SuccessConnect Local Asia-Pacific to Showcase Next Generation Enterprise Social Collaboration Tool - Employee Central(TM) SYDNEY, July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SuccessFactors, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFSF), the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, today announced its inaugural 2009 SuccessConnect Local Asia Pacific user conference to take place in Melbourne, Australia on August 13th to 14th, an event expected to bring together customers across many countries in the Asia Pacific region. The conference will also introduce APAC customers to Employee Central, a new module for the SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Suite that allows companies to maintain centralized 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. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090602/SF26086LOGO) Themed "How To Get Everyone To Execute For Success," 2009 marks the first year that SuccessFactors will host a SuccessConnect customer conferences in the Asia Pacific region, and comes on the heels of massive sales growth in the region. With a 160 percent compounded annual growth rate since early 2006, SuccessFactors has grown its customer base more than 85 percent year-over-year and now has more than 550 customers and 270,000 users with a presence in Asia Pacific. "Even in these unprecedented times, SuccessFactors is growing from strength to strength -- not only in the US, but also in the Asia Pacific region and other international markets," said Murray Sargant, vice president of APAC sales. "In the past, our APAC customers have attended our US-based SuccessConnect customer conferences. We now believe the time is right and demand is high to deliver our customer conference locally." Executives and customers from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines will be in attendance. Many of these attendees will deliver breakout presentations to their peers and showcase how SuccessFactors' suite of performance management tools has benefited their organizations. Deloitte, Arthur Allen Robinson, Incitec Pivot, Premier Farnell and Simms International are just a handful of the customers confirmed to present. Closing the SuccessFactors conference will be Dr. Tom Mulholland, television's "Attitude Doctor" and one of New Zealand's leading motivational speakers, coaches and mentors. He will provide powerful insights on how organizations can improve productivity via "Healthy Thinking". For more information on Dr Tom, visit his website at http://www.theattitudedoctor.com/. "Organizations worldwide are expected to do more with less, and we know how important the opportunity to listen, learn and share with others is in this economic climate. We look forward to sharing successful ideas, best practice, networking sessions and keynote presentations with our valued customers," said Sargant. Employee Central: Bringing Visibility to Critical Employee Information Also showcased at SuccessConnect APAC will be Employee Central. Introduced earlier this month, Employee Central connects employees dynamically and delivers relevant, community-enriched employee information that business leaders need to make strategic decisions about their talent in order to improve business performance. The new SuccessFactors module leverages the best in social networking and Web 2.0 technologies and is as engaging and fun to use as today's popular consumer-focused social media platforms. It enables employees and managers to populate their personal profiles with a rich set of information such as individual skill sets or competencies, languages spoken, career goals, key accomplishments, compensation history and leadership potential, and now puts this in context of the basic information typically stored in a traditional HRIS system to create an insightful and dynamic view of every employee. "Employee Central brings social networking to the enterprise, and we expect it to drive as much value in the Asia Pacific market as we've seen in US-based companies since its launch," said Lars Dalgaard, CEO of SuccessFactors. "Employee Central is all about fostering collaboration and making strategic decisions that affect every company's execution strategy. We're thrilled to be able to introduce it to the APAC audience during our first-ever SuccessConnect Local event in Australia and encourage even more employee collaboration and interaction in the workplace." For more information on SuccessConnect Asia Pacific 2009 and to register, please visit: http://www.successfactors.com/successconnect/2009/apac/. For more information on Employee Central, please visit: http://www.successfactors.com/employee-central/. About SuccessConnect 2009 SuccessConnect 2009, SuccessFactors' series of annual user conferences, brings together hundreds of customers across all regions and industries. Last month, SuccessFactors hosted three US-based conferences in San Francisco, Chicago and New York with more than 1,000 attendees. Two more conferences will take place in Melbourne (August 13-14) and Barcelona in early October. The conferences serve as a gathering point for hundreds of business leaders, CEOs, CFOs and COOs, to discuss and exchange methods, best practices and measurements for driving business execution and performance. Comprised of high-impact keynotes, customer presentations and best practices sessions, the new localized format and free registration underscore SuccessFactors' commitment to customer success. For more information on SuccessConnect 2009 and to register, please visit: http://www.successfactors.com/successconnect/2009/apac/ 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 2,700 customers and 5.1 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: http://www.successfactors.com/. SuccessFactors Dominic Paschel, 415-262-4641 Director of Public & Investor Relations Adele Bernard, +61 2 9238 6680 Senior APAC Marketing Manager http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090602/SF26086LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: SuccessFactors, Inc. CONTACT: Dominic Paschel, Director of Public & Investor Relations, +1-415-262-4641, , or Adele Bernard, Senior APAC Marketing Manager, +61 2 9238 6680, , both of SuccessFactors Web Site: http://www.successfactors.com/

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