SuccessFactors Named One of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area for Second Straight Year

Use of Company's Own Award-Winning Performance and Talent Management Suite Creates Great Work Environment for San Mateo-Based SaaS Company

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2008--SuccessFactors, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFSF), the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, today announced that it was named one of the 100 Best Places to Work in the Greater Bay Area for the second straight year.

As one of the fastest growing software companies in the world, SuccessFactors has met the challenge of maintaining its results-driven, collaborative culture while attracting, retaining and expanding its high-performing global workforce. Being recognized as one of the 100 Best Places to Work in the Greater Bay Area affirms SuccessFactors' commitment to providing a challenging, productive atmosphere for its employees, holding true to its pay-for-performance culture. SuccessFactors has an energetic, collaborative and motivated workforce focused on accountability, respect, teamwork and striving for constant improvement - values that have enabled the company to become the leader in on-demand performance and talent management.

"SuccessFactors is committed to revolutionizing the future of work by giving organizations the tools they need to build high-performing, engaged and productive workforces. This commitment doesn't stop with just our customers, we live it here every day, and it's one of the foundations the company was built on," said SuccessFactors' CEO Lars Dalgaard. "Our unique culture helps our employees understand their goals and performance so they can really understand their value to the company. They're more engaged, more loyal and work extremely hard every day to make sure that they're doing whatever they can to make our customers incredibly successful - that's an award-winning workplace."

The 2008 list of the 100 Best Places to Work in the Greater Bay Area was unveiled at an awards ceremony at the San Francisco Hilton on April 29. The complete list will appear on May 2 in the San Francisco Business Times, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal and East Bay Business Times. The criteria for selection, which focuses on best practices, work environments and employee benefits, were based on employee and management surveys conducted by the three Bay Area business journals.

SuccessFactors' performance and talent management software includes recruiting management, goal management, succession management, 360-degree review, compensation planning, learning and development, and analytics and reporting applications. The solution creates a company-wide network of information related to employee performance, including skill-sets, interests, career aspirations, ability to relocate, experience, languages spoken and more. By providing deep, real-time, company-wide visibility into such critical performance data, companies are able to make better, more informed decisions about how to promote, recruit, compensate, reward and manage their entire employee base.

About SuccessFactors, Inc.

SuccessFactors is the leading provider of on-demand employee performance and talent management solutions that enable organizations of every size, across every industry and geography, to achieve high-performing workforces by enabling goal alignment and execution, talent development and planning, and pay-for-performance initiatives. SuccessFactors finished 2007 with more than 1,750 customers and more than 3 million end users, up from 341 customers and 800,000 users at the end of 2005. SuccessFactors' customers are spread across 60 industries in over 156 countries and use the application in 22 languages. Founded in 2001 with offices around the world, the company employs more than 700 people, all passionately focused on revolutionizing the future of work. For more information, visit http://www.successfactors.com.

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SOURCE: SuccessFactors, Inc.