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AVAST: Making ‘Live’ Business and Talent

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Decisions with SAP® SuccessFactors®

Solutions
The rise of mobile threats and new security issues related to the Internet of Things
made it more important than ever for AVAST Software s.r.o., a developer of security
software, to create new solutions. As part of the fast-moving technology industry, and
with its business growing rapidly, AVAST wanted to become more agile and flexible to
attract talent. SAP® SuccessFactors® solutions helped it achieve these goals.
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Executive overview
Company BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
AVAST Software s.r.o.

100%
Objectives
Headquarters •• Standardize and automate HR processes
Prague, Czech Republic •• Obtain overview of workforce at newly acquired companies Automated recruit-
•• Turn HR into a proactive strategic partner ment and onboard-
Industry •• Pinpoint critical roles and retain key talent ing processes
High tech
Resolution

Flexible
Products and Services •• Established single source of truth for all HR data with the SAP® SuccessFactors®
Security software for Employee Central solution
businesses and consumers •• Created a comprehensive process for recruitment and performance management Response to market
process with SAP SuccessFactors solutions needs
Employees •• Introduced best-practice sharing model from SAP Consulting as key to project success
650

Rapid
Benefits
Revenue •• Positive impression created with new hires thanks to the SAP SuccessFactors
US$260million Onboarding solution, which eliminates the paper forms digital natives despise Generation of HR
•• Ability to cascade priority goals to all staff and change goals as market changes reports in just
Web Site •• Faster headcount reporting minutes
www.avast.com •• More effective recruitment and fairer compensation
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Partner
SAP® Consulting
www.sap.com “We need to be proactive by having the right tools to help us do our jobs
before change happens. SAP SuccessFactors solutions help by enabling
us to serve our employees and find the right people.”
Alan Rassaby, General Counsel and Head of HR, AVAST Software s.r.o.

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Executive overview
The paradigm shift in computing
Company objectives
How many times in the last year have you read about
Resolution some new malware or virus that managed to damage
or shut down the systems of governments and of some
of the world’s biggest companies? And let’s be frank:
Business transformation most security breaches never even make it to the news.
In our highly connected world, cybercrime is on the
Future plans rise, and protecting yourself is a must. AVAST Software
s.r.o. is a Czech provider of antivirus and security
software for individuals and companies. In the last
few years, it more than tripled its workforce from
200 to 650 through acquisitions and organic growth.
This sudden increase made it hard to maintain a
good overview of its enlarged workforce, the roles
and responsibilities in the acquired companies, and
overlaps with the parent company.
“We were growing so fast, it was difficult to put
together a simple headcount report for the senior
managers and CEO,” says Martin Petrtyl, HR project
lead at AVAST.
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In addition to the challenge of integrating the new
companies worldwide, AVAST had to shift its business
focus. Traditionally, its products were designed for
PC users. But most of its new users want security for
their mobile devices and their home network, which
poses new security challenges.
“We were standing at a crossroads,” explains Petrtyl.
“Securing people’s data and privacy on mobile devices
and the home network, which is the gateway to the
new Internet of Things, is a new area of future growth.
We need new skill sets to help us with this challenge.”
AVAST needed a new modern HR solution that could
give it a unified view of its expanded organization. It also
sought to get rid of as many manual processes as
possible to increase efficiency.
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Executive overview
A fully integrated, comprehensive
Company objectives solution
AVAST knew from the outset that it wanted a cloud
Resolution solution. “It was clear to us that if you have to be
flexible and agile, only the cloud can enable that,”
says Petrtyl. AVAST chose SAP® SuccessFactors®
Business transformation solutions for their sophisticated design and the fact
that they included all the modules AVAST might need
in the future.
Future plans
AVAST merged its core HR data from the parent
company and the acquired companies into the
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central solution,
producing one view of its global workforce.
The SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding solution and
the SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management
solution supported comprehensive processes, from
advertising a job to conducting the new hire’s first
day. “We couldn’t imagine having someone in HR typing
something from a recruiting management system
into other systems,” notes Petrtyl. “Now a hiring
manager simply clicks on a job position, which lets the
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recruiter know that there’s a need for a new
employee.” Back-and-forth e-mails are a thing of the
past.
All information collected during recruiting and
selection is integrated into SAP SuccessFactors
Onboarding. New hires may provide additional
information, which is fed back into the software.
For AVAST, the integrated solution is what today’s
digital natives expect. “New employees don’t want to
fill out 40 different papers. They expect a digital
experience,” observes Petrtyl.
AVAST implemented the SAP SuccessFactors
Compensation solution to put more structure around
pay and bonus discussions and the SAP SuccessFactors
Learning solution.
Thanks to the best-practice sharing model provided by
SAP Consulting, every implementation went smoothly.
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Executive overview
Sudden market shifts requiring
Company objectives real-time decisions
Today AVAST can respond faster to sudden shifts in
Resolution its market. With all workforce data in one place, HR
doesn’t have to call five people when senior
management wants a headcount report. The
Business transformation information is ready in minutes.
AVAST can even make live business decisions based
Future plans on what it sees happening in the market. And it has
the data to form more diverse teams – a must in
order to stay at the forefront of innovation. Many
new products require a multidisciplinary approach,
with people who are skilled in marketing, quality
assurance, and customer interfaces, for example.
Because all talent information is in one solution, HR
can easily determine whether the company has the
needed skills.
And if it doesn’t? AVAST doesn’t have to spend lots
of time searching externally, because information
from previous recruiting efforts has already been
captured and saved. HR can see who was on previous
short lists and contact them again. “In many cases,
the preselection is already done. That’s how SAP
SuccessFactors Recruiting Management is helping
us: by not just being a database, but a quality database.”
It’s one more example how AVAST has become more
agile as a result of its SAP SuccessFactors solutions.
The SAP SuccessFactors Compensation solution has
made pay and bonuses fairer by basing decisions on
a broader survey of opinions. Also, HR proactively
advises management on this issue, instead of the
other way around.

“If we need to find two new developers in Brazil or somewhere else, we have
to be flexible and be able to make those business decisions fast. And we can
with SAP SuccessFactors solutions.”
Martin Petrtyl, Project Lead, HR, AVAST Software s.r.o.

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Executive overview
Payroll on
Company objectives SAP SuccessFactors
Resolution
Employee Central
After laying a strong foundation with
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and
Business transformation implementing six solutions on top of it, AVAST is
focused on using the software to create a common
vision and understanding about its talent.
Future plans
AVAST plans to use the SAP SuccessFactors
Succession & Development solution to pinpoint critical
roles and the talent that could fill them. As the
competition for IT talent intensifies, this solution can
help AVAST provide competitive compensation.

Finally, AVAST is considering running all its payroll

on SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. “Our goal

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is to make all other systems dependent on
SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, so we have
one system we can rely on,” concludes Petrtyl.

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