SuccessFactors Named One of the Top Workplaces in 2011 by Bay Area News Group

SAN MATEO, Calif., June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SuccessFactors, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFSF), the global leader in business execution software, has been named one of the Top Workplaces in the San Francisco Bay Area based on an employee-based survey project from the Bay Area News Group.   The Bay Area News Group's Top Workplaces special section was published in the San Jose Mercury News on Sunday, June 19.  

Top Workplaces recognizes the most progressive companies in the Bay Area based on employee opinions about company leadership, career opportunities, workplace flexibility, compensation and benefits.  The analysis included responses from more than 16,000 employees at public, private and nonprofit organizations in the Bay Area.

The rankings in the Bay Area News Group top places to work are based on survey information collected by Workplace Dynamics, an independent company specializing in employee engagement and retention.

"Helping our customers deliver extraordinary business results, increase the performance of their employees and create great workplaces is what we do at SuccessFactors every day. We believe every company can have employees that are as motivated and passionate about their job as our people are," said Jeff Diana, chief people officer, SuccessFactors. "At SuccessFactors we value our people and culture above all else and we believe this comes through in every aspect of our products and how we focus on the success of our customers. People are our competitive advantage and our most precious asset. We want to make every employee in our company, and every company, successful by providing the tools to enhance their professional skill set, advance their career goals and connect with their company and its mission. We truly believe it's time to love work again and that starts with creating a great work atmosphere that engages and delights the people who live in it each and everyday."

To qualify for the Bay Area News Group Top Workplaces, a company must have more than 50 employees in the Bay Area.  More than 1,300 companies were invited to participate.  Rankings were composite scores calculated purely on the basis of employee responses.

About SuccessFactors        

SuccessFactors is the leading provider of cloud-based Business Execution (BizX) software solutions to organizations of all sizes, with more than 8 million users across multiple industries and geographies. We strive to delight our customers by delivering innovative solutions, a broad range of content, process expertise and best practices knowledge gained from serving our large and varied customer base. Today, we have more than 3,200 customers in more than 168 countries using our application suite in 34 languages. 

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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements are SuccessFactors' current expectations and beliefs.

These forward-looking statements include statements about future growth prospects. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements include: our ability to retain customers and to experience high customer renewal rates; whether customers renew their agreements for additional modules or users; pricing pressures; the uncertain impact of the overall global economic conditions, including on customers, prospective customers and partners, renewal rates and length of sales cycles; the fact that the business execution market is at an early stage of development, and may not develop as rapidly as we anticipate; risks related to the integration of the acquisitions, including retaining customers and employees and managing geographically-dispersed operations; competitive factors; outages or security breaches; our ability to develop, and market acceptance of, new services; the impact of any discovered product defects or outages; our ability to continue to sell our services outside the HR area; our ability to manage our growth; our ability to successfully expand our sales force and its effectiveness; whether our resellers and other partners will be successful in marketing our products; our ability to continue to manage expenses; the impact of unforeseen expenses, including as a result of integrating acquisitions; and general economic conditions worldwide. If any such risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, our results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make.

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