Human Resources: Joint Solution Provides Small and Medium-Sized Organizations With Proven Technology

SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug 06, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SuccessFactors, Inc., the leader in on-demand performance and talent management solutions, announced today that TriNet Group, a nationwide provider of human resource (HR) outsourcing services, will offer SuccessFactors' performance and talent management solutions to TriNet's customer base of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to enable them to optimize employee performance and productivity and achieve overall business goals.

SuccessFactors Professional Edition will be offered to TriNet's 1500 customers via the company's HR Passport portal, providing these clients with single sign-on capabilities to access SuccessFactors performance and talent management solution in the same manner that TriNet's comprehensive payroll, benefits, and human capital services are delivered. Both TriNet customers and internal staff will benefit from improved performance review processes, organizational goal alignment and compensation planning.

"TriNet has implemented a series of high-level services to meet our customers' demand for strategic human capital solutions such as performance management," said Jack Midgley, TriNet's Vice President of Human Capital Consulting. "After rigorously evaluating other performance and talent management solutions targeting SMB's, we chose SuccessFactors for our performance management needs because their comprehensive range of solutions resolves the specific pain points our customers experience and integrates seamlessly into our customer portal, HR Passport. We are confident in recommending SuccessFactors' solutions to our SMB customers as we will have first hand, day-to-day experience with their services within our own organization. We are confident that we have found the optimum solution for robust performance management delivered through an industry-leading platform."

"Our new alliance with TriNet will provide SMBs who want to effectively and productively manage growth and company performance with the SuccessFactors technology solution as its backbone," said Roger Goulart, Vice President of Alliances for SuccessFactors. "SMB organizations recognize that alignment and performance are key to gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage and overall business success. Leveraging SuccessFactors' organizational strengths in chorus with TriNet's will allow both companies to most effectively support the overwhelming number of SMB organizations who are in dire need of aligning employee efforts with company goals."

TriNet has been steadily enhancing its HR Passport portal to offer a wide range of high-level human capital services in addition to its payroll, benefits, and human resource offerings. In addition to SuccessFactors, TriNet offers custom compensation consulting, full-service recruitment process outsourcing, international services, and leadership training services. SuccessFactors fits perfectly into TriNet's expanding portfolio of value-added HR services for companies within the industries of technology, financial services, and professional services.

TriNet will also offer SuccessFactors' SuccessPractices to its medium-sized clients. SuccessPractices consists of pre-configured templates and content packs based on best practices for high-performing medium-sized businesses. Additionally, TriNet has purchased Professional Edition for internal use among their 350 employees.

About TriNet Group, Inc.

Founded in 1988, TriNet delivers outsourced human resources throughout the United States and Canada and specializes in serving technology, financial service, and professional service firms. Its offerings include human asset administration, employer risk management, online employee benefits administration and support, payroll processing, tax compliance, workers compensation, group health and welfare products, and strategic human capital consulting services. More than simply an HR services provider, TriNet contractually assumes certain legal and financial responsibilities regarding employer rights, legal compliance and risk management. For more information about TriNet, visit http://www.trinet.com.

About SuccessFactors

SuccessFactors is the leading provider of on-demand employee performance and talent management solutions that enable organizations of every size, across every industry and geography, to realize their employees' potential and thus drive business results. Its hosted service is organically built from the ground up - providing a fully-integrated, modular suite of performance and talent management applications that provide customers with immediate process benefits and tangible return on investment. Fueled by customer success, SuccessFactors currently has more than 1,400 customers across over 60 industries, with more than 2 million end users in over 150 countries using the application in 18 languages. The company currently employs more than 500 people worldwide, all passionately focused on delighting customers through prompt and effective execution and constant improvement driven by customer feedback. SuccessFactors' customers include Kimberly-Clark Corporation, MasterCard Worldwide, Textron, Sutter Healthcare, Direct Energy, Quintiles Transnational, Volkswagen of North America, Lancaster General Hospital, McDermott International, Inc, and Salesforce.com. Founded in 2001, SuccessFactors has multiple offices worldwide collaborating for strong local support of customers.