People Analytics Is Changing. Is Your Strategy Keeping Up?

In this opening keynote from Festival Of People Analytics 2026, Nigel Dias outlines the strategic shift taking place in People Analytics for SuccessFactors Users.

Workforce Analytics was designed around structured metrics and predefined reporting models — stable, controlled, and largely fixed in scope. People Intelligence represents something different. It introduces open data products, Insight Apps, AI-enabled workflows, and a fundamentally new architectural model within SAP Business Data Cloud.

However, the most significant change is not technical.

It is strategic.

People Intelligence requires organisations to rethink the purpose and structure of their analytics capability. Leaders must decide which business problems they want analytics to solve, how insights should be governed and owned, how any transition should be sequenced, and whether their current reporting approach remains fit for purpose in this new model.

This session provides the context for every People Intelligence decision that follows.

Watch This If You:

1. Want to understand why SAP is shifting to People Intelligence
2. Need clarity on how this impacts your long-term analytics roadmap
3. Are unsure whether to evaluate, delay or accelerate your upgrade