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SuccessFactors, Inc. provides cloud-based business execution software solutions that enable organizations to bridge the gap between business strategy and results worldwide. Its business execution software suite comprises various modules and capabilities, including performance management to design performance review templates and workflows; goal management to support the process of creating, monitoring, and assessing employee goals across the organization; and compensation management to facilitate the processes of merit pay adjustments, bonus allocations, and distribution of stock-based awards; succession management to provide visibility into an organization's talent pool; learning and development to align learning activities with an employee's competency gaps; and recruiting management to identify, screen, select, hire, and on-board job applicants. The company's application suite also offers various capabilities, such as analytics and reporting to provide visibility into key performance and talent data; employee profile to aggregate employee profile information; 360-degree review to support the collection of feedback from an employee's peers, subordinates, and superiors; employee survey to provide management with actionable insights; stack ranker to identify top and lower performers; business performance accelerators, which ensure compliance with company and industry regulations and enable managers to take corrective action; and proprietary and third-party content for competencies, goals, job descriptions, skills, surveys and wage data, and other content. It also provides various professional services, such as implementation services; packaged training content, such as course curricula, training guides, and reference materials; and business transformation services. The company was formerly known as Success Acquisition Corporation and changed its name to SuccessFactors, Inc. in April 2007. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.