Today, SuccessFactors, Inc. announced that it was named the fastest growing public software-as-a-service (SaaS) company in North America by Deloitte's Technology Fast 500(TM) in 2010.

SuccessFactors is ranked No. 101 - No. 1 among public SaaS companies - on the Technology Fast 500 list with 1075 percent company growth over five years.

Deloitte LLP's ranking of 500 of the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth during the five-year period from 2005-2009. SuccessFactors grew 1075 percent during this period.

Success Factors is making a big play into the business intelligence market with its acquisition of YouCalc, a SaaS service out of Denmark for doing analytics across multiple applications, including Google Analytics, Mailchimp and Salesforce.com.

The move heightens competitiveness in the fast growing market for SaaS analytics. And it highlights the marked improvements that have come in the past year, thanks in large part due to the innovations made by SaaS providers.

YouCalc is a case in point. The company has developed an application that performs analytics for multiple SaaS applications. It integrates with any application that have a REST or SOAP API.

Now, this is worth a read!

A 300,000-seat trial turns into a 2.1M-seat global deal as SuccessFactors' business-execution strategy continues to resonate. 

Riding its business-execution software strategy to unprecedented heights, SuccessFactors yesterday posted strong financial results and also signed the highest-scale enterprise IT deal ever--for 2.1 million seats--with a customer that is almost certainly Wal-Mart.

SuccessFactors said this huge customer had installed its products two years ago for 300,000 employees but has now agreed to increase that deployment seven-fold to all of its 2.1 million employees around the world in what company founder and CEO Lars Dalgaard called "something truly legendary."