You can hardly open a web browser without reading something about sustainability. Most of the time, the content is about conserving and protecting natural resources.

That’s important, but it’s only part of the picture.

Sustainability folks fill in the rest of the picture by talking about three pillars:

• Profit
• People

  

• Planet

The pillars are interdependent. Each one needs the others.

People Sustainability

People sustainability requires supporting people and their potential to improve resilience, agility, and business impact.

Modern HR leaders create a sustainable workforce in several ways, including:

• DEI
• Health and safety
• Continuous learning
• Supporting technology

People Sustainability Event

Another way modern HR leaders are improving people sustainability is by having events to promote and educate others in the industry.

Recently, Rizing partnered with PeopleMatters to bring together leading voices to discuss:

• What are the top shifts that are changing talent priorities?

  

• How should HR think about redesigning processes and systems?
• How is the rise in AI and automation transforming work life?
• What is the emerging outlook that businesses need to be ready for?

Talent Deficit a Critical Focus Area

Cher Whee Sim, Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition and Talent Mobility at Micron delivered the event’s keynote.

Sim spoke about the highly competitive job market due to the “great resignation” and “great reshuffle.” She said that by 2030, the talent deficit will be 85.2 million workers globally, increasing dependency on highly skilled, diverse talent. Talent has become a critical focus area for the board and executive, with a shift towards talent strategy and risk.

• Talent sustainability (including strategy and risk)
• Corporate purpose and ESG matters
• Human capital and workforce challenges
• Shareholder engagement and activism
• Crisis management
• Board management relationship
• Board culture

Addressing the Deficit

Sim outlined how Micron focuses on growing and staffing early and mid-career talent pipelines through STEM, staffing partnerships, and learning festivals.

The rise of automation is causing a transformational shift in skills, with a shift towards higher cognitive, social, emotional, and technological tasks.

New skills are growing at an unprecedented rate of 20-30% every 12 months. It’s important to understand how T-shaped skills are being transformed in the face of increased automation, as employers highly value them.

People Sustainability Discussion

Jonathan Stewart, Global Head of TA, Enabling Functions & Regional Director TA, Insights APAC, Kantar led a post-keynote discussion.

The group highlighted the demographic shift underway in Singapore and Malaysia, where companies needed to address the needs of new retirees. Leaders also emphasized the importance of mental health and STEM education for girls.

The sustainability of initiatives can only be seen in the long term, and leaders felt HR should facilitate business conversations even if they don’t have all the answers.

Rizing’s Take

“Cher Whee Sim brought a fresh perspective and suggested new ideas for how companies can use a people sustainability strategy to build a resilient workforce and retain top talent.” says Robert Limasal, Rizing Director of Business Development. “We’re excited to continue fostering these conversations and collaborations.”

Improve Your People Sustainability

Interested in learning how partnering with Rizing can improve your organization’s people sustainability? Get in touch to get the process started!

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Originally launched in 2018 as Synchrony People and Payroll, the updated solution offers many enhancements to help organizations revive, rethink, and revolutionize their talent development strategies.

Rizing’s Updated People and Payroll:

• Is faster to implement and provide value
• Has an updated “right-sized” support
• Uses the SAP® Business Technology Platform for integration and extensibility
• Provides a better understanding of your team’s skills and preferences

New Challenges

The tide turned on the job market. Organizations have had to turn from one crisis to the next. Climate change, the pandemic, macroeconomic forces, and the skills gap have implications not only for our businesses but for our planet, global supply chains, and the energy and financial markets.

This can keep leaders and team members up at night.

Mean New Solutions

Rizing’s People and Payroll rise to meet the new job market realities with features allowing organizations to better understand their people’s skills and preferences.

“Rizing People and Payroll cloud solutions provide organizations with the tools they need to realize the full potential of their people and to create a resilient and sustainable workforce.”
-Jodi Hayes-Roth, CEO, Rizing HCM

Rizing People

Rizing People helps organizations with their ever-challenging talent management environment by providing a prepackaged and scalable cloud-based solution powered by SAP SuccessFactors.

Rizing People enables you to attract the right talent, align that talent to your corporate goals, and reward top performers.

Rizing People includes leading practice configurations and standardized out-of-the-box processes, supporting a shorter time to go live and faster return on investment.

Rizing Payroll

Rizing Payroll includes pre-built accelerators, processes, and localization with the industry-leading SAP SuccessFactors HXM suite, allowing you to go live faster. You can quickly realize the benefits of a powerful and compliant payroll.

Rizing Payroll is compliant in 49 countries, with enhanced localization for 11 countries (Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States).

An enhanced compliance package includes:

• Packaged payment and deduction catalogs
• Local absence management
• Best-practice reports and interfaces
• Pre-built calculations for new hires, leavers, and overtime rates

“By leveraging Rizing’s leading SAP SuccessFactors implementation and support expertise, Rizing People and Rizing Payroll offer a validated approach that ensures results and minimizes much of the cost, time, and complexity of traditional HR transformations. Rizing People and Rizing Payroll aims to make industry-leading SAP SuccessFactors HXM capabilities accessible to many more mid-sized organizations globally.”
– Christine Miller, Global Head of Operations, Rizing HCM

SAP Qualified

SAP said “Hello” to Rizing People and Payroll. The company approved Rizing People and Payroll as a Partner-Packaged Solution that “combines SAP software with industry or line-of-business expertise, services, customizations, or applications.”

Let’s Talk

Saying hello is a good start. Contact us for introductions and to dig deeper into how Rizing’s updated People and Payroll solution can help your leaders and employees sleep better at night.

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“Rizing is able to transform enterprises worldwide – regardless of size – through the maturity of our cloud offerings and the strength of our partnership with SAP, through SAP cloud solutions and the SAP Business Technology Platform.”— Mike Maiolo, CEO, Rizing

STAMFORD, CT, UNITED STATES, February 23, 2022 – Rizing today announced it is the recipient of an SAP® North America Award for Partner Excellence 2022 for Cloud Delivery Excellence. Awards were presented by SAP (NYSE: SAP) to the top-performing SAP partners in the North America region that have made outstanding contributions to driving digital transformation for businesses that use SAP solutions. Recipients of this year’s awards have been – in partnership with SAP – helping customers adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and run more simply with SAP solutions. Rizing received the award based on high-quality delivery of SAP cloud solutions, in which Rizing had the largest number of customer go-lives across North America.

“Rizing has a relentless focus on excellence – it’s one of our core values. This award from SAP for excellence in cloud delivery confirms that what we do is working to drive our clients’ success,” said Mike Maiolo, CEO of Rizing. “Rizing is able to transform enterprises worldwide – regardless of size – through the maturity of our cloud offerings and the strength of our partnership with SAP, through SAP cloud solutions and the SAP Business Technology Platform.”

Selected from SAP’s wide-ranging partner base, nominations for the SAP Partner Excellence Awards were based on internal SAP sales data. A steering committee composed of regional and global SAP representatives determined winning partners in each category according to numerous criteria such as sales achievement and performance. Awards were presented in a variety of categories, including overall sales, innovation, technology, services, and solution-specific areas.

“SAP is partner-centric, and our partners are the best in the business, said Nanette Lazina, Vice President Midmarket Channels, SAP America, Inc. “Every year we proudly recognize our top partners with our SAP Partner Excellence Awards. These partners have demonstrated the innovation and execution needed to deliver the highest level of value to our joint customers.”

Rizing is celebrating nearly two decades as an SAP partner that works with customers across a broad range of industries to create transformative change. Customers like Molson Coors, Bombardier Recreational Products, National Bank of Canada, Canfor, Coty, and others have relied on Rizing to lead them through business transformation strategy. Rizing’s HR industry expertise combined with certified consultants for SAP® SuccessFactors® solutions moves industries forward with the full SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management Suite or with focused solutions for payroll, learning, recruiting, or talent development.

Rizing received its award during the Customer Success Summit 2022, a gathering of SAP executives, SAP field employees, and partners. Formerly called SAP Field Kick-Off Meeting, this is SAP’s largest yearly sales meeting, intended to gain and exchange information on SAP’s strategy, sales methodology, business growth opportunities, and product innovations and drive success during the upcoming year.

See the award presentation.

About Rizing

It’s the experience that matters. Rizing professionals help your business succeed at any point in your SAP journey. Rizing’s objective is to empower your business to unlock the intelligent enterprise with SAP cloud technologies, our geospatial solutions, and our proprietary, cutting-edge products to optimize and extend SAP such as Blueline, Lyra, Mercury, and Hydrogen. With real-life experience in business areas like enterprise asset management, human capital management, and consumer industries, we know how to simplify your digital transformation so that your business can be everything you want it to be. From targeted small business needs to full-scale large enterprise resource planning solutions, our SAP-certified consultants are focused on your growth. For more information, please visit www.rizing.com or contact: Rizing, LLC at +1 (203) 517-0400, info@rizing.com.

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Enter innovations like the reimagined homepage, HR Workzone (awarded product of the year by the HR Technology Conference and HR Executive), Opportunity Marketplace, and the evolving Dynamic Teams vision. A few years ago, we wondered what HXM really was. Later we understood HXM as being tied to Qualtrics’ Employee Experience Management. But it’s clear now that the vision for HXM transcends anything we originally imagined and spans the entire workplace experience. SAP is focused on empowering HR with tools that will deliver what employees are craving: a sense of purpose and opportunities for individuality, learning, and development.

The human experience at work will only get more personal.

~ Jill Popelka, speaking at SuccessConnect 2021

 

HXM answers the question: How can we value every person every day?

Amy Wilson, Senior Vice President of Products and Design at SuccessFactors, shared the design principles behind creating the ultimate Human Experience Management: serving up individualization, efficiency, and opportunity so that people feel accomplished, supported, confident and inspired. SAP’s top three innovations are all focused on creating an optimal individual user experience: the Reimagined Homepage and HR Work Zone, Opportunity Marketplace, and Team Dynamics.

User Experience

 

“It [the Homepage] thinks about how I work and what matters to me.” 

– Meg Bear, speaking at SuccessConnect

 

Traditional, remote, hybrid, deskless, contingent workers – these are all part of the SuccessConnect story. And HR professionals, too, who are facing the same challenges as the rest of the workforce – and, yet, need to support the workforce.

The reimagined homepage, launched in 2020, is designed to create an overall engaging employee experience.  With the H2 2021 release, an enhanced onboarding experience is incorporated that works for managers and employees. Imagine your new hire having everything they need to be successful day one – maybe even 30 days in advance.

As the digital workplace became the only workplace over the last two years, SAP Work Zone for HR was poised to create a unified digital workplace experience for all people. Work Zone provides access to data across many, often disparate, systems, creating a consistent collaborative digital workplace experience. The solution comes with prebuilt templates and connected services for SAP solutions.

One example of the use of Work Zone came in a story told in the Keynote by Maryann Abbajay, Chief Revenue Officer for SAP SuccessFactors.  Royal Mail used Work Zone to create “the Fridge”, a personal development platform to power learning for140,000 employees and empower people managers to drive transformation.

See a demo of Work Zone and all capabilities in the breakout Roadmap Session in SuccessConnect replays.

Opportunity Marketplace and the Center of Capabilities

 

Careers are no longer one long story, but many more – a series of short stories – and very much shaped by the individual. . . we need transparency so people can shape their careers.

~Anabel Fall, speaking at SuccessConnect 2021

 

Opportunity Marketplace, launching with the H2 2021 release, will give people the tools they need to grow their careers with full transparency and will improve internal mobility. The solution leverages a combination of AI-driven intelligence tools and algorithms to achieve the best matches for employees.

The Center of Capabilities, also being released in the H2 2021 release, will be a key component in Opportunity Marketplace. In this first release of the solution, intelligent recommendations are derived from

• capabilities (skills and competencies),
• personal preferences for learning and mentoring, and
• recommendations based on choices other employees have made (for both learning and career role recommendations).

Future releases will make recommendations even more contextual, providing situational recommendations.

Read more about Opportunity Marketplace in our separate blog and by following Rizing’s SAP SuccessFactors Release Updates.

Dynamic Teams

Feelings of hope, resilience optimism and efficacy are very much tied to the people we work with.

~Amy Wilson, speaking at SuccessConnect

SAP SuccessFactors’ research shows that psychological capital is directly impacted by the teams within which we work, and that 82% of employees have participated in a dynamic – or ad hoc – team more than once. But dynamic teams are generally pulled together based on who we already know and are hidden from the rest of the organization.

There’s an opportunity here to improve the human experience, expand the pool of available resources for special team projects, provide more opportunities for skill development, and increase the diversity of perspective and experience in our work. SAP SuccessFactors Dynamic Teams, slated for release in 2022, will be integrated into Opportunity Marketplace.

Explore the SAP SuccessFactors Dynamic Teams research in the SuccessFactors® Community. (S-User ID required)

Moving to cloud

Digital transformation through moving to cloud can bring some surprising benefits. SuccessConnect delivered on the value proposition to help you build your business case – from customer stories to the latest in current and planned releases.

When we started the journey a few years ago, I heard that bots could do majority of this work that a human would process on a day to day basis to me I was a little skeptical. But looking at the bots we have deployed and how seamlessly they can lock into one system to another – all of that still surprises me the most. I’m really happy we’re going on this journey.

~ Arun Seriker speaking at SuccessConnect

 

If you are one of the SAP On-Premise customers assessing your options from moving to SAP SuccessFactors, Track 3-Making a Successful Move from On-Premise to Cloud, is for you. One highly recommended session is Our Strategy to Help SAP ERP HCM Solution Customers Move to the Cloud to Achieve the Intelligent Enterprise, delivered by Imran Said and Todd Asevedo, along with Duncan Scott.

The SAP HXM Move program allows you to move at your pace for core HR, Time, and Payroll along with the talent modules and experience management. Learn about new commercial models and explore your options with Rizing’s RISE with SAP for HXM program.

What about Payroll and Time Management?

SAP released Time Tracking in December 2021, it is being used live in production by customers, and, there is already a 200,000 employee customer using it. The functionality is focused on getting people paid. All new time capability will be delivered in Time Tracking.

A next generation payroll solution is in development – but not for the immediate future. The recommendation is to stick with Employee Central Payroll. When a new payroll solution is available, the expectation is that there will be migration options for moving payroll and integrating Time Tracking with the new payroll.

Attracting, engaging and developing talent

The major changes for talent management are in the Opportunity Marketplace and connecting functionality for capabilities and dynamic teams.

Check out the Product Demo for WorkZone: Create Individualized Employee Experiences from Anywhere with SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone, which provides a good overview of how WorkZone supports your talent.

Ever wonder how SAP manages 20,000 candidates a year? Learn how in Experience How SAP Runs SAP: Six Candidate-Listening Insights Revealed and the Actions Taken to Drive Better Results.

Food for thought: Moving Forward

Last but not least, if you did not get a chance to hear Adam Grant’s keynote conversation with Jill Popelka, take some time to do that. There are so many words of wisdom in that conversation, to help us be flexible, open-minded and able to pivot with change.

Step one: embrace not knowing; forget the answers you think you know. Adam notes that Blackberry, Blockbuster, Kodak, Sears, Toys R Us. . . none of those leaders were bad at thinking; they were just too slow when it came to rethinking.

What’s the one thing Adam would do to change the world of work? He would have us work less.

Adam is continuing his work with SuccessFactors® in a new series: Forward that focuses on the workplace experiences of employees.

We’ll leave you with one final thought from SAP SuccessFactors President, Jill Popelka.

One of the top three things people look for is purpose.

It’s no longer about fitting your life into work.

It’s about fitting work into life.

~ Jill Popelka, speaking at SuccessConnect 2021

 

And, this, HR colleagues, is why it’s time to change work for good.

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STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES, September 14, 2021 – Rizing today announced the appointment of Jodi Hayes-Roth as Chief Executive Officer of Rizing’s Human Capital Management (HCM) Line of Business and member of the Executive Leadership Team. Hayes-Roth will lead Rizing’s continued advancement of the firm’s global SAP SuccessFactors professional services, application managed services, SAP Partner Managed Cloud solutions Synchrony People and Payroll, innovation on the SAP Business Technology Platform, and RISE with SAP and HXM initiatives.

Hayes-Roth brings twenty years of experience in Human Resources technology, coming to Rizing from SAP SuccessFactors^®, where she has been Global Leader of Cloud Support for HCM. Most recently, Jodi led the Customer Solution Support & Innovation Business Transformation Office at SAP. Her prior experience includes executive roles with NGA-Human Resources, Ceridian, Spherion, and ADP.

“Jodi’s breadth of leadership experience with HR technology is a significant advantage to Rizing’s sustained global growth,” said Mike Maiolo, Rizing’s CEO. “Her diverse background and extensive SAP knowledge are value-added to Rizing and will support our singular objective, which is to focus on our customers.”

“Rizing is a very well-respected and experienced partner in the SAP ecosystem,” said Hayes-Roth, “This is an opportunity for me to apply my collective experiences across a wide range of services with a very talented group of SAP SuccessFactors^® experts. I’m looking forward to enabling transformation for HR organizations with Rizing.”

Rizing is an SAP Gold Partner, recognized as SAP Cloud Delivery Partner of the Year in both the Asia-Pacific and North America regions. With the largest number of SAP SuccessFactors^® certified consultants, Rizing implements SAP HCM technologies and delivers leading-edge products customized for unique business scenarios – including Synchrony People and Synchrony Payroll built to service small and medium-sized enterprises.

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About Rizing
It’s the experience that matters. Rizing professionals help your business succeed at any point in your journey with SAP technology. Rizing’s objective is to empower your business to unlock the intelligent enterprise with SAP cloud technologies, our geospatial solutions, and our proprietary, cutting-edge products such as Lyra, Carbon, Mercury, and Hydrogen to optimize and extend SAP technologies. With real-life experience in business areas like enterprise asset management, human capital management, and consumer industries, we know how to simplify your digital transformation so that your business can be everything you want it to be. Our SAP-certified consultants focus on your growth from targeted small business needs to full-scale large enterprise resource planning solutions. For more information, please visit www.rizing.com or contact: Rizing, LLC at +1 (203) 517-0400, info@rizing.com.

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Any statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties described in SAP’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent annual report on Form 20-F, that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. SAP cautions readers not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements which SAP has no obligation to update and speak only as of their dates.

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STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES, November 23, 2020 – Rizing, a global SAP^® gold partner, and Syniti, an SAP partner and leading enterprise data management company, have announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the customer journey to the intelligent enterprise, leveraging SAP S/4HANA^® and SAP^® SuccessFactors^® solutions. The inclusion of complementary software and services for data migration and data quality from Syniti is designed to make it easier for Rizing clients to digitally transform with reduced risk and increased data reliability.

“At the heart of the intelligent enterprise lies data,” said Len Harms, Rizing’s Chief Experience Officer. “With Syniti as part of our portfolio, Rizing will be helping our clients to optimize the quality of their data and their ability to harness that data for insightful decision-making.”

According to an IDC white paper, sponsored by Syniti and SAP, “The Business Value of SAP Advanced Data Migration by Syniti,” published in June 2020, projects that businesses using advanced data migration experience significant savings with a 303 percent three-year return on investment with an average eight-month payback on investment.

Rizing, an SAP ecosystem leader, empowers businesses using SAP solutions to become an intelligent enterprise with SAP software, extensive industry expertise, best-in-class consulting, implementation services, and proprietary products. As a reseller of Syniti’s software and services portfolio, Rizing will integrate the Syniti Knowledge Platform (SKP) into their enterprise data management offering to propel customers on their digital transformation journeys.

Syniti is a worldwide leader and innovator in enterprise data and an SAP platinum partner. The company’s edge comes from their advanced software – the Syniti Knowledge Platform (SKP) – a unique methodology, and expert data consultants. SAP resells SAP Advanced Data Migration by Syniti and SAP Information Steward Accelerator by Syniti as solution extensions, which are SAP-recommended for businesses moving to SAP S/4HANA.

Together, Rizing and Syniti are committed to enhancing value for businesses using SAP solutions, expanding new market opportunities and jointly leveraging the SAP ecosystem for faster growth and optimized client outcomes – and to do these better than everyone else.

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About Rizing

It’s the experience that matters. Rizing professionals help your business succeed at any point in your SAP journey. Rizing’s objective is to empower your business to unlock the intelligent enterprise with SAP technologies, our Geospatial solutions, and our proprietary, cutting-edge products such as Blueline, Lyra, Mercury, and Hydrogen. With real-life experiences in business areas like enterprise asset management, human capital management, and consumer industries, we know how to simplify your digital transformation so that your business can be everything you want it to be. From targeted small business needs to full-scale large enterprise resource planning solutions, our SAP-certified consultants are focused on your growth. For more information, please visit www.rizing.com or contact: Rizing, LLC at +1 (203) 517-0400, info@rizing.com.

About Syniti

Syniti was founded in 1996 to solve business’ complex data challenges, bringing synergy between data and business, and delivering confidence and progress along clients’ business transformation journey. Through a combination of unique data expertise, services, and intelligent software leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, we help clients manage their data journey from data conversion to data quality, data archival and replication, master data management, analytics, information governance, and data strategy. Syniti is a portfolio company of private equity firm Bridge Growth Partners LLC. Syniti is an SAP Solution Extension Partner. For more information please visit http://www.syniti.com.

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Any statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties described in SAP’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC), including its most recent annual report on Form 20-F, that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. SAP cautions readers not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements which SAP has no obligation to update and which speak only as of their dates.

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STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES, October 14, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ — Rizing’s HCM line of business in Australia announced that they have achieved Recognized Expertise (REX) Accreditation from SAP SuccessFactors^®. The designation, intended to help customers make informed decisions when choosing an implementation partner, acknowledges Rizing’s technical knowledge and project experience as a systems integrator for Employee Central, Employee Central Payroll, Recruiting Management, Onboarding, and Talent Management.

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The addition of the Recognized Expertise Accreditation further validates Rizing as the partner of choice for SAP SuccessFactors customers in Australia.

— Mike Ellis, President of Rizing HCM in APAC

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REX, which was established by SAP to increase transparency into partner capabilities, is earned based on measurements of successful outcomes. The designation differentiates partner companies based on their specific expertise. Like Professional Certification, which is awarded on the individual consultant level, REX accreditation maintains strict requirements for consultant training, certification, and positive customer references. To apply for REX, Partners must have a minimum of three certified consultants and three satisfied customers who have gone through recent project implementations. ABC, Ausgrid, VGA, and Investa served as customer references for Rizing.

“I am exceedingly proud of Rizing and the talent we have in our team to ensure successful outcomes for our clients,” said Mike Ellis, President of Rizing’s HCM line of business in APAC. “At Rizing, we have the largest number of individual consultants holding professional certifications in SAP SuccessFactors modules. The addition of the Recognized Expertise Accreditation further validates Rizing as the partner of choice for customers in Australia.”

The SAP Partner Edge Team verifies that all criteria have been met. Once approved, partners may use the Recognized Expertise logo in their marketing and communication materials. SAP SuccessFactors customers are also able to identify partners with this advanced accreditation in SAP Partner Finder by filtering for “SAP Recognized Expertise.”

SAP SuccessFactors is one of the largest cloud-based HCM providers in the world with over 100 million users. SAP SuccessFactors solutions are designed for all sizes of organizations anywhere in the world.

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About Rizing:

It’s the experience that matters. Rizing professionals help your business succeed at any point in your SAP journey. Rizing’s objective is to empower your business to unlock the intelligent enterprise with SAP technologies, our Geospatial solutions, and our proprietary, cutting-edge products such as Blueline, Lyra, Carbon, Mercury and Hydrogen. With real-life experiences in business areas like enterprise asset management, human capital management, and consumer industries, we know how to simplify your digital transformation so that your business can be everything you want it to be. From targeted small business needs to full-scale large enterprise resource planning solutions, our SAP-certified consultants are focused on your growth. For more information, please visit www.rizing.com or contact: Rizing, LLC at +1 (203) 517-0400,info@rizing.com.

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STAMFORD, CT – June 4, 2020 – Rizing, a global professional services firm and leading SAP^® partner, today announced the launch of Rizing Employee Experience Insights (EXI), a new solution focused on turning fundamental business processes into insights that spark significant organizational change. The addition of an EXI practice to Rizing’s portfolio further affirms Rizing’s commitment to empowering organizations to achieve results through transformation and creates a fully integrated approach to managing and improving human performance.

Rizing’s Employee Experience Insights will enable organizations to assemble sophisticated research results as employees interact with SAP^® SuccessFactors^® solutions by leveraging Qualtrics® experience data – the beliefs, intentions, and perceptions of employees.

With EXI Rizing goes beyond product implementation

Rizing distinguishes the Qualtrics solutions they offer with their ability to advise customers on all stages of enabling an end-to-end experience management solution that makes sense for their unique businesses, and that maximizes people data across software solutions. The solution integrates the ability to collect and analyze data with Rizing’s capabilities to build experience assessments and counsel clients on how to use data to effect positive change. Rizing’s human capital management (HCM), organizational training and development, and change management professionals understand how to frame the questions each unique business needs.

Additionally, Rizing can gather data from any system and pull it into Lyra, Rizing’s proprietary analytics platform. Lyra can consume data from any system. Lyra then combines operational data with experience data from Qualtrics to propel data-driven decisions across the entire people-related ecosystem: from core HR and payroll through talent management, contingent workforce management, and travel and expense management.

Employee Experience Insights adapts to customer needs

Rizing Employee Experience Insights delivers solutions adapted to what the customer needs, whether the customer prefers a do-it-yourself approach, guidance while building their survey, or a full-service approach. With EXI, Rizing enables employers of all sizes to begin measuring and responding to employee experiences. This can be vital to business success. Studies by Gallup have shown that the ability to increase employee engagement can mean as much as three times more revenue.

“We are excited to welcome Rizing to the Qualtrics Partner Network,” said R.J. Filipski, Global Director of Business Development, Qualtrics. “With Rizing’s expertise in HR and Qualtrics’ leading experience management platform, we will help organizations around the world realize the positive people and business outcomes that the right technology and expertise can drive.”

“Experience management is absolutely essential across the industries we serve,” said Mike Maiolo, CEO of Rizing. “The ability to measure and improve experiences for customers and, in fact, all stakeholders, is what differentiates one company from another. With the launch of EXI, we’re able to do that for Rizing customers with personalized services and real-time data from Qualtrics.”

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About Rizing 

It’s the experience that matters. Rizing professionals help your business succeed at any point in your SAP journey. Rizing’s objective is to empower your business to unlock the intelligent enterprise with SAP technologies, our geospatial solutions, and our proprietary, cutting-edge products such as Blueline, Lyra, Mercury, and Hydrogen. With real-life experiences in business areas like enterprise asset management, human capital management, and consumer industries, we know how to simplify your digital transformation so that your business can be everything you want it to be. From targeted small business needs to full-scale large enterprise resource planning solutions, our SAP-certified consultants are focused on your growth. For more information, please visit www.rizing.com or contact: Rizing, LLC at +1 (203) 517-0400 or info@rizing.com.

SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE in Germany and other countries. Please see https://www.sap.com/copyright for additional trademark information and notices. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

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Sherry.meyer@rizing.com

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How is HR handling COVID-19?

HR processes seem to be reaching a commonality globally when it comes to addressing workplace health. We are adapting policies for travel and work-from-home, examing potential liability, and considering the economic toll our decisions will have on our businesses and the economy at large. Here are some of the top strategies organizations are using to address the fear of a possible pandemic.

Manage employee data in SAP SuccessFactors

• Ensure up-to-date contact information. Make sure employees know how to get into SuccessFactors and have them update their contact information and emergency contact information. Some companies use emergency response texting systems – in these cases, having the proper mobile phone information will be vital.
• Manage absences. How are you addressing extended periods of absence due to the virus – whether the absence is due to an illness or due to quarantine because of being in contact with the virus. Some companies may be adopting a special leave of absence code or continued pay and benefits. If so, communicate with employees so that they know how to apply for a leave of absence. Make sure managers know how to approve the leave and understand how pay and benefits may be impacted.
• Check system permissions for access to personnel data. Do managers have access to the employee’s contact details? If not, how can you make sure they can reach employees in case of an urgent message to address?  Also, consider mass notifications. If one of your business sites has been declared in quarantine, the site leadership will need to send an urgent message to everyone without having to wait for HR to respond.
• Have a disaster recovery plan. Know how you will respond if, for example, your payroll staff cannot get into the office to run time entry results and process payroll. Is your payroll staff equipped to work from home? Here’s where a cloud payroll solution would really come in handy.

Have a written coronavirus response plan

• Identify leaders in charge and their roles and responsibilities. Leaders should be prepared to answer employee questions and should also take care to inspect the safety of their own office sites. Does the site need to keep track of visitors? Are your cleaning procedures thorough? Are hand sanitizers and tissues on hand?
• Make sure employees know who to contact in case of questions, exposure, or travel. Clearly outline your policy for managing an employee who has been exposed or traveled to an impacted area.
• Explain the expected action to take in the event of illness or exposure.  Employees should know who to contact, whether or not to come into work, and when to seek medical advice.
• Be clear about how you will handle potential exposures. Employees can be exposed themselves or through friends or family who has been exposed. It is impossible to track all potential exposures. You can ask that employees self-report travel to or through restricted regions.

Travel Advisories, Restrictions and Limitations for Coronavirus

• Reinforce the need for basic healthy habits. The American Red Cross says common-sense steps can prevent the spread of any disease: getting a flu vaccine, avoiding contact with sick people, staying at home when you are ill, covering your nose and mouth with a tissue when coughing or sneezing, and washing your hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds.
• Reevaluate non-essential travel. For some of us, doing business means traveling to be in front of customers or to be hands-on in development or construction. Not all travel is essential. Moreover, some travel should be restricted.
• Keep employees travel-safety aware. Restricted locations should be communicated to employees. You can also provide links to country-specific travel and health advisory sites as well as to the World Health Organization. Before traveling anywhere, employees should check the travel advisory sites so that they are prepared for any new scans or other activities occurring at airports.
• Set up a travel notification and approval process. Managers and HR should be aware of any travel that an employee or family member will do or has done through an infected area.

Technology is helping HR manage Coronavirus

• Robotic Process Automation. Some employers are using robotic process automation (RPA) to manage the outbreak. UiPath is tracking employees’ daily temperatures. Automated workflows can be used to manage requests for travel or notification of travel that a family member has done in or through an affected area. Smartsheet provides a Coronavirus preparedness template that includes capabilities to track those who may be at risk.
• Artificial Intelligence. Buoy, an AI-based platform for health, started collecting data on COVD-19 in January, hoping to ease growing fears over an outbreak. Their algorithm screens for symptoms and risk factors provide advice and the next steps for triage. Having this information alleviates stress for employees – which may turn out to be the biggest health impact until the fear of the virus ends.
• Virtual Meetings. Organizations worldwide are adapting rapidly to work at home arrangements. Maintain face time with employees through Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or Go to Meeting. Whatever the tool, be sure your team is using best practices to optimize virtual meeting time.
• Geospatial mapping.  Johns Hopkins University Center for Science and Systems Engineering developed an interactive web-based dashboard using Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) mapping to track reported cases in real-time. This location intelligence gives meaningful data on the virus at a glance – and, of course, can also be used to track people, products, and assets.

We are not going to stop the virus with technology. But never in our work lives have we had better technology to help us manage work and life simultaneously.

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The Society for Human Resources Management is providing comprehensive resources for managing the Coronavirus. You will find excellent resources there with respect to telework, leadership, creating a plan, meeting US regulations like ADA and OSHA, and more.

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