The 1H 2025 release for SAP SuccessFactors Reporting and People Analytics delivers a suite of powerful enhancements to help your organization extract deeper insights, streamline processes, and improve the performance of your story reports. Below, we’ve summarized the key updates, each designed to make reporting and analytics more efficient and user-friendly. For the full technical details, please refer to the official SAP Help documentation.

1. Optimize Story Report Performance

With the new Performance Analysis Tool, reporting administrators can now drill into every story run to see processing times across three critical layers: Network, Frontend, and Backend. By pinpointing slowdowns, you can take targeted actions (e.g., adjusting data volumes, refining filters) to ensure your Story reports run smoothly and responsively.

2. Unified Currency Conversion in Stories

Compensation and finance leaders will appreciate the new ability to convert multiple local currencies into a single global currency directly within Story reports. A dedicated Type column (Standard, Auto, Reverse) clarifies how each exchange rate record was derived, eliminating ambiguity in your financial analyses.

3. Direct Access to Performance Forms

Addressing a longstanding gap between stories and the traditional performance tile, the release introduces a deep link that opens performance management forms in print-preview mode right from a story. This seamless integration lets managers and HR partners view ratings, comments, and details without leaving the analytics interface.

4. Enhanced Import/Export Visibility

A more informative progress bar and per-story status indicators in the Report Center now give you transparent, real-time feedback on story import and export jobs, no more guessing if a large migration is still running or has completed with errors.

5. Deprecation of Tiles and Dashboard Delayed

Based on customer feedback requesting more transition time, SAP has postponed the deprecation date for Tiles and Dashboard. This extension gives organizations extra time to migrate legacy dashboards into the stories framework at their own pace.

6. Comprehensive Workflow Reporting

Several new schemas and permissions make it easier to track and report on custom and foundation-object workflows:

• Custom MDF Workflow Request Details: Report on each approval step, current approvers, and pending data flags for custom MDF objects.

• Foundation Object Workflows: New Workflow Step and Approver tables enrich story reports with foundation-level process details.

• Workflow Process Permissions: A dedicated story-reporting permission lets users view workflow process request data without requiring full "Manage Workflow Requests" rights.

7. Compensation Structure Reporting

You can now build story reports that include compensation-structure details, enabling consistency checks between assigned pay components and the underlying compensation plan. This standalone schema supports localized pay structures by legal entity, location, and worker type.

8. Person-Related Data Without Biographical Access

To safeguard sensitive biographical information, the release allows Story reports to retrieve person-related data (e.g., business emails, dependents, emergency contacts) without exposing core biographical fields such as date of birth or nationality.

9. "Assigned To" in Workflow Request Steps

A new "Assigned To" column in the Workflow Request Step table identifies exactly who is responsible for each approval or action step, enhancing transparency and accountability in group approval processes.

10. Opportunity Marketplace Reporting

Gain insights into employee engagement with the Opportunity Marketplace by reporting on bookmarked, in-progress, and completed opportunities. The new Opportunity Marketplace schema in stories lets talent and leadership teams monitor skill development and internal mobility trends.

11. Job Requisition Skills Analytics

Finally, the release adds a Job Requisition Skill object to stories, so you can report on skills, extraction status, validation status, and whether each skill is primary or secondary. This empowers recruiting and compliance managers to ensure that job postings accurately reflect required competencies.

Ready to maximize the value of your SuccessFactors investment?

The 1H 2025 release for SAP SuccessFactors Reporting and People Analytics delivers many new capabilities, from pinpointing story performance bottlenecks and unified currency conversion, to streamlined workflow reporting and direct access to performance forms. Contact the Clarity Solutions team today for a personalized demo, implementation support, or expert guidance on adopting these new features. Let us help you turn your analytics into actionable results.