SuccessFactors EMEA Operations Achieves 169% Revenue Growth

--Signs World's Largest Cloud Deployment at Siemens AG, Users up 309% in RegionLONDON, Aug 13, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- SuccessFactors (Nasdaq: SFSF), the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, announced its continued momentum across EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) marked by an impressive financial performance. With a 169% year-over-year revenue growth rate, SuccessFactors has grown its customer base by more than 309% year-over-year and now has nearly 1,000,000 users across EMEA.

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The EMEA region continues to contribute greatly to SuccessFactors' financial results for the first-half of 2009, as the company added new customers in over 13 countries including Hartley - SAS in the United Kingdom, Siemens, Deutsche Bank, and Allianz in German, Barilla in Italy, Societe Generale, AREVA and Veolia in France, Nestle in Switzerland, Cofra, PON, and ING in the Netherlands, Hilti in Liechtenstein, Fortum and Fiskars in Finland, many notable 10,000 plus employee companies, and eircom in Ireland.

SuccessFactors and Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister recently announced the planned opening of SuccessFactors Dublin Multilingual Business Centre.

"We've been making strategic investments in EMEA over the last few years which are now paying off with increased customer adoption and commercial momentum, even in this downturn economy," said Lars Dalgaard, founder, president and CEO of SuccessFactors. "The recent announcement of our investment in the new Dublin office demonstrates our long term commitment and is indicative of our continued eagerness to support European customers from local offices. In this current business climate, SuccessFactors can help companies turn a potential negative into an opportunity by utilising tools that empower organisations to motivate their workforce, streamline, retain and view their employees as individuals based on their own merits, without constraints."

In addition to the new customers, SuccessFactors enjoyed large scale deployments across EMEA, including previously-announced Siemens AG, the world's largest enterprise cloud deployment with 420,000 users across 80 countries in 20 different languages, and Veolia Environmental Services, part of the Veolia Environment Group, in support of its enterprise cloud initiative, deployed to almost 3,000 executives and managers across five countries. Major European customers also include companies such as Kellogg's, Orange, and Cadburys Schweppes.

SuccessConnect Europe in Barcelona

SuccessFactors will be hosting its second annual European Customer Conference in Barcelona, Spain on 9-10 November. The event will feature keynote presentations from industry experts including Financial Times journalist and leading HR expert, Richard Donkin, along with Lars Dalgaard CEO of SuccessFactors, as well as customer, product and partner presentations, discussions on best practice and insight from SuccessFactors' executives. More information on this event will be available soon at www.successfactors.com

The SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Suite, which includes Performance Management, Goal Management, 360 Degree Reviews, Succession Management, Compensation Management, Learning and Development, Recruiting Management, Employee Profile, and Analytics and Reporting applications, 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. The company's latest module, Employee Central, allows organisations to maintain centralised employee information with deeply integrated social networking and collaboration, giving employees, managers and executives a single, real-time hub to have a more complete picture of their people.

About SuccessFactors, Inc.

SuccessFactors is one of the fastest growing public software companies and the leading provider of on-demand employee performance and talent management solutions. The company enables organizations of every size, and across every industry and geography, to achieve high-performing workforces through goal alignment and execution, talent development and planning, and pay-for-performance initiatives. From 92 customers and approximately 282,000 end users in 2003 to more than 2,850 customers and more than 5.4 million end users today, SuccessFactors' solutions are widely deployed across 60 industries in over 185 countries in 31 languages. Founded in 2001 with offices around the world, the company employs passionate people focused on revolutionizing the future of work. For more information, visit: www.successfactors.com.

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Dominic Paschel, 415-262-4641
Director of Public & Investor Relations
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Vanessa Land, +44 (0) 870 242 7469 (U.K. Public Relations Agency for SuccessFactors)
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