SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today,
SuccessFactors, Inc. (NYSE: SFSF), the global leader in business
execution software, announced an agreement with VMware to empower
its customers and partners to extend SuccessFactors applications
using the VMware Cloud Foundry™ Platform as a Service (PaaS)
beta.
"We're thrilled to launch our Cloud Foundry™ project with
SuccessFactors. Cloud Foundry continues to gain traction as
the PaaS of choice for modern and open cloud application
development," said Paul Maritz,
CEO of VMware. "This new project takes the Cloud Foundry
vision one step further, enabling customers to extend and build
custom applications around SuccessFactors to address specific
business and vertical use cases, without restricting the choice of
development frameworks, data or application services. Cloud
Foundry helps ensure customers can build
applications using open and industry-standard development
technologies while preserving the flexibility to deploy across both
public and private clouds. SuccessFactors and VMware are both
committed to enabling custom development and integration across a
broad ecosystem of SaaS providers."
“This agreement is the revolution the cloud industry needs. Our
announcement with VMware represents a paradigm shift in the way
companies will consume cloud services. We believe
SuccessFactors has the world’s largest cloud deployments, and we
plan to empower our 3,500+ customers with 15 million subscription
seats and our partners to rapidly develop custom extensions and
integrations of our solutions on Cloud Foundry™ in an open and
non-proprietary manner. This open approach will allow CIOs to
leverage the skills they already have on their team, and further
unlock the value from their investment with SuccessFactors,” said
Lars Dalgaard, founder and CEO,
SuccessFactors. “This is a strategic move for our customers
because as their use of our various applications is increasing, in
many cases customers are using 5-10 SuccessFactors applications,
the ability to interface and extend into other business areas is
irresistible for them. Where we don’t want to build them
ourselves, through Cloud Foundry we can extend business data from
our apps into company specific apps and extensions connecting us
deeper into our customers’ business, at a low cost to them and
without cost to us. The cloud belongs to all of us and this
agreement presents CIOs and business leaders with immense
flexibility to extract much more value from their public and
private clouds, and we believe, create unseen cross functional
business value and multi-directional business execution data in and
out of SuccessFactors’ BizX Suite. This significantly increases its
value for existing customers and makes it much more attractive and
lower risk to new customers.”
SuccessFactors was able to build its first application on
CloudFoundry.com within hours that integrated Google Maps data with
SuccessFactors' employee location data from its next generation
Core HR Information System platform, Employee Central. Today,
SuccessFactors' customers and partners have the same ability to
easily build, test and run their applications on CloudFoundry.com.
In the near term, the new SuccessFactors integration with Cloud
Foundry will enable customers and partners to combine its
capabilities with other web applications.
"The unique competitive advantage of this platform is that it is
open and enables development on standard development languages such
as web service APIs, Java, PHP, Ruby-on-Rails, HTML, Ajax,
Javascript and the Spring Framework (Java)," said Aaron Au, co-founder and chief technology
officer, SuccessFactors. "Our customers can create a Cloud Foundry
account, integrate with SuccessFactors data via our APIs and
create, deploy and scale their own applications within hours. We
believe this is the future of enterprise cloud computing."
More information is available at
http://www.successfactors.com/info/en/vmware-cloud-foundry.
About SuccessFactors, Inc.
SuccessFactors is the leading provider of cloud-based Business
Execution Software, and 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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