SuccessFactors to create almost 40 jobs in Dublin

Our investment in the new Dublin office is an integral part of supporting our customers. Dublin’s international reputation in multilingual activity, combined with the ready availability of a diversity of multilingual talent in one city, its European air access, and its competitive costs relative to other European locations made it the logical choice for us.

Lars Dalgaard, CEO of SuccessFactors

Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughlan TD today (Tuesday 28th July 2009) announced that SuccessFactors Inc. (NASDAQ:SFSF), the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, is establishing a new European Multilingual Business Centre in Dundrum, Dublin, creating almost 40 high-value jobs over three years. Recruitment has already commenced for third level graduates with various language skills. The Centre is in response to SuccessFactors’ accelerating commercial momentum across Europe and increased customer demand. IDA Ireland worked strenuously to attract this investment to Ireland against strong competition from other European locations.

SuccessFactors helps organisations of all sizes, in all industries, and across all geographies, to optimise and align their workforces, linking business goals and strategy to execution through its ‘Performance & Talent Management Suite’.  It will be using the Dublin Centre to service customers in the small and medium size markets. SuccessFactors has established itself as one of the worlds’ most massively deployed on-demand business applications in the Enterprise Cloud with 5.1 million users.  Enterprise Cloud is a software distribution model in which applications are hosted by a vendor or service provider and made available to customers over a network, typically the Internet.

Making the announcement, the Tánaiste said, “As SuccessFactors and its solutions are highly regarded and its technology is industry leading, the location of this Centre in Dublin is a significant addition to Ireland’s already well respected software industry. Given the company’s market-leading position, it is also another excellent endorsement of Ireland as an emerging European innovation leader in multi-lingual, technical and customer support activities for client-focused international companies. In addition, companies using the Enterprise Cloud are a strategic focus for IDA Ireland to further enhance Ireland’s existing global-leading software industry.”

The SuccessFactors ‘Performance & Talent Management Suite’ 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 such visibility companies are able to make better, more informed decisions about how to promote, recruit, compensate, reward and manage their entire employee base. The Suite’s latest module allows organisations to maintain centralised employee information with deeply integrated social networking and collaboration, giving it a more complete picture of their people.

Lars Dalgaard, CEO of SuccessFactors, said, “SuccessFactors is focused on supporting customer success by directly linking business strategy to employee execution. Our ability to help customers achieve commercial success through better business execution and employee performance is truly unique, and is reflected in our own commercial growth and continued geographic expansion. Our investment in the new Dublin office is an integral part of supporting our customers. Dublin’s international reputation in multilingual activity, combined with the ready availability of a diversity of multilingual talent in one city, its European air access, and its competitive costs relative to other European locations made it the logical choice for us.”


About SuccessFactors Inc.

SuccessFactors is one of the fastest growing public software companies. From 92 customers and approximately 282,000 end users in 2003 to more than 2,700 customers and 5.1 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 revolutionising the future of work. Its customers range from small firms with a handful of employees to massive large scale deployments in global enterprise companies across multiple countries and languages. Large European customers include companies such as Kellogg’s, Orange, Cadburys Schweppes and Siemens AG, the world’s largest Enterprise Cloud deployments with 420,000 users across 80 countries in 20 different languages.
For more information, visit: http://www.successfactors.com.

For further information please contact:

Success Factors
Dominic Paschel, 415-262-4641 (Director of Public & Investor Relations, SuccessFactors)
dpaschel@successfactors.com

Vanessa Land, +44 (0) 870 242 7469 (U.K. Public Relations Agency for SuccessFactors)
vanessa@devonshiremarketing.com

Marjorie Toucas, +35 3870 633606 (EMEA Director of Emerging Markets, SuccessFactors)
mtoucas@successfactors.com

IDA Ireland
Antoinette Tyrrell, Press Offices Tel: +33 (0)1 603 4256, Mob: +33 (0) 87 7572053

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Roisin McCann, Tel: +33 (0) 1 631 2222, Mob: +33 (0) 87 2594144