Talent management system

Accelerate your skills strategy with AI-enabled insights across the talent lifecycle in a unified talent management system.
Team with pc and data snippets

Hire, grow, and retain a future-ready workforce

placeholder

Manage talent with AI

From hiring to helping employees thrive long-term, our integrated, AI-driven talent management simplifies the talent lifecycle and allows employees to shape their journey.

Unlock employee potential

Increase employee engagement and productivity by providing learning and career growth opportunities that are personalised, engaging, and available everywhere.

Bring skills to the forefront

Use AI-enabled capabilities to drive skills-based talent decisions and mobility, empowering your people while advancing organisational goals.

Drive peak performance

Optimise performance across your organisation by aligning people-focused HR strategies with AI and intelligent agents.

Talent management assistants

Empower growth, align performance, and eliminate manual effort with AI-driven talent management that drives better business outcomes.

placeholder

Career and Talent Development Assistant

  • Automatically generate personalised development plans to close skill gaps faster.

  • Use AI insights to highlight career paths, making growth clearer and easier.

  • Streamline succession planning by surfacing risks and delivering actionable insights with clear mitigation steps.

 

Explore talent management capabilities

From recruiting to succession, attract, develop, and retain top talent with experiences and intelligence tailored to your business.

placeholder

Smarter talent discovery

Simplify talent acquisition to attract, engage, and hire talent with the right skills to drive your business forward.

 

AI-driven candidate experiences

Connect with top talent through AI-enabled interactions and personalised candidate experiences. 

 

Candidate relationship management 

Source and nurture top talent by proactively building talent pipelines and engage with the best candidates. 

 

Applicant tracking system

Accelerate hiring with AI-assisted capabilities and embedded talent intelligent to identify and hire top talent faster. 

placeholder

AI-enabled onboarding
Enhance onboarding with AI-assisted capabilities that streamline the completion of onboarding tasks, getting new hires onboarded faster.

 

Guided new hire experiences
Boost new hire productivity with personalised programmes, AI assistance, digital forms, and e-signatures from any device.

 

Onboarding, offboarding, crossboarding, and alumni
Simplify global hiring with a comprehensive solution that connects talent processes and engages talent at any transition.

 

Centralised onboarding dashboard
Optimise hiring processes, accelerate hiring efficiency, and ensure timely compliance and data accuracy with ease.

placeholder

A personalised guided experience

Help employees reach their full potential with an easy-to-use, integrated solution.

 

Continuous feedback and development

Accelerate individual and organisational growth with AI-generated opportunities tailored to unique needs.

 

Skill-driven talent planning

Foster retention and internal mobility with tools that put skills at the centre of your strategy.

placeholder

Relevant learner experiences anytime, anywhere
Create an engaging, continuous learning culture embedded in daily activities and accessible on any device and offline.

 

Compliance training
Improve regulatory compliance and reduce legal risk by automating mandatory training.

 

Skills-driven development
Help employees discover and consume learning recommendations to further personal development and growth.

 

Robust learning content and partner innovations
Use our extended partner network to access content from Open Content Network partners and other third-party innovations.

placeholder

Strategic goal management

Align performance with strategy using AI-generated, skills-focused goals tied to development and rewards.

Continuous performance management

Foster employee growth and maximise performance with real-time, ongoing feedback.

Performance reviews and evaluations

Improve review quality and provide a more comprehensive view of employee performance for better development and compensation decisions.

Performance Preparation Agent

Support managers with an AI agent that generates insights and personalised talking points to lead growth-focused performance discussions.

 

placeholder

Intelligent compensation modelling
Optimise your compensation programmes by aligning workforce pay with HR and business objectives.

Global compensation planning
Streamline compensation planning across your organisation and tailor it to meet local market needs with a flexible solution.

 

Timely rewards and recognition
Motivate your employees year round with real-time recognition of milestone achievements and key contributions.

 

Unlock Talent with People Intelligence

Explore AI, skills, and insights to shape the future of your workforce.

Register now

See how customers are succeeding with SAP

placeholder

A skills-first approach to developing future-ready talent

Learn how Capgemini uses SAP SuccessFactors HCM to create a skills-based people management approach.

placeholder

Winning the talent game with AI-assisted recruiting

Discover how German soccer club FC Bayern is addressing HR challenges with transparency, automation, and data-driven insights.

placeholder

Connecting applicants with the right jobs

Learn how retail chain dm is making a great first impression with candidates through an intuitive and digital-first experience.

placeholder

Embracing AI HR innovations to stay ahead of competitors

Learn how innovative snacks company Frit Ravich used AI to enhance career development and elevate the employee experience.

See what analysts are saying about SAP

placeholder
SAP is named a leader in talent intelligence

See why IDC named SAP a leader in its 2025 Worldwide Talent Intelligence Vendor Assessment.

Read the IDC report
placeholder
Maximising the impact of AI

Make the most of AI with a unified approach to core HR, time, and payroll. Discover use cases and real-world organisational benefits.

Read the Josh Bersin report
SAP recognised for outperforming the competition

Explore what customers are saying about SAP SuccessFactors talent management solutions and why they're a leading option for organisations of all sizes.

Read the TrustRadius report

Resources

placeholder

Future Skills & Early Career Mobility Report

Learn how future skills and early career mobility are shaping modern talent strategies. Gain insight into emerging skills and career pathways to help HR leaders attract, develop, and retain talent.

placeholder

Keeping the human in human resources: The future of HR in the age of AI

See how HR leaders are navigating AI without losing the human element. This asset highlights approaches to blending automation with empathy to shape the future of work.

placeholder

Realising Employee Potential: Igniting the Potential of All Talent to Succeed in the Future of Work

Discover how organisations can unlock the potential of all talent. Explore strategies for developing skills, enabling mobility, and creating inclusive opportunities to help employees grow and succeed in the future of work.

placeholder

4 approaches to a skills-based talent management strategy

Explore how a skills‑based approach can reshape talent management. This asset outlines four practical approaches to help HR leaders identify critical skills, enable internal mobility, and better align talent to evolving business needs.

Frequently asked questions

AI enhances SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management by automating routine tasks, improving candidate and internal matching, personalising learning and career recommendations, surfacing predictive insights (such as turnover risk and succession readiness), and helping reduce bias through smarter job posting and evaluation checks—all while keeping humans in the decision loop and respecting privacy and compliance controls.

A skills-first approach prioritises demonstrated skills and competencies over job titles, degrees, or years of experience. In SAP SuccessFactors Career and Talent Development, this means using skill profiles, assessments, and targeted learning to match people to roles, accelerate internal mobility, reduce bias, and close skill gaps faster.

Yes—SAP SuccessFactors solutions help improve retention by identifying at-risk employees with predictive analytics, recommending personalised development and career paths, enabling internal mobility, and giving managers tools for timely coaching and engagement, all with human oversight and privacy controls.

SAP SuccessFactors Learning is a corporate learning management system (LMS) that provides a modern environment to help companies cultivate a culture of continuous learning. Internally, it provides personalised, collaborative, and blended learning experiences that help employees develop new skills. It also improves regulatory compliance and reduces legal risk by automating compliance training. Externally, the software allows companies to offer unique learning experiences for their external audiences with e-commerce capabilities that make it possible to offer for-profit courses and training.

*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce, Mike Lowndes, Yanna Dharmasthira, Sandy Shen, Penny Gillespie, Aditya Vasudevan, Jason Daigler, 21 August, 2023. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organisation and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.