Bangkok--17 Sep--marketwire Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, today announced the launch of Taleo Business Edition Perform, a software solution for automating the performance management and goal-setting process specifically for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). The product is built on the company's Taleo Business Edition Platform, and is fully integrated with the Taleo Business Edition Recruit. The new product offering provides SMBs with a comprehensive set of tools to attract, retain, assess and develop staff. A natural extension for Taleo Business Edition Recruit customers looking to create an overall talent management strategy, Taleo Business Edition Perform is an intuitive, highly configurable solution that enables employees and their managers to collaboratively create, customize and track their goals within personalized intranet web sites. Employees hired via the recruiting application will automatically have a detailed online employee profile generated for them in the new performance application. The profile is immediately ready to update with performance-related information and automatically pulls goals from the employee portal. Managers can use customizable templates in Taleo Business Edition Perform to assign roles, goals and tasks, while employees can customize the display of their web sites, helping to more fully engage the employee in the performance management process and increase user adoption. By integrating tools for recruitment and employee performance management, SMB organizations can gain more complete insight into identifying traits of its top performers in various functions, and ensuring a system for modeling, attracting, developing and retaining that type of talent throughout its organization. Further, Taleo Business Edition Platform allows organizations to create an even more robust solution via an open API for third party development and integration. Partners can build applications for Taleo Business Edition using self service application tools, thus providing best-of-breed solutions directly integrated into the product. The applications are exposed through Taleo Business Edition's user interface for a seamless look and feel. "In our business the ability to hire, retain and assess talent is critical," said Randy McGregor, Flight Operations at XOJet. "Having an integrated talent management solution for recruiting and performance management will give us the information we need for better decision making and ultimately drive business results." "We worked with Taleo to develop the first pre-integrated background screening solution for Taleo Business Edition," said Todd Owens, general manager for screening services at Intelius. "Our engineering team was able to rapidly design and implement an integration that is reliable, scalable, flexible and secure. Needless to say, within months our joint customers were able to begin realizing the tremendous efficiencies that result from integrating mission critical business processes." "With our new Taleo Business Edition Perform, available pre-integrated with our wildly successful Taleo Recruit, SMBs will be able to look holistically at their talent management data to make better decisions about their workforce and business," said Jason Blessing, general manager and group vice president of Taleo Business Edition. "Further, by taking a Facebook-like approach to opening our supporting Taleo Business Edition Platform, we make it easy to extend and configure the applications' functionality and access crucial staff context anywhere, anytime and on any device." Media Contact: Jaime Spuhler Tel: 904.493.8851 E-mail: [email protected] Agency Contact: Cameron Kenalty Tel: 416.644.2253 E-mail: [email protected]