Hi,

Has anybody done an integration with SuccessFactors (http://www.successfactors.com/en_us.html)?
It's an HR cloud solution that has been bought by SAP.

The consultants working on it say that there are only 2 ways to send data to it. Via CSV load files that can be uploaded multiple times per day or via Dell Boomi.
It seems a bit strange to me that a modern Cloud tool does not have any webservices or so running.

So, does anybody have any experience with this? Anything would be better than the CSV load files they are proposing.

Kind Regards
Tim D'

Dell Boomi (http://www.boomi.com/) is EAI offered as a service. So SuccessFactors would be exposing the features of EAI through Dell Boomi.

Dell Boomi should provide you a mechanism to expose the SuccessFactors Integration capabilities which then you'd be able to consume. You would of course need to get in touch with the appropriate people and understand what the Dell Boomi offers as integration touch points. Refer the bold sections of the quote below from the Dell Boomi Site.

"Dell Software today announced that Dell Boomi AtomSphere, the leading provider of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions, has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise iPaaS."

Regards.

• Marked as answer by Pengzhen SongMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, May 05, 2014 12:32 PM

Dell Boomi (http://www.boomi.com/) is EAI offered as a service. So SuccessFactors would be exposing the features of EAI through Dell Boomi.

Dell Boomi should provide you a mechanism to expose the SuccessFactors Integration capabilities which then you'd be able to consume. You would of course need to get in touch with the appropriate people and understand what the Dell Boomi offers as integration touch points. Refer the bold sections of the quote below from the Dell Boomi Site.

"Dell Software today announced that Dell Boomi AtomSphere, the leading provider of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions, has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise iPaaS."

Regards.

• Marked as answer by Pengzhen SongMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, May 05, 2014 12:32 PM

Dell Boomi (http://www.boomi.com/) is EAI offered as a service. So SuccessFactors would be exposing the features of EAI through Dell Boomi.

Dell Boomi should provide you a mechanism to expose the SuccessFactors Integration capabilities which then you'd be able to consume. You would of course need to get in touch with the appropriate people and understand what the Dell Boomi offers as integration touch points. Refer the bold sections of the quote below from the Dell Boomi Site.

"Dell Software today announced that Dell Boomi AtomSphere, the leading provider of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solutions, has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise iPaaS."

Regards.

• Marked as answer by Pengzhen SongMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, May 05, 2014 12:32 PM

Hi,

Sorry for responding a bit late. But we found a webservice that is being exposed by SuccessFactors.
https://api4.successfactors.com/sfapi/v1/soap

Has anybody used this before? I would guess that it's the service that Boomi uses to integrate with SuccessFactors.

Kind Regards
Tim

Hi ,

I'm using it actually 

https://api4.successfactors.com/sfapi/v2/soap

Notice that I'm now using the V2 soap interface . Since the soap Api has strong limitations with login and  upsert services , we are now using the odata expostion.

The authentication is via Basic mechanism instead of the soap login .

More reliable and functionnaly speaking more adequat with HR business ( Odata allow insertion with same key but different effective date).

You will have also to implement pagination patterns (max 1000 records per request)via an orchestration or (my solution) an wcf behavior extension.

Kind regards