Shlomit Gruman-Navot, head of HR for SAP in the emerging markets of EMEA, sums it up in a nutshell.

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On the surface, IBM is simply responding to its competitors, Oracle and SAP, that recently acquired similar integrated HR solutions companies Taleo and SuccessFactors, respectively.

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Business software maker SAP finalized an agreement to acquire cloud-based HR solutions provider Success Factors back in December last year.

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