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Integrating SailPoint with SuccessFactors LMS

Integration

This is an integration and requires additional licensing or subscriptions to utilize it. For more information, contact your customer success manager.

The SAP SuccessFactors Learning Management Solution (LMS) helps prepare people for the future with innovative capabilities to drive skills management, learning, and development. The LMS is a software tool that allows you to create, deliver, and report on training courses and programs.

Integrating SuccessFactors LMS with SailPoint connector facilitates aggregation and assignment of user training information. The integration assists in aggregating the courses users are actively engaging with or have completed in the past. It also enables aggregating all active courses within SuccessFactors LMS, making them easily assignable to users through SailPoint.

This document is designed to give specific information about the requirements and field definitions needed to get a working instance of a SuccessFactors LMS.

For a comprehensive list of supported features and use cases, refer the Supported Features section.

Note

To view the latest features, enhancements, and fixes for all SaaS connectors, refer to the SaaS Release Notes page.

Supported Features

The SuccessFactors LMS connector supports the following features:

  • Manage SuccessFactors LMS Users as Accounts
  • Account Aggregation
  • Account Provisioning (Assign/Unassigned groups to User)
  • Add/Remove Entitlements
  • Manage Items, Curricula, and Programs as Entitlements

Prerequisites

  • Configure at least one virtual appliance cluster and successfully test the connection. For more information, refer to the Virtual Appliance Reference Guide.

  • Identify or create a service account on the SuccessFactors LMS managed system.

Required Permissions

Following are the steps to create and assign a role on the SuccessFactors LMS managed system:

  1. Go to System Administrators > Security > Administrators > Add New.
  2. Create a New Admin.
  3. Go to System Administrators > Security > Role Management > Add New.
  4. Create a New Role.

    Note

    Ensure to assign the required permissions to the created New Role mentioned in Minimum Permissions.

  5. Assign the created role to the created admin.

Minimum Permissions

To perform specific operations, you must assign the following required minimum permissions for the SuccessFactors LMS connector:

Operations Required Permissions
Test Connection Required Permissions for Test-Connection
Aggregation Required Permissions for Aggregation
Provisioning Required Permissions for Provisioning

Required Permissions for Test-Connection

Permission ID Permissions
Search Search User
People Management View User

Required Permissions for Aggregation

Permission ID Permissions
Search Search Item, Search Program, Search Curriculum, Search User
People Management View Item Assigned to User, View Programs Assigned to User on User Entity, View Curriculum Assigned to User, View User, View User Learning History

Required Permissions for Provisioning

Permission ID Permissions
People Management Assign Item to User, Assign Program to User, Assign Curriculum to User, Unassign Item from User, Unassign Program from User, Unassign Curriculum from User, View Item Assigned to User
Search Search Item, Search User, Search Program, Search Curriculum

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