Oracle to merge Fusion, Taleo software

cloud ambitions, declaring that it would merge its human resources offerings with services offered by Taleo when it closes its acquisition of the recruitment software specialist, Market Watch reports.

Oracle's Fusion Human Capital Management software has been in the market for years, handling everything from employee profiles to payroll and benefits for hundreds of companies.

Oracle president Mark Hurd said Taleo's employee recruitment, training and management tools would merge with Fusion, not run separate from Oracle's existing products.

Customers can purchase the bundle of more than one dozen features of the combined HR systems, or pick and choose the functions they want, Wall Street Journal states.

Combining Taleo and Oracle will allow the companies to invest more in R&D on the sector than Taleo could invest on its own, Hurd said. Oracle will continue to support the service on non-Oracle hardware systems for the 5 000 customers that currently use Taleo.

"Our customers have been asking us to expand and become more end-to-end," says Mike Gregoire, CE of Taleo. Merging with Oracle accomplishes that.