The document discusses SuccessFactors, a business software company. It highlights SuccessFactors' strong financial performance with increasing bookings and revenue. It details SuccessFactors' acquisitions of Inform to expand its analytics and planning offerings and plans to launch its Express product on the Google Apps Marketplace to reach more small businesses. The document also describes SuccessFactors' large global user base and cutting-edge cloud-based technology platform.
3. InformationWeek
Global CIO: SuccessFactors Is The Future Of Business
Software
SuccessFactors' compelling product strategy,
customer-centric mission, and dynamic CEO are
turning the software business upside-down.
InformationWeek: SuccessFactors Is The Future Of
Business Software
4. SuccessFactors Announces Fourth Quarter &
Fiscal 2009 Results
• Q409 bookings (revenue plus change in total deferred
revenue) grows to an all-time high -- an increase of
34% year-over-year and 26% sequentially
• Total 2009 revenue grows to $153.1 million, an
increase of 37% year-over-year
5. SuccessFactors to Acquire Inform
• With this strategic acquisition, SuccessFactors will be the first company to offer
business analytics and workforce planning as part of a comprehensive business
execution software suite.
• With their unmatched applications and strategic consulting, Inform serves more
than 130 enterprise customers, most with more than 100,000 employees,
including 24 of the Fortune 500, such as Comcast, BHP Billiton, Starbucks, Nike
and ANZ Bank, which represent approximately 2.5 million employees.
• The addition of Inform's powerful, 100 percent cloud-based software and
unique expertise dramatically boosts SuccessFactors' market-leading Business
Execution Software (BizX) solution.
6. SuccessFactors Express Will Bring BizX to 2
Million Google Apps Customers
• SuccessFactors plans to launch SuccessFactors Express in the Google Apps
Marketplace(TM), Google's recently launched online storefront for Google Apps(TM)
products and services.
• This will be the first business execution solution to be made available to more than 2
million Google Apps businesses.
• Express, which is one of SuccessFactors' Business Execution Software (BizX)
solutions, is a cloud-based business application for smaller, emerging businesses
(with less than 50 employees) to set goals, track progress, review employee
performance instantly and execute at peak performance for the best possible
results.
• SuccessFactors BizX helps more than 6 million users and 3,000 companies improve
business alignment and people performance to drive breakthrough results.
• For larger, more complex organizations, SuccessFactors offers its broader suite of
BizX applications, which includes existing integrations with Google Apps
collaboration tools including Google Talk(TM), Google Calendar(TM), Google
Docs(TM), Google Book Search(TM), and Google Maps(TM).
7. SuccessFactors Technology
Cutting edge. World class. The foundation of success.
• With more than 6 Million+ users, SuccessFactors has the largest and most
sophisticated software as a service (SaaS) platform in the world.
• Since 2001 we have developed expertise in building great products that are
available to our customers anytime, anywhere—in a secure environment.
• SuccessFactors Business Execution Suite was built organically, from the ground
up, providing seamless integration across our products.
• Our platform has a hybrid, multi-tenant architecture that enables us to provide
easier and quicker initial customer deployments.
• Our innovative architecture means we can release updates and enhancements
every thirty days, while allowing our customers complete control over their
implementations.
• SuccessCloud is a key extension of the SuccessFactors Technology.
• The SuccessCloud Ecosystem, allows third-party applications to connect and
integrate with SuccessFactors on-demand platform, providing our customers a
single view of what’s most important to them.