Providing human capital management software application as enterprise services

• US 8,671,034 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2007
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Suenderhauf, Philipp, Richter, Matthias, Schuhmacher, Frank, Moser, Thomas, Bustamante, Ricardo, Sieber, Peter, Tebbe, Matthias, Vaeth, Horst, Gruber, Silke A. H., Guenther, Fabian, Moesges, Marc, Paul, Volker, Philipp, Marcus, Cases-Langhoff, Guy, Ruths, Jens, Latocha, Peter, Bold, Andreas
• Primary Examiner(s): ADE, OGER GARCIA
• Application Number:
  US11/968,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20090171698A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,262 Days
• Field of Search: 705/30, 705/31
• US Class Current: 705/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a service architecture design that provides enterprise services having human capital management functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a computer system comprising one or more hardware platforms for executing computer software;

computer software deployed on the computer system, the computer software implementing a plurality of service operations, the service operations comprising;

a first create employee arrangements operation to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to an AT employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of AT employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for an AT employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of AT employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for an AT employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a second create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to an AU employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of AU employee pension insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed pension insurance data for an AU employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of AU employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for an AU employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a third create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a CA employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of CA employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a CA employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a fourth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a CH employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of CH employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a CH employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of CH employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a CH employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a fifth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a DK employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of DK employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a DK employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of DK employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a DK employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a sixth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to an NL employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of NL employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for an NL employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of NL employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for an NL employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a seventh create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to an SG employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of SG employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for an SG employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of SG employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a SG employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

an eighth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a ZA employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of ZA employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a ZA employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of ZA employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a ZA employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a ninth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a CN employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of CN employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a CN employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of CN employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a CN employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a create employee compensation agreement operation operable to create an employee compensation agreement;

a notify of employee compensation agreement operation operable to notify the process component payroll processing about the agreement between an employer and an employee detailing all compensation components that are relevant to the employee;

a tenth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a DE employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of DE employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a DE employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of DE employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a DE employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a create employee payroll agreement operation operable to convert information about payroll agreement data of an employee which is to be migrated from a legacy system into employee payroll administration;

a maintain collection of payroll process view operation operable to notify the view of the payroll process in the human capital management deployment unit of changes to the payroll process business object;

a notify of employee payroll agreement operation operable to notify the payroll deployment unit of changes to the employee payroll agreement business object in the human capital management deployment unit;

an eleventh create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a FR employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of FR employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a FR employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a twelfth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a GB employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of GB employee social insurance arrangement operable operation to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a GB employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of GB employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a GB employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a thirteenth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a IT employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of IT employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for an IT employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of IT employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for an IT employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a create employment operation operable to convert information about an employment which is to be migrated from a legacy system into employment based on message type employment migrate request;

a create employee time information operation operable to convert information about an employee'"'"'s time data that is to be migrated from a legacy system to time and labor management;

a maintain operation operable to create, change, or delete an employee time confirmation view of service transaction document;

a maintain employee time confirmation view of project operation operable to update the employee time confirmation view of project business object based on changes to the project business object in project processing;

a notify of employee time account operation operable to notify the payroll processing process component of changes to the employee time account business object;

a notify of employee time calendar operation operable to notify payroll processing of changes to the employee time calendar business object;

a notify of internal acknowledgement operation operable to notify goods and service acknowledgement of a service provided by an external employee sent when an active employee time that contains information relevant for goods and service acknowledgement is created, changed, or cancelled;

a notify of internal acknowledgement cancellation operation operable to notify goods and service acknowledgement of the cancellation of an externally provided service sent when an active employee time that contains information relevant for goods and service acknowledgement is cancelled;

a notify of planned working times operation operable to notify the country-specific employee payroll input business object about planned working times;

a notify of project task confirmation operation operable to notify project processing of a project task confirmation or a project task status change sent when project-relevant information is created, changed, or cancelled in an active employee time;

a notify of service provision operation operable to notify accounting of a service provision sent when an active employee time that contains information relevant for accounting is created;

a notify of service provision cancellation operation operable to notify accounting of the cancellation of a service provision sent when an active employee time that contains information relevant for accounting is cancelled;

a fourteenth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to the US employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of US employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a US employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a fifteenth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects fro employee arrangements relating to the IN employer regulatory compliance process component; and

a notify of IN employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for an IN employee in the human capital management deployment unit.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the service operations are grouped into service interfaces, the service interfaces comprising:

an AU employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of AU employee pension insurance arrangement and the notify of AU employee tax arrangement service operations;

a CH employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of CH employee tax arrangement and the notify of CH employee social insurance arrangement service operations;

a CA employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of CA employee tax arrangement service operation;

a CN employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of CN employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of CN employee tax arrangement service operations;

a DE employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of DE employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of DE employee tax arrangement service operations;

a DK employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of DK employee tax arrangement and notify of DK employee social insurance arrangement;

an AT employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of AT employee social insurance arrangement and the notify of AT employee tax arrangement service operations;

an IN employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of IN employee social insurance arrangement and the notify of IN employee tax arrangement service operations;

an employee compensation agreement in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of employee compensation agreement service operation;

an employee compensation agreement migration in interface that includes the create employee compensation agreement service operation;

an employee migration in interface that includes the create employee arrangements service operations for Austria, Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States;

an employee payroll agreement in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of employee payroll agreement service operation;

an employee payroll agreement migration in interface that includes the create employee payroll agreement service operation;

an employee time agreement in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of planned working times service operation;

an employee time calendar and account in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of employee time account, and notify of employee time calendar service operations;

an employee time confirmation view of service transaction document management in interface that includes the maintain service operation;

an employee time information migration in interface that includes the create employee time information service operation;

an employment migration in interface that includes the create employment service operation;

an FR employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of FR employee social insurance arrangement service operation;

a GB employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of GB employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of GB employee tax arrangement service operations;

an internal acknowledgement out interface that includes the notify of internal acknowledgement cancellation, and notify of internal acknowledgement service operations;

an IT employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of IT employee tax arrangement, and notify of IT employee social insurance arrangement service operations;

an NL employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of NL employee tax arrangement, and notify of NL employee social insurance arrangement service operations;

a payroll process employee payroll administration notification in interface that includes the maintain collection of payroll process views service operation;

a project task confirmation in interface that includes the maintain employee time confirmation view of project service operation;

a project task confirmation out interface that includes the notify of project task confirmation service operation;

a service provision accounting out interface that includes the notify of service provision cancellation, and notify of service provision service operations;

an SG employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of SG employee tax arrangement, and notify of SG employee social insurance arrangement service operations;

a US employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of US employee tax arrangement service operation; and

a ZA employer regulatory compliance in payroll input maintenance out interface that includes the notify of ZA employee tax arrangement and the notify of ZA employee social insurance arrangement service operations.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer software implementing the create employee arrangements, create employee compensation agreement, create employee payroll agreement, create employee time information, create employment, maintain, maintain collection of payroll process view, maintain employee time confirmation view of project, notify of AT employee social insurance arrangement, notify of AT employee tax arrangement, notify of AU employee pension insurance arrangement, notify of AU employee tax arrangement, notify of CA employee tax arrangement, notify of CH employee social insurance arrangement, notify of CH employee tax arrangement, notify of CN employee social insurance arrangement, notify of CN employee tax arrangement, notify of DE employee social insurance arrangement, notify of DE employee tax arrangement, notify of DK employee social insurance arrangement, notify of DK employee tax arrangement, notify of employee compensation agreement, notify of employee payroll agreement, notify of employee time account, notify of employee time calendar, notify of FR employee social insurance arrangement, notify of GB employee social insurance arrangement, notify of GB employee tax arrangement, notify of internal acknowledgement, notify of internal acknowledgement cancellation, notify of IT employee social insurance arrangement, notify of IT employee tax arrangement, notify of NL employee social insurance arrangement, notify of NL employee tax arrangement, notify of IN employee social insurance arrangement, notify of IN employee tax arrangement, notify of planned working times, notify of project task confirmation, notify of service provision, notify of service provision cancellation, notify of SG employee social insurance arrangement, notify of SG employee tax arrangement, notify of US employee tax arrangement, notify of ZA employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of ZA employee tax arrangement service operations is deployed on one hardware platform.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer software implementing the create employee arrangements, create employee compensation agreement, create employee payroll agreement, create employee time information, create employment, maintain, maintain collection of payroll process view, maintain employee time confirmation view of project, notify of AT employee social insurance arrangement, notify of AT employee tax arrangement, notify of AU employee pension insurance arrangement, notify of AU employee tax arrangement, notify of CA employee tax arrangement, notify of CH employee social insurance arrangement, notify of CH employee tax arrangement, notify of CN employee social insurance arrangement, notify of CN employee tax arrangement, notify of DE employee social insurance arrangement, notify of DE employee tax arrangement, notify of DK employee social insurance arrangement, notify of DK employee tax arrangement, notify of employee compensation agreement, notify of employee payroll agreement, notify of employee time account, notify of employee time calendar, notify of FR employee social insurance arrangement, notify of GB employee social insurance arrangement, notify of GB employee tax arrangement, notify of internal acknowledgement, notify of internal acknowledgement cancellation, notify of IT employee social insurance arrangement, notify of IT employee tax arrangement, notify of NL employee social insurance arrangement, notify of NL employee tax arrangement, notify of IN employee social insurance arrangement, notify of IN employee tax arrangement, notify of planned working times, notify of project task confirmation, notify of service provision, notify of service provision cancellation, notify of SG employee social insurance arrangement, notify of SG employee tax arrangement, notify of US employee tax arrangement, notify of ZA employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of ZA employee tax arrangement service operations is deployable on one hardware platform.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the computer software deployed on the computer system comprises a plurality of process components, each of the process components being a package of software deployed and executing on the computer system and implementing a respective and distinct business process, the plurality of process components including;

an AT employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all reporting and other administrative activities that an employer in Austria is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

an AU employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all activities an employer in Australia is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

a CA employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all activities an employer in Canada is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

a CH employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all reporting and other administrative activities that an employer in Switzerland is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

a CN employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all reporting and other administrative activities that employers in China, with respect to employees, are legally obligated to perform;

an IN employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all reporting and other administrative activities that employers in India, with respect to employees, are legally obligated to perform;

a compensation management process component used to plan and create a specification of compensation data for employees using appropriate reward strategies, which are based on predefined compensation structures and components;

a DE employer regulatory compliance process component used to administrate employee data and reporting to authorities that employers in Germany are legally obligated to perform;

a DK employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all reporting and other administrative activities that an employer in Denmark is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

an employee payroll administration process component used to administrate the employee specific payroll agreement and the overview of completed and planned payroll processes;

an FR employer regulatory compliance process component used to administrate employee data and reporting to authorities that employers in France are legally obligated to perform;

a GB employer regulatory compliance process component used to administrate employee data and reporting to authorities that employers in the United Kingdom are legally obligated to perform;

a human capital master data management process component used to manage work agreements, employments, and human capital master data that is used in different human capital management areas;

an IT employer regulatory compliance process component used to administrate employee data and reporting to authorities that employers in Italy are legally obligated to perform;

an NL employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all activities an employer in Netherlands is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

a personnel administration process component used to administrate personnel changes concerning employee master data and work agreements;

an SG employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all activities an employer in Singapore is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

a time and labor management process component used to manage employees'"'"' planned working times, and record and valuate work performed and absence times;

a US employer regulatory compliance process component used to administrate employee data and reporting to authorities that employers in the United States of America are legally obligated to perform; and

a ZA employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all activities an employer in South Africa is obliged to perform with respect to employees; and

wherein;

the AT employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of AT employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of AT employee tax arrangement service operations;

the AU employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of AU employee pension insurance arrangement, and notify of AU employee tax arrangement service operations;

the CA employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, and notify of CA employee tax arrangement service operations;

the CH employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of CH employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of CH employee tax arrangement service operations;

the CN employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of CN employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of CN employee tax arrangement service operations;

the compensation management process component implements the create employee compensation agreement, and notify of employee compensation agreement service operations;

the DE employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of DE employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of DE employee tax arrangement service operations;

the DK employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of DK employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of DK employee tax arrangement service operations;

the IN employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of IN employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of IN employee tax arrangement service operations;

the employee payroll administration process component implements the create employee payroll agreement, maintain collection of payroll process views, and notify of employee payroll agreement service operations;

the FR employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, and notify of FR employee social insurance arrangement service operations;

the GB employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of GB employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of GB employee tax arrangement service operations;

the IT employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of IT employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of IT employee tax arrangement service operations;

the NL employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of NL employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of NL employee tax arrangement service operations;

the personnel administration process component implements the create employment service operation;

the SG employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of SG employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of SG employee tax arrangement service operations;

the time and labor management process component implements the create employee time information, maintain, maintain employee time confirmation view of project, notify of employee time account, notify of employee time calendar, notify of internal acknowledgement, notify of internal acknowledgement cancellation, notify of planned working times, notify of project task confirmation, notify of service provision, and notify of service provision cancellation service operations;

the US employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, and notify of US employee tax arrangement service operations; and

the ZA employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of ZA employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of ZA employee tax arrangement service operations.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer software deployed on the computer system comprises:

a plurality of deployment units, each of the deployment units being a package of software packaged together to be deployed on a single physical hardware platform, the plurality of deployment units including a human capital management deployment unit, the human capital management deployment unit being a package of software packaged together to be deployed on a single physical hardware platform, the human capital management deployment unit handling the management of essential employee-related processes in a company, such as personnel administration, time and labor management, and compensation management and includes integration with payroll, wherein;

the human capital management deployment unit implements the create employee arrangements, create employee compensation agreement, create employee payroll agreement, create employee time information, create employment, maintain, maintain collection of payroll process view, maintain employee time confirmation view of project, notify of AT employee social insurance arrangement, notify of AT employee tax arrangement, notify of AU employee pension insurance arrangement, notify of AU employee tax arrangement, notify of CA employee tax arrangement, notify of CH employee social insurance arrangement, notify of CH employee tax arrangement, notify of CN employee social insurance arrangement, notify of CN employee tax arrangement, notify of IN employee social insurance arrangement, notify of IN employee tax arrangement, notify of DE employee social insurance arrangement, notify of DE employee tax arrangement, notify of DK employee social insurance arrangement, notify of DK employee tax arrangement, notify of employee compensation agreement, notify of employee payroll agreement, notify of employee time account, notify of employee time calendar, notify of FR employee social insurance arrangement, notify of GB employee social insurance arrangement, notify of GB employee tax arrangement, notify of internal acknowledgement, notify of internal acknowledgement cancellation, notify of IT employee social insurance arrangement, notify of IT employee tax arrangement, notify of NL employee social insurance arrangement, notify of NL employee tax arrangement, notify of planned working times, notify of project task confirmation, notify of service provision, notify of service provision cancellation, notify of SG employee social insurance arrangement, notify of SG employee tax arrangement, notify of US employee tax arrangement, notify of ZA employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of ZA employee tax arrangement service operations.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a repository of service descriptions, the repository including a standards-based description of each of the plurality of service operations.

8. A computer program product encoded on a tangible machine-readable information carrier for implementing a plurality of services, the product comprising computer software operable to implement on a computer system service operations, the service operations comprising:

a first create employee arrangements operation to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to an AT employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of AT employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for an AT employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of AT employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for an AT employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a second create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to an AU employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of AU employee pension insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed pension insurance data for an AU employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of AU employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for an AU employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a third create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a CA employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of CA employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a CA employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a fourth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a CH employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of CH employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a CH employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of CH employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a CH employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a fifth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a DK employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of DK employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a DK employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of DK employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a DK employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a sixth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to an NL employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of NL employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for an NL employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of NL employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for an NL employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a seventh create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to an SG employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of SG employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for an SG employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of SG employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a SG employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

an eighth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a ZA employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of ZA employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a ZA employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of ZA employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a ZA employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a ninth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a CN employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of CN employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a CN employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of CN employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a CN employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a create employee compensation agreement operation operable to create an employee compensation agreement;

a notify of employee compensation agreement operation operable to notify the process component payroll processing about the agreement between an employer and an employee detailing all compensation components that are relevant to the employee;

a tenth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a DE employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of DE employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a DE employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of DE employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a DE employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a create employee payroll agreement operation operable to convert information about payroll agreement data of an employee which is to be migrated from a legacy system into employee payroll administration;

a maintain collection of payroll process view operation operable to notify the view of the payroll process in the human capital management deployment unit of changes to the payroll process business object;

a notify of employee payroll agreement operation operable to notify the payroll deployment unit of changes to the employee payroll agreement business object in the human capital management deployment unit;

an eleventh create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a FR employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of FR employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a FR employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a twelfth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a GB employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of GB employee social insurance arrangement operable operation to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for a GB employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of GB employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a GB employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a thirteenth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to a IT employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of IT employee social insurance arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed social insurance data for an IT employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a notify of IT employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for an IT employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a create employment operation operable to convert information about an employment which is to be migrated from a legacy system into employment based on message type employment migrate request;

a create employee time information operation operable to convert information about an employee'"'"'s time data that is to be migrated from a legacy system to time and labor management;

a maintain operation operable to create, change, or delete an employee time confirmation view of service transaction document;

a maintain employee time confirmation view of project operation operable to update the employee time confirmation view of project business object based on changes to the project business object in project processing;

a notify of employee time account operation operable to notify the payroll processing process component of changes to the employee time account business object;

a notify of employee time calendar operation operable to notify payroll processing of changes to the employee time calendar business object;

a notify of internal acknowledgement operation operable to notify goods and service acknowledgement of a service provided by an external employee sent when an active employee time that contains information relevant for goods and service acknowledgement is created, changed, or cancelled;

a notify of internal acknowledgement cancellation operation operable to notify goods and service acknowledgement of the cancellation of an externally provided service sent when an active employee time that contains information relevant for goods and service acknowledgement is cancelled;

a notify of planned working times operation operable to notify the country-specific employee payroll input business object about planned working times;

a notify of project task confirmation operation operable to notify project processing of a project task confirmation or a project task status change sent when project-relevant information is created, changed, or cancelled in an active employee time;

a notify of service provision operation operable to notify accounting of a service provision sent when an active employee time that contains information relevant for accounting is created;

a notify of service provision cancellation operation operable to notify accounting of the cancellation of a service provision sent when an active employee time that contains information relevant for accounting is cancelled;

a fourteenth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects for employee arrangements relating to the US employer regulatory compliance process component;

a notify of US employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for a US employee in the human capital management deployment unit;

a fifteenth create employee arrangements operation operable to create business objects fro employee arrangements relating to the IN employer regulatory compliance process component; and

a notify of IN employee tax arrangement operation operable to notify the payroll processing deployment unit about new or changed tax data for an IN employee in the human capital management deployment unit.

9. The product of claim 8, wherein the computer software comprises:

a plurality of process components, each of the process components being a package of software deployed and executing on the computer system and implementing a respective and distinct business process, the plurality of process components including;

an AT employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all reporting and other administrative activities that an employer in Austria is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

an AU employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all activities an employer in Australia is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

a CA employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all activities an employer in Canada is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

a CH employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all reporting and other administrative activities that an employer in Switzerland is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

a CN employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all reporting and other administrative activities that employers in China, with respect to employees, are legally obligated to perform;

an IN employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all reporting and other administrative activities that employers in India, with respect to employees, are legally obligated to perform;

a compensation management process component used to plan and create a specification of compensation data for employees using appropriate reward strategies, which are based on predefined compensation structures and components;

a DE employer regulatory compliance process component used to administrate employee data and reporting to authorities that employers in Germany are legally obligated to perform;

a DK employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all reporting and other administrative activities that an employer in Denmark is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

an employee payroll administration process component used to administrate the employee specific payroll agreement and the overview of completed and planned payroll processes;

an FR employer regulatory compliance process component used to administrate employee data and reporting to authorities that employers in France are legally obligated to perform;

a GB employer regulatory compliance process component used to administrate employee data and reporting to authorities that employers in the United Kingdom are legally obligated to perform;

a human capital master data management process component used to manage work agreements, employments, and human capital master data that is used in different human capital management areas;

an IT employer regulatory compliance process component used to administrate employee data and reporting to authorities that employers in Italy are legally obligated to perform;

an NL employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all activities an employer in Netherlands is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

a personnel administration process component used to administrate personnel changes concerning employee master data and work agreements;

an SG employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all activities an employer in Singapore is obliged to perform with respect to employees;

a time and labor management process component used to manage employees'"'"' planned working times, and record and valuate work performed and absence times;

a US employer regulatory compliance process component used to administrate employee data and reporting to authorities that employers in the United States of America are legally obligated to perform; and

a ZA employer regulatory compliance process component used to combine all activities an employer in South Africa is obliged to perform with respect to employees; and

wherein;

the AT employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of AT employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of AT employee tax arrangement service operations;

the AU employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of AU employee pension insurance arrangement, and notify of AU employee tax arrangement service operations;

the CA employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, and notify of CA employee tax arrangement service operations;

the CH employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of CH employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of CH employee tax arrangement service operations;

the CN employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of CN employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of CN employee tax arrangement service operations;

the IN employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of IN employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of IN employee tax arrangement service operations;

the compensation management process component implements the create employee compensation agreement, and notify of employee compensation agreement service operations;

the DE employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of DE employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of DE employee tax arrangement service operations;

the DK employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of DK employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of DK employee tax arrangement service operations;

the employee payroll administration process component implements the create employee payroll agreement, maintain collection of payroll process views, and notify of employee payroll agreement service operations;

the FR employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, and notify of FR employee social insurance arrangement service operations;

the GB employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of GB employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of GB employee tax arrangement service operations;

the IT employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of IT employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of IT employee tax arrangement service operations;

the NL employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of NL employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of NL employee tax arrangement service operations;

the personnel administration process component implements the create employment service operation;

the SG employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of SG employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of SG employee tax arrangement service operations;

the time and labor management process component implements the create employee time information, maintain, maintain employee time confirmation view of project, notify of employee time account, notify of employee time calendar, notify of internal acknowledgement, notify of internal acknowledgement cancellation, notify of planned working times, notify of project task confirmation, notify of service provision, and notify of service provision cancellation service operations;

the US employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, and notify of US employee tax arrangement service operations; and

the ZA employer regulatory compliance process component implements the create employee arrangements, notify of ZA employee social insurance arrangement, and notify of ZA employee tax arrangement service operations.

10. The product of claim 9, wherein:

each of the plurality of process components is assigned to no more than one deployment unit among multiple deployment units, and each deployment unit is deployable on a separate computer hardware platform independent of every other deployment unit; and

all interaction between a process component in one deployment unit and any other process component in any other deployment unit takes place through the respective service operations of the two process components.

11. The product of claim 10, wherein the deployment units comprise a human capital management deployment unit that includes the AT employer regulatory compliance process component, the AU employer regulatory compliance process component, the CA employer regulatory compliance process component, the CH employer regulatory compliance process component, the CN employer regulatory compliance process component, the compensation management process component, the DE employer regulatory compliance process component, the DK employer regulatory compliance process component, the employee payroll administration process component, the FR employer regulatory compliance process component, the GB employer regulatory compliance process component, the human capital master data management process component, the IT employer regulatory compliance process component, the NL employer regulatory compliance process component, the personnel administration process component, the SG employer regulatory compliance process component, the time and labor management process component, the US employer regulatory compliance process component, and the ZA employer regulatory compliance process component.

12. The product of claim 9, wherein the computer software comprises:

the human capital management deployment unit that includes an AT employee social insurance arrangement, an AT employee tax arrangement, an AU employee pension insurance arrangement, an AU employee tax arrangement, a CA employee tax arrangement, a CH employee social insurance arrangement, a CH employee tax arrangement, a CN employee social insurance arrangement, a CN employee tax arrangement, an IN employee social insurance arrangement, an IN employee tax arrangement a compensation component type, a compensation structure, a DE employee social insurance arrangement, a DE employee tax arrangement, a DK employee social insurance arrangement, a DK employee tax arrangement, an employee compensation agreement, an employee payroll agreement, an employee time, an employee time account, an employee time account maintenance request, an employee time agreement, an employee time calendar, an employee time confirmation view of project, an employee time confirmation view of service transaction document, an employee time confirmation work list, an employee time recording view, an employee time valuation, an employee time valuation period closure run, an employment, a FR employee social insurance arrangement, a GB employee social insurance arrangement, a GB employee tax arrangement, a human capital management view of payroll process, an IT employee social insurance arrangement, an IT employee tax arrangement, a maternity protection, a NL employee social insurance arrangement, a NL employee tax arrangement, a parental leave, a personnel hiring, a personnel leaving, a personnel transfer, an SG employee social insurance arrangement, an SG employee tax arrangement, a special leave, a US employee tax arrangement, a work agreement, a working time model, a working time model catalogue, a ZA employee social insurance arrangement, and a ZA employee tax arrangement business object; and

wherein;

the AT employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Austrian bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions;

the AT employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of Austria that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Austria;

the AU employee pension insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Australian bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions;

the AU employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of Australia that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Australia;

the CA employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of Canada that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Canada;

the CH employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Switzerland bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions;

the CH employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of the Switzerland that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Switzerland;

the CN employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by the People'"'"'s Republic of China bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions and benefits;

the CN employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of the People'"'"'s Republic of China that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements;

the IN employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by the Indian bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions and benefits;

the IN employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of India that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements;

the compensation component type business object represents a description of the employee compensation components in the context of human resources;

the compensation structure business object represents an organized structure of pay grade ranges that reflects the value of tasks and activities in the company;

the DE employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by the German bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions and benefits;

the DE employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement by the German tax authority for the employee, concerning calculation and reporting of income tax deductions according to German legal requirements;

the DK employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Danish bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions;

the DK employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of the Denmark that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Denmark;

the employee compensation agreement business object represents an agreement between an employer and an employee detailing all compensation components that are relevant to the employee;

the employee payroll agreement business object represents an agreement between the employer and employee concerning the personal conditions for payroll processing;

the employee time business object represents a recorded document of the working times of an internal or external employee;

the employee time account business object represents a summary of valuated employee times and of periodic valuations administered by employee time valuation;

the employee time account maintenance request business object represents a request to create, modify or cancel an employee time account;

the employee time agreement business object represents an agreement between employer and employee consisting of time management stipulations that are derived from legal, company-specific, and pay-related provisions, and from terms agreed individually with the employee;

the employee time calendar business object represents a read-only calendar representation of time valuation results that are derived from the recorded times of an employee;

the employee time confirmation view of project business object represents a view of a project restricted to those project tasks for which employee times are confirmed;

the employee time confirmation view of service transaction document business object represents a view of a business transaction document specifying sold or purchased services that are relevant for employee time confirmation;

the employee time confirmation work list business object represents a list of work items that are assigned to an employee and that are to be used to confirm the employee times;

the employee time recording view business object represents a view of several times of one employee for recording purposes;

the employee time valuation business object represents an object responsible for the execution of all valuations of employee times and other time management documents for one internal or external employee;

the employee time valuation period closure run business object represents the specification of an automated run that creates period closure dates in employee time valuations based on employees;

the employment business object represents a relationship that comes into being by virtue of one or more valid work agreements;

the FR employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by all responsible French bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions;

the GB employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by United Kingdom social insurance authority concerning calculation and reporting of contributions according to the United Kingdom legal requirements;

the GB employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement by the United Kingdom tax authority for the employee concerning calculation and reporting of income tax deductions according to United Kingdom legal requirements;

the human capital management view of payroll process business object represents a view from human capital management of a payroll process;

the IT employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by the Italian bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions and benefits;

the IT employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement by the responsible tax authorities for the employee concerning calculation and reporting of income tax deductions according to Italian legal requirements;

the maternity protection business object represents a leave of absence of a female employee provided for under national regulations in relation to the birth of a child;

the NL employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Dutch bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions;

the NL employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of the Netherlands that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Netherlands;

the parental leave business object represents a leave of absence of an employee as specified by the national laws and regulations in relation to time off work to care for a child;

the personnel hiring business object represents a first hiring, rehiring, or creation of another work agreement of an employee;

the personnel leaving business object represents the termination of an employee'"'"'s work agreement;

the personnel transfer business object represents an organizational reassignment of an employee within the company;

the SG employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Singaporean bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions;

the SG employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of Singapore that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Singapore;

the special leave business object represents an absence from work due to exceptional circumstances, either at the request of the employee or in accordance with country-specific legal regulations;

the US employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement by the responsible tax authorities for the employee concerning calculation and reporting of withholding tax according to us federal, state, and local legal requirements;

the work agreement business object represents a contract between employer and employee that obligates the employee to provide his or her labor and the employer to provide the agreed compensation;

the working time model business object represents an employee-independent, structured description of working times;

the working time model catalogue business object represents a structured directory of the available working time models;

the ZA employee social insurance arrangement business object represents an arrangement for the employee by all responsible South African bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions; and

the ZA employee tax arrangement business object represents an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of South Africa that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of South Africa.

13. The product of claim 10, wherein the deployment units comprise a human capital management deployment unit that implements a create employee arrangements, a create employee compensation agreement, a create employee payroll agreement, a create employee time information, a create employment, a maintain, a maintain collection of payroll process view, a maintain employee time confirmation view of project, a notify of AT employee social insurance arrangement, a notify of AT employee tax arrangement, a notify of AU employee pension insurance arrangement, a notify of AU employee tax arrangement, a notify of CA employee tax arrangement, a notify of CH employee social insurance arrangement, a notify of CH employee tax arrangement, a notify of CN employee social insurance arrangement, a notify of CN employee tax arrangement, a notify of IN employee social insurance arrangement, a notify of IN employee tax arrangement, a notify of DE employee social insurance arrangement, a notify of DE employee tax arrangement, a notify of DK employee social insurance arrangement, a notify of DK employee tax arrangement, a notify of employee compensation agreement, a notify of employee payroll agreement, a notify of employee time account, a notify of employee time calendar, a notify of FR employee social insurance arrangement, a notify of GB employee social insurance arrangement, a notify of GB employee tax arrangement, a notify of internal acknowledgement, a notify of internal acknowledgement cancellation, a notify of IT employee social insurance arrangement, a notify of IT employee tax arrangement, a notify of NL employee social insurance arrangement, a notify of NL employee tax arrangement, a notify of planned working times, a notify of project task confirmation, a notify of service provision, a notify of service provision cancellation, a notify of SG employee social insurance arrangement, a notify of SG employee tax arrangement, a notify of US employee tax arrangement, a notify of ZA employee social insurance arrangement, and a notify of ZA employee tax arrangement service operations.

14. The product of claim 10, wherein the deployment units comprise a human capital management deployment unit that implements an AT employee social insurance arrangement, an AT employee tax arrangement, an AU employee pension insurance arrangement, an AU employee tax arrangement, a CA employee tax arrangement, a CH employee social insurance arrangement, a CH employee tax arrangement, a CN employee social insurance arrangement, a CN employee tax arrangement, a compensation component type, a compensation structure, a DE employee social insurance arrangement, a DE employee tax arrangement, a DK employee social insurance arrangement, a DK employee tax arrangement, an employee compensation agreement, an employee payroll agreement, an employee time, an employee time account, an employee time account maintenance request, an employee time agreement, an employee time calendar, an employee time confirmation view of project, an employee time confirmation view of service transaction document, an employee time confirmation work list, an employee time recording view, an employee time valuation, an employee time valuation period closure run, an employment, a FR employee social insurance arrangement, a GB employee social insurance arrangement, a GB employee tax arrangement, a human capital management view of payroll process, an IT employee social insurance arrangement, an IT employee tax arrangement, a maternity protection, an NL employee social insurance arrangement, an NL employee tax arrangement, an IN employee social insurance arrangement, an IN employee tax arrangement, a parental leave, a personnel hiring, a personnel leaving, a personnel transfer, a SG employee social insurance arrangement, a SG employee tax arrangement, a special leave, a US employee tax arrangement, a work agreement, a working time model, a working time model catalogue, a ZA employee social insurance arrangement, and a ZA employee tax arrangement business objects.

15. The product of claim 8, wherein:

the AT employer regulatory compliance process component includes an AT employee social insurance arrangement, and an AT employee tax arrangement business object, the AT employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Austria bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions, and the AT employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of the Austria that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Austria;

the AU employer regulatory compliance process component includes an AU employee pension insurance arrangement, and an AU employee tax arrangement business object, the AU employee pension insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Australian bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions, and the AU employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of Australia that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Australia;

the CA employer regulatory compliance process component includes a CA employee tax arrangement business object, the CA employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of Canada that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Canada;

the CH employer regulatory compliance process component includes a CH employee social insurance arrangement, and a CH employee tax arrangement business object, the CH employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Switzerland bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions, and the CH employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of the Switzerland that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Switzerland;

the CN employer regulatory compliance process component includes a CN employee social insurance arrangement, and a CN employee tax arrangement business object, the CN employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by the People'"'"'s Republic of China bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions and benefits, and the CN employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of the People'"'"'s Republic of China that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements;

the IN employer regulatory compliance process component includes an IN employee social insurance arrangement, and an IN employee tax arrangement business object, the IN employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by Indian bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions and benefits, and the IN employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of India that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements;

the compensation management process component includes a compensation structure, and an employee compensation agreement business object, the compensation structure being a business object that is an organized structure of pay grade ranges, and the employee compensation agreement being a business object that is an agreement between an employer and an employee detailing all compensation components that are relevant to the employee;

the DE employer regulatory compliance process component includes a DE employee social insurance arrangement, and a DE employee tax arrangement business object, the DE employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by the German bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions and benefits, and the DE employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement by the German tax authority for the employee, concerning calculation and reporting of income tax deductions according to German legal requirements;

the DK employer regulatory compliance process component includes a DK employee social insurance arrangement, and a DK employee tax arrangement business object, the DK employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Danish bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions, and the DK employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of the Denmark that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Denmark;

the employee payroll administration process component includes an employee payroll agreement, and a human capital management view of payroll process business object, the employee payroll agreement being a business object that is an agreement between the employer and employee concerning the personal conditions for payroll processing, and the human capital management view of payroll process being a business object that is a view from human capital management of a payroll process;

the FR employer regulatory compliance process component includes a FR employee social insurance arrangement business object, the FR employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by all responsible French bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions;

the GB employer regulatory compliance process component includes a GB employee social insurance arrangement, and a GB employee tax arrangement business object, the GB employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by United Kingdom social insurance authority concerning calculation and reporting of contributions according to the United Kingdom legal requirements, and the GB employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement by the United Kingdom tax authority for the employee concerning calculation and reporting of income tax deductions according to United Kingdom legal requirements;

the human capital master data management process component includes a compensation component type, an employment, and a work agreement business object, the compensation component type being a business object that is a description of the employee compensation components in the context of human resources, the employment being a business object that is a relationship that comes into being by virtue of one or more valid work agreements, and the work agreement being a business object that is a contract between employer and employee that obligates the employee to provide his or her labor and the employer to provide the agreed compensation;

the IT employer regulatory compliance process component includes an IT employee social insurance arrangement, and an IT employee tax arrangement business object, the IT employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by the Italian bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions and benefits, and the IT employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement by the responsible tax authorities for the employee concerning calculation and reporting of income tax deductions according to Italian legal requirements;

the NL employer regulatory compliance process component includes a NL employee social insurance arrangement, and a NL employee tax arrangement business object, the NL employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Dutch bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions, and the NL employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of the Netherlands that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Netherlands;

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the personnel administration process component includes a maternity protection, a parental leave, a personnel hiring, personnel leaving, personnel transfer, and a special leave business object, the maternity protection being a business object that is a leave of absence of a female employee provided for under national regulations in relation to the birth of a child, the parental leave being a business object that is a leave of absence of an employee as specified by the national laws and regulations in relation to time off work to care for a child, the personnel hiring being a business object that is a first hiring, rehiring, or creation of another work agreement of an employee, the personnel leaving being a business object that is a termination of an employee'"'"'s work agreement, the personnel transfer being a business object that is an organizational reassignment of an employee within the company, and the special leave being a business object that is an absence from work due to exceptional circumstances, either at the request of the employee or in accordance with country-specific legal regulations;

the SG employer regulatory compliance process component includes a SG employee social insurance arrangement, and a SG employee tax arrangement business object, the SG employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by all responsible Singaporean bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions, and the SG employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of the Singapore that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of Singapore;

the time and labor management process component includes an employee time, an employee time account, an employee time account maintenance request, an employee time agreement, an employee time calendar, an employee time confirmation view of project, an employee time confirmation view of service transaction document, an employee time confirmation work list, an employee time recording view, an employee time valuation, an employee time valuation period closure run, a working time model, and a working time model catalogue business object, the employee time being a business object that is a recorded document of the working times of an internal or external employee, the employee time account being a business object that is a summary of valuated employee times and of periodic valuations administered by employee time valuation, the employee time account maintenance request being a business object that is a request to create, modify or cancel an employee time account, the employee time agreement being a business object that is an agreement between employer and employee consisting of time management stipulations that are derived from legal, company-specific, and pay-related provisions, and from terms agreed individually with the employee, the employee time calendar being a business object that is a read-only calendar representation of time valuation results that are derived from the recorded times of an employee, the employee time confirmation view of project being a business object that is a view of a project restricted to those project tasks for which employee times are confirmed, the employee time confirmation view of service transaction document being a business object that is a view of a business transaction document specifying sold or purchased services that are relevant for employee time confirmation, the employee time confirmation work list being a business object that is a list of work items that are assigned to an employee and that are to be used to confirm the employee times, the employee time recording view being a business object that is a view of several times of one employee for recording purposes, the employee time valuation being a business object that is an object responsible for the execution of all valuations of employee times and other time management documents for one internal or external employee, the employee time valuation period closure run being a business object that is a specification of an automated run that creates period closure dates in employee time valuations based on employees, the working time model being a business object that is an employee-independent, structured description of working times, and the working time model catalogue being a business object that is a structured directory of the available working time models;

the US employer regulatory compliance process component includes a US employee tax arrangement business object, the US employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement by the responsible tax authorities for the employee concerning calculation and reporting of withholding tax according to US federal, state, and local legal requirements; and

the ZA employer regulatory compliance process component includes a ZA employee social insurance arrangement, and a ZA employee tax arrangement business object, the ZA employee social insurance arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement for the employee by all responsible South African bodies that are legally responsible for administering the employee'"'"'s social insurance contributions, and the ZA employee tax arrangement being a business object that is an arrangement between the employee and the tax authorities of South Africa that defines the rules of how the employer must calculate and report taxes for this employee to be compliant with the legal requirements of South Africa.

16. The product of claim 8, wherein:

each of the process components includes one or more business objects; and

none of the business objects of any one of the process components interacts directly with any of the business objects included in any of the other process components.

17. The product of claim 16, wherein the business objects comprise a business process object.

18. The product of claim 16, wherein none of the business objects included in any one of the process components is included in any of the other process components.

19. The product of claim 8, further comprising:

a plurality of process agents, each process agent being either an inbound process agent or an outbound process agent, an inbound process agent being operable to receive a message from an inbound operation, an outbound process agent being operable to cause an outbound operation to send a message, and each process agent being associated with exactly one process component;

the inbound process agents comprise a first inbound process agent operable to start the execution of step requested in a first inbound message by creating or updating one or more business object instances; and

the outbound process agents comprise a first asynchronous outbound process agent that is called after a business object that is associated with the first outbound process agent changes.