Xactly Deepens Integration and Broadens Functionality Between Xactly Incent for AppExchange and Salesforce CRM
Direct Connector to Salesforce and 'Mash-up' Provide Seamless Connectivity and Deep Visibility into Commissions Tied to Every Component of a Sales Opportunity
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17 / / -- Salesforce.com Dreamforce Conference -- Xactly Corporation, (http://www.xactlycorp.com/), the market leader in on-demand sales performance management, today announced new enhancements to its Xactly Incent(TM) for AppExchange offering, extending integration with Salesforce CRM and making it even easier for users to leverage the power of an enterprise sales compensation management application within the AppExchange framework. Leveraging Apex code, Xactly is delivering robust incentive compensation estimation capability deeply integrated within a Salesforce opportunity. The Xactly Commissions mash-up with Salesforce will help sales determine where to focus their selling energies and which opportunities will most immediately impact the business and their earnings. Xactly also announced its new Xactly Payroll Navigator(TM) feature, which provides customers with the ability to facilitate easy transfer of compensation data with any major third-party payroll vendor, including ADP, Ceridian, Intuit, Paychex and Ultimate Software, for accurate and efficient incentive payment processing.
The Xactly Incent for AppExchange enhancements, including a new direct connector to Salesforce with single sign-on functionality and the Xactly Commissions mash-up with Salesforce, are being demonstrated at the Xactly Booth 318, at salesforce.com's fifth annual Dreamforce User and Developer Conference and Expo in San Francisco, September 16 - 19. A Gold Sponsor of the conference, Xactly is also sponsoring a breakout session titled "Optimizing Sales Operations with Sales Performance Management" on Monday, September 17.
"Xactly is continuing to make it more convenient and cost-effective for customers to benefit from the deep integration between Xactly Incent and Salesforce implementations," said Karen Steele, Xactly vice president of marketing. "The integration of real-time sales compensation visibility within Salesforce improves sales productivity, helps reps maximize their return from Salesforce opportunities, and empowers management with valuable sales performance data to ensure consistent sales execution."
Continued Steele, "Similarly, Xactly Payroll Navigator is all about empowering customers with the freedom and flexibility to integrate their compensation management processes with the payroll vendors that best match their business and IT requirements. Xactly has consistently executed on a strategy of being open and agnostic to all major front -- and back-end ERP, CRM and HR applications to facilitate integration and deployment with Xactly Incent. Today's announcement is an extension of that same guiding principle of providing customers with choice."
Xactly Incent for AppExchange Enhancements
The new enhancements to Xactly Incent for AppExchange are mash-ups that utilize Apex code and sales compensation data contained within Xactly Incent. Xactly's new Salesforce Direct Connector(TM) is aimed at making it simple for Salesforce users to take advantage of the powerful Incentive Estimator(TM) feature of Xactly Incent. With Incentive Estimator, sales reps can explore "what-if" scenarios tied to every component of a Salesforce opportunity and receive immediate feedback on how best to structure a sale for maximum commission and bonus payout, improving overall plan effectiveness. The new connector enables an individual's specific compensation plan and incentive rules to be imported from Xactly Incent so that estimates are run directly within Salesforce. This provides Salesforce customers with excellent ease of use and rich sales performance visibility.
"Thousands of customers are using the AppExchange to quickly add new on-demand applications that extend the value of Salesforce CRM," said George Hu, chief marketing officer of salesforce.com. "Xactly's seamless integration and mash-up make it easier for Salesforce users to derive the full value from the integration of CRM and sales compensation management. Salesforce CRM and Xactly Incent are both about enabling customer success, and together they deliver significant productivity and ease of use to our clients."
Xactly Payroll Navigator
Xactly Payroll Navigator is built on a set of open APIs for Xactly Incent called Xactly Connect(TM). The feature enables incentive compensation data and results such as commissions, bonuses and payments to be easily transferred to any major third-party payroll vendor for payment processing. This makes Xactly Incent the world's first on-demand sales compensation management solution to provide connectivity to all leading payroll systems to help ensure the accuracy of incentive payments and reduce the administrative costs of payment processing.
Xactly Payroll Navigator can be used to quickly create specific payroll templates for any payroll vendor, providing only the data required. Administrators select the specific columns of data to be extracted from Xactly Incent and their display order. The selected data fields can then be downloaded directly and in their entirety to the chosen payroll provider or to various departments within the company. The data fields can also be relabeled to match the target destination's naming scheme, thus giving the receiving entity the data exactly the way it needs to see it -- a particularly advantageous benefit in multi-national corporations and when managing a merger or acquisition situation.
"The on-demand delivery model has made it easier and more cost-effective for organizations to perform critical business tasks, such as sales compensation management. But now businesses are asking leading SaaS companies to tighten the integration between their applications," according to Jeffrey M. Kaplan, managing director of THINKstrategies and founder of the SaaS Showplace. "The latest enhancements to the integration capabilities between Xactly Incent and Salesforce CRM should enable their mutual customers to gain even greater value from their on-demand applications."
Dreamforce Conference Track -- Xactly, Salesforce.com and CNET Networks
As part of Dreamforce 2007, Xactly is sponsoring a conference track featuring Sam Chung, salesforce.com vice president of finance systems and compliance; Joanna Bloor, CNET Networks, Inc. area vice president of sales operations; and Christopher W. Cabrera, Xactly founder, president and CEO. Titled "Optimizing Sales Operations with Sales Performance Management," the track will detail the combined use of Salesforce and Xactly Incent in enhancing sales performance at CNET, salesforce.com and other companies. The track is scheduled for 3:45 p.m., Monday, September 17, Room North 134, Moscone Convention Center, and is open to all conference attendees.
Force.com Platform and the AppExchange
Force.com is the on-demand platform for the next generation of business applications. Force.com reinvents traditional customization and integration and enables the creation of a whole new generation of on-demand applications that go beyond client/server computing. Force.com allows applications to be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace, enabling all the innovation that Force.com unleashes to benefit the entire on-demand community.
The AppExchange economy continues to expand as thousands of salesforce.com customers have installed thousands of on-demand business applications available on the AppExchange, found at http://salesforce.com/appexchange.
About Xactly Corporation
Xactly Corporation is the market leader in on-demand sales performance management. The company's flagship product, Xactly Incent, enables sales and finance executives to design, implement, manage, audit and optimize sales compensation management programs easily and affordably. Xactly solutions automate the process of aggregating data from disparate systems into a secure, hosted repository, and enable companies to leverage this business data, which is the lifeblood of sales performance management. Xactly helps companies improve operational performance, optimize sales effectiveness, proactively manage risk and compliance, and maximize profits. The Xactly family of products is used by sales and finance executives, compensation analysts, sales operations and sales professionals across a variety of industries, ranging from SMBs to large enterprises. For more information, visit www.xactlycorp.com/ or call 1-866-GO-XACTLY.
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