As the leading enterprise-software companies begin to snap up high-growth players in the booming field of people management and optimization, pre-IPO Workday is confronting some new challenges as it ...

This week Workday released its S-1 (IPO filing) and we also had a detailed briefing from Oracle on the company's progress with Fusion and Taleo. Workday's Progress Workday now has 325 customers and is ...

The proposed purchase extends Oracle's offerings in a growing arena of computing known as the cloud. With such an approach, businesses don't run software and services in-house. Instead, those tasks ...

Oracle said overnight that it was acquiring Taleo, an on-demand talent management software company, for US$1.9 billion. That price works out to US$46 a share. Taleo closed at US$38.94 on Wednesday.