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SuccessFactors Co-Founder and CTO to Keynote SuccessConnect Asia Pacific

MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SuccessFactors (Nasdaq: SFSF), the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, announced that Aaron Au, co-founder and chief technology officer of SuccessFactors, will deliver a keynote address at the 2009 APAC SuccessConnect Customer Conference, the company's Asia Pacific user conference being held August 13th and 14th in Melbourne, Australia, that will bring together hundreds of attendees and SuccessFactors' customers across all industries.

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"We have a huge customer base in Asia Pacific, so it will be exciting to get into the room and hear our customer's success stories first hand," Au said. "Growth in the APAC region has been absolutely on fire, so it's a great chance to go in and recognize the great work and innovative strategies our customers have worked so hard on."

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.

In March 2009, SuccessFactors announced the appointment of Murray Sargant, former SAP vice president, as Asia Pacific Vice President of Sales. 2009 marks the first year that SuccessFactors will host a SuccessConnect Customer Conference in the Asia Pacific region, and comes on the heels of massive sales growth in the region. With a 160% compounded annual growth rate since early 2006, SuccessFactors grew its customer base over 85% year-over-year and now has more than 550 customers and 270,000 users with a presence in Asia Pacific, with logins up nearly 100% to 4.4 million in the last 12-months alone.

SuccessFactors is the most widely deployed enterprise SaaS application with more than 5.4 million users across more than 2,850 customers. SuccessFactors now has 2 customers with greater than 300,000 users, 12 customers with greater than 50,000 users, more than 35 customers with greater than 25,000 users, and more than 115 customers with greater than 10,000 users. SuccessFactors recently announced the world's largest enterprise cloud deployment at Siemens AG with 420,000 users across 80 countries in 20 different languages. The electronics and electrical engineering giant has purchased a global enterprise subscription of virtually all of SuccessFactors' modules to link strategy and executed business results with its worldwide corporate talent management vision.

About SuccessConnect 2009

SuccessConnect 2009, SuccessFactors' annual user conferences, will bring together hundreds of customers across all regions and industries and will take place locally in San Francisco on June 8-9, Chicago on June 15-16, and New York on June 18-19. The conferences will 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/.

SuccessFactors will be hosting its second annual European Customer Conference in Barcelona, Spain on November 9th and 10th. More information on this event will be available soon at http://www.successfactors.com/successconnect/.

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 2,850 customers and 5.4 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 Contacts:
    Dominic Paschel, 415-262-4641
    Director of Public & Investor Relations
    dpaschel@successfactors.com

    Adele Bernard (02 9238 6680)
    APAC Senior Marketing Manager
    abernard@successfactors.com

SOURCE SuccessFactors, Inc.