SAP claims its latest productivity management application will help
users share pertinent data rapidly, boost productivity, simplify
collaborative processes and deliver a quick return on
investment.
The German manufacturer of enterprise business applications
yesterday announced its Employee Productivity Suite. It integrates
a number of self-service management and productivity enhancement
functions into one offering for use across a company.
Using a browser, anyone can rapidly access role-based views of data
from across different applications and processes, so that employees
can synchronise their activities with general business goals, speed
up decision making and make their time more profitable.
Sami Hero, a vice-president of product marketing at SAP, said the
biggest hindrance to employee productivity is that job descriptions
or memos have no connection with day-to-day business goals. Now
workers can log on to the Employee Productivity Suite and the first
page tells them what is critical to complete for that day to meet
their personal goals.
Different users are assigned the roles most appropriate for them.
For instance, a company executive can get a high-level view of
operations in his company and develop strategy, or monitor projects
and manage training, benefits and commissions. Field service
managers can rely on the suite to check service orders and organise
work schedules.
Although SAP has already enabled employee management through its
human resource and financial business information systems, the
Employee Productivity Suite offers customers a relatively simple to
install, standalone product.
The product also draws on existing SAP technology such as mySAP
Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence and
Enterprise Portal applications.
Rival PeopleSoft already offers a line of "human capital
management" products, which can measure employee productivity and
help ensure employees in a global, distributed workforce adhere to
company goals and processes.
Pricing for the SAP Employee Productivity Suite has not yet been
disclosed.