You Don't Know Jack. Yet.

Jack Welch and SuccessFactors' Lars Dalgaard to take the stage in NYC and inspire SuccessFactors customers from around the world with hard-hitting stories of real-world leadership

SAN MATEO, Calif. - January 06, 2007 - SuccessFactors, Inc. CEO Lars Dalgaard today announced that former Chairman and CEO of GE, Jack Welch will offer his vision and passion for getting the best out of people to the audience at SuccessConnect, SuccessFactors' Global User Conference, June 5-7, 2007, in New York City.

Calling Welch "an inspiration to me, my colleagues and so many of our current and future customers," Dalgaard said he is delighted that Fortune Magazine's "Manager of the Century" is available to work with SuccessFactors customers and employees. Welch will tackle the real issues that every leader and manager faces in their brave quest to transform their organizations and achieve success, whether as the CEO of global enterprise, the general manager of a division or an early stage entrepreneur. "I am honored that Mr. Welch wants to work with us. As a student of exceptional leadership, it's hard to express what this means to me personally to have Mr. Welch sharing with our constituents his hard-earned best practices in people management, and how technology played a pivotal role.

"GE's people management systems built under Mr. Welch's leadership and design principles are one of the best, if not the best, people management systems in the world," Dalgaard added. "Our products and philosophies were inspired by Jack's and our customers' best practices and our shared vision of a fair, results-driven workplace."

Our objective at SuccessFactors is to have a massive lasting impact on the global workforce and economy. At SuccessFactors, we have built the most comprehensive, surprisingly easy-to-use People Management System in the world enabling business leaders to transform their organizations through superior management, motivation, and alignment of their people. And, unlike with traditional software vendors, our customers are up and running, getting real measurable results in weeks, at a fraction of the cost with our software-as-a-service delivery system.

Not only do we do this for our customers, it's what we do for our own team, and it's the reason we are winning. With our systems you can:

Stop losing talent;
Fire up your people; and
Find the right talent;

by focusing on your people.

Welch has long been a proponent of merit-based pay systems and fair, egalitarian work places, an idea that Dalgaard and SuccessFactors have identified and embraced as a major business driver and key component of success for any business.

"Winning companies practice differentiation, making a clear distinction between top, middle and bottom performers," Welch said in his 2001 best-seller Winning. "This system is candid and fair, and it's the most effective way for an organization to field the best team. To manage people well, companies should elevate human resources to a position of power and primacy in the organization, and make sure the HR people have the special qualities to help managers build leaders and careers."

SuccessFactors Global User Conference, SuccessConnect, provides a forum for SuccessFactors customers and future customers, and our own employees to share their best practices in performance and talent management initiatives and engage in close partnership with SuccessFactors to discuss suggestions and feedback about the products and service. SuccessConnect takes place from June 5-7, 2007 at the New York Sheraton Hotel and Towers.

About SuccessFactors
SuccessFactors delivers performance and talent excellence, on demand. The company's software promotes visibility, accountability, and results, enabling organizations to eliminate the politics that destroy motivation and impede performance. Fueled by the industry's highest renewal rate, SuccessFactors has grown in the past 13 months from 346 customers to over 1,200 customers and from 1 million users to over 2 million users in 141 countries, across 60 industries, and in 18 languages - all while becoming easier to use. During that period, the company nearly doubled its employee base, currently employing over 450 people, passionate about effective human capital management. Carefully managed and executed internal growth has allowed the company to provide the same caliber of absolute excellence in execution for customers that catapulted SuccessFactors into the product, customer and revenue leader in the performance and talent management space. Customers include Kimberly-Clark Corporation, MasterCard Worldwide, T. Rowe Price, Textron, Sutter Healthcare, Direct Energy, Arrow Electronics, Quintiles Transnational, Volkswagen of North America, Lancaster General Hospital and Salesforce.com. The company continues to execute at a level of global excellence by providing an industry-leading, scalable and secure global hosting operation. Founded in 2001, SuccessFactors has 15 worldwide offices collaborating for strong local support of customers. For more information, visit http://www.successfactors.com/.