Taleo Corporation was a publicly traded database vendor based in
Dublin, California which was acquired by Oracle in 2012.
Taleo's product offerings primarily focus on talent acquisition (
recruitment
Recruitment is the overall process of identifying, sourcing, screening, shortlisting, and interviewing candidates for jobs (either permanent or temporary) within an organization. Recruitment also is the processes involved in choosing individual ...
),
performance management,
learning and development
Training and development involve improving the effectiveness of organizations and the individuals and teams within them. Training may be viewed as related to immediate changes in organizational effectiveness via organized instruction, while devel ...
, 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 (HRMS / HRIS) products entirely via a
software-as-a-service (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 computer technology corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization. The company sells da ...
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 companies interested in developing online approaches to recruiting that incorporated the efficiencies of
supply-chain management
In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and stor ...
processes.
Viasite was later renamed Recruitsoft, Inc. In 1999, Recruitsoft registered as a Delaware corporation with headquarters in San Francisco, California, 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, Dow Chemical, Agilent, Hasbro, American Airlines, United Airlines, Deloitte&Touche, Bombardier Aerospace and Transportation, MetLife, Cabletron Systems, and Sutter Health.
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 in 2008, adding
compensation management in 2009, and including learning and
talent 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
The ''Fortune'' 500 is an annual list compiled and published by ''Fortune'' magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years. The list includes publicly held companies, along w ...
.
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:
* October 2003, White Amber
** added
contingent workforce 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 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
professional services organization that performed integration, implementation and performance optimization services worldwide.
Talent Genie
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See also
* Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX)
* List of acquisitions by Oracle
*List of talent management system companies
The following is a list of notable companies associated with talent management systems (TMS).
TMS companies
Other companies that produce TMS
References
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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
Software companies of the United States