
  • Initial and ongoing configuring of SuccessFactors via Workbook automation
  • Automatic Comparison of Configuration between SuccessFactors instances
  • Migration of Configuration between SuccessFactors instances
  • Robotic Testing of business processes and workflows
  • Automatic creation of Workbooks from existing configuration

CodeBot also gives SAP Partners the ability to quickly update a pre-built configuration model helping accelerate new implementations.  Further to being an implementation solution, it is utilized by existing customers to better manage their ongoing configuration and enhancements.

SpinifexIT and SFCodeBot Complement each other

Now customers and their partners can use the SpinifexIT and SFCodeBot solutions as a fast start when populating the customer’s new SuccessFactors Solution.  This means that you can quickly get SuccessFactors initial configuration and employee data loads into the system for testing, comparison, validation and deployment.

After this initial load, any further configuration can be taken over by SFCodeBot.  SFCodeBot can then be used to manage further configuration via workbooks, but just as importantly, it can be used to migrate the SuccessFactors Configuration to each of the subsequent SuccessFactors systems.

In the meantime, whilst continuing to configure in SuccessFactors, the SpinifexIT solutions can continue to focus on any further movement of HXM Configuration to SuccessFactors, Creation of EC / ECP employee test data, and comparing the results between the systems (Parallel runs)

Key Considerations:

  • Leverage legacy configuration + Leading Practice to focus design & highlight data transformation tasks
  • Faster design & build of each iteration
  • More focus on business process, less on system/technical tasks
  • Supports shorter implementation timelines = faster go lives
  • Start reporting earlier in the project

The following shows this pictorially:

Codebot SpinifexIT blog graphics

The two solutions working together give the customer the best solutions and processes to streamline an implementation or migration, as described in the following section.

Employee Central Implementation

Employee Central Payroll

or SAHANA Migration

No additional

solutions

With

CodeBot

With

SpinifexIT

With SpinifexIT

& CodeBot

Configuration of SuccessFactors

Manual

Via Workbook

Manual

Via Workbook

Maintenance & update of workbook

Manual

Automated

Manual

Automated

Employee Data Loads into Employee Central

Standard

Standard

User-definable,

history possible

User-definable,

load process

Migration of Configuration to Test & Production

Standard

Automated

via workbook

Standard

Automated

via workbook

Comparison of System Configuration

Manual

Automated

Standard

Automated

Script-based robotic testing

Manual

Automated

Manual

Automated

Employee Central Payroll or S/4HANA Migration

Employee Central Payroll

or S/4HANA Migration

No additional

solutions

With

CodeBot

With

SpinifexIT

With SpinifexIT

& CodeBot

Pre-Analysis of Configuration pre-move 

Standard SAP

Standard SAP

Customizable

Customizable

Recreation of Config load to load

into Employee Central

No

No

Yes

Yes

Create Extraction of Employees

to load into EC

Infoporter

Infoporter

Yes

Customizable advanced extraction

Accelerated config

& data rapid loads

Migration of HXM Configuration to New System

Migration of HXM Configuration

to New System

No additional

solutions

With

CodeBot

With

SpinifexIT

With SpinifexIT

& CodeBot

Migration of HXM Employees 

including historical data

No

No

Yes

Yes

Comparison of EC and ECP or S/4HANA 

data post replication

No

No

Yes

Yes

Parallel Run Testing 

between Systems

Manual

Manual

Yes

Yes

Analysis of Payroll Issues

Manual

Manual

Yes

Yes

Employee Central Payroll or S/4HANA Implementation

Employee Central Payroll or S/4HANA Implementation

No additional

solutions

With

CodeBot

With

SpinifexIT

With SpinifexIT

& CodeBot

Automated formatting & manipulation 

of EC data loads

Manual

Manual

Yes

Yes

Data Loading of Employee Data into ECP

or S/4HANA

Custom ABAP

Custom ABAP

Yes

Yes

Parallel Run Testing between Systems

Manual

Manual

Yes

Yes

Analysis of Payroll Issues

Manual

Manual

Yes

Yes

Strato 1.18
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New Year, New Strato! Here’s what’s included in our 1.18 Release.

Strato 1.18 includes new features around its Strato Storage, Strato Sign and Strato Automate tools. These updates will help your team to further improve Data Privacy compliance, streamline your document routing and signing process, and optimize your overall SAP SuccessFactors document management which support your key HXM and Payroll activities.

Strato 1.18 will be deployed for UAT on January 8, 2022 and will go live on Production on January 29, 2022. You may view the release calendar here.

View the release calendar

Automate the assignment of your documents’ validity with Strato Storage

• Apply validity rules to your stored documents
• Automatically set your documents for archiving, expiration and deletion based on your organization’s storage compliance requirements
• Use Categories to quickly find and modify your documents’ validity and storage specifications

Eg. All documents tagged as a Compliance Document (Work From Home Policies, Laptop Usage, etc.) are set to have a 1 year validity.

Sign your PDF documents with Strato Sign

• Previously, only documents generated and routed via Strato can be signed with Strato Sign
• The 1.18 release allows users to sign uploaded PDFs with• Strato Sign within the same workflow
• Signatures may be embedded anywhere within the document with a drag-and-drop tool

Eg. HR uploads a year-end tax declaration and payment PDF from a third party vendor and sends a copy to the employee.

The employee may sign the PDF version of the form before it is routed back to HR. As soon as HR completes signing the declaration form, a signed copy of the PDF is forwarded to both the employee and HR.

Access tooltips to setup your workflows faster in Strato Automate

• Validate the fields you use in your documents and workflow by viewing tooltips
• This gives you info about the field’s Field Label, Field Group, API path, and Key Field value (if there’s any)
• Assign default key fields to make field selection faster

Eg. An employee may have three email addresses stored in their SAP Successfactors profile (Business, Personal, Other). Their Business Email can be assigned as their default key field in Strato to centralize all communications to the email.

Manage your data fields better

• Build complete documents by having more access to additional fields and information
• Link custom fields and entities to show stored metadata in SAP SuccessFactors

Eg. Building a complete Talent Card not only entails getting information from SF Employee Central and the employee’s profile.

With this feature, you can also get field information from SAP SuccessFactors’ Performance, Goals, and Succession Planning modules and combine them to build a comprehensive talent card.

Learn more about Strato’s latest functionality here

For any questions, please reach out to us at [email protected]. 
The Strato Team wishes you a safe and happy Christmas and New Year!

Watch On Demand: Optimize employee and candidate experience through automation of HR documents
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In this challenging hiring market, it’s more important than ever for HR and talent acquisition teams to optimize critical business processes that can drive candidate and employee experience. 

Simplifying and automating events like the generation of HR and recruiting documents can keep candidates and employees more engaged, increase consistency of communications, decrease costly turnover, and reduce time-to-hire.

In this session, you will hear examples of how automating the creation, distribution, and storage of high-impact employee documents such as candidate offer letters and employee total compensation statements in SAP SuccessFactors can save significant time and resources while increasing accuracy and engagement.

Sign up using the form below to catch this insightful session.

Watch on-demand

Missed the live session? You can still watch the Unleash roundtable on-demand by signing up below.

What you’ll learn from this session

  1. How incorporating items such as workflow and variable content when automating candidate notifications and communications can help recruiters secure candidates more quickly and effectively.

  2. How integrating compensation information with SAP SuccessFactors Performance and Goals data can help HR teams generate comprehensive employee total compensation statements.

  3. Walk through an optimized employee document process to understand incorporating review and approval processes, employee self-service access, and digital signatures can improve accuracy and employee satisfaction.

Speakers

Frank Schiek
Vice President EMEA & MEE
SpinifexIT Deutschland GmbH

Brendon Andrews-Warmuth
VP Product Enablement and Delivery
SpinifexIT

Kate Graham
Head of Content Labs and Insights
UNLEASH

Learn more about Strato for SAP SuccessFactors

Visit the Strato website at www.StratoHCM.com . Watch the video below for a sneak peek or get Strato from the SAP Store.

UKISUG 2021 | How One Customer Transformed and Automated Its SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Candidate Offer Letters
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A large multinational organisation recently streamlined and automated the creation and distribution of its candidate offer letters across SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and Recruiting.

In this webinar, you will learn how they did it and see the results, including the reductions in time, effort, and cost they have realized across their candidate offer letter processes.

Attend this session to:

• Learn about Strato Documents (available in the SAP Store) and how it streamlines the design, distribution, routing, and storage of employee documents in SAP SuccessFactors

• Hear the story of how one customer used Strato Documents to dramatically transform its employee document generation processes and see the results they achieved

• See a demo of Strato Documents to understand how it can help you optimize the design, distribution, routing, and storage of your employee documents

Event date:
Tuesday, December 14, 2021 – 10 AM – 11 AM
You may join the session using the UKISUG registration link below.

Save a seat! Register today.

You may join the webinar as a UKISUG member or as a guest.

Learn more about Strato for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting. Visit the Strato website at www.StratoHCM.com . Watch the video below for a sneak peek.

Watch On Demand: Maximize the Value of Your Existing SAP Payroll System
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Whether you are planning a move to Employee Central Payroll in the near future or are remaining on-premise with SAP Payroll for now, it’s more important than ever to find ways to optimize your existing payroll processes, data, and reporting.

Use the form below to sign up for the on-demand version.

In this webinar, join AJ Whalen and Brian Erickson and panelists Mary Halfmann from Central Michigan University, Steve Bogner from Insight Consulting Partners, as they lead a discussion about how you can make your existing SAP payroll more efficient, including:

Producing accurate reports & reconcile payroll differences

Optimizing processing via Payroll Control Center

Best practices for preparing to migrate data and configuration to Employee Central Payroll

Tips for validating and improving data integrity

Maximize the Value of Your Existing SAP Payroll System

Register to watch the roundtable session on-demand.

Meet our Experts

AJ WHALEN

MARY HALFMANN
HR/SAP Systems Analyst
Central Michigan University  

STEVE BOGNER
Managing Partner
Insight Consulting Partners

BRIAN ERICKSON
Director, Customer Engagement, SpinifexIT

SpinifexIT Releases Major Updates Across SAP Payroll and SAP SuccessFactors Integrated Solutions
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The global HXM and Payroll solutions developer launches its latest solution release on October 8, 2021

You may view the original press release from EIN Presswire here.

 

 

Victoria, AU – Today, SpinifexIT announced the scheduled release of its second major 2021 software update (2021.R2). The update includes new solution features that accelerate payroll migration to the cloud, de-risk Employee Central Payroll implementations, improve SAP Payroll Control Center configuration abilities and extend the features available for the creation of robust SAP Payroll and SAP SuccessFactors reports. 

 

SpinifexIT Co-Founder & Product Chief Technology Officer – Easy Suite Darren Souter says, “We continue to evolve our solutions based on our customers’ needs and over the last 12 months, we have shifted our priority to support our customers who are migrating to the cloud with HXM Move. This is why we have built out Easy Migration and Easy Go Live – two powerful Employee Central Payroll implementation solutions that offer huge time savings and dramatically reduce the cost and effort spent on payroll transformation.”

 

“I am incredibly proud of the continued growth and success of the Easy Suite solutions and how SpinifexIT continues to align its product vision and direction with the needs of the SAP customers.”
Darren Souter

 

New Features

 

The new solution update enables SpinifexIT customers to:

 

  • Further streamline and transform their cloud implementation and migration with Easy Migration and Easy Go Live through the addition of pre-delivered content and key features from SpinifexIT’s data copying solution, Easy Clone.
  • Have better flexibility and access to SAP SuccessFactors fields while building their custom reports with the Easy Reporter web reporting solution
  • Speed up their SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central data copying processes
  • Improve payroll reporting, error analysis, reconciliation, and employee inquiry resolution by integrating Easy Help Desk with Easy PCC, a solution built to easily implement and configure Payroll Control Center. 

 

Availability 

 

The 2021.R2 release will be available to customers on October 8, 2021. You can learn more, schedule a demo, or upgrade to the latest SpinifexIT Easy Suite solutions by contacting [email protected].

 

View the latest release highlights here

 

 

About SpinifexIT

 

SpinifexIT believes that with the right technology and the right partner, you can accomplish your SAP SuccessFactors HXM and Payroll goals with confidence.

 

Whether you are just beginning your cloud HXM journey or you have already moved to the cloud, SpinifexIT’s innovative solutions will help guide you by driving Payroll and HR operational efficiency and automation, improving payroll processes, improving operational and transactional reporting, increasing data accuracy and anonymization, minimizing compliance risks, and supporting both migrations and new SAP SuccessFactors implementation projects.

 

SpinifexIT’s world class solutions are leveraged by many Fortune 500 companies worldwide and run on SAP’s on-premise, hybrid, and cloud platforms. The solutions include Easy Migration, Easy Go Live, Easy Reporter, Easy Clone and Strato Documents.

 

SpinifexIT is an SAP silver partner and its solutions are available at the SAP Store.

 

 

Watch On Demand: Moving to Employee Central Payroll: Transition or Transformation?
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When it comes to moving from an on-premise payroll to Employee Central Payroll, customers often use different tactics and take different approaches, but what is right for your organization? Sign up to access the on-demand version.

In this roundtable discussion, join SpinifexIT’s AJ Whalen and panelists Imran Sajid from SAP SuccessFactors, Judy Fabrizi from Swagelok, and Mike Timm from Integrated Consulting Group as they lead an informative discussion about payroll migration, including:

What the difference is between “transition” and “transform” when it comes to payroll. This also includes the pros and cons of each.

The most important factors you should consider first when planning a move from on-premise to Employee Central Payroll.

Best practices for moving configuration, data, and results during a payroll migration. This includes the most important tools or skills.

Moving to Employee Central Payroll: Transition or Transformation?

Sign up to watch the roundtable session on-demand.

MEET OUR EXPERTS

JUDY FABRIZI
Payroll Manager
Swagelok Company 

Judy Fabrizi is the Payroll Manager at Swagelok Company, an international leader focusing on the manufacture of gas and fluid system components. With over 20 years in the manufacturing arena, Judy has implemented various SAP product lines in various organizations for system transformations on an international level.

In her current role, she is responsible for an optimized cloud-based payroll processing system, federal, state and local compliance, third party requirements and the related tax returns in the domestic US.

Judy holds a BS in Accounting from The Ohio State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

IMRAN SAJID
Global Senior Director
SAP SuccessFactors  

Imran Sajid is an HR Director at SAP SuccessFactors with expertise in cloud and on-premise software across a diverse background of Marketing, Product Management, Education, Professional Services, and Sales/Pre-Sales.

He has authored 3 books, spoken at every major SAP conference worldwide, and is a volunteer for the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG).

MIKE TIMM
Managing Partner
Integrated Consulting Group

Mike is Managing Partner at ICG. His 27-year career in the Information Technology industry includes positions in Accounting, Information Technology, and Human Resources. Before establishing Integrated Consulting Group in April 2000, Mike worked for Arthur Andersen and Prism Consulting Group.

ICG has consulted and partnered with such companies as CDI Corporation, IBM, British Petroleum, Marathon Oil, Cadbury Schweppes, and Walt Disney.

As an SAP Certified Consultant, Mike has led a variety of projects with an emphasis in Human Resources, Payroll, Time Management, Support, and Outsourcing.

YOUR HOST

AJ WHALEN
Director of Marketing & Partner Engagement, SpinifexIT North America 

SpinifexIT Announces Significant Enhancements to Its Strato Document Generation Solution
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Latest Strato release features additional workflow automation and document storage capabilities for employee lifecycle documents created with SAP SuccessFactors HXM solutions

VICTORIA, Australia, Aug. 25, 2021 — SpinifexIT today announced the latest release of Strato, its innovative document management solution for SAP SuccessFactors.

The new release contains updates that enable even tighter integration with a customer’s HXM processes through the addition of highly customizable workflow automations and new document storage capabilities.  

Strato enables smart HR and Payroll document generation and automated communications directly from SAP SuccessFactors.

Each document workflow is flexible and can be modified to precisely fit an organization’s unique internal processes.

Strato eliminates the need for manual document generation and routing effort, making HR and Payroll processes more seamless and efficient. 

“With this release, we continue to add innovation to Strato. This update makes Strato even more equipped to cover the full employee document lifecycle – from document generation and distribution to storage – alongside SAP SuccessFactors workflow,” says Gregory Tutt, Product Chief Technology Officer – Strato.

“Having this much flexibility allows Strato to be the preferred method of document generation, signing, and storage for SAP SuccessFactors customers.”

New Features

The new solution update also enables Strato customers to:

  • Leverage automated communications and triggers to further expedite document routing, approval, and e-signing processes
     
  • Strengthen data privacy compliance by setting automated document expiry and deletion dates 

  • Improve employee communications and engagement by making the movements and promotion process more transparent and seamless

  • Integrate Strato with 3rd party applications such CRM and internal ticketing systems

Availability

The new Strato release will be available to customers at the end of August.

To learn more about this update, you may view the full release summary here. Visit the Strato website for more information or purchase Strato directly from the SAP Store. 

View the full press release via EIN News.

About SpinifexIT

SpinifexIT is a leader in producing SAP-certified business process improvement SpinifexIT believes that with the right technology and the right partner, you can accomplish your SAP SuccessFactors HXM and Payroll goals with confidence.

Whether you are just beginning your cloud HXM journey or you have already moved to the cloud, SpinifexIT’s innovative solutions will help guide you by driving operational efficiency, improving critical reporting, increasing data accuracy, and minimizing compliance risks.

SpinifexIT is an SAP silver partner and its solutions are available at the SAP Store.

Learn more about SpinifexIT’s solutions at www.spinifexit.com

Download the Strato brochure here

Moving to Employee Central Payroll: Transition or Transformation?
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When it comes to moving from an on-premise payroll to Employee Central Payroll, customers often use different tactics and take different approaches, but what is right for your organization?

In this roundtable discussion, join SpinifexIT’s AJ Whalen and panelists Imran Sajid from SAP SuccessFactors, Judy Fabrizi from Swagelok, and Mike Timm from Integrated Consulting Group as they lead an informative discussion about payroll migration, including:

What the difference is between “transition” and “transform” when it comes to payroll. This also includes the pros and cons of each.

The most important factors you should consider first when planning a move from on-premise to Employee Central Payroll.

Best practices for moving configuration, data, and results during a payroll migration. This includes the most important tools or skills.

Missed the session?
Register here to watch on-demand.

MEET OUR EXPERTS

JUDY FABRIZI
Payroll Manager
Swagelok Company 

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Judy Fabrizi is the Payroll Manager at Swagelok Company, an international leader focusing on the manufacture of gas and fluid system components. With over 20 years in the manufacturing arena, Judy has implemented various SAP product lines in various organizations for system transformations on an international level.

In her current role, she is responsible for an optimized cloud-based payroll processing system, federal, state and local compliance, third party requirements and the related tax returns in the domestic US.

Judy holds a BS in Accounting from The Ohio State University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

IMRAN SAJID
Global Senior Director
SAP SuccessFactors  

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Imran Sajid is an HR Director at SAP SuccessFactors with expertise in cloud and on-premise software across a diverse background of Marketing, Product Management, Education, Professional Services, and Sales/Pre-Sales.

He has authored 3 books, spoken at every major SAP conference worldwide, and is a volunteer for the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG).

MIKE TIMM
Managing Partner
Integrated Consulting Group

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Mike is Managing Partner at ICG. His 27-year career in the Information Technology industry includes positions in Accounting, Information Technology, and Human Resources. Before establishing Integrated Consulting Group in April 2000, Mike worked for Arthur Andersen and Prism Consulting Group.

ICG has consulted and partnered with such companies as CDI Corporation, IBM, British Petroleum, Marathon Oil, Cadbury Schweppes, and Walt Disney.

As an SAP Certified Consultant, Mike has led a variety of projects with an emphasis in Human Resources, Payroll, Time Management, Support, and Outsourcing.

YOUR HOST

AJ WHALEN
Director of Marketing & Partner Engagement, SpinifexIT North America 

Raven Intel feature 2021
SpinifexIT Featured in Raven Intelligence Podcast
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SpinifexIT Featured in Raven Intelligence Podcast on Accelerating Digital HXM and Payroll transformation

 

As originally posted in Raven Intelligence

 

 

HR operations amidst a pandemic have propelled leaders across the world to think differently about their systems, reporting, and overall system efficiency. Customers who operated in an on-premise model or who used siloed legacy systems have needed to explore digital transformation and cloud software solutions. Despite the availability of accelerators and solutions, organizations still find these projects complex, costly, risky, and time-consuming – that it may take years to fully implement.

 

This week we had the opportunity to speak with SpinifexIT‘s Co-Founder and Solutions Architect,  Darren Souter, and Mathew Katakis, Chief Operating Officer, about two specific solutions that have been proven to be instrumental in accelerating Employee Central Payroll implementation and migration whilst making this process easier and more accessible for both SAP SuccessFactors customers and system integrators (SIs).

 

SpinifexIT Darren Souter
DARREN SOUTER
Co-Founder & Product Chief Technology Officer – Easy Suite
SpinifexIT
SpinifexIT Mathew Katakis
MATTHEW KATAKIS
Chief Operating Officer
SpinifexIT

 

 

Cloud Migrations Are Becoming More Crucial

 

A significant amount of HR leaders are considering moving their HR systems to the cloud, if they haven’t already. Operations and transactions within HR systems are now running “business as usual” as they’ve been adjusted to the new operations in a remote-first world, but HR leaders are realizing that there are still gaps in their software. This realization is where SpinifexIT’s solutions provide support to both new customers and existing SAP customers. And in a time when people are no longer sitting in the same rooms – speed is critical.

 

SpinifexIT’s customers are those who have invested in SAP SuccessFactors products or are considering an SAP implementation in the future. Many customers who previously implemented SAP SuccessFactors still have gaps, or are looking to optimize the value of their investment of SAP’s products. SpinifexIT’s solutions can be applied to quickly and easily migrate payroll data, execute off-the-shelf reports or build custom ones which aid in payroll reconciliation and data validation,  and address many other real-life customer-specific challenges. 

 

 

“For us, it’s about driving ROI for the customer. They have already invested hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars on the SAP system itself, and now it’s about how much value can we drive from that. Additional value from what they’re already receiving from the investment of SAP itself.”
Mathew Katakis

 

 

Customers who are considering moving their HR and Payroll systems to the cloud can highly benefit from using SpinifexIT’s solutions, or by keeping these solutions in mind as they approach their Implementation Partner. SpinifexIT has a large global partner network coverage who can easily help customers implement SAP SuccessFactors and/or Employee Central Payroll. With our key solutions and our Partner’s implementation experience, Customers will benefit from a drastically reduced implementation time and simplified migration process.

 

“It’s really about taking the power of an existing SAP or SAP SuccessFactors system and helping customers take things to the next level.”
Darren Souter

 

 

Easy Migration

Easy Migration is an implementation accelerator that allows SIs partners (change to: that allows Implementation Partners) to help current SAP payroll customers take their current configurations and move them to the cloud–eliminating the need to reimplement payroll from scratch. This integrated solution copies payroll configuration, Payroll and Employee data and helps customers run reports between the legacy system and test system to validate configuration before going live.

This solution is particularly beneficial for customers who have 5, 10, or 15 years of historical payroll data and enables them to move their payroll configuration without losing that data. It also helps them transform their configurations, such as naming conventions, without reimplementing.

Easy Migration can reduce a multi-month long implementation to just days, saving costs for both partners and customers. For example, where it may have taken 1-2 months to convert data from legacy systems for ~5,00 employees, Easy Migration can help the customer complete this step in just 3 days.

Easy Go Live

Easy Go Live helps customers run a quick comparison between their legacy payroll system and new ECP system, transfer data to a new payroll system, migrate production employees, and counter potential errors before they occur. 

“Customers should be considering us upfront when talking and choosing their implementation partners because they want to choose a partner that has solutions to accelerate the implementation. It will be pretty apparent who has these tools and who doesn’t based on the quote and predicted timeline they provide to the customer,” said Souter.

While conducting validations, the customer can verify employee master data inside the new ECP, spot differences and investigate occurrences, and utilize automatic testing features.

“There’s always a risk associated with these types of projects, in terms of missing data and missing configuration,” Katakis said. “So having a technology such as Easy Go Live, it really helps you de-risk the process.”

 

 

What SAP Partners Should Know

 

SAP Implementation Partners can use these products to accelerate implementation timelines and help customers add value to their investment. SpinifexIT’s software products are broad enough to help HR teams close a number of gaps in processes while creating real value for the organization. For example, it’s critical for HR teams to have an operational reporting strategy that reports across all HR systems, not just one.

 

Additional benefits of using SpinifexIT software is to automate document correspondence and omit the manual work that surrounds Employee Central implementations. Organizations will benefit from massive time, cost, and effort savings while improving their overall employee lifecycle experience through SpinifexIT products.

 

SpinifexIT’s Approach to the Customer Relationship

 

SpinifexIT developed their products with customer challenges in mind, and this is also how they approach relationships with customers. The SpinifexIT team works very closely with customers, working to understand their specific needs and applying solutions that will drive long-term value. 

 

Their team even has the ability to make tweaks to the software to ensure it solves the problem for the customer. Together, this customer-focused approach has allowed SpinifexIT to achieve a 4.8/5 customer satisfaction rating on Raven Intelligence.

 

“We are specialists. We specialize in payroll, operational/transactional reporting, etc. That’s our skillset. We don’t try to veer outside of that. All of our consultants are also specialists in this area and I think that’s why we can very quickly understand the problem set a customer exposes to us. From there, we can provide that unique solution that meets their needs, and it’s all software-driven,” Katakis continued.

 

 
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Approach to consultants

 

Most of SpinifexIT’s consultants have worked in similar HR environments before, giving them an uncanny ability to relate to customers and their challenges. SpinifexIT also strives to keep its consultants educated and informed on all updates to their software products so they can pass on their expertise to the customer. 

 

“Our consultants really enjoy working with customers. They really love helping them solve their problems and really taking the time to understand their issues. All of our clients have been in the situation that clients are at one point, so they can relate very quickly to the challenges that they face,” said Katakis.

 

Approach to software

 

SpinifexIT prides themselves on their software being easy to use. Their products are built specifically as an extension of SAP SuccessFactors products, and the benefits can be realized almost immediately. Customers can see a solution, buy the solution, and use the product right away. This drives incredible value to the customer because they aren’t investing more time and effort for their problem to get solved – rather, SpinifexIT empowers and enables them to solve their gaps faster, better, and easier.

 

“SpinifexIT was great to work with, from procurement through to delivery. Their solutions and technical team offered a lot of value to our project and enabled us to streamline data migration, as well as provide additional reporting capabilities to complement the SAP SuccessFactors core HR and payroll solutions that we implemented.” – Customer in the manufacturing industry

 

About SpinifexIT

 

SpinifexIT develops smart software solutions for SAP and SAP SuccessFactors that ensure compliance, reporting, and automation for companies. With a collective 350+ years of SAP HR expertise in their team, SpinifexIT has helped customers in over 50 countries use their products to overcome a variety of common challenges within HR software. 

 

They work in a broad range of countries and industries, and have found that most HR and Payroll departments encounter similar challenges within their internal systems. SpinifexIT set out to develop software that helps these SAP SuccessFactors customers make the most of their investments and create more efficiency within their operating systems. Currently, SpinifexIT solutions have been installed over a thousand times, and are used to support over 5 million employees globally.

 

With SpinifexIT, Payroll and HR processes that require Reporting, Reconciliation, and Document Generation are optimized to make the complex simple. Payroll and HR staff are empowered to work more productively and creatively while focusing on value-adding activities. With high-volume administrative actions out of the way, HR teams can focus on driving employee engagement, hiring the right talent, and driving organizational development.