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Skills Taxonomy Sync Integration with SAP SuccessFactors

This Deployment Guide provides instructions that will assist in the process of deploying the SAP SuccessFactors - TechWolf Skills Taxonomy 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.

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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 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.
The Skills Taxonomy Sync integration is still under active development, with new features and improvements being added. It is not feature-complete yet, and you may be requested to prepare additional or alternate setup steps to populate the Attributes Library with the necessary skills, or to have Attributes Library skills loaded into TechWolf.

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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 like JIRA and Confluence, to infer skills for employees and jobs. To provide a comprehensive and structured view of skills, TechWolf provides the feature to create a custom Skills Taxonomy, tailored to your business needs. This taxonomy provides a hierarchical structure of only the business-relevant skills for easy management and use. Likewise, the Talent Intelligence Hub module in SAP SuccessFactors provides the ability to create a custom Attributes Library, also containing only the business-relevant skills. This integration enables the synchronization of the TechWolf Skills Taxonomy with the SAP SuccessFactors Attributes Library. It ensures that the skills in both systems are the same and up-to-date. This enables the use of the subset of the skills in the TechWolf Vocabulary that is important for your business to also be used in SAP SuccessFactors, and conversely, any additional skills tracked in SAP SuccessFactors that are not part of the TechWolf Vocabulary can also be managed and used in TechWolf. Additionally, the integration tags the skills in the Attributes Library with the appropriate skill clusters from the TechWolf Skills Taxonomy. This provides extra structure and context to the Attributes Library and the skills therein. This integration serves as a critical enabler of the SAP - TechWolf Employee Skill Sync integration and SAP - TechWolf Job Skill Sync integration, as these rely on the presence of a shared skills vocabulary between both systems. Changes that are made to the TechWolf Skills Taxonomy are synchronized to SAP SuccessFactors on a regular basis (daily, weekly, …, as requested). Changes that are made to SAP SuccessFactors Attributes Library are also reflected back to TechWolf on a similar schedule. Key benefits:
  • TechWolf synchronizes the set of used skills between both systems, ensuring all business-relevant skills are available in both systems.
  • The accurate and up-to-date skill data in SAP SuccessFactors can be used for downstream purposes within SAP.
  • Having a unified set of skills in both systems enables the skill profiles of employees and jobs in SAP SuccessFactors and TechWolf to be synchronized seamlessly, using the Employee Skill Sync and Job Skill Sync integrations.
To make sure the skills added to the Attributes Library are recognized by the intelligent systems within SAP, the Standardization Process must be executed for these skills. This is a manual process that must be executed by your SAP administrator.It is not process-critical for all skills to be standardized, so the standardization process can be executed on a periodic basis, less frequently than the daily synchronization of the Attributes Library, e.g. quarterly. It is highly recommended to execute the standardization process at least once after the initial setup of the integration and initial population of the Attributes Library.

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Reference Material

Reference materials and documentation can be found at: