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SuccessFactors, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFSF) today announced results for its second quarter fiscal 2010 which ended June 30, 2010.
“In Q2 2010, SuccessFactors again delivers strong organic growth. Cash-profitability continues to expand with cash flow from operating activities up 625% year-over-year. Over, the last 5 quarters, SuccessFactors grew revenue organically 31% year-over-year on average. The organic revenue growth rate was up sequentially between Q1 and Q2, 2010 from 24% to 27%. Billings grew 35% for the best second quarter ever of $52.7 million. The growth is fuelled by bigger purchases, and more users from both new and existing customers, in all of the market segments; Enterprise, Medium, Small, and all geographies,” said Lars Dalgaard, founder and CEO for SuccessFactors.
“Q2 had more than 50% of new sales coming from existing customers. With customers’ proven interest in buying more of our secure, scalable, easy-to-use platform, we continue to expand it. New acquisitions closed in July include Inform – http://www.informimpact.com/ – that arms CEOs, CFOs and human resource professionals with actionable, high-value insights to perform better, gain competitive advantage and lower costs through business analytics and workforce planning; and CubeTree- http://www.cubetree.com/ – Enterprise Social Software that improves execution across the enterprise, and decreases silos and bureaucracy. SuccessFactors launched organically-built Calibration, Goal Execution and a substantial release on BizX Recruiting,” Dalgaard continues. “In the first half of 2010, SuccessFactors has launched new-to-market products and acquired unique strategic teams and products that, combined with our existing applications, offer the global market a productivity suite of cloud business execution applications, never seen before, that can take only weeks to deploy. We believe we have an unmatched offering targeting a very large greenfield market.”
Results for the second quarter fiscal year 2010:
- Q2 FY10 Revenue: For the quarter ended June 30, 2010, revenue was $46.8 million, compared to the company’s prior guidance of $45.0 million to $45.5 million, and compared to $36.9 million in the quarter ended June 30, 2009, an increase of approximately 27% year-over-year and an increase of 7% sequentially from Q110.
- Q2 FY10 Operating Profit: For the quarter ended June 30, 2010, non-GAAP operating profit was $381,000. Non-GAAP operating profit excludes the effect of approximately $4.5 million in stock-based compensation expense for the quarter ended June 30, 2010.
- Q2 FY10 Total Deferred Revenue: Total deferred revenue as of June 30, 2010 was $191.8 million, up approximately 3% sequentially from $185.9 million at March 31, 2010 and up approximately 28% year-over-year from $149.8 million at June 30, 2009.
- Q2 FY10 Cash Flow Generated from Operations: For the quarter ended June 30, 2010, cash flow generated from operating activities was $6.8 million, up approximately 625% from $939,000 for the quarter ended June 30, 2009.
- Q2 FY10 Net Income (Loss) per Common Share: On a GAAP basis, for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, net loss per common share, basic and diluted, was $(0.06). Non-GAAP net income per common share, basic and diluted, was $0.00, which excludes approximately $4.5 million in stock-based compensation expense, compared to $0.01 in Q110 which excluded approximately $5.0 million of stock-based compensation and breakeven at $0.00 in Q209 which excluded approximately $2.4 million of stock-based compensation. GAAP and non-GAAP net income (loss) per common share calculations for the second quarter of 2010 are based on 72.6 million weighted average shares outstanding.
Additional Second Quarter Fiscal 2010 Highlights:
- SuccessFactors entered into a definitive agreement to acquire CubeTree, Inc. a visionary leader in the rapidly growing social business software category. The acquisition strengthens SuccessFactors’ core Business Execution Software strategy and directly align with its mission of helping companies get work done every day.
- SuccessFactors announced that it has signed its first joint customer, The McGraw-Hill Companies, with Inform. McGraw-Hill is the first joint customer and chose SuccessFactors’ Business Execution (BizX) Suite to work strategically with Inform’s workforce planning and business analytics solutions to execute against company objectives, improve company-wide visibility and drive maximum business results.
- SuccessFactors announced that Jetstar Airways selected the entire BizX Software Suite to improve both the employee experience and the customer travel experience. Jetstar is a low fares leader in the Asia Pacific region, operating to almost 60 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific.
- SuccessFactors accelerated growth in patient care and announced that Spectrum Health, a not-for-profit, integrated health system, selected SuccessFactors’ BizX Suite. Spectrum Health’s subsidiaries include seven hospitals, a health plan and over 140 service sites, as well as physician practices that serve the western Michigan area.
- SuccessFactors and Cast Iron Systems announced that SuccessFactors’ Business Execution (BizX) Software Suite can now be integrated with on-premise business systems through Cast Iron’s OmniConnect cloud-based integration platform. Customers can now take advantage of this integration capability to rapidly connect SuccessFactors’ Employee Central with existing ERP systems.
- SuccessFactors announced that it has signed a reseller and consulting partner agreement with software consulting and Cloud Computing specialist, iMotion, to resell SuccessFactors’ products and services across Hungary and into Central and Eastern Europe.
- SuccessFactors hosted close to 1,000 customers and prospects over a two-week period at SuccessConnect 2010 New York City and San Francisco, with keynotes from EMC Corporation in New York City and Coca-Cola Enterprises in San Francisco.
- At SuccessConnect 2010 in New York City, SuccessFactors announced the general availability of SuccessFactors Calibration, the industry’s first solution to streamline and eliminate variability across managers and identify true high-performers, as well as Goal Execution, a solution that brings awareness, visibility and tracking of progress against company goals into the daily work of employees. SuccessFactors also announced the general availability of SuccessFactors BizX Insights. Powered by Inform, BizX Insights enables C-Level executives and managers to answer critical questions about overall business performance to further accelerate results.
- At SuccessConnect 2010 in San Francisco, SuccessFactors released a research report that validates the performance of SuccessFactors’ “Return on Execution Portfolio” (SF ROX), evidence that customers significantly outperformed markets across NASDAQ, DOW and S&P 500. SuccessFactors also announced the 2010 Business Execution Workshop Series designed to provide business leaders with methodologies, tools and techniques to gain business insight and further accelerate results within any organization.
- SuccessFactors announced that Hillary Smith will join the company as its new General Counsel, managing the company’s global legal affairs and team. Hillary brings SuccessFactors a wide breadth and tenure of legal experience and is joining SuccessFactors from Yahoo! Inc. where she has been the General Counsel of Right Media, now a Yahoo! company, and Yahoo!’s Associate General Counsel, following her role as SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at DoubleClick Inc.
- Lars Dalgaard named Best CEO of a Large Company in the 2010 San Francisco Business Times Innovation and Technology Awards. Dalgaard was selected from a pool of 25 finalists and more than 300 nominations of business leaders by a panel of independent judges in conjunction with the editors from the San Francisco Business Times. This follows after being awarded Ernst & Young 2008 Entrepreneur of the Year.
Guidance:
SuccessFactors is raising guidance for full fiscal year 2010 and initiating guidance for its third quarter fiscal 2010, as of July 26th, 2010.
Q3 FY10: Non-GAAP revenue for the company’s third fiscal quarter is projected to be in the range of approximately $52.5 million to $53.5 million. Note that non-GAAP revenue includes revenue from acquired companies that is required to be written down for GAAP purposes under purchase accounting rules. Non-GAAP net income per common share, basic and diluted, is expected to be breakeven, excluding the impact of acquisition accounting and related costs. Non-GAAP net income per common share estimates exclude the effects of estimated stock-based compensation expense, the amortization of intangible assets and any write-downs for fair value accounting related to the acquisitions and assume an average weighted share count of approximately 74.3 million shares.
Full Year 2010: Non-GAAP revenue for the company’s full fiscal 2010 is now expected to be in the approximate range of $198 million to $200 million, raised from the GAAP revenues range of approximately $180 million to $182 million given going into in Q210 which was raised from the approximate range of $178 million to $180 million going into Q110. The company continues to expect the non-GAAP net income per common share for fiscal 2010 to be around breakeven, excluding the impact of acquisition accounting and related costs. Non-GAAP net loss per common share estimates exclude the effects of estimated stock-based compensation expense, the amortization of intangible assets and any write-downs for fair value accounting related to the acquisitions and assume an average weighted share count of approximately 73.5 million shares.
This guidance also includes the revenue impact of the adoption of EITF 08-01 effective July 1, 2010, and revenue and expense from both the Inform and CubeTree – acquisitions that closed in July 2010.
For more information on SuccessFactors, please visit www.successfactors.com
Matt Lafata, HRchitect
