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SuccessFactors Appoints Industry Leader Peter Prestele to Run EMEA

--Former HP and IBM Executive to Lead Rapidly Growing European Operations
LONDON, Aug 13, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- SuccessFactors (Nasdaq: SFSF), the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, announced the appointment of Peter Prestele as Vice President of EMEA Enterprise Sales. Prestele will lead EMEA operations for SuccessFactors and help accelerate sales in the market while leading SuccessFactors to new levels of growth.

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Prestele comes to SuccessFactors with more than 15 years of software industry experience, with recent executive roles at Hewlett-Packard as area vice president of software group Germany, Mercury Interactive as managing director central and Eastern Europe and at IBM Europe as vice president EMEA Websphere BI.

"SuccessFactors is capitalizing on the three strategic market trends of concern for corporate and intuitional leadership teams -- competition for the best human capital, improvement of productivity, and the Cloud Computing revolution. My career decisions have always been based on growing market opportunities and offerings that makes a difference in how customers run their business. I am very excited to join the no. 1 vendor in the market, and most importantly, the no. 1 in customer satisfaction. There is no better platform for success or growth."

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, Peter Prestele, VP EMEA Enterprise Sales, 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
dpaschel@successfactors.com

Vanessa Land, +44 (0) 870 242 7469
(U.K. Public Relations Agency for SuccessFactors)
vanessa@devonshiremarketing.com

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