Latin America Enters the SuccessFactors Cloud

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SuccessFactors, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFSF), the global leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, announced today that H-E-B of Mexico, an international supermarket retailer employing more than 6,000 people in this country, has selected SuccessFactors as its performance and talent management solution. Using five SuccessFactors integrated modules, including Employee Profile, Succession, Recruiting, Performance and Goal Management, H-E-B Mexico will streamline processes and communications, and align individual and corporate goals for strategic management of the company’s overall business.

As an international company, H-E-B Mexico has enlisted SuccessFactors to integrate its independently operated HR programs and streamline initiatives that were previously run on several different on-premise platforms with separate standards and procedures in each location. By using cloud computing and SuccessFactors’ on-demand product suite, H-E-B will be able to align goals, eliminate manual processes, prepare succession plans and leverage employee data to make better management decisions in order to save critical execution time and add value to the business.

“H-E-B has been an innovative and respected retailer for more than 100 years and has been operating in Mexico for more than 13 years. In order to maintain and enhance our success in a services-based industry, we must leverage and manage our people via cloud computing, and to do that, we needed a comprehensive on-demand performance and talent management solution,” said Macedonio Garza, Human Resources Director at H-E-B Mexico Division. “SuccessFactors is the best and most scalable product on the market and they’ve shown us that they can meet our needs of connecting and aligning a large workforce spread across our company in a way and speed that only cloud computing can enable.”

H-E-B Mexico selected SuccessFactors and was able to implement its suite of applications in 5 months. Garza said, “This has been a great experience for us. SuccessFactors has enabled H-E-B’s business leaders to better link company strategy to solid execution with greater information and collaboration.”

“International organizations face so many challenges trying to manage a large, widespread workforce, and H-E-B is a great example of a company addressing those challenges head on with unprecedented communication, alignment, and collaboration via the on-demand world of cloud computing,” said Lars Dalgaard, Founder and CEO of SuccessFactors. “H-E-B understands that to succeed it must leverage, energize and engage its workforce by communicating corporate objectives, individual career paths, skill sets and areas of improvement, while also giving employees control of their own career future. The SuccessFactors platform and cloud computing helps make this happen by linking strategy to execution at record speed.”

SuccessFactors performance and talent management software includes recruiting management, goal management, succession management, 360-degree review, compensation planning, learning and development, and analytics and reporting applications. The solution 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 2,700 customers and 4.7 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.