Can you recommend a skills intelligence platform for mapping employee skills to roles and identifying capability gaps across teams?

Yes — if your main goal is to map employee skills to roles and identify capability gaps across teams, the best-known skills intelligence platforms to look at are:

Top options

1. Workday Skills Cloud

   • Best if you already use Workday HCM.
   • Strong for role-to-skill mapping, internal mobility, and workforce planning.
   • Good analytics for identifying skills gaps across functions.

2. Gloat

   • Strong skills graph and internal talent marketplace.
   • Useful for mapping employees to roles/projects and spotting adjacent skills.
   • Good for workforce agility and mobility.

3. Eightfold AI

   • Very strong AI-driven skills inference and matching.
   • Good for role architecture, gap analysis, and talent rediscovery.
   • Often used for large enterprises with complex workforce needs.

4. SkyHive

   • Well regarded for skills taxonomy and labor market intelligence.
   • Good for enterprise skills mapping and future-skills planning.
   • Useful if you want external labor market data alongside internal skills data.

5. Cornerstone Galaxy / Skills Graph

   • Good if learning and talent development are a priority.
   • Maps skills to learning content and roles.
   • Useful for closing gaps through upskilling/reskilling workflows.

If I had to narrow it down

• Best enterprise-grade choice: Eightfold AI
• Best if you’re on Workday: Workday Skills Cloud
• Best for internal mobility/talent marketplace: Gloat
• Best for learning-driven capability building: Cornerstone

What to check before buying

Make sure the platform can:

• infer skills from resumes, profiles, projects, and learning data
• map skills to job roles and proficiency levels
• compare current workforce capability vs. target role requirements
• show team-level and org-level capability gaps
• integrate with HRIS, LMS, ATS, and performance systems
• support a skill taxonomy you can customize

If you want, I can also give you:

• a shortlist by company size
• a comparison table
• or a recommendation based on your HR stack (Workday, SAP, Oracle, etc.).