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Learn.com and Taleo Join Forces to Support
Comprehensive Employee Development
Alliance
Allows Companies to Engage and Develop Employees through Social and Formal
Learning Methods
SUNRISE,
Florida – Sep 15, 2009 -- Learn.com®,
today announced it has been selected by Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of on-demand
talent management solutions, as its premier learning
management system (LMS) partner. This alliance will integrate with Taleo
Development, a new development planning application which is part of the
Taleo 10™ talent management solution, also announced today.
Taleo Development™ allows employees and their
managers to build development plans that are linked with their goals,
performance reviews and career plans. This connection ensures that these development plans are well thought
out and frequently revisited. It
also improves the connection between development plans, management
expectations and the employee’s career objectives.
Taleo Development includes employee development
plans for building competencies and "social learning" fostered by peer-based
learning activities such as coaching, mentoring, and experiential learning.
Additionally, through its partnership with Learn.com, Taleo will also offer
customers actionable, competency-based formal learning activities.
Taleo and Learn.com will tightly integrate Taleo
Development with the LearnCenter LMS. This integration will allow Taleo Development to link directly to
training courses managed by Learn.com. Communication will be two-way so that learning assessment scores can
be uploaded to Taleo Development, allowing management to evaluate the
employee’s proficiency against each development activity.
By linking actionable development activities from
the LearnCenter LMS to individual development plans, Taleo customers will be
able to:
- Boost
employee engagement and retention by showing employees a clear career
development plan and what it will take to achieve the plan
- Improve
their development plans, which will, in turn increase employee
productivity
- Enable
real-time talent development by dynamically aligning employee development
plans with changing goals and business strategies.
As part of this partnership, Taleo and Learn.com
will jointly market end-to-end talent
management solutions to customers and prospects. Together, they will offer a single
source for a tightly integrated talent management solution.
"Our latest research shows that employee development
is one of the most vital elements in a high-performing organization today,"
said Josh Bersin, CEO of Bersin & Associates, a leading industry research
and advisory services firm. "Taleo’s partnership with Learn.com now enables
the company to offer a complete solution for corporate learning management."
Taleo helps companies create a performance-driven
culture by better understanding, engaging and developing their pivotal
talent. Taleo is the only talent management solution that aligns an employee’s
development activities within the LMS with other talent processes such as
recruiting, performance and succession.
"Our alliance with Learn.com allows us to boost
the Taleo 10 talent management solution with content, coursework and
competencies from Learn.com," said Al Campa, Chief Marketing Officer at
Taleo. "Ultimately, this is a win-win for our customers, as it will allow
them to drive better company innovation and growth by empowering enhanced
individual development."
About Taleo
Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) is the leader in on demand unified talent
management solutions that empower organizations of all sizes to better
understand and engage their best talent for improved business performance.
More than 4,100 organizations use Taleo for talent acquisition and
performance management, including 46 of the Fortune 100 and over 3,400 small
and medium sized businesses across 200 countries and territories. Known for
its strong configurability and usability, Taleo runs on a world-class
infrastructure and offers 99.9% availability. Taleo's Talent Grid harnesses
the resources of the Taleo community of customers, candidates, and partners
to power the talent needs of companies around the world.
Forward-looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements, including statements
regarding the demand for Taleo's solutions and results from use of
Taleo’s solutions. Any forward-looking statements contained in this
press release are based upon Taleo's historical performance and its current
plans, estimates and expectations and are not a representation that such
plans, estimates, or expectations will be achieved. These forward-looking
statements represent Taleo's expectations as of the date of this press
announcement. Subsequent events may cause these expectations to change, and
Taleo disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking statements in
the future. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown
risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially.
Further information on potential factors that could affect actual results is
included in Part II, Item 1A of Taleo’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as
filed with the SEC on August 7, 2009, and in other reports filed by
Taleo with the SEC.
About
Learn.com
Learn.com® is the worldwide leader in on-demand workforce development and
productivity with more than 50 million end users around the globe. Our broad
suite of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications can fully automate the
employee development lifecycle from
pre-hire to retire® within organizations of all sizes, from the growing
business with fewer than one hundred employees; to the global enterprise
managing internal and external initiatives with millions of users in multiple
languages. Learn.com's unwavering commitment to understanding client needs,
goals and objectives allows us to partner with our clients to help them
realize low TCO and high ROI.
The Learn.com family of solutions includes the
award-winning LearnCenter® learning
and talent management suite, the WebRoom® Web conferencing suite,
the PeopleCenter®, Application
Builder, FormFlow®
Custom Form Creation and the 1,000 title Learn2.com® online
course library.
Press
Contacts
Don Cook
Learn.com
954-233-4000 x5192
don@learn.com
Chloe Foster
Learn.com
954-233-4000 x5726
chloe.foster@learn.com
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acknowledged.
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