Accounting and Financial Software
Software provides sales compensation management.
Press Release Summary:
Integrated with salesforce.com via Appforce on-demand platform, Centive Compel for Appforce enables sales representatives to model commission earnings for sales opportunities managed within their Salesforce deployment. Filters such as probability and estimated close-date allow users to select opportunities that meet specific criteria. By using time filter, sales reps gain visibility into opportunities that have predicted close date in current period.
Original Press Release:
Centive Compel for Appforce Introduced at Dreamforce '05
On-Demand Sales Compensation Management Solution Provides Visibility into Salesforce to Calculate Projected Sales Earnings
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 /-- Centive, the leader in on-demand sales compensation management, and salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM), today announced the availability of Centive Compel for Appforce. Tightly integrated with salesforce.com via the Appforce on-demand platform, and immediately available to salesforce.com customers, Centive Compel for Appforce enhances Compel's on-demand sales compensation management solution by providing sales representatives with the ability to model commission earnings for sales opportunities managed within their Salesforce deployment.
Centive Compel for Appforce was announced today in San Francisco at Dreamforce '05, salesforce.com's third annual user and developer conference, and is an Appforce-certified solution.
"The integration of Centive Compel with Appforce demonstrates the ease of building complementary solutions on the Appforce on-demand platform," said Adam Gross, Director of Product Marketing, salesforce.com. "Together, Salesforce and Centive Compel provide an integrated, on-demand approach to CRM that enables companies to better manage the prospect to paycheck lifecycle."
Centive Compel for Appforce uses filters such as probability and estimated close-date to allow both compensation analysts and sales reps to select opportunities that meet specific pipeline criteria. Compel then processes the associated commission value of those opportunities according to their plan rules, enabling sales reps to see their projected earnings in the current pay period. By using a time filter, sales reps gain visibility into opportunities that have a predicted close date in the current period plus additional days, such as the current month plus 60 days out.
"The Appforce API enabled us to rapidly integrate Compel with salesforce.com to provide a complementary on-demand solution that adds tremendous value for new and existing salesforce.com customers," said Michael Torto, president and CEO of Centive. "Now, we can combine the benefits of real-time visibility into sales compensation with the sales pipeline to project sales earnings."
Appforce is a complete on-demand platform that includes Appforce Builder, Appforce DB, Appforce API and the Appforce OS for development & deployment of multiple on-demand applications. Appforce 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.
About Centive
Centive is the leader in on-demand sales compensation management. Companies use Centive Compel to gain real-time visibility into sales performance metrics. Compel is a cost effective, on-demand solution that allows executives to be strategic and sales reps to stay focused on selling. A privately held company headquartered in Burlington, Mass., Centive is backed by leading venture capital firms including Polaris Ventures Partners, VSP Capital and Key Venture Partners. Centive delivers its solutions through a direct sales force and alliances with consulting, implementation, platform and software partners. 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 customer relationship management (CRM). The company's Salesforce family of on-demand applications enables customers to manage and share all of their sales, support, marketing and partner information on demand. Appforce, salesforce.com's on-demand platform, allows customers to customize and integrate the Salesforce family to meet their unique business needs, and build whole new powerful applications quickly and easily. Appforce applications are available via AppExchange, salesforce.com's on-demand application sharing service. Customers can also take advantage of salesforce.com's world-class training, support, consulting and best practices offerings.
As of July 31, 2005, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 16,900 customers and approximately 308,000 paying subscribers including Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), America Online (AOL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), 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 services 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.
Salesforce.com is a registered trademark of, and Appforce and AppExchange are trademarks of, salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, California. Other names used may be trademarks of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Robert S. Conlin of Centive, +1-781-852-3503, bconlin@centive.com;
Web site: www.centive.com/
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