Destination Hotels & Resorts Launches Comprehensive Strategy with SuccessFactors Focused on Cultivating Top Talent

SuccessFactors’ Customer to Present Best Practices at the HR in Hospitality Conference on March 17

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SuccessFactors, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFSF), the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, announced today that Destination Hotels & Resorts, the fifth largest independent management company in the United States, has begun an aggressive strategy to drive workforce productivity, initially implementing SuccessFactors’ succession management and goal management solutions.

“A thorough search lead us to SuccessFactors, and we’re pleased with our decision”

A wholly owned subsidiary of Lowe Enterprises, a privately-held, national real estate organization active in commercial and hospitality property investment, management, and development, Destination Hotels & Resorts began in 1972 and has grown to become the country's fifth largest independent management company with more than 6,500 employees and more than $1.7 billion in assets under management.

Before selecting SuccessFactors, Destination Hotels had disparate systems for managing its people, and the lack of integration was a pain. The company’s leadership sought a single solution, and after an exhaustive search, chose SuccessFactors for its ease of use and true integration delivered from a single code base. The company also believed the Web 2.0-functionality in the SuccessFactors suite would help ensure high user adoption, and management saw it as the best solution to strategically look at talent planning for optimal decision making.

“A thorough search lead us to SuccessFactors, and we’re pleased with our decision,” said Robert Mellwig, senior vice president of human resources for Destination Hotels & Resorts. “The pricing, delivery model, ease of use and relationship we’ve developed with the company have all been great. During the selection process, our conversations with existing SuccessFactors customers were even more impressive – all indicated that they’d make the same decision to go with SuccessFactors again – and the company’s customer-first mentality continues to impress us.”

Destination Hotels first deployed succession management because they already had an existing process, and believed it was the fastest way to realize a return on the investment. Soon after, the company implemented solutions for managing employee goals and performance, and is currently evaluating SuccessFactors Stack Ranker, which enables managers to effortlessly rate and assess their talent across defined competencies for a visual and intuitive stack ranking of employees to accelerate a course of action.

Destination Hotels Presents Talent Management Strategy at Upcoming Conference

Robert Mellwig will offer a two-part presentation on his vision and actions in executing an integrated talent management strategy at the HR in Hospitality Conference, to be held in Orlando, Florida from March 17 – 19, 2009. From recruitment and on-boarding through performance management and succession planning, Robert will discuss how to integrate these critical HR activities into a comprehensive strategy that produces results greater than the sum of its parts.

“SuccessFactors is thrilled to work with Destination Hotels on its aggressive talent management strategy, as now more than ever, organizations need to focus on their people to drive even higher business results,” said Lars Dalgaard, founder and president of SuccessFactors.

The SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Suite, which includes Performance Management, Goal Management, 360 Degree Reviews, Succession Management, Compensation Management, Learning and Development, Recruiting Management, Employee Profile, and Analytics and Reporting applications, 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 deep, real-time, company-wide visibility into such critical performance data, companies are able to make better, more informed decisions about how to promote, recruit, compensate, reward and manage their entire employee base.

About SuccessFactors, Inc.

SuccessFactors is one of the fastest growing public software companies and the leading provider of on-demand employee performance and talent management solutions. The company enables organizations of every size, and across every industry and geography, to achieve high-performing workforces through goal alignment and execution, talent development and planning, and pay-for-performance initiatives. From 92 customers and approximately 282,000 end users in 2003 to more than 2,600 customers and nearly 4.5 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 revolutionizing the future of work. For more information, visit: http://www.successfactors.com.