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Business Performance Management Leader Hyperion Adopts SuccessFactors to Augment Human Capital Management Initiatives

Business Wire, April 2, 2007

CEO Cites Direct Impact on Their Business

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- SuccessFactors, the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, has been adopted by Hyperion, the global leader in Business Performance Management (BPM) software, to manage and align employee and business performance.

Hyperion chose SuccessFactors' Performance and Talent Management Suite to track and align goals and measure performance among its 3,000 employees worldwide, ensuring that individual and department goals at all levels consistently drive the organization towards attaining business objectives.

"The quality and precision with which we can set and drive goals for our employees and our business in SuccessFactors is directly in line with the business value we bring to the market," said Godfrey R. Sullivan, president and chief executive officer of Hyperion. "Hyperion is focused on business performance, for our customers and ourselves, and SuccessFactors has been a tremendous partner in helping us bring those same strategies to our human capital management plan -- effectively managing our people for results."

Hyperion began using SuccessFactors' Performance Management, Goal Management, Compensation and 360 Review modules nine months ago and is now planning to deploy SuccessFactors' Succession Planning module as well.

"SuccessFactors has allowed management to significantly improve the focus, crispness and relevance of goals, prioritizing what matters and giving visibility to the whole company," said Fred McAmis, Hyperion senior director of human resources, who is managing the rollout. "It gets everyone on one page and moving in the same direction."

SuccessFactors' on-demand software automates a company's performance and talent management processes, providing a series of modules that leverage performance data to help companies align goals, manage pay for performance, succession, learning and recruiting planning, develop competencies and provide insightful analytics dashboards and reporting tools, all while promoting visibility, accountability and results within an organization.

"It is critical for businesses to focus on goals for individuals, management, and overall workforce performance and talent management, to deliver real business results," said SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard. "Hyperion saw our commitment to excellence in our sales people, in our services and support people and in our products, which are enhanced every month."

About SuccessFactors

SuccessFactors delivers performance and talent excellence, on demand. The company's software promotes visibility, accountability, and results, enabling organizations to eliminate the politics that destroy motivation and impede performance. Fueled by the industry's highest renewal rate, SuccessFactors has grown in the past 13 months from 346 customers to over 1,200 customers and from 1 million users to over 2 million users in 156 countries, across 60 industries, and in 18 languages--all while becoming easier to use. During that period, the company nearly doubled its employee base, currently employing over 450 people, passionate about effective human capital management. Carefully managed and executed internal growth has allowed the company to provide the same caliber of absolute excellence in execution for customers that catapulted SuccessFactors into the product, customer and revenue leader in the performance and talent management space. Customers include Kimberly-Clark Corporation, MasterCard Worldwide, T. Rowe Price, Textron, Sutter Healthcare, Direct Energy, Arrow Electronics, Quintiles Transnational, Volkswagen of North America, Lancaster General Hospital and Salesforce.com. The company continues to execute at a level of global excellence by providing an industry-leading, scalable and secure global hosting operation. Founded in 2001, SuccessFactors has 15 worldwide offices collaborating for strong local support of customers. For more information, visit http://www.successfactors.com/.>