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IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration

Integrate Taleo in days
To unlock the full potential of Taleo talent management automation and reach the next level of organizational performance, you must integrate Taleo tools with the data that is locked away in your other existing applications. You desire this integration because it enables you to share data, eliminate duplicate data entry, ensure data integrity, perform deep analytics and improve performance throughout your organization. IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration provides a simple solution for aligning your HR applications with the rest of your organization, using a conguration, not coding approach to enable you to complete Taleo integration projects in just days.

Highlights

Speeds up time to implementation for Taleo integration projects with a conguration, not coding approach Offers cost savings with low monthly subscription rate and up to 80 percent lower maintenance costs than traditional software-based options Features prebuilt connectors and prepackaged integration processes to simplify and accelerate Taleo integration projects Makes it easier to successfully integrate the hybrid world of public clouds, private clouds and on-premise applications

Integrate Taleo in days

You selected Taleo for its powerful talent management capabilities to recruit and retain the best without the requirement to implement and deploy complex systems. Now you want to make the most of this productivity and agility across your organization and need a simple way to synchronize candidate records, nancial data, employee information and more between Taleo and your existing corporate systems. But you dont want to embark on a lengthy project that requires costly integration expertise and a multitude of complex software to manage and maintain. Sound familiar? Thats why IBM integration created a fast and simple solution that dramatically simplies application integration and data migration projects, enabling you to complete them in days rather than months.

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Payroll & Application Tracking Systems (ADP, Ultimate Software, PayChex Ceridian, etc.)

HRIS & ERP (NetSuite , PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, SAP, etc.) CRM (salesforce.com, Siebel, Oracle CRM On Demand, Clarity, Remedy (for migration), etc.) Other SaaS Applications (Eloqua, RightNow, Right90, Big Machines, Xactly, White Springs, etc.) Flat-files/Excel (FTP, HTTP(S), E-mail)

WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration

All Major Databases

Leading Middleware Tools (Oracle Fusion, etc.)

XML and Web Services

Figure 1: Integrate Taleo with your enterprise in days with WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration

Connect Taleo with your enterprise

WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration for Taleo is purposebuilt to solve data migration and integration requirements critical to connecting all Taleo editions with other applications within your organizationincluding Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), data warehouses, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and many more. This Cloud integration product contains everything you require to derive the most out of your human resource and talent management initiatives. With precongured templates to support the most common talent management integration scenarios, your organization can connect to on-premise and on-demand systems quickly with a conguration, not coding approach that can cut project time and costs by 80 percent.

Accelerate Taleo integrations

WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration for Taleo is selfcontained and provides everything you require to integrate Taleo with other applications and endpoints. This Cloud integration product provides the following key features to simplify and accelerate data migration and integration with Taleo:

1. Migration

2. Integration

3. Extraction

Figure 2: Integration project phases

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Migration and data quality

TIPs and PIPs

With thousands of successful customer integrations, WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration makes the most of a wealth of integration experience to provide a comprehensive set of Template Integration Processes (TIPs). These TIPs are offered for the most common integration scenarios between a number of enterprise applications such as Taleo, salesforce.com, SAP, Oracle and more, eliminating the requirement to build your integrations from scratch. You can simply log in using your browser, select the template that suits your requirements best and enjoy proven, supported and certied processes. The TIPs can also be further customized to meet your specic needs using a simple conguration wizard.

Data Profiling

Intelligent Data Cleansing

Data Enrichment

Figure 3: Migration and data quality

Data proling: Assess the quality of your data before commencing data migrations Intelligent data cleansing: Duplicate removal (deduplication): Combine data from various different sources and remove duplicate values Fuzzy lookup: Congure sophisticated rules to highlight errors and x them Data enrichment: Perform lookups with third-party providers to enrich your data

Integration and extraction

Connectivity: Congurable connectivity to hundreds of applications and endpoints Transformation: Drag-and-drop user interface for data transformations Workow: Visual interface for designing workow rules Management: Easy manageability through a single web-based console

What problems does WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration solve?

WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration for Taleo connects a wide variety of applications and endpoints rapidly while complementing your existing integration technologies. A wide range of industries (such as manufacturing, retail and consumer packaged goods, energy, transportation and logistics) use this Cloud integration product to solve application integration problems.

Connectivity

Transformation

Workflow

Management

Figure 4: Integration and extraction

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Application projects addressed

Synchronize data in real time between Taleo and other systems with WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration.

Project management applications including Clarity/NIKU Custom applications And many more

Migrate data from other Applicant Tracking System (ATS) systems and HRIS Import job requisition, foundation data and codes from HRIS to Taleo in order to implement a seamless job requisition process Export candidates, attachments and contacts from ATS to the HRIS employee master for more efficient employee on-boarding Develop a healthy and scalable leadership pipeline based on real-time organizational information Take advantage of data extraction to reporting systems for historical candidate information Achieve data integration from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) And much more

Why Choose IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration?

WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration for Taleo enables IT departments to respond rapidly to the talent management challenges faced by many Human Resources departments as they try to keep pace with changing business demands. Powerfully simple and industry proven, this Cloud integration product has been specically engineered for Taleo and contains everything you require to complete data migration and integration projects in days. Fastest time to market Graphical conguration, not coding On-demand library of prebuilt Template Integration Processes (TIPs) for the most common integration scenarios

Connect Taleo with:

Payroll and legacy application tracking systems including ADP, Ultimate Software, PayChex, Ceridian and more HRIS and ERP including NetSuite, PeopleSoft, Oracle, JD Edwards, SAP, BAAN, QAD, Lawson, Great Plains and more CRM such as Siebel, salesforce.com, Clarify, Remedy Oracle, Kana and Vantive Customer support systems All major databases including the latest releases of Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL Server, mySql, IBM Informix, Sybase and more Flat-les using FTP, HTTP(S) and email All major SaaS applications such as salesforce.com, RightNow, NetSuite, Oracle CRM On Demand, Eloqua, Right90, Big Machines, Xactly, White Springs XML and web services Electronic Data Interface Middleware and all major EAI platforms

Demonstrated low costs Low monthly subscription pricing Up to 80 percent lower maintenance costs compared to other alternatives No requirement to maintain multiple components such as hardware, web servers, databases or integration brokers

Very simple monitoring and management 100 percent remote management and administration Proactive alerting of data and connectivity errors Monitor from anywhere, anytime

Proven rapid, efficient development Unmatched exibility; can be deployed using an on-premise integration appliance or the integration-as-a-service IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Live 100 percent standards-based: no reliance on niche middleware skills

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Deployment options
One of the key benets of Websphere Cast Iron Cloud integration is that it offers a complete set of deployment options; one product with one codebase throughout three form factors to scale to your IT strategies. The exibility of these options provides a seamless transition between on-premise and Cloud environments as your companys application landscape changes to futureproof technology investments. While these options share the same technology foundation, each is designed to meet specic customer needs and IT strategy.

WebSphere Cast Iron Live

Make the most of Taleo with this integration-as-a-service solution from IBM. Using a develop once, deploy anywhere approach, this Cloud-based deployment option is ideally suited for Taleo customers who have a majority of their applications based in the Cloud and who want no infrastructure on premise.

Rapid Taleo integration with Template Integration Processes (TIPs) and self-guided wizards Precongured Taleo connectivity to hundreds of enterprise and custom applications Optimized for high-throughput projects Graphical data transformation Rules-based workow Lights-out management and error notication Prebuilt data and connectivity error processing Guaranteed delivery of transactions Web-based monitoring of integrations Secure management and data communication Bi-directional real-time and batch integration

WebSphere DataPower Cast Iron Appliance XH40

This on-premise integration deployment option is useful for salesforce.com customers who have a majority of their applications based on-premise.

WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration can solve a broad range of integration problems. Whether you are faced with a simple point-to-point application connectivity problem, complex orchestration across multiple applications or a missioncritical process requiring high availability, these Cloud integration products are the simplest, most complete solution to implement. WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration is revolutionizing application integration by delivering simplicity to customers. In the complex world of application integration, companies nd this Cloud integration to be the simplest way to complete their integrations in daysand for 80 percent less cost.

WebSphere Cast Iron Hypervisor Edition

This IBM virtual appliance can be installed on your organizations own hardware. Functional specications Prebuilt connectivity to all Taleo Editions Support for all standard and custom Taleo objects Precongured templates for most common Taleo integration scenarios Low monthly subscription pricing 24x7 production support No restrictions on number of users Powerful data migration and data quality features Standards-based connectivity with third-party data enrichment tools

[IBM] Cast Iron and Taleo teamed together to provide an effective data migration solution from our legacy systems into Taleo Business Edition and ensured we did not lose years of vital historical information.
Lauren Levy, Senior HR Representative, Hay Group

 With built-in connectivity to Taleo and the exibility to deliver data migration and integration in the Cloud or using an appliance, WebSphere Cast Iron for Taleo furthers the adoption of our talent management applications.
Jason Blessing, Group Vice President of Taleo Business Edition

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IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration can assist with a broad range of integration projects. Whether your endeavor consists of a simple point-to-point application connectivity project, complex orchestration among multiple applications or a mission-critical process that requires high availability, you can expect this IBM cloud integration approach to deliver the simplest, most complete solution. IBM client companies routinely complete their integrations within daysand for 80 percent less cost.

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