As we have moved to virtual vendor briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission from vendors), as part of my Analyst Cam series.
SuccessFactors had an analyst update this week. I have excerpted from the session.
I left out 3 big chunks, the first two of which were under NDA
- The new Chief Revenue Officer, Maryann Abbajay presented metrics for the year to date and presented logos of over 100 big global brands with over 100k users.
- Amy Wilson, SVP, Products and Design, presented on an expanded vision of 'Learning". She wanted that kept under wraps for now
- Lots of questions from fellow analysts. I did not want to include them without their permission.
Still, there is plenty of interesting content in the video below
Jill Popelka, President kicks off with a confident State of the Business. She shares they now have 164 million global users, discusses SAP Work Zone for HR, Litmos learning business unit and their "back to work" services as companies reopen physical work sites (and what Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday and others have also been emphasizing)
At 8.07 Amy talks about HXM - Human Experience Management leveraging the Qualtrics unit and a focus on the "whole self" of employees. She also spends a fair amount of time around the journey for on-prem customers to the cloud. As she says their legacy payroll dates back 4 decades - how to plan for the next 4? BTW, at 6.28 I ask a question about CIOs looking to stay with their legacy HCM software but moving that to a hyperscaler and to third party maintenance. They answered that. I also asked what automation SAP was investing in to make migrations to the cloud less people dependent especially in a world of travel restrictions. They did not have enough time to respond to that.
At 26:30 Meg Bear, SVP of Products and Brian Ellison, CTO have a fireside chat around various architectural topics. Brian covers 5 themes that are driving their technology vision.
Overall, they covered lots of ground. I saw plenty of focus on employee experiences, Learning and on SAP's hybrid on-premise/cloud customer base.
