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4.3
Why upgrade?
Maximize your existing SAP® HCM & Nakisa® investment
Why Upgrade to 4.3?
SAP® Organizational Visualization by Nakisa (SOVN) and SAP®
Talent Visualization by Nakisa (STVN) 4.3 provide significant
enhancements, new features and improved functionality
to SAP users. Nakisa customers can take advantage of the
new higher-performing, flexible, more stable and infinitely
configurable solutions, rich in additional functionality including
deeper analytics and an improved user interface.
What are the cost implications?
You can easily move to Nakisa® 4.3 with no license implications
when upgrading an existing installation of a module. Nakisa’s
team of experienced consultants is on hand to support
you through the upgrade and discuss how you can further
maximize your ROI from your SAP HCM system by taking
advantage of new functionalities available in 4.3 that can
reduce time and drive down cost.
Key highlights to Nakisa 4.0+ include:
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Greater flexibility in configuration options, reducing
implementation costs by transforming many
customizations into easy configuration steps.
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Enhanced details designer and resource bundles, enabling
users to personalize the look and feel of the solution.
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Data quality scoring, new rules and exportable data
quality chartbooks.
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Single user interface for streamlined talent management.
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Development Planning capability within the
CareerPlanning™ module enables HR to create a catalog of
targets and activities with weights, priorities and ranking
and use this central catalog to create development plans
with employees.
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Employees can take charge of their development plan by
providing process updates and scheduling reviews with
managers to ensure career aspirations are met in line
with both employee and company needs.
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SOVN and STVN, now available for SAP® Business Suite
software powered by SAP HANA® platform
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Full browser compatibility with Google Chrome,
Firefox, and Internet Explorer 10 and 11, and iOS 8
support for mobile
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A brand new capability, StrategicTalentReviews™, that
ensures all key stakeholders within the talent review
process are involved, prepared, and engaged.
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Flexibility to access key HR data and connect with
colleagues on-the-go, using the OrgHub™ for Mobile
application, integrated with OrgChart™ and available for
iPad, providing a truly seamless user-experience.
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The first organizational modeling tool on the market with
the capability to not only create scenarios but also writeback changes instantly to the SAP ERP HCM system.
A new OrgChart™ add-on for defense and security
organizations that empowers them with the ability to
visualize and manage key defense structures, improve
operational readiness and increase agility with real-time,
accurate data.
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Built-in wizards with multi-step and collaborative
OrgModeler™ workflow approvals to ensure safe and
secure write-back to SAP.
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Customizable, measurable KPIs to enable users to see the
impact of modeled scenarios and succession plans.
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“The Nakisa team was able to successfully implement with
an impossible timeline. I don’t know what we would have
done without the Nakisa OrgChartTM solution.”
Magnus Fonnes, SAP HR Discipline Advisor, Statoil
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Key updates to SAP® Organizational Visualization by Nakisa® 4.0+
Predictive ‘smart search’ capabilities in OrgChart™
Leveraging the new search field on the landing page of the
application, easily search on key employee data to quickly find
colleagues within the organization.
Mobile OrgChart™ for iPad
Leveraging data directly from Nakisa OrgChart™, Nakisa OrgHub™
for Mobile provides an up-to-date and easy-to-navigate picture
of your organizational structure. Use familiar swipe gestures to
navigate around the organizational structure, tapping to drill
down through reporting structures, departments and positions.
New OrgChart™ add-on for defense and security
organizations
Visualize tactical symbols, ranks and defense specific data, see
the availability of authorized and actual materials as well
as obtain structure and readiness analytics, all in real time.
Designed specifically for SAP for Defense & Security, it unifies key
defense elements required for optimal planning and alignment
into an easy-to-view interface.
Secondary position-to-person relationship visualization
Out-of-the-box support to visualize alternate relationships
between position and person objects (e.g. Higher Duty
Assignments) automatically within the org chart and details panel
Newly designed scenarios landing page
A fresh look and feel to the OrgModeler™ scenarios landing page
dashboard allows for quicker and easier scenario analysis and
modification. The new landing page is divided into two panels;
a list of existing scenarios on the right, and options/wizards to
create new scenarios on the left.
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Ability to quickly search, load, filter and sort through existing
shared scenarios in order to monitor their status and apply
needed modifications
Reduced time and complexity of scenario creation with easy to use
“quick create” buttons
Application Link Enabling (ALE) based staging
OrgModeler™ enables you to make changes and visualize the
results instantly. ALE is a robust and proven SAP technology,
which is used to synchronize multiple SAP service instances.
It allows for a one-time initial load to a staged database, and
then performs delta updates only; no daily extraction of data is
necessary.
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Staged near real-time organizational modeling with tracked changes
Execute large organizational changes without delay or down-time
View high-speed analytics based on organizational changes
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The ALE-based staging feature combines accuracy of live data
with speed and flexibility of a staged environment.
Real-time analytics engine / KPI visualization
Aligning with Key Performance Indicators has become simple,
clear and accurate with Nakisa OrgModeler™. An enhanced
UI categorizes all scenario information into four tabs: General
Information, Analytics, Targets, and Sharing. This facilitates
a clearer understanding of the major functionalities and
components of any given scenario.
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Add multiple targets at once and create effective scenarios by
setting up and then modeling against target KPIs
View live, real-time analytics to visualize target vs. actual KPI metrics
Personalized views of analytics and targets to assess only the most
relevant data
Customizable templates
Templates provide best practice configurations of predefined
views, analytics, KPIs and approval workflows tailored to a
particular type of reorganization event.
Interactive collaboration tools
User rights management and a secure, configurable approval
workflow allow for complete consensus between all parties
before they commit to a given scenario.
Write-back capabilities
Nakisa OrgModeler™ works for you instead of simply with you
by removing the manual process associated with finalizing
organizational models.
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Writes-back scenario changes directly to your HCM system
Uses a secured, simple, guided procedure
Provides bulk commit and rollback
Interactive error correction and change reports
Synchronized modeling
Integrate live organizational changes into models using ALE/
iDocs. Merge with “Scenario” is handled through a guided conflict
resolution process.
New position-to-position hierarchy modeling & write-back
Reporting Relationship Modeling based on a position-to-position
relationship is now available out-of-the-box. Full synchronization
and write-back capabilities are supported.
Greater control over tailoring OrgModeler for specific
business needs
Ability to code the solution in-house without having to
modify its core code, leading to a lower total cost of ownership.
SOVN Feature & Functionality Matrix
Feature
What-if scenario planning
Actionable OrgChart™ / hierarchy
Publish scenario
Support for non-flat linked hierarchies
Dynamic box resizing and colors
Export/print/chartbook templates
New OrgChart™ views using templates
Assistance and council nodes
OrgChart™ notation
Export/print/chartbook security
ALE-based staging
Real-time analytics engine, KPIs visualization
Customizable templates
Interactive collaboration tools
Write-back capabilities & synchonized modeling
Chartbook queue
Details panel history navigation
Data source information
Mobile OrgChart™ application for iPad
Graphical rule creation wizard in OrgAudit™
Template rule editing in OrgAudit™
Advanced scenario import functionality (mergers, cloning, mass changes)
Analytics creation wizard in OrgModeler™
Expanded position and employee assignments in OrgModeler™
Role-based security supported in TeamManager™
TeamManager™ Support ECC 6 EHP0-6
Predictive ‘smart search’ capabilities in OrgChart™
Redesigned scenarios landing page in OrgModeler™
Position-to-position hierarchy modeling and write-back
New OrgChart™ add-on for defense and security
Secondary position-to-person relationship visualization in OrgChart™
Greater customization control in OrgModeler™
Visualize your organization, connect with
colleagues and access key analytics anytime,
anywhere. Learn more about OrgHub™ for
Mobile and watch the demo video >
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3.0
4.0
4.0 SP1
4.1
4.3
“Visualization solutions from SAP reinforced our HR
foundation by automating a variety of talent reporting
activities and helped increase workforce engagement for
more reliable succession plans.”
Eric Pingal, HRIS Manager, Euro Disney S.C.A.
Key updates to SAP® Talent Visualization by Nakisa® 4.0+
Enhanced AdminConsole™
SuccessionPlanning™ has new views for all org charts via a new
view designer in the AdminConsole™. HR & Executives also have
the ability to secure modules, sub-modules and all write-backs/
tasks. Further, we’ve implemented new TREX wizards to create
new reports and offer new HRTMC service configuration support
within the AdminConsole. Lastly, HR & Executives now also have
the ability to integrate with the MSS and ESS talent profiles via
basic admin configurations.
Nominations/data maintenance
With this functionality, Managers can easily nominate successors
for positions directly from the employee details panel. Managers
also gain the ability to nominate employees as talent to Talent
Groups, nominate key positions, and assign core competencies
to positions within their own area of responsibility.
Mobility information
Managers can view their employees’ indicated preferred and
non-preferred locations (i.e.: cities, countries, regions) in the
“Career Aspirations” tab. These indicated preferences are directly
communicated from CareerPlanning™ . If an employee changes
his/her preferences, the Manager can automatically see the
updates.
New Collaboration Tool
Introduction of the “Notes” section across all STVN applications
to support alignment between talent management decisionmakers. HR, Managers, and Executives can publish public
or private notes for more effective communication and
collaboration.
StrategicTalentReviews™
A new module that ensures all key stakeholders in a talent
review process are involved, prepared, and engaged. Managers
can manage and actively contribute to talent assessments,
prepare for talent review meetings in advance, review postmeeting follow-ups and easily update task progress and
completion. HR professionals are able to generate talent review
reports, plan and maintain talent review meetings, track and
manage talent assessments, and easily launch the talent review
grid to access the talent details panels. Executives have access
to the pre-meeting agenda in order to prepare notes and
discussions, visibility into meeting participants, assign meeting
follow-up items and track task completion progress.
DevelopmentPlanning™
Allows managers to align development initiatives with
employees’ career aspirations, performance evaluations, and
succession plans. Managers can easily browse the companywide development catalog to match tasks to employees’ needs/
wants. Lastly, with DevelopmentPlanning™, Managers are
enabled to create and assign development targets to their team
on an on-going basis to ensure a full range of skill coverage.
Your goals are our goals.
With each new release of Nakisa’s Organizational and
Talent Management suites, we aim to match our solutions
to your specific business needs. As market trends change,
we believe technology should adapt to you, not the
other way around. In our 3.0 release of OrgModeler™,
we focused on improved user experience. Nakisa
introduced Flash to OrgModeler™ with drag & move,
enhanced zoom and animated view transitions for a more
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interactive experience than ever before. Between major
releases, we focused on general improvements, bringing
you enhanced customizability and security. Now, the
latest releases of Nakisa 4.0+ focus on enablement and
flexibility giving you the ability to clearly visualize targets
and KPIs, configure and customize the solutions as you
choose, and securely write-back to your SAP back-end.
STVN Feature & Functionality Matrix
Feature
3.0
4.0
4.0 SP1
4.1
4.3
Create succession plans (basic)
Enhanced details panel (talent, position, org)
Write-back to SAP back-end
Actionable and flash-based OrgChart™/hierarchy
Multiple OrgChart™/hierarchy views
My work area & Profile match
Key position management
Talent groups and successor pools
Candidates to position match-up analysis
Flash-based printable profiles (talent, position)
Flash-based grid (9-box analysis)
Create succession plans (advanced)
Flash-based analytics
Enhanced user interface
New positions listings
Process guided wizards
Enhanced AdminConsole™
Nominations/data maintenance
Mobility Information
DevelopmentPlanning™
Mobility information (display and maintenance)
Customized application roles per user type (admin)
Talent group creation
Improved user experience for DevelopmentPlanning™
New public or private “Notes” section for Managers, HR & Executive roles
StrategicTalentReviews™
Learn more about upgrading to Nakisa Organizational and Talent Management 4.3
To find out more about upgrading to 4.3, contact nakisa@nakisa.com for a personalized demo of the
Nakisa solutions and to arrange to speak with an experienced consultant about your upgrade requirements.
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About Nakisa
Nakisa® Inc. is a leading Organizational and Talent Management
software company, providing the world’s largest organizations
with the ability to visualize and maintain accurate HCM data,
confidently execute organization modeling and design, devise
harmonized succession and career plans, and engage a highly
productive workforce. In collaboration with a global network
of partners, Nakisa serves a wide range of customers across all
sectors and regions.
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Nakisa’s expanding client base includes 700+ enterprise
customers, with more than 4 million subscribers from 24
industries, in 125 countries. Nakisa has been a Tier 1 partner of
SAP® since 2007. Available in 18 languages, SAP® Organizational
Visualization by Nakisa® (SOVN) and SAP® Talent Visualization
by Nakisa® (STVN) are co-developed, supported and sold by
SAP. These official solution extensions form a key part of the
SAP product and enhancement roadmap, ensuring customers
fully benefit from the latest SAP HCM technology innovations.