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See What's Coming in Oracle Taleo Enterprise Cloud Service Release 14B

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TALEO CLOUD

With Oracle Taleo Enterprise Cloud Service 14B release, Oracle reinforces its leadership in talent management cloud, delivering a new premium candidate experience, expanded mobile capabilities, reporting and integration enhancements guided by the principles of Modern HR.

CANDIDATE SOURCING

In Sourcing, 14B delivers a complete premium candidate experience in addition to its advanced recruitment marketing, social sourcing distribution and referral capabilities. This premium candidate experience includes:

• Global company branded jobs portals that customer can configure to support their differentbrands in all languages they need with dynamically generated content and options to tailor theexperience for potential candidates, returning applicants, referrals, or employees.

• Self configuration capabilities that enable customers to design sites and craft messages thatreally support their employer brand and engage with the targeted audience

• Internal mobility support as customers can now indicate not just the jobs that are visibleexternally but also the fields such as hiring manager name or bonus schema that are not to bedisplayed to external audience.

• Custom landing pages and widgetization to drive higher traffic of qualified candidates fromboth sides of the company firewalls to the sourcing repository.

• Tighter integration with Oracle talent acquisition both for job feed and rerouting apply flow toensure a seamless experience to candidates.

RECRUITING

In Recruiting, 14B delivers several new features as well as dozens of improvements and expand its new reporting capabilities to improve the experience of recruiters including:

• Improved configurability of the new interview scheduler that makes possible the creation ofmandatory questions and a more intuitive way to provide overall feedback via questionnaires aswell as the possibility to reschedule overdue interviews. This is to easily share a richerknowledge gained on candidates and enable better decisions.

• Expanded mobile device support for managers not only with the introduction of a brand newuser experience on mobile but also with reworked possibilities - such as the candidate compare -in addition to a complete parity between IOS and Androids devices. This is to enable a betteradoption and remove bottlenecks in the process and ease our customer’s maintenance process.

• Increased reporting capabilities with the introduction of many new reporting elements, newreporting areas to help customers control their configuration settings but also ease the transfer

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of legacy reports to Oracle Business Intelligence. In addition a new reporting tool named BI Publisher is now available to our recruiting clients to develop casual reports accessible to users from within the application. This is to accelerate the transfer from legacy reporting to Oracle Business Intelligence.

• Multiple improvements have been introduced based on our customer feedback includingadditional flexibility on email security, improvements of the rich text editor to alleviate hurdleswhen pasting description from Word documents.

• Additional configuration options to increase our customer’s autonomy, for example whenupdating the branding of their career section without changing the “javascript”.

• Expanded integration options including the possibility to reroute the job description view pageand job search to specific URLS, export the candidate job submission statuses and removecollaborators from an application. This is to tighten the flows and ease navigation betweenSourcing, Talent Acquisition and HCM systems to foster a holistic approach of TalentManagement.

PERFORMANCE

In Performance Management, 14B introduces new capabilities designed to improve user adoption especially for global operations. The most notable improvements are:

• The ability for managers to easily access the mid-year review content while doing the end-of-year review. This is to ensure a better usability and consistency by allowing simple reuse ofalready assessed elements

• The capability to switch between the different languages available for end-users whendisplaying education, certification and experience in the talent profile. This is to alleviate animpediment in global deployments.

• The possibility for embedded reporting users to work in their preferred language and generatecontent in a language they feel comfortable with. This to foster the adoption of native reportingin global implementations.

• Multiple enhancements to further adapt and tailor the solution to customer specific talentrequirements. Examples include the ability to define the sensitivity of a message sent by thesolution at the template level so some messages can be read by a Personal Assistant whileothers remain encrypted.

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