title: How can I expose employee master data from SAP HR/HCM
body: <p>I'm shortly to start on an integration project that will require organisational data (line reporting etc) and starter/leaver events etc. We utilise SAP HCM, but I have no experience of SAP (BizTalk/.NET developer), and I'm still attempting to find the right people to talk to in our organisation about how to interface with SAP.</p>
  
  <p>Sadly (for our organisation anyway!), Stack Overflow is normally quicker :)</p>
  
  <p>So, really I'm looking for an answer to the following;</p>
  
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  <li>Does SAP HCM expose master employee data "out of the box" via web services. If not, does it require much to expose this on the SAP side?</li>
  <li>If data is exposed, is it via a pull only model? ie, can SAP be configured to push events?</li>
  <li>This may be naive, but does a trial version of the SAP stack exist to allow me to explore the options?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Any suggestions would be gratefully received. I know in the past the organisation has had to engage SAP consultants for integration work like this, but (in my naive world I guess) this seems a reasonably simple integration problem?</p>
  
  <p>Regards, Jason</p>