

“We continue to expand our network of online providers to give customers more options to scale and manage their external workforce,” said Arun Srinivasan, senior vice president, SAP Fieldglass. They perform best when digitally integrated with a solution, such as the digital partner network, to realize the value of an on-demand service coupled with the visibility and automation that a cloud solution can deliver to support a total workforce strategy.” Maarten Hansson, global head of Workforce Strategy at Philips, a technology company in Amsterdam, observed: “On-demand talent platforms are great innovations we can use to improve business results. ” With the significance and expected growth of the external workforce, on-demand, online marketplaces are becoming increasingly important sources of talent, with 38 percent of executives using these marketplaces today and 74 percent planning to in three years.

This flexible labor force accounts for roughly 44 percent of businesses’ workforce spend, according to the SAP Fieldglass report “ External Workforce Insights 2018: The Forces Reshaping How Work Gets Done. This provides SAP Fieldglass customers with greater agility and efficiency to find, engage and manage non-payroll workers and service providers to work across their enterprises. They expand the array of digital capabilities available to SAP Fieldglass customers, from providing quicker access to talent with specialized skills to other services such as background checks, certification verification and payroll processes. The new partners include Toptal, Trusted Health, First Advantage and TalentWave. WALLDORF - SAP SE (NYSE:SAP) today announced that four additional online services providers have joined the Digital Partner Network for SAP Fieldglass solutions, giving customers more immediate access to resources supporting recruitment and management of their external workforce.
