Innovative SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting: A Guide to Creating Custom Integration and Automation

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A. Athanur et al.Innovative SAP SuccessFactors Recruitinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7425-5_1

1. Introduction

Anand ‘Andy’ Athanur¹  , Mark Ingram² and Michael A. Wellens³

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

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Edmonds, WA, USA

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Davidson, NC, USA

 

You are about to learn the basics of retrieving SAP SuccessFactors data using free-to-use tools. In this chapter, we will lay the foundation of the rest of the book by connecting to SAP SuccessFactors and retrieving some job requisitions. We’ll be using ODATA and the REST protocol. This chapter will begin by describing SOAP web services vs. ODATA and REST.

What Is ODATA?

The SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management ...