SAP has agreed to acquire TechWolf, adding the company's work intelligence technology to its human resources software business.
Terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approval and other customary conditions.
TechWolf develops software that analyses work, skills and labour market data to give employers an up-to-date view of how jobs are changing and what capabilities their workforce has. The business is expected to become part of SAP's SuccessFactors portfolio, supporting talent management and workforce planning.
The acquisition centres on TechWolf's so-called context graph for work, a data model that maps tasks within jobs, the skills employees hold and use, and external labour market signals. SAP plans to combine it with its own HR and business software to give managers more information for hiring, reskilling and redeployment decisions.
HR focus
The German software group said the deal would make work intelligence a strategic asset within the company. It also plans to bring TechWolf's AI models and applied AI research team into the business.
That would place TechWolf's technology at the centre of SAP's push to expand AI features across its enterprise software, especially in HR processes. The platform is intended to support skills mapping, workforce planning and organisational redesign across SAP's wider software estate.
Manoj Swaminathan, President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Autonomous Suite and Member of the Extended Board of SAP, said the company sees the technology as a foundation for AI-driven workforce tools.
"TechWolf's proprietary context graph for skills and work provides an excellent grounding layer for agent queries regarding work and skills planning and talent management," Swaminathan said. "This grounding layer perfectly matches our strategy. It makes token usage more efficient, lowers the cost of deploying workforce agents and will make Joule more intelligent in AI-driven HR scenarios such as skills-based hiring, workforce planning and role redesign."
SAP's Joule assistant is used across its software products, and the addition of TechWolf's data model is expected to improve how the system handles HR use cases tied to staffing, role design and internal mobility.
Existing partnership
The companies said they already share customers, and SAP pointed to measurable results from that relationship. The planned acquisition would allow deeper integration of TechWolf's software and support further product development after the deal closes.
Once completed, SAP intends to unify skills and work data from both businesses to help HR and business leaders make decisions on employee development, deployment and workforce transformation. It also expects to develop new AI-based products focused on workforce and skills optimisation.
TechWolf has spent eight years building its platform and counts HSBC, Atlas Copco Group, GSK, Ericsson, AMD, MetLife, PayPal and Booking.com among its customers. Its software works alongside existing HR systems, including SAP SuccessFactors and non-SAP applications.
Its models are available on an open-source basis and have been downloaded more than two million times, according to TechWolf. The company also offers data residency in Europe and the US, along with security and governance certifications including ISO/IEC 42001 and ISO/IEC 27001.
TechWolf future
Subject to closing and consultation requirements, TechWolf is expected to remain an independent entity under Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Andreas De Neve. The company is headquartered in Ghent and also has offices in London, New York and San Francisco.
Its platform is expected to remain available to both SAP and non-SAP customers, suggesting TechWolf will continue to serve clients that use rival HR and enterprise software systems.
For TechWolf, the agreement provides access to SAP's scale in enterprise applications as large employers try to assess how AI is changing jobs, skills needs and organisational structures.
"Organisations everywhere are trying to figure out how AI is reshaping work, and what their workforce needs to look like because of it," said Andreas De Neve, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of TechWolf. "We have spent eight years building the evidence layer to answer those questions. It's always been our mission to connect skills, tasks and work to help employers solve AI transformation, and joining SAP will allow us to extend that mission across a broader set of business context and larger scale. In this next chapter, we plan to build a world-class AI company."