With the 2H 2026 release and throughout the remainder of the year, we’re taking the next step toward Autonomous HCM, bringing together agentic AI, trusted workforce data, and HR applications to help deliver the outcomes that matter most to organizations. At its core are three pillars: automate the HR function to release capacity from administrative work, redesign how tasks, workflows, roles, and teams are structured across people and AI, and reinvent how organizations recruit, develop, move, and reward their people.

This vision comes to life through working together across 麻豆原创 applications to help carry out end-to-end HR processes and help people make better decisions, faster, all within a single workspace: . This is what it looks like when AI works across an organization鈥檚 data, applications, and processes: not more AI for the sake of AI, but AI that delivers impact you can measure.

Building on the 麻豆原创 investments organizations have already made, the innovations we鈥檙e delivering throughout the second half of 2026 help automate, redesign, and reinvent work to realize the full promise of Autonomous HCM.

These innovations span the full employee lifecycle:

Plan & hire

Finding, hiring, and onboarding the right talent gets easier and faster, with every step aligned to business needs.

• As AI drives up application volumes, recruiters risk spending more time clearing a queue than assessing if a hire works for the business. can address this with repeatable, configurable screening that helps narrow large applicant pools to a focused shortlist. builds on that, with results now fully reportable in Report Builder, giving recruiters visibility into the reasoning behind AI-assisted decisions. Together, they help free up the time and attention to do what the business actually needs鈥攁pply their judgement to identify and engage the candidates most likely to succeed.

• helps put agentic capability directly inside the recruiter workflow so hiring never loses momentum, with monitoring pipelines and booking interviews through agentic scheduling, Winston Interview delivering a conversational AI-led screening experience, and the Interview Summary Agent automatically capturing and posting a structured summary to the candidate profile.

• Helping new hires get up to speed and start contributing faster, the equips HR teams to deliver personalized, timely onboarding at scale, with intelligent prioritization, simplified onboarding task creation, and automated custom form conversion.

Manage & pay

These innovations help organizations work more efficiently and stay compliant while giving employees fast, seamless support to reduce the routine inquiry burden on HR teams.

• The helps build trust in payroll so employees can have confidence in every paycheck. Administrators can quickly identify anomalies, resolve issues, and stay ahead of compliance, while employees can get direct access to clear, confident answers about their pay without raising a support ticket.

• The can reduce manual effort, prevent bottlenecks, and keep HR processes moving, proactively resolving workforce and payroll data issues, automating employee and job changes, and streamlining position management. It can also detect approval bottlenecks, nudge approvers, and recommend next steps.

• The can give HR administrators a smarter way to manage day-to-day system operations鈥攆rom audit readiness and compliance tracking to time and benefits configurations鈥攔educing routine maintenance and helping HR teams drive continuous improvement and innovation.

Develop & grow

These innovations connect skill-building, learning, and career development into a more intentional experience designed for continuous growth.

• The helps move organizations to proactive workforce readiness, connecting compliance monitoring, upskilling, and development in one experience. It can guide the right learning actions at the right time for employees, managers, and admins, from flagging compliance deadlines to identifying skill gaps and recommending targeted learning.

• People perform at their best when they know their employer is invested in their development. The helps employees close skill gaps, build personalized development plans, and set meaningful goals. For leaders, conversational talent discovery through Joule helps surface internal candidates, successors, and experts with a clear explanation of what shaped each result, helping organizations match the right talent to opportunities and grow people from within.

The next step toward Autonomous HCM

These are not standalone capabilities. Together, they are Autonomous HCM in action: AI working with trusted data and HR processes to remove friction, surface insight, and give people the space to focus on outcomes that matter. The organizations building that way today are the ones that will lead tomorrow.

Discover what鈥檚 new in the 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors 2H 2026 release with the or .

Rebecca Carr is president of HCM Products for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors and CEO for SmartRecruiters.

Today, we鈥檙e announcing that is now integrated with , working to deliver a unified experience, connected data, and integration with AI companion and to embed intelligent assistance directly into hiring workflows to help teams move faster, make better decisions, and deliver better candidate experiences. This integration, following 麻豆原创鈥檚 acquisition of SmartRecruiters in September 2025, establishes the foundation for a fully connected talent architecture, where hiring decisions, skills intelligence, and workforce planning can operate as one system.

Advancing intelligent hiring with SmartRecruiters for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors

The solution can deliver a consistent, end-to-end hiring experience designed to meet the scale, speed, and intelligence requirements of modern organizations. By combining intuitive workflows with embedded AI, recruiters can eliminate repetitive administrative tasks and focus on higher value interactions, while candidates move through a streamlined, personalized journey from first touch to offer.

The integration with 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors HCM builds on these capabilities by connecting hiring processes to the full employee lifecycle and the broader business, helping to ensure that every hiring decision is grounded in real-time data and organizational context. Designed for scale, SmartRecruiters for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors helps set the foundation for a complete intelligence layer across hiring and HR, with people, job, and organizational data flowing seamlessly between 麻豆原创 and SmartRecruiters.

Organizations can gain a more predictable hiring process with streamlined workflows, consistent tools, and shared real-time data across each hiring stage. They can expect:

• Single login: one entry point into 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors and SmartRecruiters for recruiters, hiring managers, and approvers
• Unified navigation: a seamless experience across 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors and SmartRecruiters to help reduce complexity and speed up adoption
• Aligned data: synchronized people, job, and organizational data that flows between systems, helping to ensure accuracy and consistency end to end

In practice, core organizational data like job families, cost centers, and locations can flow automatically from 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors into SmartRecruiters, helping to eliminate manual entry and inconsistencies. New roles open with these attributes already applied, and user management is just as smooth: recruiters, hiring managers, and approvers created in 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors appear in SmartRecruiters with the right permissions, helping to reduce errors and keep approval flows and reporting clean. As integration deepens, hiring becomes fully connected to core HR and workforce systems, creating a unified, trusted foundation for talent decisions across the enterprise.

With the enhanced benefits of SmartRecruiters for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors, simple and flexible integration paths are now available for customers currently using the 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors Recruiting solution. 麻豆原创 will continue to honor all contracts, and customers will not be required to migrate.

Integration that activates enterprise鈥�ready AI

With 麻豆原创鈥檚 continued investment, SmartRecruiters for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors is evolving quickly, bringing AI-driven innovation to every part of the hiring experience. High-volume hiring can become high-quality hiring through AI-assisted workflows, including intuitive applications, automated scheduling, intelligent matching, and streamlined interview feedback.

Beginning in 2026, Winston and 麻豆原创鈥檚 generative AI solution will work together as connected agents. Additionally, new protections such as fraud detection, enhanced consent management, and applicant data transferability will help embed trust in the hiring cycle, strengthening both system integrity and candidate confidence.

From talent acquisition to talent readiness

As organizations look beyond filling roles to building future-proof capabilities, intelligent hiring becomes just one part of a broader talent strategy. The power of integration delivered by SmartRecruiters for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors extends beyond hiring, creating a connected, AI-enabled talent experience across the entire 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors HCM suite and, ultimately, . This is how organizations become skills-ready: hiring decisions tied to outcomes, and employees supported with clear paths to grow and contribute.

See SmartRecruiters for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors in action:聽Catch the聽聽of our March 5 webinar – 鈥淭he Future of Intelligent Hiring鈥� – to explore how 麻豆原创 is redefining hiring, talent orchestration, and long-term workforce strategy.

Lara Albert is chief marketing officer, 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors.
Rebecca Carr is CEO of SmartRecruiters, an 麻豆原创 company.

Attracting and hiring the best talent is more important and more competitive than ever before. According to the , 70% of organizations plan to hire new staff with emerging in-demand skills by 2030. Yet, more than three-quarters of board members and C-suite executives regard skills and talent availability as a for their organizations.

The message is clear: hiring isn鈥檛 just an HR challenge. It鈥檚 a business imperative.聽

With 麻豆原创鈥檚 recent acquisition of SmartRecruiters, we are thrilled about the opportunity to help our customers face this challenge head-on. As entrepreneurs and business leaders, we鈥檝e been at the forefront of innovation in the HCM market, and we recognize that we are at a pivotal moment that demands more than incremental improvements. Together, we鈥檙e excited to deliver bold innovation and flexibility to help our customers not only attract and hire top talent, but to continuously nurture that talent to learn, grow, and push the boundaries of what is possible.聽

Uniting talent acquisition and HCM leadership

麻豆原创 SuccessFactors HCM is an AI-enabled global suite of HR solutions, expanding across core HR and payroll, talent management, employee experience, analytics, and more. SmartRecruiters is a leading recruiting AI company with the mission of making hiring easy and deep expertise in high-volume recruiting, recruitment automation, and AI-enabled candidate sourcing, experience, and engagement.

Individually, we have led the way in building robust talent acquisition software to empower thousands of organizations to attract, engage, and hire the best talent. United, we are amplifying our impact.

Combining the scale of 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors, the depth of 麻豆原创 Business AI, and the expertise of SmartRecruiters will result in robust benefits for our customers.

• User-friendly interfaces and seamless workflows will provide improved decision-making, reduced time-to hire, and better experiences for candidates, hiring managers, and recruiters.
• Enhanced AI-enabled recruiting and hiring capabilities will deliver faster, smarter, and more equitable recruiting experiences — all with the relevant, reliable, and responsible approach of 麻豆原创 Business AI. We will be able to enhance our ability to deliver intelligent candidate recommendations, predictive hiring insights, and personalized candidate experiences.
• The benefits of bringing our products together extend beyond the hiring process. A single system of record and harmonized data across SmartRecruiters and 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors will provide rich insights into talent pools, hiring bottlenecks, and workforce planning — because talent acquisition is only the start of an employee鈥檚 journey with an organization.聽

Talent acquisition is no longer just about filling roles. Together, 麻豆原创 and SmartRecruiters will help organizations build smarter, more resilient workforces that are agile, skills-driven, and ready to meet the future head-on.

Dan Beck is general manager and chief product officer for 麻豆原创 SuccessFactors.
Rebecca Carr is CEO of SmartRecruiters, an 麻豆原创 company.