Part 1 Evolution of Talent Intelligence Hub & Upgrade Strategy

Summary

The video script provides an update on the integration of Talent Intelligence Hub with the Success Factors in the HXM Suite. It explains the evolution from Job Description Manager to Job Profile Builder and then to the Talent Intelligence Hub, which now includes Growth Portfolio and Attributes Library. The script offers guidance for customers in different scenarios, emphasizing the importance of running check tools, building skills libraries, and configuring permissions for a seamless upgrade path to the Talent Intelligence Hub.

Takeaways

• 🎁 The speaker is preparing to share updates on the Talent Intelligence Hub as part of the SAP SuccessFactors platform.
• 📈 The Talent Intelligence Hub is included at no additional license cost with the SAP SuccessFactors platform module.
• 🔍 The script provides a historical overview of the evolution from Job Description Manager (JDM) to Job Profile Builder (JPB), and finally to the Talent Intelligence Hub.
• 🛠️ The Job Profile Builder (JPB) was introduced in 2013 as a replacement for the legacy roles in JDM and included skills management.
• 📚 In 2021, the concept of a 'whole self model' was introduced, along with the Center of Capabilities (COC), which later evolved into the Talent Intelligence Hub.
• 🔄 The script outlines the integration of the Talent Intelligence Hub with other success factors in the HXM Suite as of the 2 AG 2023 release.
• 📝 The speaker explains the data migration process from Job Profile Builder to the Talent Intelligence Hub, including the renaming and reorganization of components.
• 🔑 The script details four customer scenarios and the recommended strategies for each, including running check tools and manually building the skills library.
• 🚀 For those not using SAP's Job Profile Builder, JDM, or Center of Capabilities, the script suggests directly upgrading to the Talent Intelligence Hub.
• 🛡️ The script emphasizes the importance of setting up role-based permissions to control employee access to the growth portfolio within the Talent Intelligence Hub.
• ⏰ The script warns that while a sunset date has not been defined, certain features like the skills portlet under JPB and JDM Legacy Family will be deprecated soon.

Q & A

What is Talent Intelligence Hub?

Talent Intelligence Hub is a part of the SAP SuccessFactors platform module that includes features for managing job and people attributes such as competencies, job families, roles, etc., without additional license cost.

What was the precursor to Talent Intelligence Hub known as?

The precursor to Talent Intelligence Hub was known as Job Description Manager (JDM), which was used to maintain job attributes but did not offer the ability to maintain people attributes.

When did SAP introduce the Job Profile Builder (JPB)?

SAP introduced the Job Profile Builder (JPB) in 2013 as a beta program built on the Metadata Framework, which replaced the legacy roles in JDM and brought in skills management.

What is the significance of the 'Center of Capabilities' introduced in 2021?

The 'Center of Capabilities' introduced in 2021 was a concept to manage employees' capabilities and included features like the capability portfolio and the capabilities library, which later evolved into the Talent Intelligence Hub.

How does the Talent Intelligence Hub differ from its predecessors in terms of attribute management?

Unlike its predecessors, the Talent Intelligence Hub allows for skills and attributes to be directly associated with individual employees, rather than being associated with job roles and inherited by employees through job code assignments.

What is the role of the Growth Portfolio in the Talent Intelligence Hub?

The Growth Portfolio within the Talent Intelligence Hub is responsible for managing skills and people attributes directly associated with employees, allowing them to view and rate their skills.

What is the recommended first step for a JDM customer who has never upgraded to JPB or Center of Capabilities?

The recommended first step for such a customer is to evaluate whether they want to leverage skills in job roles or profiles, and if so, to follow the guidance provided in the knowledge-based article and decision tree, run the check tool, and upgrade to Talent Intelligence Hub.

What is the process for existing JPB customers who want to use skills in job roles?

Existing JPB customers should refer to the relevant knowledge-based article and decision tree, run the JPB checks and the check tool to address any errors, upgrade to Talent Intelligence Hub, and then run the check tool again for migration-related errors.

What steps should Center of Capabilities customers follow?

Center of Capabilities customers should run the check tool, manually build the skills library, and utilize Import and Export templates and integration center for data transfer, noting that category groups and libraries are now converted to tags.

What advice is given to customers who are implementing SuccessFactors for the first time or haven't used any of the Talent Suite before?

These customers are advised to directly upgrade to Talent Intelligence Hub, build their skills library manually or use import/export options, create a competency library under attributes library, and set up role-based permissions to control employee access to the growth portfolio.

What is the importance of running the check tool after upgrading to Talent Intelligence Hub?

Running the check tool after upgrading to Talent Intelligence Hub is crucial to fix any migration-related errors and ensure the smooth transition of data and features to the new system.

Outlines

00:00

📈 Evolution of Talent Intelligence Hub

The first paragraph introduces the Talent Intelligence Hub as part of the SAP SuccessFactors platform, emphasizing no additional licensing cost. It traces the history from Job Description Manager (JDM) in 2011, which managed job attributes, to the Job Profile Builder (JPB) in 2013, introducing skills management. The paragraph then discusses the introduction of the Center of Capabilities (COC) in 2021 and its evolution into the Talent Intelligence Hub, highlighting the transition of competency management and the renaming of components like the 'Growth Portfolio' and 'Attributes Library'. The paragraph concludes with the coexistence of JPB and Talent Intelligence Hub, explaining the division of responsibilities between job attributes and people attributes.

05:01

🛠 Integration and Migration Strategies for Talent Intelligence Hub

The second paragraph delves into the integration of Talent Intelligence Hub with other modules in the SuccessFactors suite, focusing on the migration process for different types of customers. It outlines four customer scenarios: those using Job Description Manager, existing Job Profile Builder customers, Center of Capabilities customers, and new SuccessFactors Talent Suite implementers. For each scenario, it provides recommended strategies, including evaluating skill usage, leveraging knowledge-based articles, running check tools, and manually building the Skills Library. The paragraph also mentions the deprecation of legacy components like the Skills Portlet under JPB, JDM roles, and Center of Capabilities, urging customers to upgrade to the Talent Intelligence Hub for a unified skills and competency management experience.

10:04

⚠️ Deprecation Warning for Legacy Talent Management Tools

The third paragraph serves as a cautionary note, indicating that while there is no sunset date announced, the legacy tools such as the Skills Portlet under JPB, JDM Legacy Family, roles, and even Center of Capabilities are expected to become deprecated in the future. This paragraph emphasizes the importance of transitioning to the Talent Intelligence Hub to avoid disruption and to stay current with the platform's capabilities.

Keywords

💡Talent Intelligence Hub

Talent Intelligence Hub is an integration feature of the SAP SuccessFactors platform designed to enhance talent management by providing comprehensive tools to manage employee attributes and capabilities. The video discusses its evolution from previous tools and its current functionalities, emphasizing its importance in centralizing talent management within the SAP ecosystem.

💡Job Profile Builder (JPB)

Job Profile Builder is a tool within the SAP SuccessFactors suite that allows organizations to manage both job attributes and people attributes. The video explains its historical role and how it has been integrated into the Talent Intelligence Hub, emphasizing the shift from managing job roles to a more holistic management of employee skills and attributes.

💡Center of Capabilities (COC)

The Center of Capabilities was introduced as a model to manage employee capabilities, which later evolved into the Talent Intelligence Hub. The video highlights the COC's role in transitioning from job-focused attributes to employee-focused attributes, marking a significant shift in talent management strategy.

💡Skills Portlet

Skills Portlet is a feature in the employee profile that captures and displays employee skills. The video mentions its role in both the Job Profile Builder and the Talent Intelligence Hub, illustrating its importance in tracking and managing employee competencies within the platform.

💡Capabilities Library

Capabilities Library, originally part of the Center of Capabilities, is now under the Talent Intelligence Hub, where it serves as a repository for managing competencies. The video describes its function in centralizing competency management, which is crucial for aligning employee skills with organizational needs.

💡Growth Portfolio

Growth Portfolio is the evolved form of the Capabilities Portfolio within the Talent Intelligence Hub. It focuses on managing employee skills and attributes directly associated with individuals rather than job roles. The video explains how this shift supports personalized employee development and growth.

💡Attributes Library

Attributes Library, part of the Talent Intelligence Hub, consolidates various employee attributes, including skills and competencies. The video details its role in replacing older libraries and providing a unified platform for managing all employee-related data within SAP SuccessFactors.

💡Metadata Framework (MDF)

Metadata Framework is the underlying framework that supports the Job Profile Builder and other components in the SAP SuccessFactors suite. The video touches upon its role in enabling flexible and scalable data management, crucial for the integration and evolution of talent management tools.

💡Check Tool

Check Tool is used to ensure smooth migration and integration of data within the Talent Intelligence Hub. The video emphasizes its importance in the upgrade process, ensuring that data is correctly transitioned and any errors are addressed to maintain system integrity.

💡Competency Library

Competency Library is a repository for managing job-specific competencies, now integrated into the Attributes Library within the Talent Intelligence Hub. The video outlines its role in the transition from job-centric to employee-centric competency management, highlighting its continued relevance in the new system.

Highlights

Talent Intelligence Hub is part of the SAP SuccessFactors platform module with no additional license cost.

In 2011, Job Description Manager (JDM) was the only platform feature for maintaining job attributes but lacked people attributes management.

2013 saw the introduction of Job Profile Builder (JPB), which replaced JDM's legacy roles and introduced skills management.

The 2021 release brought the concept of the Whole Self model and the Center of Capabilities (COC) with new features such as capability portfolio and library.

COC evolved into the Talent Intelligence Hub, with the capability portfolio transforming into the growth portfolio and the capabilities library into the attributes library.

Job Profile Builder will coexist with Talent Intelligence Hub, with some components now under the purview of Talent Intelligence Hub.

The integration of Talent Intelligence Hub with other SuccessFactors in the HXM Suite as of the 2 AG 2023 release is a key focus.

Data codes are changing from their current housing to a new home within the Talent Intelligence Hub.

Different scenarios for customers are outlined, with recommended strategies for each, including running check tools and upgrading to Talent Intelligence Hub.

For customers not using skills in job roles, a knowledge-based article and decision tree are provided for guidance.

Existing JPB customers or those upgrading from JDM need to run JPB checks and manually build the skills library post-upgrade.

Center of Capabilities customers should follow similar steps as JPB customers, including using import and export templates for data transfer.

New SuccessFactors implementations should directly upgrade to Talent Intelligence Hub and manually build or import their skills and competency libraries.

Role-based permissions can be set up to control employee access to the growth portfolio for viewing and rating skills.

Configuring cross-module interaction allows other Talent modules to leverage skills and competencies from Talent Intelligence Hub.

The stage of the customer determines the upgrade path and specific steps to follow, including building the skills library and configuring permissions.

A sunset date for the deprecation of skills portlet under JPB, JDM Legacy Family, roles, and even Center of Capabilities has not yet been defined.

Transcripts

hello everyone I trust you are in good

spirits and getting ready for the

holidays before we all immerse into the

excitement of the festive mood of

Christmas Diwali or k

Quanza whatever you celebrate I have

chosen to wrap up the Year by sharing

some exciting updates on the talent

intelligence Hub today we will primarily

delve into the integration features of

talent intelligence Hub with the rest of

the success factors in hxm Suite as of

released 2 AG

2023 but before we dive into the incases

of these Integrations let's start with a

quick recap or refresher of what talent

intelligence Hub is all about okay for

this section let me um close out my

video because I want to make sure you

see the animation well okay firstly

let's get the big whale out of the way

Talent intelligence Hub is included as

part of the sap success factors platform

module and the best part is there is no

additional license cost to purchase the

solution so what exactly is Talent

intelligence Hub back in 2011 the only

platform feature available to maintain

job and job attributes such as

competencies job families role Etc was

called job description manager or in

short JDM

but it didn't offer the ability to

maintain people attributes now first

forward to

2013 sap introduced a beta program

called job profile Builder um in short

JPB built on the MDF framework the

metadata framework which replac the

Legacy roles in JDM JPB also um brought

in skills management featuring a table

to list all skills

and a handy skills portlet in people

profile to capture employee skills and

employee can view their

skills now come to

2021 sap introduced the whole uh the

whole self model concept to manage your

employees

capabilities during the second half

release in 2021 we also introduced

Center of capabilities or in short known

as

COC uh with new features capability is

portfolio where employees can see their

existing competencies and capabilities

Library where admins can manage

competencies so at this point the

competency Library moved from JPB under

capabilities

library but uh Center of capabilities or

COC was essentially a placeholder with

the ultimate goal of becoming the talent

intelligence hub

and now the center of capabilities have

evolved

into um the talent intelligence Hub um

the capabilities portfol portfolio has

transformed into growth portfolio and

the capabilities library has become the

attributes Library you know we decided

to change the names as you all know by

now here at sapu we have a soft spot for

renaming things you know um it's what

noting that job profile Builder is here

to stay coexisting with Talent

intelligence Hub although some of its

components now fall under the purview of

talent intelligence Hub okay now that

you are familiar with the emergence and

evaluation of T intelligence Hub

solution let's look into how the

underlying data is changing codes from

where it's house today to its new home

to understand the evaluation of various

data blocks was changed or was added

let's start with job profile Builder and

work our way uh through to Talent

intelligence Hub now this picture

represents the components of job profile

Builder until 1 age

2021 uh before Center of capabilities

was released now from 2013 up until 2021

job profile Builder was a solution to

manage both job attributes and people

attributes skill sport under employee

profile was the only place to hold

person specific attributes during this

time with uh introduction of uh COC or

Center of capabilities for customers who

choose to upgrade to COC competency

Library moved under uh capabilities

library and other uh people specific

attributes including skill Library

continue to exist under job profile

Builder during um the time of center of

capabilities which finally with the

introduction of talent intelligence Hub

a job profile Builder found an alliance

with a few new entrance one is growth

portfolio attributes library and the new

skills onology with each solution having

its defined responsibility in this big

house of talent intelligence Hub in this

target and state of talent intelligence

Hub job profile Builder would manage

only job attributes and growth portfolio

for skills and people attributes as

depicted in this

picture so with job profile Builder and

job description manager the competency

skills and other contents were directly

associated with the job role or job

profile and not with the individual

employees inherited those features via

the job code assignment to job role

however in growth portfolio all skills

and attributes are now directly

associated with the person that is an

employee now that we have traced the

evaluation of talent intelligence Hub as

a customer you might find yourself in

one of the following

scenarios let's break down the

recommended strategies and building

blocks for customers in each of these

four scenarios

number one job description manager

customer and you have never upgraded to

job profile Builder or Center of

capabilities uh so you'll begin by

evaluating whether you want to leverage

skills in job uh job roles or job

profiles if you are not using skills at

all refer to the knowledge-based article

um and decision tree mention in in my

blog everything about Talent

intelligence hub you can visit that blog

to find the detail link consider the

decision carefully and follow the

provided guidance run the check tool and

uh upgrade to Talent intelligence Hub

and remember you have to run the check

tool again after you upgrade to Talent

intelligence Hub to fix any migration

related

errors number two um second scenario

existing JPB customers or if you are a

JDM customer and if you want to use

skills in job roles roles and job

profiles now refer to the relevant kba

uh this is a different kba and the

decision tree you will also run the JPB

checks um and the check tool to address

any errors you will upgrade to Talent

intelligence Hub and then run again the

check tool for migration related errors

um very important um you have to

manually build the skills Library as it

won't be migrated with the migration

tool competency Library however is

migrated type three um Center of

capabilities customer now you might have

upgraded from JPB in 2021 or 2022 you

will follow similar step uh as as like

the JPB customers you will run the check

tool you will manually build the skills

library and you can utilize the Import

and Export templates and integration

Center for data transfer note that

category groups and libraries are now

converted to

tags okay uh the last type of customers

um who are not using saps job profile

Builder JDM or Center of capabilities or

let's say if you are implementing

success factor for the first time or

haven't used uh any of success factors

Talent Suite before and now you are

implementing so we suggest you you to

directly upgrade to Talent intelligence

Hub build your skills Library manually

or use import export option to populate

your skills Library which is under

attributes Library create your

competency Library under attributes

Library too um you can create any custom

Library if uh you know that is required

as per your organization or your

industry type you can set up role-based

permission to control employee access to

growth portfolio allowing them to view

and or rate their skills um and then

finally uh you can configure U cross

module interaction with success factor

Talent intelligence Hub so that other

Talent modules can leverage skills and

competency from Talent intelligence

subub so in summary your your stage will

determine your upgrade path and the

specific steps to follow including

running check tools building skills

library and configuring permissions

uh please note that while a Sunset date

hasn't been defined yet the skills

portlet under JPB the JDM Legacy Family

and roles and even Center of

capabilities will be deprecated soon