<p>news Talent management firm PageUp People has picked Microsoft's Windows Azure public cloud computing platform to host its CareerPath application, according to a statement issued by Redmond late last week.</p><p>PageUp People is an international talent management software company that helps companies attract, hire and retain staff using its leading software-as-a-service application for talent management. It is headquartered in Australia but also employs staff in cities such as New York, Singapore, Shanghai and London.</p><p>In a statement issued by Microsoft, the company said it recently devised a unique set of algorithms that it said identified successful career-path attributes from 30 million employment records. Subsequently, the company turned to Windows Azure to commercialise the development."Using data on 30 million individual career profiles, we wanted to create a web application that enabled our customers to identify the attributes most common to successful career paths," said Simon Cariss, CIO, PageUp People.</p><p>PageUp People devised the algorithms required, and created its CareerDNA search engine with the open source database tool, RavenDB. A central challenge remained, however: how to host the application that would turn CareerDNA into a usable service. "We needed a highly-scalable but cost-efficient server infrastructure," said Cariss. "Given the size of our company database and the speed of response we required we weren't in a position to even prototype CareerDNA on existing company servers, let alone deploy a reliable service."</p><p><a href="http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/13/talent-manager-builds-on-windows-azure/">Keep reading...</a></p>