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2H2026 Release: Meet the Payroll Assistant, the next milestone on the journey to Autonomous Payroll

SAP says its 2H2026 release of SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll adds a Payroll Assistant, a step toward what it calls Autonomous Payroll, where AI agents sense, orchestrate and run each pay cycle end to end. The release also adds Ukraine as a native payroll country version, bringing native coverage to 54 countries, with 7 more supported through partners. For HR and payroll teams, the item points to agent-driven issue resolution and compliance checks inside core payroll.

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SAP SuccessFactors is SAP's cloud HCM suite for core HR, payroll, recruiting, onboarding, learning, talent, workforce analytics, planning, and employee experience.