Bersin & Associates Distinguishes Taleo for Breakthrough Usability, Unrivaled Infrastructure and Financial Viability in Its 2009 Report on the Industry's Top Solution Providers
DUBLIN, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/22/08 -- Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of unified on demand talent management software, today announced further industry validation of its fast-grow Performance Management solution for employee goal setting, assessments, performance reviews and career and succession planning. In a report issued last week by Talent Management analyst firm Bersin & Associates, Taleo Performance was praised for market leadership on crucial usability and technology metrics. Also --increasingly important in this volatile economic market -- Bersin endorsed Taleo for its company strength, growth and profitability as a vendor more likely to endure.
Bersin & Associates' "High-Impact Performance Management 2009: State of the Market, Practices and Buyer's Guide," issued last week, provides market analysis, outlook and predictions and well as side-by-side in-depth profiles and comparisons of 24 talent management vendors.
In the report, Taleo Performance -- the company's enterprise-class offering, first shipped in February, 2008, with the second major release announced last week -- is called out for completeness of product offering and leadership across Bersin's criteria in both performance and succession planning capabilities as well as user experience.
"Taleo Performance is truly a next-generation platform. The company’s approach to employee performance management is very different from what we found with the first generation of administrator-focused, transactional performance management systems. Most notably, the user experience in Taleo Performance does not subscribe to the common forms-based paradigm. Rather, it uses features, such as collaboration, analytics, visual indicators, performance support, contextual content and modal views, throughout the platform to engage the end-users and to help them make better decisions. Taleo also makes it easy for end-users to keep employee performance management and career management as part of their everyday experience. The product is deeply integrated with Microsoft Outlook. End-users can easily update goal progress, complete assessments, recei
