Expanding upon its award-winning features, Centive’s latest version of Compel introduces the first auditable and fully automated crediting suite in an on-demand solution, as well as advanced custom reporting and key user interface enhancements. Centive continues to deliver Compel as the industry’s only fully integrated sales compensation solution; there are no additional modules or additional cost for reporting, crediting, modeling or forecasting. As a SaaS solution, each release is instantly available to all Compel customers. Companies are seamlessly upgraded behind the scenes with no IT effort or interruption of their daily routine.

Compel is the only on-demand sales compensation solution that fully automates crediting regardless of complexity and eliminates the need for customers to manually identify sales owner(s) on each transaction. Compel already provides superior support for splits, rollups and team-based crediting. With the Summer 2007 release, Compel enables users to assign direct credit to transactions by any dimension, such as territory, product, payee or account.

The Summer 2007 release empowers customers to better utilize the wealth of sales performance data available in Compel to proactively manage their business and drive sales performance. Centive has brought custom reporting to a new level in this release, providing the ability to add calculated fields to reports on the fly as well as formatting enhancements that include full charting and graphing capabilities - all in an easy-to-use interface and integrated within the core sales performance solution.

Compel is built on a robust, dynamic architecture that provides remarkable flexibility and performance for business users. The Summer 2007 release ensures Compel’s continued leadership as an easy to use, Rich Internet Application with an architectural upgrade to Adobe Flex 2.0. This upgrade enables superior performance and enhanced graphics.

Compel is an affordable, on-demand sales performance management solution that automates the entire sales compensation process in one secure, centralized system. Compel goes beyond just calculating accurate sales commission and bonus payments; it also provides strategic value by enabling customers to model and forecast sales incentive expense, optimize plan effectiveness, and drive sales performance and top-line revenue growth.

For the third consecutive year, Centive sponsors Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s premier user and developer conference with more than 7,000 attendees expected from around the globe. The conference features 100+ educational sessions, 250+ customer speakers, 1:1 success clinics, visionary keynotes including George Lucas, unparalleled networking, a partner Expo and more. It takes place from September 16 – 19, 2007 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Compel from Centive is the first on-demand sales compensation management solution to fully integrate with the leading on-demand CRM solution, Salesforce.com. It is also the first AppExchange Certified solution in the sales commission category. Compel automates all essential sales commission management functions, from modeling and commission expense forecasting to reporting and analytics, to complex crediting – all within one integrated solution.

Compel enables customers to automate their entire sales commission process – From Prospect to Paycheck® – by supporting a seamless integration with Salesforce.com. This integration enables sales representatives to access key, real-time performance and earnings information – available in a tab view and with a single sign-on within the Salesforce.com system. In addition to seeing actual payout information, sales representatives can forecast potential sales commission earnings based on Opportunities in their pipeline. Sales representatives and their managers can drill down to transaction-specific views of this information, then sort by any dimension to find those opportunities they should be focusing on in order to maximize individual commissions and corporate revenue.

To learn how Compel and Salesforce.com can help you drive sales performance – From Prospect to Paycheck – stop by booth #225 at the Dreamforce Expo between September 16 and 19, 2007.

Come by and meet more of the Centive team, as well as a few of our partners, at the “Pub Crawl” reception sponsored by the AppCrawl group representing select Salesforce.com Incubator partners. The reception takes place at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company on Sunday night, September 16 at 8 pm. Stop by our booth for more information.

Save $100 on your Dreamforce registration with Centive’s promotional code NEEJJWE. To register, follow the link below.

While many mid-size businesses are still struggling to manage sales compensation with spreadsheets, a growing number of companies lead the way by automating their sales compensation process with on-demand solutions.

Centive and Compensation Technologies are pleased to host a webinar introducing the first end-to-end sales compensation management solution for mid-size businesses. The webinar takes place on October 3rd 2007 at 1 pm EDT.

This informative webinar, co-sponsored by Compensation Technologies and Centive, will guide attendees how to:

• Avoid common operational issues that impact sales compensation plan effectiveness.
• Gain access to "best-in-class" sales compensation management solutions.
• Leverage sales compensation strategies to increase sales performance and reduce the costs associated with ongoing support.
• Evaluate options for automating sales compensation management.
• Take the next step in achieving plan management excellence.

Speakers

Bob Conti
President of Compensation Technologies, Bob is a well-known respected authority in sales compensation design and administration. With more than 22 years of industry experience, he is a frequent author and speaker on sales compensation issues and the use of technology to improve sales effectiveness. Compensation Technologies is a leading provider of services for planning, implementing and supporting sales compensation programs.

Bob Conlin
Chief Marketing Officer at Centive, Bob is a frequent speaker at industry events and has been published in numerous business journals on compensation and sales performance related topics. Centive is the award-winning leader in on-demand sales compensation management .

Register now to learn how you can eliminate headaches and optimize sales compensation to drive sales performance.