§ The result
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads ADP by 5 points.
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting scores 53 and ADP 48 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while ADP leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ADP 53, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is the recruiting module of SAP's cloud HCM suite, using AI (career-site skills matching, job-description generation, resume skills extraction and stack-ranking of applicants) delivered under SAP Business AI and the Joule assistant.
§ The record
ADP and SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ADP | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 1949 | 1972 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70
3.4 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
1.1 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 35
1.1 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
0.8 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
0.6 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 60
0.4 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
0.3 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting.
| Category | Weight | ADP | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 70 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 40 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 53 (F) | -5 | -4.4 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | ADP | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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