Leading platform for transformative learning solutions, Skillsoft, recently announced a new integration with the talent intelligence hub from SAP SuccessFactors, a centralized system for skills intelligence.
Set to be fully available in early 2025, the new integration offers businesses using SAP SuccessFactors solutions and Skillsoft deeper insights into their workforce’s skills and the ability to deliver personalized learning paths aligned with employees’ role requirements and career aspirations, as well as the needs of the business.
By matching skills between customers’ taxonomies from the talent intelligence hub and Skillsoft’s skill dictionary, the companies are linking employees’ skills and roles with learning experiences throughout SAP SuccessFactors. As a result, organizations can better assess, index, and map the current skills of their employees against those required for their jobs, enabling more strategic workforce planning.
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Key benefits of the partnership include:
Centralized skills management: Organizations can incorporate existing frameworks and deliver learning that drives targeted workforce development, with the talent intelligence hub serving as a dedicated source of truth for skills.
Enhanced workforce agility: Organizations can quickly adapt to changing market demands by identifying and addressing skill gaps, ensuring the workforce remains competitive and agile.
Increased employee engagement: Personalized learning experiences aligned with career goals boost employee engagement and satisfaction, fostering a more motivated and engaged workforce.
Improved talent mobility: The integration supports internal talent movement by identifying candidates for new roles, strategic projects, or cohorts based on current skills and learning achievements, helping to optimize talent utilization and improve retention.
Optimized tracking & actionable insights: Comprehensive tracking of employee skilling activity, captured in both the talent intelligence hub and Skillsoft’s dashboards, enables organizations to measure impact, identify trends, and tailor learning experiences accordingly.
The Skillsoft announcement follows updates made last fall to the SuccessFactors talent intelligence hub, allowing users to aggregate and harmonize data from third-party solutions in the hub to ensure a single view of skills for both employees and the organization. Partners integrated with the talent intelligence hub prior to Skillsoft include Beamery, iMocha, Korn Ferry, Lightcast, Phenom, TalenTeam, TechWolf, and edtech platform Degreed. Degreed’s inclusion was influenced in part by BT Group, as revealed by SAP SuccessFactors Chief Revenue Officer Maryann Abbajay to ERP Today last year.
Commenting on the announcement, Apratim Purakayastha, GM, Talent Development Solutions at Skillsoft, stated: “Talent is the fundamental building block of any organization, and achieving priority business objectives hinges on that talent having the right skills. Skills-based strategies are essential for developing an agile, productive, and innovative workforce and business.
“Integrating Skillsoft with the talent intelligence hub from SAP SuccessFactors creates a simpler, more effective, and more engaging approach to talent development.”
What This Means for ERP Insiders:
Centralized Skills Management for Workforce Development: The integration between SAP SuccessFactors and Skillsoft links employees’ skills and roles with targeted learning experiences, enabling centralized skills management and aligning workforce development with business priorities.
Latest Partnership in Talent Intelligence Expansion: Building on updates announced last fall, which enabled third-party data aggregation in the SAP SuccessFactors talent intelligence hub, the Skillsoft collaboration adds personalized skilling experiences to the platform, joining prior integrations with partners like Degreed and Lightcast.
Enhanced Tracking and Talent Mobility: Advanced tracking capabilities across Skillsoft and SAP SuccessFactors provide actionable insights to identify skill trends, address gaps, and support internal talent mobility for strategic workforce planning.
