This is an excellent acquisition. SAP has been unable to deliver as well as they hoped on their "on-demand" promise, and this is a step towards that. My belief

This is an excellent acquisition. SAP has been unable to deliver as well as they hoped on their "on-demand" promise, and this is a step towards that. My belief is that they are purchasing SuccessFactors more for their experience with the cloud based delivery model, than for their actual software. Which is a great thing I think. Instead of trying to homebrew a cloud which isn't your core business, you buy a group who that's their bread and butter, and you integrate them with your guys, and make a real SAP cloud (on demand) solution. And if their software isn't terrible, that's icing on the cake. Perhaps there's something to take away there, I'm just not familiar with it.