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SuccessFactors Expands Team with New Board Members and Senior Management

Appoints Former CEO of Great Plains Software, Doug Burgum, and Former CFO of Macromedia, Betsey Nelson, to Board of Directors; Over Last 12 Months Adds GM SMB and CMO, CFO, VP Global Enterprise Sales and VP Global Customer Success

SAN MATEO, Calif. - September 25, 2007 - SuccessFactors, Inc., the leading global provider of on-demand performance and talent management solutions, today announced the appointment of Doug Burgum and Betsey Nelson to the company's Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Over the past 12 months, the company has expanded its management team with the additions of Paul Albright, general manager for SMB and chief marketing officer; Bruce Felt, chief financial officer; Jay Larson, vice president of Global Enterprise Sales; and Patrick Saeger, vice president of Customer Success.

SuccessFactors Adds to Board of Directors
From April 2001 to Aug. 2007, Doug Burgum served as a senior vice president at Microsoft, where he led the global Microsoft Business Solutions Group (MBS), which provides financial, customer relationship and supply chain management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, larger enterprises and divisions of global enterprises. Before joining Microsoft, Burgum was CEO and chairman of Great Plains Software Inc., a publicly-traded small and mid-market software company that Microsoft acquired in April 2001. Burgum had served in key roles at Great Plains since joining the company in 1983. From 1980 to 1983, Burgum was a consultant at McKinsey & Co. in its Chicago office. In July 2002, Burgum led Microsoft's acquisition of Navision A/S, a European-based mid-market software company. The two companies combined to create Microsoft Business Solutions.

Burgum holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and serves on the school's advisory board, and also holds a bachelors degree from North Dakota State University.

"SuccessFactors is tackling one of the great problems any business faces around the globe today - helping your most important asset, your people, to fully realize their capabilities and potential," said Burgum. "Given the broad customer base, in large, medium and small business across the world, you can see the great value that SuccessFactors' solutions are delivering today in addressing this universal need."

Betsey Nelson served as executive vice president, CFO and member of the Board of Directors of Macromedia until its acquisition by Adobe for $3.4 billion in December 2005. Nelson joined Macromedia in 1996 to lead mergers and acquisitions and became the company's chief financial officer in 1997, where she was responsible for all operational and administrative functions, including business development, customer care, finance, investor relations, information technology, legal, operations and real estate. Prior to Macromedia, Nelson spent eight years at Hewlett-Packard in a variety of positions in finance and corporate development.

Nelson holds an MBA in finance with distinction from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in foreign service from Georgetown University. She currently serves on three boards including CNET.

"I've been a fan of SuccessFactors since we implemented the software at Macromedia three-and-a-half years ago. SuccessFactors helped us drive strategic alignment throughout the company, and best of all, it was up and running on 1,500 desktops in a matter of weeks, not years. I look forward to working with the team at SuccessFactors to bring this service to every company, large or small, where people and results matter," Nelson said.
Lars Dalgaard, CEO of SuccessFactors, said, "We are extremely fortunate to add board members with the character, experience, accomplishment and judgment that Betsey and Doug will bring to SuccessFactors. Both have been involved in building extremely successful technology companies over many years in key leadership roles. Together, they bring experience across a wide range of

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