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SAP Business ByDesign to Success Factors integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep SAP Business ByDesign and Success Factors in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect SAP Business ByDesign and Success Factors

Sync the workers, org structure, and cost centers that SAP Business ByDesign and Success Factors share in real time, so the people Success Factors manages stay current in the system that runs finance and operations.

Success Factors is the system of record for people: who was hired, which department and location they sit in, who they report to, and how they are paid. SAP Business ByDesign runs finance and operations, and much of what it does depends on that same information, from booking labor cost to approving an expense report to staffing a project. Where the two are bridged by re-keying or an overnight file, each side spends the day out of step, with new hires missing from the systems they need and leavers still active where they should not be.

Stacksync syncs Projects, Employees, Business Partners (Accounts), Contacts in SAP Business ByDesign with PerPerson, EmpEmployment, EmpJob, EmpCompensation in Success Factors field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, so the people side stays authoritative for worker data while SAP Business ByDesign keeps its own accounting and operational detail, and every change made in one is reflected in the other within seconds instead of at the next batch run.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync project and time data with external professional-services tools for billing.
  • 02 Sync ByDesign accounts and contacts with an external CRM so sales works outside the ERP while finance keeps the master record.
  • 03 Replicate EmpCompensation and EmpJob effective-dated history into a warehouse for headcount, attrition, and compensation reporting without CSV pulls.
  • 04 Keep Foundation Objects (department, location, cost center) aligned between SuccessFactors and an ERP so cost-center and org hierarchies match.

Common sync patterns

Where Success Factors is the worker system of record: one employee master

When a worker is hired, moved, or offboarded in Success Factors, the matching employee record in SAP Business ByDesign is created, updated, or deactivated, so the business system reflects the workforce as it actually is.

New hires ready to transact in SAP Business ByDesign

A new person set up in Success Factors becomes an employee record in SAP Business ByDesign in time to submit expenses, enter time, or approve a purchase, without waiting on manual setup.

One org structure

Departments, cost centers, and locations that both systems reference stay in agreement, so labor cost, approvals, and reporting in SAP Business ByDesign roll up to the same structure Success Factors maintains.

What you can sync between SAP Business ByDesign and Success Factors

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

SAP Business ByDesign objects Success Factors objects How this pairing syncs
Purchase Orders Procurement documents exchanged with supplier systems. User Core identity/User entity behind role-based permissions; a model distinct from Employee Central, synced two-way with a directory or IdP and downstream apps. Purchase Orders is specific to SAP Business ByDesign and User to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Opportunities Built-in CRM records synced with external sales tools when both are in use. PerPerson Person-level container in Employee Central holding biographical data; effective-dated child entities (PerPersonal, PerEmail, PerPhone) hang off it. Opportunities is specific to SAP Business ByDesign and PerPerson to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Projects Project structures and tasks read for time and billing integrations. EmpEmployment Employment record tying a person to an employment period (hire, service dates); carries lastModifiedDateTime used for incremental polling. Projects is specific to SAP Business ByDesign and EmpEmployment to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Employees Worker records referenced by time, expense, and project data. EmpJob Effective-dated job info: position, department, manager, FTE, pay grade, cost center; the most-synced record for downstream HR and provisioning. Employees is specific to SAP Business ByDesign and EmpJob to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Business Partners (Accounts) Customer and supplier master data synced with CRMs and procurement tools. EmpCompensation Effective-dated pay and compensation; usually read into a warehouse for reporting, writable for comp updates as new dated slices. Business Partners (Accounts) is specific to SAP Business ByDesign and EmpCompensation to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Contacts Person records linked to accounts, aligned with CRM contact objects. Foundation Objects (FODepartment, FOLocation, FOCostCenter) Org-structure master data (department, location, cost center, division); mastered elsewhere and written in, or read out to build org charts. Contacts is specific to SAP Business ByDesign and Foundation Objects (FODepartment, FOLocation, FOCostCenter) to Success Factors — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between SAP Business ByDesign and Success Factors

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

SAP Business ByDesign Success Factors Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls SAP Business ByDesign for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on last-changed timestamps.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Success Factors through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Success Factors SAP Business ByDesign Sub-second propagation

DetectionSuccess Factors notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Polling on each entity's lastModifiedDateTime / lastModifiedOn (effective-dated entities require date-range handling).

DeliveryEach detected change is written to SAP Business ByDesign through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Success Factors: OData calls are throttled at the tenant level (Access Limits for OData V2); large reads must be paginated (default page size 1000) via $top/$skip or paging cursors.
What ships with SAP Business ByDesign ⇄ Success Factors

Connect SAP Business ByDesign and Success Factors for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every SAP Business ByDesign–Success Factors connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in SAP Business ByDesign or Success Factors instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever SAP Business ByDesign or Success Factors data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single SAP Business ByDesign or Success Factors record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your SAP Business ByDesign ⇄ Success Factors sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between SAP Business ByDesign and Success Factors.

How the SAP Business ByDesign and Success Factors connectors work

SAP Business ByDesign

Integration surface
SOAP web services plus OData services for analytical and custom data access
Authentication
Basic authentication over TLS for service users; OAuth-based options exist for certain scenarios
Change detection
Polling on last-changed timestamps; the platform does not offer a general webhook surface
Capabilities
read · write

Success Factors

Integration surface
OData V2 and V4 REST APIs (plus legacy SFAPI / Compound Employee SOAP API)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 SAML Bearer Assertion — register an OAuth client for an API key (used as client_id), then exchange a signed SAML assertion for a short-lived access token; legacy HTTP Basic auth is being retired
Change detection
Polling on each entity's lastModifiedDateTime / lastModifiedOn (effective-dated entities require date-range handling); Intelligent Services can also push a fixed set of standard business events (e.g. Employee Hire) to a REST endpoint
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
OData calls are throttled at the tenant level (Access Limits for OData V2); large reads must be paginated (default page size 1000) via $top/$skip or paging cursors.
How it works

How to connect SAP Business ByDesign to Success Factors — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate SAP Business ByDesign and Success Factors with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    SAP Business ByDesign connected
    Success Factors connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the SAP Business ByDesign and Success Factors objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · SAP Business ByDesign ⇄ Success Factors
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    SAP Business ByDesign Success Factors
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

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