SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction
with the close of the acquisition by SAP, SuccessFactors, Inc.,
(NYSE: SFSF), today announced broad support for the deal from its
global partner ecosystem. SuccessFactors has always partnered with
industry-leading companies from around the world to help extend the
value of its Business Execution (BizX) suite through complementary
partner product and service offerings or helping open up new
markets. Now, in concert with SAP, SuccessFactors and its partners
are able to provide a vast array of new offerings that promise new
value for customers as they optimize how they execute their
businesses.
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SAP's acquisition of SuccessFactors combines the powerful assets
of each company – including world-class cloud expertise, software
applications and go-to-market capabilities – to create a global
cloud leader with an end-to-end offering of cloud and on-premise
solutions for managing business processes.
"Our industry is at a tipping point, as executives around the
world position their organizations to fight and win the global war
for talent," said Mercedes Ellison,
vice president of global alliances and channels, SuccessFactors.
"Our union with SAP will accelerate SuccessFactors' BizX roadmap by
10 years, which in turn will speed our partners' ability to deliver
new solutions that meet growing customer demand. Together, we will
scale our businesses to capitalize on the tremendous business
opportunities in enterprise and people-focused cloud
applications."
SuccessFactors Partners Speak Out
The SuccessFactors Partner Program will help partners
effectively tap the comprehensive resources from SuccessFactors in
order to develop, market, sell and deliver solutions that help
solve customers' business execution problems.
- "With the acquisition of SuccessFactors, SAP is expanding its
rich portfolio of offerings in key areas such as cloud computing
and human capital management. For Accenture, the main beneficiaries
will be our SAP clients who are increasingly interested in adding
these capabilities to their information technology mix."
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Mark
Willford, Global Managing Director, Accenture's SAP
business
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- "AKT has been partnering with SuccessFactors for
almost four years in the Israeli market. Together, we have made
SuccessFactors a de-facto standard in the high-tech sector in this
region. We are excited about this acquisition, as we believe that
SAP's presence in Israel can be leveraged to make SuccessFactors a
standard for cloud solutions beyond HR."
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Yoav
Ventura, Managing Partner, AKT Human Capital
Solutions
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- "SuccessFactors is an excellent match for SAP, not
only for its leading Business Execution application and its
experience in the cloud computing market but also for its
specialized partner ecosystem with companies like Avanxo, which
brings cloud expertise and added value to SAP solutions and, very
importantly, to end customers. With the acquisition of
SuccessFactors, SAP has confirmed that it is serious about cloud
computing. Avanxo, as a pure-play cloud computing system
integrator, feels very positive about the new opportunities that
will arise from engaging with both SAP and its
customers."
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Diego
Maldonado, CEO, Avanxo
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- "At Capgemini, where we help organizations drive
performance through people, the union of our two partners,
SuccessFactors and SAP, offers an exciting opportunity to find
fresh answers to the strategic challenge of talent management.
Cloud services can give the HR function the workforce analytics,
visibility and scalability it needs to take decisive action in the
acquisition, deployment and development of talent globally. The
combination of SAP, the leader of business applications, and
SuccessFactors, the cloud-based Business Execution provider, will
provide best-of-breed cloud solutions that add great value to
on-premise enterprise application systems. This integration is
great news and a perfect match."
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Barbara
Spitzer, Vice President, People & Performance,
Capgemini
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- "Congratulations to SAP on its strategic acquisition
of SuccessFactors, the best cloud company out there. SuccessFactors
provides exceptional business execution capabilities with maximum
speed and flexibility to its ever-growing customer base. We have
experienced this at close range during our seven-year partnership
and more than 60 joint SuccessFactors customer engagements. We
welcome the merger of SAP and SuccessFactors as it will provide the
option for all of us to create even more satisfied customers. Our
clients will be executing their business strategies faster and
better than ever before."
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Mikkel
Krogsdal, CEO, Effective-People
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- "The world's fastest-growing companies rely on
Jobvite for innovative recruiting solutions that can perform and
scale as fast as they do. SuccessFactors and SAP are world-class
companies and their combined creative efforts will provide our
customers with innovations to further power their suite of cloud
solutions."
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Dan
Finnigan, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Jobvite
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- "The acquisition of SuccessFactors by SAP immediately
places SAP in the leaders category of cloud-based Human Capital
Management solutions. The combination of SAP's deep heritage of
powering the leading companies in the world combined with the
innovation and deep domain expertise that SuccessFactors brings in
both the Human Capital Management space as well as groundbreaking
technologies such as cloud and social computing create a powerhouse
in the industry that has the potential to benefit customers and
partners from both organizations for years to come."
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Jason
Averbook, CEO, Knowledge Infusion
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- "As a long-time partner of both SAP and
SuccessFactors, Learn2Perform is a huge proponent of this merger.
The integration of these two powerhouse solutions will strengthen
Learn2Perform's ability to deliver the best learning and
performance solutions to our customers, with all the benefits of
the cloud – including faster implementations, at lower costs, by
high-skilled professionals, with little or no IT issues or
geographical limitations. Given our history and expertise with both
SuccessFactors and SAP, we consider ourselves uniquely positioned
to help customers discover how this business union can accelerate
their HCM software solutions."
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Steve
Bradley, President and Founder, Learn2Perform
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- "For more than a decade Korn/Ferry International and
SuccessFactors have partnered to bring clients increased scale for
implementing our Lominger competency-based solutions across the
entire talent management lifecycle. With the merger of SAP and
SuccessFactors, and the integration of their best-in-class SaaS and
on-premise applications, our clients will benefit from their focus
on innovation to accelerate functionality and the end-user
experience."
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Chuck
Feltz, President, Lominger International (A Korn/Ferry
International Company)
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- "Our clients range in size from 1,000 employees to
more than 500,000 employees, and they all share a common goal –
find innovative and cost-effective ways to improve their entire
talent acquisition life cycle. That is: identifying, developing and
retaining key talent. The emergence of powerful cloud-based
solutions has afforded our clients the ability to turn this goal
into a reality. We continue to look to SuccessFactors for
best-of-breed cloud-based talent and performance management
solutions for our clients. We believe that the combination of SAP
and SuccessFactors will provide just the kind of positive
disruption this market needs to help us provide our clients with a
competitive advantage in the war for talent."
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Rick
Landsman, CEO, Marick Group
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- "I firmly believe in the undisputed power of BizX, as
driven by SuccessFactors and McKinney Rogers. The recent news that
SAP will be acquiring SuccessFactors is perfectly timed to allow us
to further enhance and accelerate the distribution of this amazing
capability. Our customers are going to love the increased value we
will provide to help them optimize individual performance and
organizational results."
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Damian
McKinney, CEO, McKinney Rogers
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- "PDI Ninth House cooperates with both SAP and
SuccessFactors, and we know the power that each company has in the
HR technology space. We view the merger as both a bold and highly
strategic undertaking that integrates SAP's global footprint as a
world-class technology firm providing extremely broad offerings
delivered on premise or via mobile devices, with SuccessFactors'
value as a nimble, fast-growth, cloud-driven, dominant human
capital software firm. This is a hand-in-glove scenario, the
perfect fit. We look forward to continued teamwork with this new
powerhouse to deliver premier solutions to our hundreds of joint
clients around the globe."
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R.J.
Heckman, President and CEO, PDI Ninth House
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- "We are excited to see our SaaS partner
SuccessFactors join with SAP. Over the last few years Ping Identity
has helped many customers secure and streamline access to
SuccessFactors' Business Execution Software Suite and SuccessCloud.
Now we can extend our cloud identity management solutions to a
broader SAP customer base, allowing them to securely access
cloud-based talent management tools."
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Mike
Desai, Senior Director of Business Development and Strategic Cloud
Alliances, Ping Identity
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- "The combined resources of two market leaders will
drive exciting new capabilities and benefits – especially for our
enterprise clients. We are excited about the enterprise focus and
ability to streamline the cloud-based business process enablement
discussion that this transaction brings to the marketplace from
enterprise resources to human resources. Surrex Project Solutions
will be able to serve our clients more efficiently with this larger
solution footprint, and our clients will be the eventual
benefactors of the new combination of capabilities provided by SAP
and as they turn to the cloud to reach their enterprise
goals."
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Chad
Downey, President, Surrex Project Solutions
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- "SAP's acquisition of SuccessFactors is clear
evidence that the company is set to make a strong statement in the
cloud computing space. Our ongoing partnership, working alongside
SAP as a services partner, reflects UST Global's continued
dedication to building expertise across the SAP suite of products.
SAP develops powerful technology solutions, and it's clear to us
that this marriage will take SuccessFactors to new
heights."
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Sajan
Pillai, CEO, UST Global
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- "Verifications, Inc. is excited about the prospect of
helping the clients using solutions from SuccessFactors and SAP
shorten their time to hire and improve employee productivity. We
are proud of our partnership with SuccessFactors. Together we will
make a positive difference in the lives of new hires by helping
them start their new job on the right foot more
quickly."
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Curt
Marks, CEO, Verifications, Inc.
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- "We're excited by SAP's acquisition of SuccessFactors
and how these companies will continue to provide organizations with
state-of-the-art tools to better leverage their people and execute
strategies that drive business outcomes. New and improved
capabilities and capacity will be available to our current and
future customers faster than ever before. As a SuccessFactors
partner, we're also excited to be connected to a global leader in
cloud-based human capital management solutions."
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Nancy
Heet, President, Workforce Management Strategies,
LLC
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More information about the SuccessFactors Partner Program and
its partners is available here.
About SuccessFactors, an SAP Company
SuccessFactors, an SAP Company, is the leading provider of
cloud-based Business Execution Software, and delivers business
alignment, team execution, people performance, and learning
management solutions to organizations of all sizes across more than
60 industries. With approximately 15 million subscription seats
globally, we strive to delight our customers by delivering
innovative solutions, content and analytics, process expertise and
best practices insights from serving our broad and diverse customer
base. Today, we have more than 3,500 customers in more than 168
countries using our application suite in 35 languages.
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