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# Overview

# Employee Skill Sync Integration with SAP SuccessFactors

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

## 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 employee skill data between SAP SuccessFactors and TechWolf.
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.

## 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 Growth Portfolios, providing a comprehensive and real-time
view of employees' skills. The integration also enables profile synchronization
between TechWolf and SAP, ensuring that both platforms' updates are consistently
reflected. Note that TechWolf **Employees** are linked to SAP **Per Person**
entities.

This can be further facilitated with the use of the
[TechWolf Skill Assistant <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](/integrations/skill-assistant/overview),
where employees can be notified of newly suggested skills and validate them.
This integration does not depend on the Skill Assistant; any other skill
validation approach can be used. The integration is agnostic to the skill
validation.

Besides skill presence or absence, the integration also synchronizes the
proficiency of the employees' skills. These proficiency levels can be set by the
employee themselves in the TechWolf Skill Assistant.

Changes that are made to the employee skill profile within TechWolf are
synchronized to SAP SuccessFactors instantaneously. Changes that are made to the
employee growth portfolio within SAP SuccessFactors are reflected back to the
TechWolf SkillEngine API on a regular basis (daily, weekly, ..., as requested).

**Key benefits:**

* TechWolf synchronizes employee skill profiles across all relevant systems,
  harmonizing skills across all systems.
* The accurate and up-to-date skill data in SAP SuccessFactors can be used for
  downstream purposes within SAP.
* As TechWolf does not rely on manual assessments (only validation), we increase
  employee adoption to your talent marketplace with automated skill profiles.

<Note>
  Within SAP, employees assigned to job roles automatically inherit all skills
  of those job roles, on top of any other skills they may have. To align the
  behavior, the Skill Assistant will also block the removal of these inherited
  skills from the employee's skill profile.
</Note>

## Reference Material

Reference materials and documentation can be found at:

* TechWolf developer documentation:
  [https://developers.techwolf.ai/ <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](https://developers.techwolf.ai/)
* TechWolf Skill Sync source IP addresses:
  [IP Addresses <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](/integrations/reference/ip-addresses)
* SAP SuccessFactors Talent Intelligence Hub documentation:
  [Talent Intelligence Hub <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](https://help.sap.com/docs/successfactors-platform/using-talent-intelligence-hub/talent-intelligence-hub)
* Used SAP SuccessFactors Talent Intelligence Hub REST API endpoints:
  * `PATCH /rest/ecosystem/wholeself/v1/growthPortfolios`
    ([REST API to Import Growth Portfolio Data <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](https://help.sap.com/docs/successfactors-platform/using-talent-intelligence-hub/rest-api-to-import-growth-portfolio-data))
* Used SAP SuccessFactors Integration Center Definitions:
  * See
    [Installation - Employees <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](/integrations/sap-skill-sync-integration/installation-employees)
    for the integration definitions. These are based on the default
    integration definitions by SAP, cfr.
    [Importing and Exporting of Talent Intelligence Hub Entities <Icon icon="link" iconType="solid" />](https://help.sap.com/docs/successfactors-platform/using-talent-intelligence-hub/importing-and-exporting-of-talent-intelligence-hub-entities)