Fieldglass

SAP Fieldglass is a cloud-based software platform that allows companies to manage external workforces, including contractors, temporary workers, contingent labor, and statement of work (SOW) employees.

SAP Fieldglass was designed to meet the needs of a changing labor market that has seen organizations turn to an external workforce for limited duration or flexible projects. SAP Fieldglass functions allow companies to find and hire an external workforce, and then manage those workers while they are employed by the company. Some specific tasks in this process include comparing labor costs, onboarding new workers once they are hired and managing the employees while they work for the company.

One of the advantages of the SAP Fieldglass platform is that it can be integrated with other SAP cloud applications, including SAP Ariba for procurement and SAP SuccessFactors for HR management. For example, when a company uses SAP Fieldglass to identify external workers that it wants to hire, this can trigger a procurement process for suppliers in SAP Ariba.  

Parent company SAP has deployed SAP Fieldglass as a single point of access to manage its external workforce, whose members are employed by a variety of service providers and partners, according to the company.

Fieldglass was founded in 1999 by Jai Shekhawat, Anil Kumar and Udai Kumar under the original name B2B People. The company changed its name to Fieldglass, and was acquired by SAP in 2014 for a reported $1 billion.