{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"161640","rtpr_id":"nPnqqm9Na-20261006","ticker":"SAP","exchange":"NYSE","all_tickers":["SAP","SAPG"],"title":"SAP to Acquire TechWolf, Giving Enterprises Evidence-Based View of Work in the Age of AI","author":"PR Newswire","published_at":"2026-10-06T11:45:00.226Z","article_body":"SAP to Acquire TechWolf, Giving Enterprises Evidence-Based View of Work in the Age of AI\nPR Newswire\n\nWALLDORF, Germany and GHENT, Belgium, Oct. 6, 2026\n\nWALLDORF, Germany and GHENT, Belgium, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE\n(https://www.sap.com/)  (NYSE: SAP) and TechWolf today announced they have\nentered into an agreement for SAP to acquire TechWolf, provider of a leading\nAI work intelligence platform. TechWolf gives enterprises a continuously\nupdated view of the work their people do and the skills they have, using its\nproprietary data model called context graph for work. The acquisition will\nbring this context graph, along with TechWolf's AI models and applied AI\nresearch team, into SAP, establishing work intelligence as a strategic SAP\nasset. The deal is expected to close in Q4 2026, subject to usual closing\nconditions, including regulatory approval. Terms of the deal were not\ndisclosed.\n\nTechWolf works from existing HR and business systems that customers connect.\nIt builds its model of the organization at three levels: the work itself, down\nto the tasks inside a job; the skills people have and apply; and the external\nlabor market. It maps that against the customer's business strategy, so the\nleaders responsible for hiring, reskilling and redeployment are working from\nbetter information.\n\nTechWolf is expected to become an intelligent core of the SAP SuccessFactors\nportfolio, supporting the company's talent and work intelligence strategy.\nTechWolf will power workforce and talent strategies across SAP SuccessFactors,\nbringing skills mapping, workforce planning and organizational redesign\ninformed by context from across the Autonomous Enterprise. Once the\ntransaction closes, TechWolf and SAP will unify skills and work data to inform\nHR and business leaders to guide decisions about development, deployment and\nworkforce transformation.\n\n\"TechWolf's proprietary context graph for skills and work provides an\nexcellent grounding layer for agent queries regarding work and skills planning\nand talent management,\" said Manoj Swaminathan, president and chief product\nofficer for SAP Autonomous Suite and member of the Extended Board of SAP SE.\n\"This grounding layer perfectly matches our strategy. It makes token usage\nmore efficient, lowers the cost of deploying workforce agents and will make\nJoule more intelligent in AI-driven HR scenarios such as skills-based hiring,\nworkforce planning and role redesign.\"\n\nJoint SAP and TechWolf customers using the technology are seeing measurable\nresults from the partnership the two companies have had. Building on that\nfoundation, SAP and TechWolf will jointly co-innovate a concrete set of new\nAI-powered workforce and skills optimization products to be designed and\ndeveloped post-close. SAP plans to integrate TechWolf's solutions to a greater\ndegree, offering customers even better insights and work intelligence to help\norganizations plan reskilling, internal mobility and hiring.\n\n\"Organizations everywhere are trying to figure out how AI is reshaping work,\nand what their workforce needs to look like because of it,\" said Andreas De\nNeve, CEO and co-founder of TechWolf. \"We have spent eight years building the\nevidence layer to answer those questions. It's always been our mission to\nconnect skills, tasks and work to help employers solve AI transformation, and\njoining SAP will allow us to extend that mission across a broader set of\nbusiness context and larger scale. In this next chapter, we plan to build a\nworld-class AI company.\"\n\nSubject to closing and required consultation, SAP's current plans are for\nTechWolf to remain as an independent entity under CEO Andreas De Neve in its\nGhent headquarters, with offices in London, New York and San Francisco, and\nfor its platform to remain available to both SAP and non-SAP customers. J.P.\nMorgan served as exclusive financial advisor to TechWolf.\n\nVisit the SAP News Center (http://news.sap.com/) . Get SAP news\nvia LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/sap-news)  and Bluesky\n(https://bsky.app/profile/sap.com) .\n\nAbout TechWolf\n\nTechWolf is a leading applied AI company that helps large enterprises\nunderstand how AI is transforming work and what that means for their\nworkforce. Its platform brings together skills, work, and market intelligence,\ninto a single context graph for work\n(https://stayontheloop.substack.com/p/agents-at-scale-need-a-context-graph) ;\nIts open-source models have been downloaded more than two million times.\nTechWolf co-exists with systems enterprises already use, including SAP\nSuccessFactors and non-SAP applications, and connects with AI tools and\nagents. Customers include HSBC, Atlas Copco Group, GSK, Ericsson, AMD,\nMetLife, PayPal and Booking.com. The company offers EU and US data-residency,\nstandard encryption, access controls and certifications including ISO/IEC\n42001 and ISO/IEC 27001 that support EU AI Act governance and security. Learn\nmore at www.techwolf.ai (http://www.techwolf.ai) .\n\nAbout SAP\nAs a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP (NYSE:\nSAP) stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years,\norganizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting\nbusiness-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply\nchain, and customer experience. For more information,\nvisit https://www.sap.com/ (https://www.sap.com/) .\n\nThis press release was created with the assistance of artificial intelligence\nand has been reviewed by the editorial team.\n\nThis document contains forward-looking statements, which are predictions,\nprojections, or other statements about future events. These statements are\nbased on current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions that are subject to\nrisks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and outcomes to\nmaterially differ. Additional information regarding these risks and\nuncertainties may be found in our filings with the Securities and Exchange\nCommission, including but not limited to the risk factors section of SAP's\n2025 Annual Report on Form 20-F.\n\n© 2026 SAP SE. All rights reserved.\nSAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their\nrespective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE in Germany\nand other countries. Please see https://www.sap.com/copyright\n(https://www.sap.com/copyright)  for additional trademark information and\nnotices.\n\nNote to editors:\nTo preview and download broadcast-standard stock footage and press photos\ndigitally, please visit www.sap.com/photos (http://www.sap.com/photos) . On\nthis platform, you can find high resolution material for your media channels.\n\nFor customers interested in learning more about SAP products:\nGlobal Customer Center: +49 180 534-34-24\nUnited States Only: 1 (800) 872-1SAP (1-800-872-1727)\n\nPlease consider our privacy policy\n(https://www.sap.com/corporate/en/legal/privacy.html) . If you received this\npress release in your e-mail and you wish to unsubscribe to our mailing list\nplease contact press@sap.com (mailto:press@sap.com)  and write Unsubscribe in\nthe subject line.\n\n \n\nView original\ncontent:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sap-to-acquire-techwolf-giving-enterprises-evidence-based-view-of-work-in-the-age-of-ai-302899685.html\n(https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sap-to-acquire-techwolf-giving-enterprises-evidence-based-view-of-work-in-the-age-of-ai-302899685.html)\n\nSOURCE SAP SE\n\n\n\nFor more information, press only: Aimée Leabon, SAP, +1 (212) 653-9600, aimee.leabon@sap.com, EST Marcus Winkler, SAP, +49 151 571 18 691, marcus.winkler@sap.com, CEST Daniel Reinhardt, SAP, +49 151 168 10 157, daniel.reinhardt@sap.com, CEST Hanna Heine, SAP, +49 152 552 36 605, hanna.heine@sap.com, CEST SAP Press Room; press@sap.com Reinhard De Milt, TechWolf, +32 498 495781, reinhard.demilt@techwolf.ai, CEST\n\nCopyright (c) 2026 PR Newswire Association,LLC. All Rights Reserved.","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nPnqqm9Na-20261006","title":"SAP to Acquire TechWolf, Giving Enterprises Evidence-Based View of Work in the Age of AI","author":"PR Newswire","ticker":"SAP","created":"2026-10-06T11:45:00.226Z","tickers":["SAP","SAPG"],"exchange":"NYSE","article_body":"SAP to Acquire TechWolf, Giving Enterprises Evidence-Based View of Work in the Age of AI\nPR Newswire\n\nWALLDORF, Germany and GHENT, Belgium, Oct. 6, 2026\n\nWALLDORF, Germany and GHENT, Belgium, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE\n(https://www.sap.com/)  (NYSE: SAP) and TechWolf today announced they have\nentered into an agreement for SAP to acquire TechWolf, provider of a leading\nAI work intelligence platform. TechWolf gives enterprises a continuously\nupdated view of the work their people do and the skills they have, using its\nproprietary data model called context graph for work. The acquisition will\nbring this context graph, along with TechWolf's AI models and applied AI\nresearch team, into SAP, establishing work intelligence as a strategic SAP\nasset. The deal is expected to close in Q4 2026, subject to usual closing\nconditions, including regulatory approval. Terms of the deal were not\ndisclosed.\n\nTechWolf works from existing HR and business systems that customers connect.\nIt builds its model of the organization at three levels: the work itself, down\nto the tasks inside a job; the skills people have and apply; and the external\nlabor market. It maps that against the customer's business strategy, so the\nleaders responsible for hiring, reskilling and redeployment are working from\nbetter information.\n\nTechWolf is expected to become an intelligent core of the SAP SuccessFactors\nportfolio, supporting the company's talent and work intelligence strategy.\nTechWolf will power workforce and talent strategies across SAP SuccessFactors,\nbringing skills mapping, workforce planning and organizational redesign\ninformed by context from across the Autonomous Enterprise. Once the\ntransaction closes, TechWolf and SAP will unify skills and work data to inform\nHR and business leaders to guide decisions about development, deployment and\nworkforce transformation.\n\n\"TechWolf's proprietary context graph for skills and work provides an\nexcellent grounding layer for agent queries regarding work and skills planning\nand talent management,\" said Manoj Swaminathan, president and chief product\nofficer for SAP Autonomous Suite and member of the Extended Board of SAP SE.\n\"This grounding layer perfectly matches our strategy. It makes token usage\nmore efficient, lowers the cost of deploying workforce agents and will make\nJoule more intelligent in AI-driven HR scenarios such as skills-based hiring,\nworkforce planning and role redesign.\"\n\nJoint SAP and TechWolf customers using the technology are seeing measurable\nresults from the partnership the two companies have had. Building on that\nfoundation, SAP and TechWolf will jointly co-innovate a concrete set of new\nAI-powered workforce and skills optimization products to be designed and\ndeveloped post-close. SAP plans to integrate TechWolf's solutions to a greater\ndegree, offering customers even better insights and work intelligence to help\norganizations plan reskilling, internal mobility and hiring.\n\n\"Organizations everywhere are trying to figure out how AI is reshaping work,\nand what their workforce needs to look like because of it,\" said Andreas De\nNeve, CEO and co-founder of TechWolf. \"We have spent eight years building the\nevidence layer to answer those questions. It's always been our mission to\nconnect skills, tasks and work to help employers solve AI transformation, and\njoining SAP will allow us to extend that mission across a broader set of\nbusiness context and larger scale. In this next chapter, we plan to build a\nworld-class AI company.\"\n\nSubject to closing and required consultation, SAP's current plans are for\nTechWolf to remain as an independent entity under CEO Andreas De Neve in its\nGhent headquarters, with offices in London, New York and San Francisco, and\nfor its platform to remain available to both SAP and non-SAP customers. J.P.\nMorgan served as exclusive financial advisor to TechWolf.\n\nVisit the SAP News Center (http://news.sap.com/) . Get SAP news\nvia LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/sap-news)  and Bluesky\n(https://bsky.app/profile/sap.com) .\n\nAbout TechWolf\n\nTechWolf is a leading applied AI company that helps large enterprises\nunderstand how AI is transforming work and what that means for their\nworkforce. Its platform brings together skills, work, and market intelligence,\ninto a single context graph for work\n(https://stayontheloop.substack.com/p/agents-at-scale-need-a-context-graph) ;\nIts open-source models have been downloaded more than two million times.\nTechWolf co-exists with systems enterprises already use, including SAP\nSuccessFactors and non-SAP applications, and connects with AI tools and\nagents. Customers include HSBC, Atlas Copco Group, GSK, Ericsson, AMD,\nMetLife, PayPal and Booking.com. The company offers EU and US data-residency,\nstandard encryption, access controls and certifications including ISO/IEC\n42001 and ISO/IEC 27001 that support EU AI Act governance and security. Learn\nmore at www.techwolf.ai (http://www.techwolf.ai) .\n\nAbout SAP\nAs a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP (NYSE:\nSAP) stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years,\norganizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting\nbusiness-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply\nchain, and customer experience. For more information,\nvisit https://www.sap.com/ (https://www.sap.com/) .\n\nThis press release was created with the assistance of artificial intelligence\nand has been reviewed by the editorial team.\n\nThis document contains forward-looking statements, which are predictions,\nprojections, or other statements about future events. These statements are\nbased on current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions that are subject to\nrisks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and outcomes to\nmaterially differ. Additional information regarding these risks and\nuncertainties may be found in our filings with the Securities and Exchange\nCommission, including but not limited to the risk factors section of SAP's\n2025 Annual Report on Form 20-F.\n\n© 2026 SAP SE. All rights reserved.\nSAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their\nrespective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE in Germany\nand other countries. Please see https://www.sap.com/copyright\n(https://www.sap.com/copyright)  for additional trademark information and\nnotices.\n\nNote to editors:\nTo preview and download broadcast-standard stock footage and press photos\ndigitally, please visit www.sap.com/photos (http://www.sap.com/photos) . On\nthis platform, you can find high resolution material for your media channels.\n\nFor customers interested in learning more about SAP products:\nGlobal Customer Center: +49 180 534-34-24\nUnited States Only: 1 (800) 872-1SAP (1-800-872-1727)\n\nPlease consider our privacy policy\n(https://www.sap.com/corporate/en/legal/privacy.html) . If you received this\npress release in your e-mail and you wish to unsubscribe to our mailing list\nplease contact press@sap.com (mailto:press@sap.com)  and write Unsubscribe in\nthe subject line.\n\n \n\nView original\ncontent:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sap-to-acquire-techwolf-giving-enterprises-evidence-based-view-of-work-in-the-age-of-ai-302899685.html\n(https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sap-to-acquire-techwolf-giving-enterprises-evidence-based-view-of-work-in-the-age-of-ai-302899685.html)\n\nSOURCE SAP SE\n\n\n\nFor more information, press only: Aimée Leabon, SAP, +1 (212) 653-9600, aimee.leabon@sap.com, EST Marcus Winkler, SAP, +49 151 571 18 691, marcus.winkler@sap.com, CEST Daniel Reinhardt, SAP, +49 151 168 10 157, daniel.reinhardt@sap.com, CEST Hanna Heine, SAP, +49 152 552 36 605, hanna.heine@sap.com, CEST SAP Press Room; press@sap.com Reinhard De Milt, TechWolf, +32 498 495781, reinhard.demilt@techwolf.ai, CEST\n\nCopyright (c) 2026 PR Newswire Association,LLC. 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