§ The result
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads softgarden by 11 points.
Rubric v1.0 scores the ATS-integrated entries SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting and softgarden at 53 and 42, a gap of 11 points. softgarden takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 6 for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70, softgarden 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 50% of the weighted advantage SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
softgarden
softgarden is a German cloud applicant tracking system (multiposting, career sites, applicant management and onboarding) with optional AI features: AI-Assisted Applicant Matching, which highlights applicants who closely match a job's requirements, and a newer LLM-based Screening Assistant, which scores each applicant against screening criteria.
§ The record
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting and softgarden 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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | DE |
| Founded | 1972 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70 · softgarden 42
5.6 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40 · softgarden 22
3.2 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 60 · softgarden 54
0.9 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 35 · softgarden 30
0.8 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62 · softgarden 58
0.5 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40 · softgarden 44
0.5 weighted points to softgarden
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62 · softgarden 58
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 +10.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +10.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 42 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 22 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 44 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 42 (F) | +11 | +10.8 |
§ 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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 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 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, across 3 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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