We are proud to be recognized in Forrester's Skills Intelligence Solutions Landscape, Q1 2026, one of the most authoritative overviews of the skills intelligence market, covering 27 vendors across geographies, industries, and use cases.
Being included is a strong signal. But for us, it's also an opportunity to go further than a badge.
Because here is the truth: when Forrester asked each vendor to select three extended use cases to highlight, we made a choice. A strategic one. Not because those are the only things we do, but because the format required focus.
The reality is that 365Talents is built to address the full spectrum of skills intelligence needs. Every core use case. Every extended use case. From the foundational to the strategic.
Let's unpack what that means and why it matters for your organization.
What Skills Intelligence solutions are actually for
Forrester defines skills intelligence solutions as AI-supported technology that builds, maintains, and analyzes an ontology or graph about what the workforce knows and can do.
That definition captures something important: this is not just about HR processes. It's about turning the most critical — and most underutilized — asset in any organization into a real strategic advantage: the skills of your people.
For too long, organizations have relied on static job descriptions, manual spreadsheets, and intuition to make talent decisions. Skills intelligence changes that. It makes skills data transparent, measurable, and actionable — and it powers every talent function, from hiring to career development to workforce planning.
This is exactly what 365Talents was built to do.
We cover the full picture: Core and extended
Forrester identifies two layers of use cases: core (what every buyer expects a skills intelligence solution to address) and extended (where vendors differentiate and where strategic value compounds).
Core use cases: our foundation
Build and maintain an enterprisewide skills graph. A skills graph is only as valuable as it is accurate, dynamic, and deeply connected to how your people actually work. At 365Talents, our AI continuously builds and updates a living skills graph using a configurable skills ontology, AI-driven skills inference from employee data and actions, and enterprisewide normalization. No static snapshots. No manual upkeep at scale.
Provide skills data to improve talent strategies. Skills data shouldn't sit in a silo. It needs to flow into the systems where talent decisions are made: HCM, LMS, ATS, and beyond. 365Talents is designed for deep integration with your HR ecosystem, enabling job architecture calibration, role mapping, and skills normalization across platforms. Your talent strategies become skills-powered — not skills-adjacent.
Understand and analyze current workforce skills. You cannot close gaps you cannot see. 365Talents gives HR leaders a real-time, dynamic view of what skills exist across their workforce, identified through employee self-declaration, AI inference, assessments, and validated signals. Skills gap analysis becomes actionable rather than merely descriptive.
Extended use cases: where strategy takes shape
Deploy or align talent to business objectives. Matching people to work is where agility is built or lost. 365Talents powers opportunity-to-skill and project-to-skill mapping, enabling organizations to staff smarter, move faster, and align talent to strategic priorities — not just open roles.
Explore job and skills market trends. Understanding where the external labor market is heading matters as much as knowing where your internal workforce stands today. 365Talents supports market skills benchmarking and role-based analytics so your workforce strategy is informed by reality, not assumption.
Improve future workforce and talent planning. The organizations that win are the ones that plan ahead. With 365Talents, leaders can anticipate future skills needs, model scenarios, and calibrate job architecture for what's coming — not just what exists today.
Normalize and improve job architecture. Inconsistent job titles, duplicated roles, misaligned skills definitions — these hidden inefficiencies cost organizations more than they realize. 365Talents brings clarity to job architecture, enabling consistent skills language and governance across the entire enterprise.
Provide skills insights for select functions only. Not every organization needs everything at once. 365Talents is designed to be adaptive: meeting organizations where they are, whether that means starting with a specific function like recruiting, learning, or mobility, and expanding from there.
Why "All use cases" is not a marketing claim
Being truly full-spectrum in skills intelligence is hard. It requires:
- A dynamic, configurable skills ontology that evolves with your business — not a rigid taxonomy imposed on your people
- AI that infers, validates, and enriches skills continuously — not just collects self-declarations
- Deep integrations with the systems where work actually happens
- A human-centered design that drives employee engagement and adoption — because skills data is only as good as the participation it generates
- Workforce intelligence that turns raw skills data into decision-ready insights for HR leaders and business managers alike
This is the 365Talents approach. And it's been validated by organizations like SNCF, Veolia, Société Générale, and GE, who trust us not just to manage skills, but to transform how they build workforce resilience.
The market is moving fast, so are we
Forrester identifies three key dynamics shaping this market right now:
The main trend is a shift from talent workflow tools to enterprise-wide business impact. The primary challenge is that HR's limited AI and data fluency slows adoption. And the top disruptor is the growing demand for sophisticated, validated skills signals, beyond self-declaration alone.
365Talents is ahead on all three.
We've been investing in AI-powered Adaptive Talent Intelligence since 2015, long before it became a market imperative. We are ISO 42001 certified, reflecting our commitment to responsible, explainable AI. And our hybrid validation approach — combining employee engagement, AI inference, and human-in-the-loop verification — directly addresses the signal quality challenge Forrester highlights.
As agentic AI capabilities reshape what's possible, as skills intelligence expands into competencies and task data, and as ecosystem complexity grows, 365Talents is built to move with you. Not just for today's use case. For the entire journey.
Start your skills journey with us
Being named in the Forrester Skills Intelligence Solutions Landscape is a milestone. But what matters more is what it signals about where this market is going — and why organizations need a partner that can go the full distance with them.
At 365Talents, we don't believe in one-size-fits-all. We believe in adaptive, skills-first intelligence that evolves with your workforce and fuels your business transformation.
Whether you're starting your skills journey or ready to scale it across the enterprise, we're here.
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365Talents is an AI-powered Adaptive Talent Intelligence solution helping organizations like EY, GE, Veolia, and Société Générale future-proof their workforce and embrace a Skills-Based Organization approach.
