Accounting and Financial Software
Centive Delivers On-demand Sales Compensation Solutions for Salesforce.com's AppExchange
Salesforce.com Customers Can Now Deploy Centive Compel Directly within Their Salesforce Implementations
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 / salesforce.com Appforce Conference -- Centive, the leader in on-demand sales compensation management and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, today announced the availability of Centive Compel for salesforce.com's AppExchange. Salesforce.com customers can now deploy Compel within their Salesforce implementation to provide an at-a-glance look at interactive dashboards that display a quick summary of key sales performance indicators with a single-click, drill-down capability. Built on the AppExchange on-demand platform, Compel for AppExchange is immediately available for test drive and deployment at salesforce.com/appexchange. The announcement was made today at Appforce, salesforce.com's first annual AppExchange partner, user and developer conference.
Centive Compel is a fully-automated sales compensation management system delivered through an affordable, subscription-based service. Compel is easy to deploy, learn and use -- there is no software to purchase or install. Compel goes beyond simply calculating accurate commissions and bonuses; it offers strategic value by providing sales representatives and managers with real-time visibility into attainment and performance data. Compel offers finance executives a flexible system for modeling various compensation scenarios, and provides a complete audit trail of all changes made to plans and data as well as the security and process controls needed to support Sarbanes-Oxley compliance initiatives.
"As an AppExchange partner, we've automated the sales performance lifecycle from prospect to paycheck. Our customers can experience first-hand the seamless integration of opportunity-based earnings and actual commission earnings and use that information to help motivate and align their sales representatives," stated Mike Torto, CEO of Centive. "Compel enables sales reps to easily forecast their commissions and identify those deals that will maximize individual earnings in a given period, and provides sales management with real-time access to key performance metrics to help them better manage their teams."
"Helping sales reps achieve their goals by giving them the power to forecast their own earnings is a groundbreaking new solution category," said Bobby Napiltonia, senior vice president, worldwide channels and alliances, salesforce.com. "Salesforce.com customers can now deploy an excellent solution for on-demand sales compensation management from Centive via the AppExchange."
Compel for AppExchange is one of more than 250 applications created by salesforce.com, its customers and partners that are now available on the salesforce.com AppExchange, the world's first on-demand application platform. AppExchange provides unprecedented ease of customization and integration for Salesforce deployments, as well as enabling a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond CRM. AppExchange enables all of these on-demand applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with one click into a customer's salesforce.com account. AppExchange can be found at salesforce.com/appexchange.
About Centive
Centive, a privately held company headquartered in Burlington, MA, is the leader in on-demand sales compensation management. Companies use Centive Compel to accurately calculate commissions and bonuses and gain real-time visibility into sales performance metrics. As an on-demand subscription service, Compel is a cost-effective solution that allows executives to be strategic and sales reps to stay motivated and focused on selling.
Centive's flagship on-demand application, Compel, was recently named a 2006 CODiE award finalist in the "Best Financial Software" category. The CODiE award, presented by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), represents the highest honor in the software and information industry and is the only peer-recognition program of its kind.
To learn more about Centive, please visit www.centive.com/ or call 1-877-CENTIVE.
About salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. The company's Salesforce suite of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on-demand. AppExchange, salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers and partners to build powerful new applications quickly and easily, customize and integrate the Salesforce suite to meet their unique business needs, and distribute and sell on-demand apps at appexchange.com/. Customers can also take advantage of Successforce, salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.
As of April 30, 2006, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 22,700 customers and approximately 444,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Avis/Budget Rent A Car (Cendant Rental Car Group), Dow Jones Newswires, Nokia, Polycom and SunTrust. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM". For more information please visit www.salesforce.com/, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.
Media Contact:
Michelle A. DeLuties
Kel & Partners
508-497-0022 ext.122
michelle@kelandpartners.com
Gordon Evans
Salesforce.com
415-536-7608
gevans@salesforce.com
Source: Centive
CONTACT: Michelle A. DeLuties of Kel & Partners for Centive,
+1-508-497-0022 ext.122, michelle@kelandpartners.com; or Gordon Evans of
Salesforce.com, +1-415-536-7608, gevans@salesforce.com
Web site: www.centive.com/
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