How SAP boosted their employee engagement and motivation

About SAP

SAP innovations help 437,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively.

At SAP, more than 100,000 employees flourish in an environment that encourages open, free expression of ideas. SAP employees are creative thinkers who turn big ideas into reality for their customers.

In order to keep their customers happy, SAP wanted to make sure that their employees get the same treatment.

In order to improve employee engagement and motivation, SAP decided to implement a new employee rewards and recognition program.

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The challenge

Having over 84,000 employees worldwide, SAP wanted to make their employees more engaged and motivated to do their daily jobs.

As employee recognition is crucial to achieve this, SAP has decided to roll out an employee recognition and rewards program.

Even though most companies are aware of the benefits of such programs, most of them get bogged down in the details of how to do it.

Therefore, SAP started its search for a tool to facilitate peer-to-peer recognition that could:

• Make rewards programs more engaging for employees​
• Introduce innovative programs while maintaining the integrity of HR data​
• Maintain a single source of employee data, social recognition, and payroll​

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The solution

With the goal to increase employee motivation, engagement and productivity, SAP implemented an employee rewards and recognition solution fully integrated with SAP Cloud Platform, SAP SuccessFactors solutions, and SAP S/4HANA®

With this new technology, SAP managed transform the way employees collaborate with each other and recognize their peers for good work.

They have implemented the solid yet agile foundation to introduce new technologies into their current  HR processes.

The 5 main reasons why SAP chose Recognition and Rewards by Semos Cloud to roll out the new program include:

• Competitive advantage with a partner solution on SAP® Cloud
• Platform that extends SAP SuccessFactors® solutions ​
• Security and data privacy maintained in SAP data centers ​
• Peer-to-peer recognition framework with approval workflows for governance ​
• Advanced reports and analytics based on the SAP HANA® database

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The results

The new recognition and rewards program has completely transformed employee experience by the way employees get recognized for their work and achievements.

In just a few months from the implementation, 100,000 SAP employees have rolled into the new recognition program.
Today, the company can drive productivity and job satisfaction with peer-to-peer recognition and rewards that motivate and retain employees.

With the new program, SAP has managed to:

• Improve user experience and anytime, anywhere access on any device, leading to greater acceptance by employees ​
• Set up a variety of flexible award options based on employee preferences
• Integrate the new program with corporate culture and values ​
• Accelerate recognition feedback and reward redemption with electronic gift cards

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Why Semos Cloud?

Adding a recognition and rewards program not only drives employee engagement and retention, but it can also enhance existing performance and compensation programs.

Semos Cloud solutions have been implemented by companies across the world who had the goal to digitalize their HR efforts, transform their employee experience and boost their employee productivity.

Some of the main reasons why employers choose Semos Cloud include:

• Easy to implement and onboard
• Drives employee engagement and satisfaction
• Increases employee productivity
• User-friendly and addictive to use
• Powerful analytics for better decision making
• Full integration of SAP Cloud Platform, SAP SuccessFactors solutions, and SAP S/4HANA®