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Learn the 5 steps to building a process-centric HR reporting strategy

Get the right reports into users' hands with the right requirements-gathering strategy

Five key criteria to successfully deploy SAP BW for HR reporting

Tips and tricks to overcome the top 15 personnel, payroll, benefits, and general HR reporting challenges

Best practices for reporting governance and change control

Everything you need to know about regulatory compliance reporting in SAP HR

Special 2-part session: Everything you need to know to create your own reports with SAP Query — no programming required!

Perform basic and advanced calculations with SAP Query — little to no programming required

Create simple and advanced statistic and ranked lists using SAP Query

Learn the 5 steps to building a process-centric HR reporting strategy
Get tips to develop a detailed HR reporting strategy and learn why a solid strategy should be a prerequisite for any organization evaluating the various reporting solutions available today. Watch this session to:

  • Walk through the 5 steps for building a process-centric reporting strategy, including how to document the current and new reporting environments, identify reporting stakeholders and reporting tools, map reporting tools to the requirements, and make tools accessible to the right users.
  • Understand your reporting options in HR as you compare and contrast standard SAP reports, Ad Hoc Query, and SAP NetWeaver® BI, to see which tool or combination of tools makes the most sense for you.
  • Trace the evolution of HR reporting and understand how the move from transactional to analytical reporting has significantly impacted HR’s ability to deliver the data organizations crave.

Get the right reports into users' hands with the right requirements-gathering strategy
Whether you're implementing or upgrading mySAP ERP, SAP BW, or a mySAP Business Suite solution, this session provides a technology-neutral approach to gathering reporting requirements and establishing reporting standards and specifications. Watch this session to:

  • Know who to interview for requirements and how to glean what is needed from the core project implementation team and business process, application, and data owners.
  • Learn the best ways to validate reporting requirements within and across individual business units.
  • See how the identification of commonalities and differences can prevent duplications or gaps in actual report modeling and design.
  • Discover how to translate validated business reporting requirements into a clearly defined data model that the IT team will understand and be able to act on.
  • Account for the added complexity presented by third-party applications that may be used to feed systems such as SAP BW, and see how you should factor unique data and syntax requirements of those systems into the IT reporting roadmap.

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  • Get advice to align your SAP BW reporting strategy with important HR measures, such as employee headcount and benefit cost summaries.
  • Gain insight into how to effectively gather and analyze HR reporting requirements for SAP BW.
  • See how to determine whether SAP BW for HR Business Content (e.g., prebuilt HR reports) suits your needs and to what extent you need customized reports.
  • Determine to what degree usability affects your HR organization’s SAP BW adoption curve.
  • See how SAP NetWeaver Portal or self-services such as Manager Self-Service (MSS) can help speed user adoption.
  • Acquire an understanding of SAP BW’s navigational capabilities and how to specifically apply them in an HR reporting environment.

Tips and tricks to overcome the top 15 personnel, payroll, benefits, and general HR reporting challenges
Discover how to successfully meet your HR reporting requirements by optimizing your use of SAP Query. Watch this session to:

  • Get expert advice for how to include Personnel Administration (PA) and Personnel Development (PD) data in the same report.
  • Obtain an easy-to-use solution for single-line reporting based on Infotypes, such as Infotype 41, and eliminate duplicate line reporting.
  • Learn how to use SAP Query to monitor compliance with the Department of Labor’s FairPay initiative.
  • Tap into best practices to create custom organizational charts.
  • See how to add tables or fields to existing InfoSets.
  • Find out how to perform calculations, including “what if” statements, in your HR reports.
  • Learn how to properly configure your HR events to optimize HR reporting.

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  • See how company org charts and process charts can be helpful in setting up a governance plan and team. Examine the most effective change control policies that enable you to smoothly prioritize, accept, or reject requests for new reports and modifications to existing reports.
  • Take a new look at the pros and cons of having a centralized repository for report change requests, such as a help desk or IT competency center.
  • Review best practices to speed change request processes and empower IT to be more responsive to business requests.
  • Get criteria to decide who should and should not be on your reporting governance council.
  • Step through examples of how companies with limited resources have created virtual governance organizations in place of dedicated governance councils or teams.
  • Gain insight into how a governance team should work with IT security to determine if and how to broaden access to reports to additional users and departments.

Everything you need to know about regulatory compliance reporting in SAP HR
Explore the most important SAP reports needed for regulatory compliance and gain an understanding of what's required to run them. Watch this session to:

  • Learn how to avoid the most common pitfalls related to system configuration and data entry and maintenance that can cause incorrect results in your reports.
  • Review how and when to use — and where to find — the standard reports available to support Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Occupational Safety and Healthy Administration (OSHA), and Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) compliance.
  • Get best practices for how to maximize regulatory compliance report performance and accuracy, including step-by-step guidelines for how best to maintain and select data to produce the results you want.
  • Know your options for non-standard reporting, including valuable tips for how to use SAP Query to run reports or group output by Employer Identification Number (EIN).

Special 2-part session: Everything you need to know to create your own reports with SAP Query — no programming required!
This session delivers comprehensive guidance to leverage SAP Query and related tools, including InfoSet Query and QuickViewer, to create your own reports. Part 1 provides best practices to configure R/3® to successfully deploy SAP Query. Part 2 provides detailed, train-the-trainer style instruction for how to use SAP Query to create meaningful, comprehensive reports in all application areas of R/3. Watch this session to:

  • Discover the best ways to configure query groups. Learn how to configure InfoSets and properly use logical databases.
  • Explore important do’s and don’ts for transport maintenance and client deployment of these tools.
  • Tap into SAP Query enhancements that help you minimize reporting performance problems.
  • Obtain best practices for how to monitor random users to ensure that they are using the tool properly and cataloging reports correctly to prevent the creation of duplicate queries.
  • Learn the right way to use basic and advanced screens.
  • Gain insight into how to leverage seven advanced screens to add subtotals, alter column widths, add colors, create custom headers and footers, and incorporate graphics into your reports.
  • Find out how far you can take SAP Query in creating your own reports and when you need the professional assistance of an ABAP™ developer.

Perform basic and advanced calculations with SAP Query — little to no programming required!
Obtain detailed instruction on how to perform basic and advanced calculations in SAP Query reports for any application area in SAP — no coding required. Watch this session to:

  • Discover how to create calculated fields in SAP Query to perform basic calculations.
  • Gain expert advice to perform more complex “if…then” statements, such as: “If the cost center is = to X, multiply the annual salary by 3% to project future increase costs.”
  • Unleash the power of how using local fields and entries on selection screens allows you to perform calculations in SAP Query that most people think are only available using ABAP programming.
  • Learn how to add symbols and color icons to your report to highlight certain entries (e.g., red flag any vendor overdue for payment).
  • Understand all your options when using SAP Query’s report output, and discover the various options for your SAP Query output via the toolbar.

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  • See how statistic lists are similar to Microsoft Excel pivot tables and how they allow you to produce summary analyses of data, including totals and averages.
  • Discover how you can leverage summarized data reports to make more meaningful business decisions. Find out which syntax to use within calculated fields and how you can use calculated fields in conjunction with statistics to provide a summarized statistic report.
  • Learn how to create ascending and descending ranked lists.

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