Human capital management innovations
Recent innovations

People Intelligence in SAP Business Data Cloud
Drive better people and business decisions by automatically transforming your people, skills, and business data — from SAP SuccessFactors HCM and beyond — into readily available, AI-driven insights. Address critical questions across workforce composition, skills, learning, and more.
Performance and Goals Agent
Support more impactful performance discussions with an AI agent that gives managers tailored insights and talking points based on employee data, goals, activities, and feedback. Use Joule to interact with the agent and ask follow-up questions to dive deeper into any area of focus.
New home page
Provide users with a more intuitive, efficient, and personalized user experience with a completely refreshed home page. Simplify interactions and accelerate task completion with a refined layout that intelligently surfaces the most relevant content.
Planned innovations
Q2
2026
People Intelligence Agent
Identify workforce trends, uncover skills gaps, and automatically generate tailored data-driven recommendations directly within Joule.
Q2
2026
New team overview experience
View and manage team performance reviews from a single location with a new overview experience that provides key information and insights at a glance.
Q4
2026
Reimagined time administrator workbench
Allow administrators and managers to quickly view and update time data for multiple employees at once with an enhanced workbench experience.
Q4
2026
AI-assisted succession planning health check
Analyze the health of succession plans and help ensure a balanced distribution of successors with AI-assisted insights and recommendations.
Explore human capital management road maps
Core HR and payroll
Support your employees wherever they work with global solutions for core HR, cloud payroll, time tracking, benefits administration, and HR service delivery.
Talent management
Build the skills and agility needed for the future with solutions for learning, performance, succession, development, recruiting, onboarding, and compensation.
HR analytics and workforce planning
Get data-driven insights into your workforce, investigate trends with people analytics, and use powerful analytics across your organization to improve outcomes.
Contingent workforce management
See future-release information about SAP Fieldglass applications in the areas of analytics, reporting, information management, guided work sourcing, and more.