We performed a comparison between IBM Kenexa and Oracle Taleo based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It is extremely user friendly. It is very flexible in managing recruitment, especially when you have thousands of applicants as we did. We easily had over 20,000 applicants within a year for some of our positions, so it made it very easy to manage a large application pool. It was very easy to customize by recruiter preference. When you open up someone's profile to see their experience, education, or other things, you can customize that for yourself. It was flexible in that, and each recruiter could set up their preferences. It didn't have to be set up so that everyone had to have the same landing platform, which was very helpful. As someone who trained other HR people on how to use the system, it was very easy to pick up and learn."
"The most valuable features are that we can upload documents and download them on demand."
"IBM Kenexa is fairly stable. We don't have any downtime."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"The Talent Acquisition and Headhunting features are good."
"The solution offers good benefits for administrators."
"Good integration capabilities and extensibility."
"Performance and goal management are good to have, based on certain client requirements where the user base isn't too large, but the most workable domain of Taleo is the recruiting module."
"It is easy to use. Requisition management and pre-screening are the two most valuable features."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"I would like to have a better and more user-friendly interface."
"The reporting tool is helpful, but it is not the easiest to train on or is not as understandable for other HR pros. Their Workbench site, which is the administrator site that you use to update your website, is not user-friendly. When updates are required, it is not that easy to manage because Workbench is not user friendly. It required more work from the admins. They have Workbench training, which actually was very unhelpful. It took eight hours to complete, and it was not very helpful. Their customer service when it comes specifically to their Workbench site is not helpful."
"It needs to update its reporting and analytics tools."
"I would not recommend IBM Kenexa to others."
"I don't see very valuable features in this product because it has an old way of interpreting ATS. It should be more flexible in managing datasets and data searches. The screening data is a long process in Taleo."
"In terms of Oracle Taleo as a product, there are a lot of things which can be developed; most feedback which I have heard from customers is about the dashboard and the home page, both of which are quite basic."
"There are always going to be little caveats here and there that you might not have known about as far as changes are concerned, however, it's not business-oriented to the point where the business shuts down."
"The bulk recruitment feature does not work well."
"It would be ideal if we could integrate the solution with Olympia. It would be helpful if we could add another support desk for an IT person. It would be great if the product was more interdisciplinary and could include IT."
"Lacks some systems that we need."
"The pricing could be improved."
IBM Kenexa is ranked 16th in Benefits Administration with 30 reviews while Oracle Taleo is ranked 10th in Benefits Administration with 14 reviews. IBM Kenexa is rated 7.6, while Oracle Taleo is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Kenexa writes "Suitable for larger-scale companies aiming to streamline and automate their processes digitally". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Taleo writes "Recruiting module is highly usable, with good performance and goal management features". IBM Kenexa is most compared with HR Software Solutions, SAP SuccessFactors and Workday, whereas Oracle Taleo is most compared with Oracle HCM Cloud, PeopleSoft, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday and eightfold.ai. See our IBM Kenexa vs. Oracle Taleo report.
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