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The only Benefits Application built entirely on SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP).

Q4 2024

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Employee Benefits Analytics & Insights
The Employee Benefits Analytics from Benefits Reimagined has revitalized and broadened the concept of wellness and employee well-being. It offers employers a framework and valuable data to implement significant organizational changes. Key Benefits:
  • Identify gaps and inefficiencies in employee benefits.
  • Contribution modeling for cost-benefit analysis.
  • Compare benefit plans and costs against industry benchmarks.
  • Improve engagement with health and wellness programs.
  • Optimize benefit strategies based on workforce demographics.
  • Access in-depth reports on historical and current benefit trends.
  • Utilize market benchmarking data for competitive decision-making.
  • Make every benefits decision based on data-driven insights
Integration Capabilities
  • SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud) & DWC (Data Warehouse Cloud) integration for cross-platform analytics.
  • Bring in external data from SuccessFactors, Payroll, and other HR systems.
  • Generate consolidated reports for multi-source analytics.
  • Ensure seamless data synchronization and real-time insights.
Data Visualization & Analytics with ElasticSearch & Kibana
The ElasticSearch and Kibana interface is designed for developers and business users to efficiently query data, create visualizations, and present analytical insights using diverse chart types. Advantages of Kibana:
  • User-friendly interface for searching, filtering, and analyzing data.
  • Supports various visualization formats (charts, tables, histograms, maps).
  • Centralized access to built-in analytics and dashboards.
  • Includes features for real-time data monitoring and alerts.
  • Provides role-based data access and security.
  • Reduces the burden on transactional databases.
  • Seamless integration with Benefits Reimagined for direct insights.
  • Ability to create interactive dashboards accessible from any browser.
  • Enhances predictive analytics and decision support.
Real-Time Decision Support & Competitive Edge
The integration of Employee Benefits Analytics and ElasticSearch/Kibana-based data visualization empowers businesses to make data-driven decisions with confidence. Strategic Outcomes:
  • Identify inefficiencies in benefits administration.
  • Benchmark plans to stay competitive in the industry.
  • Use predictive modeling to anticipate future benefits trends.
  • Improve cost management while maintaining employee satisfaction.
  • Track real-time workforce benefits adoption rates.
  • Provide transparent and data-backed communication to employees.
  • Drive continuous optimization in benefits offerings.
  • Enhance long-term workforce planning and financial forecasting.
By combining Benefits Reimagined Analytics, SAC/DWC integration, and Kibana-powered insights, organizations can proactively manage benefits while driving efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and employee well-being.

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Addition of user role-based permission feature
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Addition of user role-based permission feature
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Addition of user role-based permission feature
future release
Addition of user role-based permission feature
future release
Addition of user role-based permission feature

future release
Addition of user role-based permission feature

Q1 2025

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Master Data for ACA Reporting
Before processing employee data for ACA reporting, you must maintain master data in a specific Portlet screen.
Database Record Status
The system stores the data of ACA reporting in various database tables, which are updated by the different reports for ACA. For each record, a status is assigned, which indicates the status of the database record within the workflow process.
Checking Results and Updating Database Records
The ACA reporting solution provides a report that allows checking database data, updating the status of database records, and setting other data for submission.
Configuring for ACA Reporting
To enable the new functions for ACA reporting, you can make several configuration settings in the system.
Generating Forms
  • The ACA reporting solution allows you to generate the following forms:
  • Form 1094-B (Transmittal of Health Coverage Information Returns)
  • Form 1094-C (Transmittal of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage Information Returns)
  • Form 1095-B (Health Coverage)
  • Form 1095-C (Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage)
Submission Status
The IRS submission status enables the system to behave appropriately according to the IRS response to each record. This field is used in the table, which keeps track of the XML files generated for each Run ID.

Q2 2025

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Q3 2025

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Employee Productivity Boost
Reduces time spent searching for documents and retrieving submitted files.
One-Stop Cloud Solution
    • Provides document management on SAP Business Technology Platform.
    • Offers seamless access to necessary documentation.
API-Driven Approach
    • Exposes APIs for consistent application consumption via CMIS standard interface.
    • Simplifies integration with CMIS-compliant repositories for all business applications.
Seamless Integration
  • Connects to Benefits Reimagined, SuccessFactors, and third-party repositories.
  • Ensures unified document storage across multiple platforms.
User-Friendly Interface
      • Delivers an embeddable FIORI UI for a consistent user experience.
      • Facilitates cross-system document sharing for streamlined workflows.
Outcome
Enhances efficiency, accessibility, and compliance in managing employee benefits documentation. 🚀

Q4 2025

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Purpose
Monthly review of benefits vendor invoices against payroll deductions to identify discrepancies.
Cost Savings & Efficiency
  • Reduces manual labor through automation.
  • Improves accuracy using machine learning algorithms.
  • Enhances processing speed and operational efficiency.
Four Key Steps in the Process
  1. Classifying: Identifies the type of invoice and determines the next action.
  2. Extracting: Captures employee benefits data from invoices.
  3. Enriching: Integrates extracted data with Benefits Reimagined for further processing.
  4. Reconciliation: Compares enrolled benefits (Benefits Reimagined), vendor invoices, and payroll deductions based on custom rules.
Outcome
Ensures accurate, automated, and streamlined benefits reconciliation, reducing errors and financial discrepancies.
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Q1 2026

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Enhanced COBRA & FSA Functionality
  • COBRA FSA Functionality & COBRA Spending Accounts.
  • COBRA events will only consider potential qualified beneficiaries as set up in the system.
  • Flexible beneficiary set up.
  • Functionality for “Loss of dependent status” based on Age limits, marital or military status, or financial independence.
COBRA Dependent Status Updates & Flexibility
  • Plan Specific “Loss of dependent status.
  • A person can lose his/her dependent status for one plan but not another.
  • Can have a loss of dependent status for two different plans on different dates.
COBRA Letter & Enrollment Enhancements
  • COBRA Letter is restricted to only those health plans and options which a qualified beneficiary was covered under before the COBRA qualifying event.
  • Enrolled vs. eligible.
  • Health FSA offered on the COBRA enrollment form until the end of the current plan year vs. the end of the COBRA continuation period.
COBRA FSA & Dependent Rules
  • Ability to include Domestic partners and domestic children as dependents in the COBRA health plan.
  • Letter Generation – run batch mode.
  • Ability to delete dependents not affected by “Divorce” and “Legal Separation” Events.
Streamlined COBRA Processing & Batch Letter Generation
  • The system creates entries for possible COBRA dependents for all qualified beneficiaries, regardless of whether or not these dependents have COBRA rights of their own (Domestic Partners).
  • The system offers health FSAs for enrollment periods overlapping the interval between the loss of regular FSA coverage and the end of the plan year in which the COBRA qualifying event occurred.
  • End of FSA Plan Year.
  • The system links the updates of COBRA records of additional COBRA-qualified beneficiary types and their possible COBRA dependents when processing COBRA enrollments and terminations.
  • Using the COBRA data transfer interface includes health FSA elections of qualified employees and dependents-Transaction.