Taleo Brings Complementary Solutions To The Oracle Public Cloud

On February 9th, Oracle announced its intention to acquire Dublin, CA based Taleo for $1.9B. Taleo is a cloud based talent management software provider with 5000 customers and 1400 employees. Following moves by rivals SAP and Salesforce.com, Oracle expands its offering in Cloud-based HCM with competitive acquisition of leading recruiting and talent management vendor Taleo.

Figure Source: Constellation Research

This acquisition is the latest in a string of moves by major players, among the most significant in recent months being SAP’s announcement in December to acquire SuccessFactors for $3.4B. In a market which, according to IDC, is expected to reach $8.1B by 2015, these moves make sense as players look to consolidate market share and capitalize on the shift in deployment preferences from on-premise to cloud-based services.

Constellation Research presented a very good analysis of this acquisition. Read the complete article here.