# Successfactors

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/successfactors/  
**Website:** https://www.successfactors.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

SuccessFactors is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) company founded in 2001 and an early Canaan Partners portfolio company that IPO'd in 2007 and was acquired by SAP in 2012. It is now delivered as the SAP SuccessFactors HXM (Human Experience Management) Suite, covering core HR (Employee Central), Recruiting, Onboarding, Performance & Goals, Compensation, Learning (LMS), Succession & Development, and Workforce Analytics. SuccessFactors exposes an extensive integration surface through OData v2 and OData v4 APIs (the SFAPI/OData platform) documented on the SAP Business Accelerator Hub, using OAuth 2.0 SAML bearer-assertion and basic authentication per customer datacenter instance.

## Kin Score — 13.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 12.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 79.6 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 2.6 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite OData API** — The SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite OData API set (OData v2 and v4) provides programmatic access to Employee Central, Recruiting, Onboarding, Performance & Goals, Compensation, Lea...

## Security (2)

- **Successfactors Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Successfactors Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Human Resources, HCM, HXM, Talent Management, Recruiting, Learning, Payroll, SAP, Enterprise, OData

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/successfactors/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.