Taleo Corporation was a publicly traded database vendor based in
Dublin
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,
California
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, which was acquired by Oracle in 2012.
Taleo's product offerings primarily focus on talent acquisition (
recruitment
Recruitment is #Process, the overall process of identifying, sourcing, screening, shortlisting, and interviewing candidates for Job (role), jobs (either permanent or temporary) within an organization. Recruitment also is the process involved in ...
),
performance management
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,
learning and development
Training and development involves improving the effectiveness of organizations and the individuals and teams within them. Training may be viewed as being related to immediate changes in effectiveness via organized instruction, while development ...
, and
compensation management. These capabilities combine to provide what Taleo calls "Talent Intelligence" — an enhanced level of insight into candidates and employees. Taleo sells its
Human resource management system
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(HRMS / HRIS) products entirely via a
software-as-a-service
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(SaaS) model, in which all software and information resides in data centers operated and secured by Taleo.
On February 9, 2012,
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was ...
acquired Taleo Corporation for $1.9 billion.
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Oracle Corporation continues to use the Taleo software name for its
talent-management software suite. As of December 2013, Taleo software had over 20 million users.
History
Taleo has its roots in Canada, where in 1996 Martin Ouellet established Viasite, a French-language job-board for candidates and employers. Ouellet and Louis Têtu soon began working with
Fortune 500
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companies interested in developing online approaches to recruiting that incorporated the efficiencies of
supply-chain management processes.
Viasite was later renamed Recruitsoft, Inc. In 1999, Recruitsoft registered as a Delaware corporation with headquarters in
San Francisco, California
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, and launched Recruiter WebTop, an online hiring management system.
Global expansion followed, and by 2001 the company had secured customer relationships with large enterprises including
Hewlett Packard
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,
Dow Chemical
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,
Agilent,
Hasbro
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,
American Airlines
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,
United Airlines
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,
Deloitte&Touche, Bombardier Aerospace and Transportation,
MetLife
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,
Cabletron Systems, and
Sutter Health
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Sutter Hospital Association was founded in 1921 as a ...
.
Recruitsoft, Inc. changed its name to Taleo Corporation in March 2004.
As the talent-management market matured, Taleo added products and capabilities, integrating recruiting with
performance management
Business performance management (BPM) (also known as corporate performance management (CPM) enterprise performance management (EPM),) is a management approach which encompasses a set of processes and analytical tools to ensure that a business o ...
in 2008, adding compensation management in 2009, and including learning and
talent development
Training and development involves improving the effectiveness of organizations and the individuals and teams within them. Training may be viewed as being related to immediate changes in effectiveness via organized instruction, while development ...
in 2010. , Taleo made solutions available in 187 countries and in 31 languages.
In August 2011, Taleo reported it had more than 5,000 customers ranging from
small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to large global enterprises, including nearly half of the
Fortune 100
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.
R&D
Taleo operated
R&D facilities in
Quebec City, Canada;
Kraków, Poland; and
Jacksonville, Fla., with additional development staff in its Dublin, Calif., headquarters and other locations.
Taleo's fiscal 2010 R&D investment was approximately $41 million. Jason Blessing was Taleo's Executive Vice President of Products & Technology.
Acquisitions
In addition to its own R&D efforts, Taleo expanded its product offerings through the
acquisition of third-party solutions, talent and
intellectual property
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:
* October 2003, White Amber
** added
contingent workforce
Contingent work, casual work, gig work or contract work, is an employment relationship with limited job security, payment on a piece work basis, typically part-time (typically with variable hours) that is considered non-permanent.
According to t ...
management to the Taleo Enterprise platform
* April 2005, Recruitforce.com
** became the foundation of Taleo Business Edition
* March 2007, JOBFlash
** integrated
IVR, interview, scheduling, and high-volume hourly hiring capabilities into Taleo Enterprise; created a complementary offering to Taleo Business Edition
* July 2007, WetFeet Inc.
** сustomers of WetFeet Recruiter
applicant tracking system
An applicant tracking system (ATS) is a software application that enables the electronic handling of recruitment and hiring processes.
An ATS is very similar to a customer relationship management (CRM) system, but is designed for recruitment tr ...
transitioned to Taleo Enterprise and to Taleo Business Edition
* July 2008, Vurv Technology
** broadened Taleo's unified talent-management and Applicant tracking system (ATS) capabilities
* January 2010, Worldwide Compensation
** compensation management software, consulting services and domain expertise
* September 2010,
Learn.com
** SaaS
Learning Management System and industry expertise in corporate learning
* April 2011, Cytiva
** customers of Cytiva recruiting management solution transitioned to Taleo Recruit™ for SMBs or to Taleo Recruiting™ for enterprises
* July 2011, Jobpartners
** customers of Jobpartners' talent-management solution transitioned to Taleo Business Edition or to Taleo Enterprise
Products and services
Taleo Corp marketed Talent Management platforms for SMBs (as Taleo Business Edition) and
enterprises (as Taleo Enterprise). Both Taleo Business Edition and Taleo Enterprise were
modular offerings that allowed customers to add capabilities as they required them.
Taleo Corp operated a
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organization that performed integration, implementation and performance optimization services worldwide.
Talent Genie
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See also
*Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX)
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Descrip ...
*List of acquisitions by Oracle
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Oracle's version does not include value of the acquisition.
See also :Sun Microsystems acquisitions (Sun was acqu ...
* List of talent management system companies
References
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External links
Taleo Official Website
Business services companies established in 1996
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
Oracle acquisitions
Companies based in Alameda County, California
Dublin, California
Software companies established in 1996
1996 establishments in Quebec
Human resource management software
Software performance management
Recruitment software
Learning management systems
2012 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States