Here are three more interesting articles on Talent Management.

Utility Leadership Academy Serves Over 1,000 Managers at Substantial Savings

The Utility Leadership Academy (ULA), the energy industry's online emerging and experienced leader training system, is now serving over 1,000 utility and contractor employees.

ULA is a collaboration among Alliant Energy, Ameren, Citizens Gas, Consumers Energy, Henkels & McCoy, Integrys, Madison Gas & Electric, NiSource, Vectren, We Energies, Xcel, and numerous other utility companies and contractors. It is organized and managed by Midwest Energy Association (MEA) through Energy University, which serves more than 400 electric, gas and liquids companies with online and instructor-led field skills and knowledge courses. Both systems together serve more than 70,000 employee students nationwide. More: http://tinyurl.com/talentmanagement25

Taleo Edge Provides an Affordable Solution for Finding Critical Talent

Taleo Corporation (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, today announced increased momentum of Taleo Edge(TM), its recruiting and performance management offering for organizations with between 5,000 and 13,000 employees. Launched in 2008, organizations such as VeriSign, Evergreen Packaging and Videotron have selected Taleo Edge to get their core talent management processes up and running quickly and in a cost-effective manner. More: http://tinyurl.com/talentmanagement26

Ceridian launches new SaaS performance management application

Ceridian, a provider of managed human resource and talent management solutions, plans to launch Performance Management Express, a new SaaS performance management application built upon SuccessFactors’ cloud platform.

SuccessFactors has claimed that, since Performance Management Express is a SaaS solution, customers do not need to acquire any hardware or software in order to use the application. The web-based solution means all customer information is hosted by a secure, certified data center, commonly referred to as cloud computing. More: http://tinyurl.com/talentmanagement27