Taleo Contingent 7.0 Named Winner In The 2005 Recruiting & Staffing Best In Class Awards

Taleo, a worldwide provider of on demand talent management solutions, today announced that Taleo Contingent 7.0, its temporary and contractual workforce management solution, was named the winner in the ì2005 Recruiting & Staffing Best in Class Awards.î The award honours, recognises and promotes innovative best practices in workforce management and planning. HR IQ, a division of the International Quality & Productivity Centre (IQPC), presented Taleo with the award. Taleo also announced today the general availability of Taleo Contingent 7.0.

Taleo Contingent 7.0 is designed for companies looking to achieve control of global temporary labour processes, spend, contractual and legal compliance issues. Taleo Contingent replaces costly, inefficient, and paper-intensive processes and helps companies to regain control over temporary and contractual labour costs.

Taleo Contingent also enables organisations to monitor co-employment risk, optimise supplier bases, and increase the availability and quality of temporary and contractual labour across organisations. By providing greater control over temporary and contractual labour, Taleo Contingent 7.0 helps companies generate ongoing and sustainable cost savings around temporary and contractual workforce management both domestically and abroad.

Over the past year, our R&D team dedicated more than 30,000 hours to rebuild our temporary and contractual workforce management solution,î said Brad Benson, EVP, Products and Technology, Taleo. ìWe worked directly with our customers to ensure that Taleo Contingent 7.0 met the needs of what companies really require in a global temporary and contractual workforce solution.î

He continued, ìTaleo Contingent 7.0 leverages our years of proven international experience with leading companies to develop solutions that deliver significant cost savings to organisations. Our combination of R&D investment and proven ability to execute enables our customers to achieve control of temporary and contractual labour processes worldwide.î

Highlights of Taleo Contingent 7.0

ï Budgetary Management
Taleo Contingent 7.0 introduces several new budgetary management features including budgetary approval routing, budget tracking and enhanced budgetary reporting. In addition, managers are provided with greater flexibility to assign and move pre-approved budgetary dollars across related orders without having to continually regenerate approval workflows.

ï Internationalisation
Taleo Contingent 7.0 addresses the growing need of global temporary workforce management by providing internationalisation capabilities that include multiple language operations, double-byte character support and international currency support.

ï Simplified User Interface & Navigation
The clean, instinctive user interface, combined with its intelligent navigational design, allows Taleo Contingent 7.0 to create a positive and productive user experience for hiring managers, suppliers and contractors alike.

ï Enhanced Java Platform
The enhanced architecture available in Taleo Contingent 7.0 provides the ability to rapidly develop new and market driven features to better adapt to changing client needs. Also, this enhancement further expands third party integration capabilities to better leverage a companyís existing technology infrastructure.

Taleo Contingent 7.0 is available immediately. More information about Taleo and Taleo Contingent 7.0 can be found online at: