Brevard County, a leading SAP customer in the public sector, had been using SAP ERP for over a decade relying on SAP HR (also known as SAP ERP HCM) to manage their extensive employee database, payroll, and HR processes. As SAP announced the end of maintenance and deprecation for legacy SAP and SuccessFactors applications (i.e., ONB 1.0), Brevard is faced with a dual challenge of migrating to a newer HR system while ensuring minimal disruption to their HR functions and enhancing overall HR capabilities.  

With the end of maintenance and deprecation of legacy SAP Onboarding applications, Brevard County’s SAP HR system would no longer receive updates, product support, or security patches. This posed several operational risks and issues with system stability and compliance. The County needed continued guidance in providing strategic evaluation and planning services and a unique approach to recommending an upgrade strategy with minimal disruption or upgrade to the Onboarding (2.0) platform to start their SAP Cloud and SuccessFactors journey.  

Phoenix’s team of SAP experts brought years of industry knowledge and experience across the ranging SAP applications of the County. This expertise was leveraged to provide clear and concise road mapping and implementation services to the County through a customer-centric approach focusing on understanding specific needs and delivering solutions aligned with the County’s business objectives. With Phoenix’s proven history of successful SAP implementations, like Brevard County, who have experienced significant improvements in their operations we stay at the forefront of SAP technology and best practices, ensuring that the County benefited from the latest advancements and methodologies. 

Brevard County, with SAP support from Phoenix, has successfully navigated the end of maintenance for their SAP HR systems by transitioning to continued innovations with SAP SuccessFactors. Through strategic planning, phased implementation recommendations, and effective change management, the County addressed the immediate challenges and also provided a path for enhancing its HR capabilities. The migration resulted in planning a secure and user-friendly HR environment, aligning with the County’s commitment to innovation and excellence in human resources. 

About Phoenix Business Consulting: 

Founded in 1998, Phoenix Business Consulting is an SAP Gold Partner consulting firm providing SAP implementation, training, production support, and review services for SAP’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms. 

About SAP: 

SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software, helping companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 77% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system. Their AI, Machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers’ businesses into intelligent enterprises. Their end-to-end suite of applications and services enables their customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference.

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Features and Benefits:

• Onboarding fully aligns with the rest of the SAP SuccessFactors product suite much more effectively.

• The user interface of Onboarding now leverages the SAP Fiori User Experience.

• The hiring manager tasks are replaced with a comprehensive onboarding tasks dashboard.

• Onboarding has more control and visibility to configure and administer processes, workflows, and custom forms.

• Features such as, Personal/Custom Data Collection, New Hire Data Review, New Hire Tasks, Onboarding Dashboard, and e-Signature (both DocuSign and SAP SuccessFactors eSignature) are available to the new hires on a mobile device.

• Onboarding has a new notification framework which is again built on Metadata Framework where advanced conditions are replaced with the use of business rules.

Considerations for Migration:

There is no easy button for migration as technical differences are still present between the two applications with SAP not having introduced standard delivered tool sets to support the required activities. In turn, migration will require customized development of non-compliance forms, policies, conditions, integrations and reporting. All state and federal compliance forms (I9, W4, etc.) continue to be standard delivered and managed centrally by SAP with state/federal governments. With the introduction of Story reporting and SAP direction to migrate customers to SAP Cloud Integration Platforms, the use of Identity Authentication Services (i.e., IAS) will be required for all reporting use with Onboarding moving forward.

Phoenix Business Consulting Approach to Migration:

With the end-of-support and deprecation looming, it’s important to begin the necessary steps to complete the necessary upgrade prior to Q4 25’. With decades of SAP SuccessFactors experience and consultants who were some of the first to implement the new Onboarding platform, Phoenix Business Consulting knows what it takes to be successful. Leveraging the SAP Agile framework, Phoenix takes an iterative approach to implementation allowing customer teams to narrow their focus to smaller and manageable elements across the project, offering continuous reinforcement of enablement and application ownership through knowledge transfer.

The following key areas will be heavily emphasized:

• Current State Analysis: Review the existing onboarding processes and systems

• Fit-Gap Analysis: Build of current Onboarding processes into the new Onboarding platform allowing refined focus on functional gaps leading into the iteration cycle of the engagement.

• Iterative Cycles: Continuous configuration of changes identified during fit-gap analysis and of known requirements offering heightened engagement, accelerating deployment and the ability for continuous knowledge transfer.

• Business Acceptance Testing: Validation of day-to-day business processes ensuring current practices are met.

Timeline for Deprecation:

• End of Development – Q2 2021
• End of Onboarding 1.0 Maintenance – Q4 2025
• Deprecation of Onboarding 1.0 – Q2 2026

About Phoenix Business Consulting:

As an SAP gold partner for over 26+ years Phoenix Business Consulting specializing across the SAP Cloud suite, we know what it takes to be successful and carry with us the necessary in-house experience to ensure aggressive delivery timelines on time and on budget. We also cordially extend our customer road mapping offerings to assist with your migration planning and detailed strategy for both HR and ERP applications (SuccessFactors, S4HANA, Concur, Ariba, etc.).

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Now, EWR Munich can manage every aspect of the business more proficiently than ever before. The enterprise is soaring to new heights, looking to the future with growth and expansion in mind

Enhancing End-To-End Visibility with SAP® Business ByDesign

Before: Challenges and Opportunities

• Outsourced bookkeeping processes proved inefficient and time-consuming
• Numerous disconnected systems being managed by a wide variety of employees
• Invoices backlogged due to manual, slow processes
• Lacked a system to scale alongside future expansion plans
• Data required integration into separate system when sent to parent company HQ

Why SAP and Phoenix Business Consulting?

• SAP Business ByDesign tools and support help to future-proof company
• Smooth and straightforward SAP S/4HANA transition capability when ready
• Customizable, allowing implementation of modular units
• Designed for small and midsized businesses

After: Value-Driven Results

• Enhanced invoice tracking at all stages of the process
• Streamlined management of company goals for diversity and equity
• One centralized hub for company data, across all departments
• Vendor management tool makes all vendor data easily accessible
• Fully streamlined processes creating better employee experience across the board

“Know your processes — and be able to explain them well to the implementation team. The more detailed your description, the better. It’s important to trust the team implementing your SAP solution.”

JP Tabet, Managing Director, EWR Munich

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Sarasota, FL/ April 14, 2020 – Phoenix Business Inc., (DBA Phoenix Business Consulting), an SAP Gold Partner, today announced a partnership with SAP® SuccessFactors®, the world’s leading provider of Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud systems and applications. With this agreement authorizing the company to act as an SAP Re-Seller, Phoenix Business Consulting now offers SAP SuccessFactors solutions to the highly regulated Public Sector as well as to commercial enterprises.

“I am proud to announce that, as a company,  we have achieved our goal of becoming a single source SAP Solutions Provider in support our clients’ end-to-end Functional Transformation initiatives,” said Hanif Sarangi, President and CEO of Phoenix Business Consulting. “We are excited to add SAP SuccessFactors to our SAP Solutions Portfolio as a key complement to our S/4HANA and Business ByDesign ERP systems, SAP Concur Travel and Expense Management, and SAP Ariba Procurement solution sets. Through this solution portfolio, we are now positioned to deliver fully on SAP’s vision of the transformative Intelligent Enterprise in every client engagement.”

Founded in 2007 and a vital part of SAP’s family of advanced technology solutions since 2012, SAP SuccessFactors is one of the largest, if not the largest, provider of cloud-based HCM software solutions in the world. With a SuccessFactors customer community numbering over 7,000 members worldwide and more than 120 million SAP SuccessFactors users in more than 200 countries around the globe, the popularity of the SuccessFactors solution is unquestioned.

“Businesses are in heavy transition marching towards the digital framework of the future,” said Michael Zimmerman, the Director of the company’s SAP SuccessFactors practice. “With the rise of cloud and mobile technologies, the HCM landscape is at the forefront of innovation essential to creating one interconnected technology capable of transforming all facets of a business. SAP SuccessFactors provides a proven tool for modernizing and streamlining essential HCM processes while leveraging best practice solutions to the unique challenges facing our customers. With our company’s decades of collective industry knowledge and experience, we are more than able to answer the call of bringing advanced, modern cloud-based HCM technologies to businesses of every type and growing the SuccessFactors customer community.”

For more information on Phoenix Business Consulting, its SuccessFactors Practice, its other SAP offerings or how SAP SuccessFactors helps organizations advance their HCM initiatives, visit SAP SuccessFactors or contact us here.

About Phoenix Business Consulting:

Phoenix Business Consulting is one of the nation’s leading SAP consulting firms serving the public sector and the mid-market space. The company offers a wide range of SAP consulting services covering both functional and technical services for SAP S/4HANA®, SAP® Business ByDesign®, SAP® SuccessFactors®, SAP® Ariba®, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP® Concur®. Through Phoenix’s expertise and curation of industry leading practices, it helps organizations transform their business processes and legacy infrastructure into a modern, fully integrated solution that enables them to better serve their constituents and shareholders.

Phoenix’s approach to the contractor-client-relationship is what separates it from the pack, with a philosophy anchored in the goal to become “trusted advisors” to clients. Providing outstanding client service is a core element of the trusted advisor approach. Phoenix always gives advice and guidance based on what is in its clients’ best interests. The firm’s strength lies in its flexibility and innate capacity to work collaboratively as joint stakeholders on every client engagement. By working closely with clients to thoroughly understand their technical, functional, and business environments, Phoenix delivers tailored solutions to meet, and often exceed, expectations.

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Forward-looking statements should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results, and you should not place undue reliance on such statements. Except as required by law, we do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

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