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Job Skill Sync Integration with SAP BTP

This Deployment Guide provides instructions that will assist in the process of deploying the SAP BTP - TechWolf Job Skill Sync Integration, including detail on the configuration and deployment of the integration in the customer’s SAP BTP tenant and SAP SuccessFactors tenant. The intended audience for this document is the Integration Implementer.

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Integration

The Integration has been designed, developed, tested, documented, and deployed by TechWolf with SAP’s guidance and oversight. The integration facilitates the flow of validated Job skill data between SAP SuccessFactors and TechWolf, using Integration Flows deployed in the customer’s SAP Integration Suite. It is not intended to address every use case a customer may be interested in. The customer benefits by receiving pre-built, pre-tested, documented, partner-maintained integrations that minimize implementer’s effort as compared to custom integrations for the specific use case(s) addressed.
This is a distinct integration from the direct-API SAP SuccessFactors Job Skill Sync . Customers choose one or the other depending on their deployment model: the SAP SuccessFactors Skill Sync calls SAP SuccessFactors APIs directly from TechWolf. The SAP BTP Skill Sync uses the SAP Integration Suite running in the customer’s own SAP BTP tenant.

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Functional Objective

TechWolf and SAP are partnering to enhance skill management within organizations. TechWolf leverages data from various sources, including business systems, to infer skills. These inferred skills are seamlessly integrated into SAP SuccessFactors Job Skill Profiles, providing a comprehensive and real-time view of Jobs’ skills. The integration also enables profile synchronization between TechWolf and SAP, ensuring that both platforms’ updates are consistently reflected. Note that TechWolf Jobs are linked to SAP Job Roles. Besides Skill presence or absence, the integration also synchronizes the proficiency of the Jobs’ Skills. These proficiency levels can be set in the Job Governance interface in the TechWolf Console. Changes that are made to the Job Skill Profile within TechWolf are synchronized to SAP SuccessFactors instantaneously through the Integration Flows. Changes that are made to Job Skill Profiles within SAP SuccessFactors are reflected back to the TechWolf SkillEngine API on a regular basis (bi-hourly by default). Key benefits:
  • Effortless skill identification: the integration streamlines Skill identification for Job profiles by automatically extracting data from various sources (incl. SAP SuccessFactors) and leveraging TechWolf’s labor market data to infer and structure Skills into profiles, eliminating manual efforts.
  • Governance & maintenance made simple: oversee and control Job Skill Profiles within your Job catalog through the TechWolf Console’s Job Governance interface, with collaborative ownership and tailored access for different user groups.
  • Skill synchronization: TechWolf synchronizes Job Skill Profiles across all relevant systems, harmonizing Skills across all systems.
  • Enriched downstream use cases: the accurate and up-to-date Skill data in SAP SuccessFactors can be used for downstream purposes within SAP.
  • Customer-owned infrastructure: every call to SuccessFactors is performed in the customer’s BTP tenant, giving the customer full visibility via BTP’s Monitor Message Processing view and keeping SuccessFactors credentials inside the customer’s BTP keystore.

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The Integration Flows

The Content Package contains two Job-related Integration Flows, each deployed in the customer’s SAP Integration Suite:
  • Query RoleSkillMappingEntity (SAP → TechWolf): TechWolf polls this iFlow on a regular schedule (bi-hourly by default) to fetch the current state of Job Role skill mappings from SuccessFactors.
  • Update RoleSkillMappingEntity (TechWolf → SAP): TechWolf calls this iFlow to push Job Skill Profile changes to SuccessFactors in near-real time.
Both iFlows authenticate to SuccessFactors using an OAuth 2 SAML Bearer Assertion backed by a customer-managed X.509 certificate, and carry the TechWolf AIR key in their request header so SuccessFactors can attribute traffic to the TechWolf Skill Sync partner solution.

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Reference Material

Reference materials and documentation can be found at:
  • TechWolf developer documentation: https://developers.techwolf.ai/
  • SAP SuccessFactors Talent Intelligence Hub documentation: Talent Intelligence Hub
  • SAP Integration Suite / Cloud Integration documentation: SAP Integration Suite
  • Used SAP SuccessFactors Talent Intelligence Hub OData calls:
    • POST /odata/v2/upsert for the RoleSkillMappingEntity (to add Skills to a Job Role)
    • DELETE /odata/v2/RoleSkillMappingEntity(RoleEntity_externalCode='<role_code>', externalCode='<role_skill_mapping_code>') (to remove Skills from a Job Role)
    • GET /odata/v2/RoleSkillMappingEntity?$filter=RoleEntity_externalCode eq '<role_code>' (to get the Skills for a Job Role)
    • GET /odata/v2/RoleEntity?$filter=externalCode in '<role_code>' (to check if a Job in TechWolf exists as a Job Role in SAP)
To deploy the integration, follow the Installation guide.