Thursday 29 July 2010
Taleo the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, and Cast Iron Systems, The #1 SaaS and Cloud Integration Company™, today announced that they are working closely together to offer fast, flexible data migrations from various on-premise applications to Taleo Business Edition’s on-demand recruiting and performance management solutions. Taleo and Cast Iron have also completed many successful real-time integrations between Taleo Business Edition and proprietary customer applications. Both solutions are bringing small and medium-sized customers better leverage of their investments in Talent Management.
To date, Taleo and Cast Iron have completed several hundred migrations from both replacement transactions and customers via acquisitions. The companies have also powered real-time integrations with on-demand solutions like Salesforce and on-site enterprise systems like PeopleSoft. Joint customers include BELL, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Gallagher, among others.
BELL, the award-winning educational program provider, is using the Cast Iron Cloud to synchronize candidate status data in Taleo Business Edition Recruit with assignment information in Salesforce CRM.
“We recognized the critical role integration would play in the successful deployment of our new cloud-based IT infrastructure,” said Pete Capraro, director of IT at BELL. “To integrate data between Taleo, Salesforce, and Moodle, our learning management system, we knew that we needed a robust solution that could rapidly deliver reliable integration between multiple end-points. With thousands of customer integrations already in production, Cast Iron was the obvious choice for integrating Taleo with our custom applications.”
“In the past, migration and integration projects have been somewhat difficult due to their complexity,” said Jason Blessing, group vice president at Taleo. “With pre-built connectivity and the flexibility to deliver migration and integration in the cloud, Cast Iron empowers us to offer migration as a service to our customers and accelerates the adoption of our talent management solutions. Our customers now quickly realize the full potential of their investment in Taleo by rapidly leveraging their historical applicant information.”
“As demand for the rapid deployment of SaaS applications continues to rise, market leaders such as Taleo are recognizing that data migration and application integration are key to the swift on-boarding of new customers,” said Ken Comée, CEO of Cast Iron Systems.
About Taleo
Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) is the leader in on-demand unified talent management solutions that empower organizations of all sizes to assess, acquire, develop and align their workforces for improved business performance. Approximately 4,100 organizations use Taleo for talent acquisition and performance management, including 46 of the Fortune 100 and approximately 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 achieves 99.9% availability. Taleo’s Talent Grid will harness 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, results from use of Taleo’s solutions and the combined solutions of Taleo and Cast Iron and general business conditions. 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 Cast Iron Systems
Founded in 2001, Cast Iron Systems is The #1 SaaS and Cloud Integration Company™. Cast Iron has thousands of deployed customer integrations across all industries and around the world at companies such as Allianz, British American Tobacco (BAT), Amerisource Bergen, Emerson, IBA Molecular, Krueger International, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, PGP Corporation, and salesforce.com, among many others. All are benefiting from the simplicity, speed, and flexibility of the Cast Iron Integration Solution, which enables them to integrate Cloud-based and SaaS applications with the rest of the enterprise in just days. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Tenaya Capital. Cast Iron is privately held and led by experienced technology executives from Informatica, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Vitria, and webMethods.
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HP to Deliver Cloud Integration
Cast Iron Systems and HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced they are partnering to offer integration services for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) looking to reduce costs by leveraging software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications within their existing infrastructures and applications.
Together, Cast Iron and HP have developed a marketing and sales program for HP channel partners. HP’s channel of 25,000 value-added resellers (VARs) in the United States will now be able to expand into the growing market for cloud solutions.
According to Forrester Research, one of the main reasons surveyed IT executives and technology decision-makers have for not being interested in SaaS is concern about integration issues.(1) Cast Iron offers the ability to integrate SaaS data with an organization’s existing infrastructure quickly and affordably.
“Cast Iron’s collaboration with HP will accelerate our penetration of the SMB market worldwide and demonstrate that VARs can play a major role in delivering cloud computing solutions,” said Ken Comée, chief executive officer, Cast Iron Systems. “VARs now have the flexibility to offer integration as a cloud-based service or as an on-premise appliance. Also, SMBs can have peace of mind knowing that their on-premise integration solution is running on high-performance HP servers.”
“SMB customers are looking for new ways to avoid upfront technology costs,” said Enrique Lores, senior vice president, Solution Partners Organization and Commercial Sales, HP. “While on-demand services are an ideal solution for SMBs, the integration of the new data from these web-based applications with the existing infrastructure and applications must be quick and affordable.”
All on-premise deployments sourced through this agreement will run on HP servers sold by HP channel partners. Also, Cast Iron will recommend HP infrastructure for all third-party data centers that are operated on behalf of Cast Iron to service customers resulting from this agreement. This collaboration extends HP’s ongoing expansion within the cloud-services market and builds on its 2008 agreements with NetSuite and Microsoft to enable HP channel partners to deliver cloud-services to customers. The Cast Iron solution enables HP channel partners to deliver cloud-services integration to the NetSuite and Microsoft offerings as well.
“As a leading provider of enterprise IT solutions and professional services, we are actively involved in helping SMBs utilize SaaS effectively in the context of their existing application landscape,” said Romi Randhawa, president and chief executive officer, HPM Networks — the largest HP VAR in California. “The collaboration between HP and Cast Iron offers new opportunities for us to deliver both the technology and the expertise that our customers need to realize the full potential of cloud computing.”
“The trend toward services delivery by channel partners has been marked in the last several years, and it will only continue to increase,” said Christina Richmond, channels analyst, IDC. “Partners must evolve toward a more solution-centric approach gradually, while maintaining their core hardware competencies. This offering from HP goes a long way toward enabling partners to recommend a cloud-services integration solution for their customers who are bringing in software-as-a-service solutions, and this will assist the channel in taking the necessary steps to transform their business models for the future.”
Cast Iron has established dedicated resources to support HP resellers as they refer customers to them for integration services, including a toll-free hotline for sales support and a self-service portal where resellers can access sales tools and online training resources.
HP hosted offerings and pricing options are available today in the U.S. through Cast Iron. More information can be found at www.castiron.com/hp.
About HP
HP, the world’s largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com/.
About Cast Iron Systems
Founded in 2001, Cast Iron Systems is The No. 1 SaaS and Cloud Integration Company(TM). Cast Iron has thousands of deployed customer integrations across all industries and around the world at companies such as Allianz, British American Tobacco (BAT), Amerisource Bergen, Emerson, IBA Molecular, Krueger International, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, PGP Corporation, salesforce.com, The Sports Authority and Tesla Motors. All are benefiting from the simplicity, speed and flexibility of the Cast Iron Integration Solution, which enables them to integrate cloud-based and SaaS applications with the rest of the enterprise in just days. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Lehman Brothers, Cast Iron is privately held and led by experienced technology executives from Oracle, Accenture, PeopleSoft, Vitria and Siebel.
