Salesforce HR tool combines social networking and employee reviews

March 15, 2012 5:00 AM Sarah Mitroff
Sarah Mitroff

Remember when your Facebook feed was dotted with achievements that your friends won by playing Farmville? Well, you’ll see something similar now with Salesforce’s new Rypple HR tool.

Rypple uses badges and achievements to praise employees for the work they’re …

Post-acquisition, SAP and SuccessFactors outline where marriage is headed

February 22, 2012 3:09 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

In what might be the most-jargon-filled press release ever, enterprise-software giant SAP announced Wednesday how it will incorporate and improve SuccessFactors’ enterprise cloud services, after completing its purchase of the company last week.

SAP agreed to acquire human capital-management (HCM) …

Oracle agrees to buy SuccessFactors rival Taleo for $1.9B

February 9, 2012 7:48 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Software titan and now cloud services provider Oracle has agreed to acquire talent management cloud company Taleo for $1.9 billion, the companies announced today.

The deal greatly mirrors the $3.4 billion acquisition of employee performance management software provider SuccessFactors by …