industry software successor oracle founded 1996 quebec city canada headquarters dublin california u.s. key people michael gregoire chairman and ceo neil hudspith chief customer officer jason blessing evp products & technology heidi melin chief marketing officer doug jeffries chief financial officer dwayne joyce canadian sales products human resources software owner oracle corporation website www.taleo.com taleo corporation was a publicly traded database vendor based in dublin california . 1 taleo s product offerings primarily focus on talent acquisition recruitment performance management learning and development and compensation management . these capabilities combine to provide what taleo calls talent intelligence an enhanced level of insight into candidates and employees . 2 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 . 3 on february 9 2012 oracle corporation acquired taleo corporation for 1.9 billion . 4 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 . 5 contents 1 history 1.1 r & d 1.2 acquisitions 2 products and services 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 t tu soon began working with fortune 500 companies interested in developing online approaches to recruiting that incorporated the efficiencies of supply chain management processes . citation needed 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 . 6 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 . 7 recruitsoft inc. changed its name to taleo corporation in march 2004 . 8 as the talent management market matured taleo added products and capabilities integrating recruiting with performance management in 2008 9 adding compensation management in 2009 10 and including learning and talent development in 2010 . 11 as of 2010 update taleo made solutions available in 187 countries and in 31 languages . 1 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 . 12 r & d edit taleo operated r & d facilities in quebec city canada ; krak w poland ; and jacksonville fla. with additional development staff in its dublin calif. headquarters and other locations . 1 taleo s fiscal 2010 r & d investment was approximately 41 million . jason blessing was taleo s executive vice president of products & technology . acquisitions edit 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 13 april 2005 recruitforce.com became the foundation of taleo business edition 14 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. customers 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 edit taleo corp marketed talent management platforms for smbs as taleo business edition and enterprises as taleo enterprise . both taleo business edition and taleo enterprise are modular offerings that allow customers to add capabilities as they require them . citation needed taleo corp operated a professional services organization that performs integration implementation and performance optimization services worldwide . 15 references edit a b c taleo annual report 2010 taleo company overview taleo talent management cloud infrastructure overview larry dignan february 9 2012 . oracle buys taleo for 1.9 billion ; saas consolidation ramps . zdnet . retrieved february 9 2012 . http www.capterra.com infographics top talent management software taleo corporation sec filing from 10 12g may 2 2005 recruiterwebtop version 4.0 expands global capabilities for recruitsoft clients worldwide 1 taleo corporation sec filing form 10 12g may 2 2005 taleo unveils performance management solution for small and medium sized business 2 taleo delivers compensation management for small and medium businesses 3 taleo acquires learn.com taleo s momentum with enterprises and smbs keeps building recruitsoft acquires white amber to create recruitsoft workforce ondemand acquisition of recruitforce.com inc. excerpt from taleo 10 k filed march 16 2007 taleo professional services overview external links edit taleo official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title taleo & oldid 705352494 categories employmentsoftware companies based in californiacompanies formerly listed on nasdaqoracle acquisitionscompanies based in quebec citysoftware companies established in 1996hidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from january 2014articles containing potentially dated statements from 2010all articles containing potentially dated statementsarticles with unsourced statements from january 2012articles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 february 2016 at 00 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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