CRAVANS Launches New Function for Visualizing Engineer Value in Their Cloud Service SOCRATES

Overview of New Functionality from CRAVANS

CRAVANS Co., Ltd., based in Koto, Tokyo, has announced the release of a groundbreaking new feature on January 16, 2026, within its cloud service SOCRATES. This feature, titled "WINGSⅡ × Automated Market Value Calculation for Engineers," aims to make the skills of IT engineers visible and facilitate project matching.

Background: Existing Challenges

In the past, many System Integrators (SIs), Software Engineering Service (SES) companies, and those with human resource strategies have faced several persistent challenges:

1. Ambiguity in Evaluation Criteria: Traditional evaluations depended heavily on subjective metrics like experience, project history, and manager ratings, making precise valuation difficult.
2. Disconnection from Market Value: There was often a disparity between internal assessments and real market conditions, leading to inconsistencies in recruitment, compensation, and training strategies.
3. Lack of Strategic Utilization: The evaluation basis for human capital data was unclear, resulting in a lack of clear guidelines for increasing talent value or aligning with management strategies.

Consequently, organizations struggled to implement appropriate compensation designs or optimize resources, risking a decline in competitiveness.

Capabilities of the New Function

CRAVANS leverages expertise from the iCD Association's state-of-the-art IT skills evaluation framework, WINGSⅡ, and integrates it with SOCRATES's automatic skill sheet analysis technology. WINGSⅡ aligns with the global standard SFIA (Skills Framework for the Information Age), providing an innovative framework for human resource evaluation.

The system automates the mapping of engineer skill information analyzed by SOCRATES to WINGSⅡ, facilitating objective and standardized task assessments.

Additionally, the SOCRATES service continuously accumulates thousands of skill sheets and market price data for active IT engineers. By employing AI to evaluate the similarity of skill sheets with cosine similarity and vector analysis, the feature delivers automatic market price calculations. This advancement brings transparency and precision to corporate talent strategies, automating the process from engineer assessment to market price estimation.

Key Points of the New Feature

Underpinning this new feature is CRAVANS's unique skill dictionary analysis and human capital evaluation engine based on AI processing. It achieves the following:

1. Visibility of Human Resource Levels via Automated Mapping to WINGSⅡ: By automating the understanding of the intricate concepts within the WINGSⅡ framework and profiling complex skill data, the challenge of talent evaluation previously faced by many organizations can be significantly reduced. It enables clear visualization of engineer skill levels based on standardized metrics, greatly enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of evaluation processes.

2. Real-Time Visualization of Engineer Market Prices: AI comprehensively analyzes skill sheets and market price data accumulated in SOCRATES, allowing for real-time assessment of engineers' market value. This transparency mitigates risks associated with subjective evaluations and contributes to improved resource procurement at fair prices.

3. Accelerating Strategic Decision-Making: By integrating skill visualization with market value calculation, companies can quantitatively assess the impact of investments in talent development and optimize skill portfolios. This provides essential human capital data to support management decisions regarding talent strategy, recruitment, and assignment, significantly strengthening strategic decision-making processes.

Implementation Examples in Organizations

Impact of the New Feature

1. Standardization and Accuracy of Evaluation Systems: The automated mapping to WINGSⅡ enables a unified standard for skill evaluation, reducing inconsistencies in talent assessment and facilitating the establishment of fair scaling and evaluation systems.

2. Optimal Talent Placement and Proposal Based on Market Value: With real-time market price estimation from SOCRATES, companies can make informed assignment decisions and enhance the accuracy of proposal activities, avoiding opportunity losses from undervaluation or overvaluation.

3. Advancement of Human Capital Management and Maximizing Investment Returns: By providing insight into skill portfolios and developmental impacts, organizations can prioritize investments in talent development and clarify their talent portfolio strategies. This enhances the speed and quality of management decisions, strengthening corporate competitiveness.

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Service Overview

- Service Name: SOCRATES
- Content: A cloud service for visualizing and automating skills matching in SES operations, along with a human capital evaluation engine.
- Service URL: SOCRATES Human Capital Valuation