SuccessFactors Launches Goal Execution Brings Strategic Company Goals into the Everyday Work of Employees

NEW YORK, May 10, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Today, at SuccessConnect 2010, SuccessFactors, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFSF) announced the general availability of Goal Execution, bringing strategic company goals into the everyday work of employees.

SuccessFactors Goal Execution helps companies make sure that people are working on the right things at all times by bringing awareness, visibility and tracking of progress against company goals into the daily work of employees. With a new Goal Execution tool, managers and their employees can stay on course in achieving their individual goals, while helping executives keep a pulse on the company's overall performance. Goal Execution is tightly integrated with Goal Management and other modules in the SuccessFactors Business Execution Software suite, ensuring individual goals are aligned with the corporate strategic priorities.

SuccessFactors Goal Execution powers everyday execution by: Reinforcing goals every day. Employees see and track their progress against overall goals daily, ensuring they are always focused on business results; Enabling executives to monitor progress on goals. Visibility drives accountability and enables organizations to spot problems and address them quickly; Providing an Execution Map highlighting strategic goals across the organization.

The Execution Map provides a powerful visualization of how strategic objectives are broken down, who is working on what and completion status. This fosters deeper understanding of strategy and collaboration across workers with common goals.

"With Goal Execution, a company's strategic goals are at the forefront of everyday work. This product directly addresses our mission of helping companies execute better, every day," said Dmitri Krakovsky, vice president of global product management, SuccessFactors.

About SuccessConnect 2010 With the driving forces of people performance and business alignment, SuccessConnect 2010 explores how the SuccessFactors Business Execution Suite can be best leveraged across all organizations to accelerate business execution and achieve real business results. SuccessConnect assembles SuccessFactors customers and partners, as well as industry analysts and thought leaders, to share experiences and discuss how to get the most out of SuccessFactors.

SuccessConnect takes place in New York on May 10-11 and San Francisco on May 17-18 and will feature keynotes from EMC Corporation and Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

About SuccessFactors, Inc.

SuccessFactors (Nasdaq: SFSF) is the global leader in Business Execution Software. The SuccessFactors Business Execution Suite improves business alignment and people performance to drive breakthrough results for companies of all sizes, anywhere in the world. More than 8 million users and 3,000 companies leverage SuccessFactors every day. To learn more, visit: http://www.successfactors.com/.

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