Latin America Enters the SuccessFactors Cloud

International Supermarket Retailer, H-E-B of Mexico, Deploys SuccessFactors
On-Demand Solutions to Enable Unprecedented Speed and Agility in Business and
Talent Management
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
SuccessFactors, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFSF), the global leader in on-demand performance
and talent management solutions, announced today that H-E-B of Mexico, an
international supermarket retailer employing more than 6,000 people in this
country, has selected SuccessFactors as its performance and talent management
solution. Using five SuccessFactors integrated modules, including Employee
Profile, Succession, Recruiting, Performance and Goal Management, H-E-B Mexico
will streamline processes and communications, and align individual and corporate
goals for strategic management of the company`s overall business.

As an international company, H-E-B Mexico has enlisted SuccessFactors to
integrate its independently operated HR programs and streamline initiatives that
were previously run on several different on-premise platforms with separate
standards and procedures in each location. By using cloud computing and
SuccessFactors` on-demand product suite, H-E-B will be able to align goals,
eliminate manual processes, prepare succession plans and leverage employee data
to make better management decisions in order to save critical execution time and
add value to the business.

"H-E-B has been an innovative and respected retailer for more than 100 years and
has been operating in Mexico for more than 13 years. In order to maintain and
enhance our success in a services-based industry, we must leverage and manage
our people via cloud computing, and to do that, we needed a comprehensive
on-demand performance and talent management solution," said Macedonio Garza,
Human Resources Director at H-E-B Mexico Division. "SuccessFactors is the best
and most scalable product on the market and they`ve shown us that they can meet
our needs of connecting and aligning a large workforce spread across our company
in a way and speed that only cloud computing can enable."

H-E-B Mexico selected SuccessFactors and was able to implement its suite of
applications in 5 months. Garza said, "This has been a great experience for us.
SuccessFactors has enabled H-E-B`s business leaders to better link company
strategy to solid execution with greater information and collaboration."

"International organizations face so many challenges trying to manage a large,
widespread workforce, and H-E-B is a great example of a company addressing those
challenges head on with unprecedented communication, alignment, and
collaboration via the on-demand world of cloud computing," said Lars Dalgaard,
Founder and CEO of SuccessFactors. "H-E-B understands that to succeed it must
leverage, energize and engage its workforce by communicating corporate
objectives, individual career paths, skill sets and areas of improvement, while
also giving employees control of their own career future. The SuccessFactors
platform and cloud computing helps make this happen by linking strategy to
execution at record speed."

SuccessFactors performance and talent management software includes recruiting
management, goal management, succession management, 360-degree review,
compensation planning, learning and development, and analytics and reporting
applications. The solution 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.

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 4.7 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
dpaschel@successfactors.com

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