SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SuccessFactors,
Inc. (NYSE: SFSF), the global leader in cloud-based business
execution software, today announced the latest advancements
in its Business Execution (BizX) suite, including a new user
experience that gives managers the ability to efficiently deliver
higher quality performance reviews that are aligned with business
strategy and improve business results. SuccessFactors also
announced the launch of SuccessFactors Jam, its social
collaboration and learning software with rich media capabilities.
SuccessFactors made the announcement at the HR Technology
Conference & Expo (booth #623), held this week in Las Vegas.
"Our customers are looking for every competitive advantage and
we know this often comes down to getting the most out of their
people. We address this by delivering innovative solutions in our
BizX Suite that really impact the way people get things done," said
Dmitri Krakovsky, vice president of
global product management, SuccessFactors. "Performance reviews
have been the Achilles heel of managers as the process can be
cumbersome and lacks comprehensive social feedback. We have
dramatically improved the process by breaking down the obstacles to
high quality reviews, while also launching our new Jam product that
allows companies to leverage the learning and knowledge transfer
done outside the classroom. We are directly increasing the
productivity of a company's workforce and improving their ability
to deliver on the BizX promise – bridging the gap between strategy
and execution."
SuccessFactors Makes It Easy
In the fast-paced business world, human capital management (HCM)
systems have been slowing people down with siloed and inflexible
applications, a lack of analytics and systems of record spread out
in multiple places. SuccessFactors is putting a stop to systems
that are "just too hard" and is transforming the human capital
management experience to help drive better business results and
make it easier, more engaging and more agile than ever with updates
across the BizX suite.
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Increased employee engagement
with SuccessFactors Jam:
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SuccessFactors introduces
SuccessFactors Jam, which combines the social collaboration of
CubeTree with the video and learning capabilities from Jambok.
"Jam" captures the creativity, energy and spontaneity of
social learning that SuccessFactors' customers enjoy – enhancing
the rhythm of business. With this launch, SuccessFactors makes
compelling content both easy to create and discover with relevant
content recommendations based on individual user behavior. This
empowers employees to explore and improve their own knowledge set
in the context of their everyday work – boosting productivity and
engagement across the organization.
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New user experience for better
performance reviews:
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SuccessFactors improves the
performance process by adopting the latest web user interface
technologies and applying them to business problems, taking what is
common on consumer sites and bringing it to a corporate
application. The new user interface provides a smoother
process for performance reviews, making it easier for managers to
write higher quality reviews and prepare for the conversation with
key data at hand, such as an employee's overall score, team rank
and differences between manager and employee ratings. Additionally,
the new team view helps managers to ensure their reviews are
consistent and fair across the team. Managers can easily
request peer feedback from within the system, instead of emailing
individual team members. Together, these enhancements to the
SuccessFactors user experience create a faster and better
performance review process.
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Redefined experience for
SuccessFactors Learning:
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Building on the learning user
and manager enhancements introduced last year, SuccessFactors
continues to redefine the user experience for learning
administrators. New innovations include a customizable
administrator homepage for unique day-to-day needs, a new "Guide
Me" mode for simplified course, curriculum and class creation, and
faster access to items with expanded Bookmarking, Quicklinks and
Pathfinder Search.
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New mobile
capabilities:
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Building on the company's recent
advancements in mobile functionality, SuccessFactors has expanded
the administrative experience to incorporate an organization's
corporate security policies and bring mobile users online faster.
Administrators can activate SuccessFactors BizX Mobile for select
individuals, groups or the entire company, from their admin screen,
granting access to any or all mobile features, including employee
profiles and org charts, mobile docs and feeds, and approvals and
candidate feedback. With the native BizX Mobile apps for iPhone,
iPad, BlackBerry and Android-based tablets and devices,
organizations can become increasingly agile and
competitive.
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Additional resources:
- VIDEO: SuccessFactors Jam on BizX Mobile.
- IMAGES: Screenshots of new products.
- DATA SHEET: SuccessFactors Business Execution.
- DATA SHEET: SuccessFactors Jam
About SuccessFactors
SuccessFactors is the leading provider of cloud-based Business
Execution Software, which delivers business alignment, team
execution, people performance, and learning management solutions to
organizations of all sizes across more than 60 industries. With
approximately 15 million subscription seats globally, we strive to
delight our customers by delivering innovative solutions, content
and analytics, process expertise and best practices insights from
serving our broad and diverse customer base. Today, we have more
than 3,500 customers in more than 168 countries using our
application suite in 34 languages.
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