Taleo

Overview

Taleo's value can be assessed in two ways. First, there's the understanding that managing and developing the talent of a organization is critically important to its overall success. Often, companies look at human resources in transactional terms. But, a holistic workforce approach views talent and performance management as a continuous process, whereby employees are aligned with the business goals and flexibility is built into the system. Secondly, Taleo provides a talent management solution that combines software, services, and best practices. They utilize the Software as a Service (SaaS) model and deliver it under a unified on-demand platform.

As a result, Taleo helps drive business success and value throughout the employee life-cycle. Organizations can "assess, acquire, develop, and align talent with business objectives while significantly reducing process costs, improving quality of hire, reducing risk, and achieving higher levels of performance." Moreover, you gain flexibility with lower total cost of ownership because it's delivered on-demand, along with a highly-scalable, secure, and reliable platform.

Value Proposition

Taleo's performance management solution helps manage the employee life-cycle and improve business success by better matching talent with goals, while reducing process costs, improving quality of hire, and reducing risk. Because it's a SaaS solution it's faster to install, cheaper to maintain, quicker to upgrade, and easier to access and use.

Products & Services

Taleo delivers it's talent management solutions in three editions: Large Enterprise (12,000+), Enterprise (between 5,001 - 12,000), and Small and Mid-Sized Business (up to 5,000). Within these editions, they are organized as:

• Taleo Performance (for large enterprise and enterprise) and Taleo Business Edition Perform (for SMBs) with modules that cover performance management, career management, goals management, and succession planning.

• Taleo Recruiting (for large enterprise and enterprise) and Taleo Business Edition Recruit (for SMBs) with modules that manage the recruiting of salaried professionals, hourly employees, and contractors.

• Taleo Platform provides a unified, single talent management platform that enables self-service configuration and integration tools, and reporting and analytics.

• Taleo Services provides consulting, implementation, and optimization services, an in-house training team, and support services.