Success Factors in SAP: Case Study on Whistle-Blower Claims and Recommendations

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Executive summary
SuccessFactors is a SAP organization; it provides cloud services to various
subscribers. The solutions of SuccessFactors are supported by a specific global partner
ecosystem and the commitment and experience of the SAP. They strive in delivering their
clients and customer’s content, analysis, process expertise, insights of best practices and
innovative solutions by serving their diverse as well as broad customer base; this is done
under a specific model called software as a service. The organization provides various
software resources to their subscribers that are allowed to access them with the help of
internet. This report describes the case of Whistle-Blower Claims Accounting Shenanigans at
SuccessFactors. It discusses regarding the issues faced by the organization called
SuccessFactors. It further provides various recommendations that could have been utilized by
the organization in order to prevent the Accounting Shenanigans.

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Introduction
SuccessFactors is a SAP company; it provides the leading SuccessFactors HCM suite
that is based on cloud services. This helps in business execution of HR drive along with
solutions that have been completed and are flexible enough in order to start anywhere- they
help in optimizing a specific workforce and prepare them for future (Sims 2017). The
solutions of SuccessFactors are supported by a specific global partner ecosystem and the
commitment and experience of the SAP. The services provided by SuccessFactors can be
utilized by paying a specific amount of fees (Dinus.ac.id. 2019). This report discusses
regarding the case of Whistle-Blower Claims Accounting Shenanigans at SuccessFactors, it
defines the problems faced by the organization and various recommendations on what should
be done in order to prevent the issues.
Body
The annual revenue of SuccessFactors is around $206 million in the year 2010. The
organization spreads its cost to a huge number of subscribers; this is done in order to keep the
rates of their subscription comparatively low and generating income besides that. Various
subscribers rely on the SuccessFactors for managing their data as well as software in a
reliable along with secured manner (Palmon, Kleinman and Medinets 2018). Subscribers tend
to avoid a huge capital outlay for the equipments of computing and reduce the costs that are
related with the purchase of software and hardware and hiring of various operations of
computer as well as support people. SuccessFactors had been facing various losses in every
fiscal period from the time of its inception in the year 2001. They had faced a loss of $12.5
million along with accumulated deficit of $231.3 million. SAP had bought SuccessFactors for
$3.4 billion. This seemed like they might have overpaid for a business that had turned over