Again SuccessFactors Shocks, Recruiting Management Goes Live: FIRST, Easy, Integrated, and Connected to Business Performance

Built From the Ground Up on the Leading On-Demand Platform, User-focused Recruiting Management Brings Performance Management and Recruiting Together to Drive Smarter Decisions and Better Business

SAN MATEO, Calif. - November 17, 2006 - SuccessFactors, Inc., the global leader in on-demand, web-based performance and talent management solutions, today announced the availability of the industry's first recruiting solution that is completely integrated within the performance and talent management process. Recruiting Management is built on SuccessFactors' industry-leading on-demand management platform and is tightly and organically integrated with all other SuccessFactors' modules, including performance management, compensation management, succession management, total goal management and 360-degree reviews.

SuccessFactors developed Recruiting Management in close partnership with its customers to remedy the widespread dissatisfaction with existing recruiting offerings. By walking hand-in-hand with its customers and listening to their detailed needs, SuccessFactors is able to bring to market the first, easy-to-use solution that's meant for real people to use everyday to make smarter decisions about their talent. Using Recruiting Management in concert with SuccessFactors' Performance and Talent Management Suite provides companies with the visibility to make more informed talent decisions and, for the first time ever, to align employee performance, competency development and recruiting selection criteria with bottom-line business results.

SuccessFactors Recruiting Management harnesses the most insightful information a company has on their people - their performance data - and gives them an intuitive way to recruit talent and align organizational competencies with organizational needs in a single on-demand solution. By integrating Recruiting Management with the core platform, SuccessFactors gives customers a far more powerful and smart way to recruit talent. The open, wholly transparent and people-centric platform finally connects the dots between performance requirements and recruiting talent pools, both outside and within an organization.

In today's tight labor market, all aspects of talent management have become business-critical functions," said Josh Bersin, president of Bersin & Associates, a leading industry analyst firm specializing in enterprise learning and talent management. "By building a common platform for unified recruiting, performance, and talent management, SuccessFactors has the potential to help companies better support strategic goals through more effective management of employee resources."

"In creating Recruiting Management, focused on end users, not only specialists, we have taken a different road than anyone else in the market, by putting performance data front and center and baking recruiting into the complete performance and talent management equation, not just treating it as some add-on or isolated process. It's fun to build it all from the ground up and reveal readily visible intuitive USER focused decision points from all the business applications working together," said Randy Reynolds, senior director, product management for SuccessFactors. "For our customers, Recruiting Management is the next evolution and the necessary element for a completely integrated performance and talent management strategy. SuccessFactors is helping customers get high-quality people on board and up and running in no time, while giving companies complete visibility into the current and future state of their entire workforce."

Recruiting Management offers the following functionality:

Job requisition management - Job requisition layout, permission controls, workflow, and management.
Pre-screening Question Library - Creates stock pre-screening questions to ask potential candidates and gives candidates a score based on how they answered.
Job postings - Internal job posting and corporate job board posting. Postings automatically get routed through the right people and to the appropriate places (Web sites, recruiters, etc.).
Applicant tracking - Candidate management functionality provides workflow, approval, comment log and resume paste, giving managers visibility into where candidates are in the hiring process.
Internal recruiting - ability to compare competencies and cross-references these through job openings to see if there's a fit for an open job internally.
Recruiting Reports - EEO, Job requirement status.

SuccessFactors Recruiting Management is immediately available from SuccessFactors and key partners.

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 from 300 customers and 1 million users at the end of 2005 to close to 1,000 customers and close to 2 million users in 139 countries, across 40 industries, in 18 languages - all while becoming easier to use everyday. The company has almost doubled the employee base, currently employing close to 400 talented people in 2006. Carefully designed 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 market space. Customers include MasterCard Worldwide, British Telecom, Textron, Salesforce.com, Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, Volkswagen of North America, Reebok, Pep Boys, Lancaster General Hospital and Grant Thornton. The company continues to execute on a level of global excellence through the provision of 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 or call +1 800 809-9920.