Introduction

Taleo Connect

Taleo Connect Server

Taleo Connect Server is the server-side portion of the Taleo Connect Platform embedded within the Oracle Talent Acquisition Cloud (OTAC) products. It enables the products to expose their integration offering through a secure gateway using system-to-system type messages. The Taleo Connect Server export feature allows access to the OTAC product's dictionary and its import feature accepts instructions to invoke service operations. The Taleo Connect Server only accepts messages in the proprietary T-XML format wrapped in a standard SOAP envelope with Taleo extensions (named T-SOAP).

Taleo Connect Client

Taleo Connect Client (TCC) is the client-side portion of the Taleo Connect Platform that resides in the customer's environment. It enables customers to build and execute their own integration processes.

Development Environment

The development environment is user-friendly and professional. It allows the design and configuration of simple to complex integration scenarios.

The TCC design and configuration environment is built with the powerful and extensible Rich Client Platform (RCP) from the Eclipse foundation. RCP is the standard for Java client user interface development offering a professional grade experience to the end user.

All the user tasks are either wizard driven or based on natural client application behavior such as drop-down menus and drag-and-drop functionality.

Integration Engine

The integration engine is powerful and flexible. It can communicate with the Taleo environment using multiple file formats.

TCC communicates with Taleo products using proprietary Taleo message formats that are based on industry standards such as XML, SOAP, and WS-Addressing. It also supports custom message formats through client-side or server-side transformations since customer systems usually only support their own formats.

TCC shields the complexity of the asynchronous integration process from the customer and provides a synchronous-like behavior that can integrate into other business processes.

Taleo Connect Users

TCC requires a user account to be able to access the zone and conduct integration jobs. This user needs to be configured with System Integrator permissions for the products that you wish to integrate with.

It is recommended that when creating integration user accounts to be used with TCC, that different UID/PWD combinations are used for each zone. This will remove any inadvertent issues around zone access.