Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Centive - Market Leader in Incentive Management

Centive Wins CRM Magazine's 2008 Market Leader Award for "Incentive Management"

LOWELL, Mass., Aug 25, 2008 – Centive, the leader in on-demand solutions for sales compensation and sales performance management, today announced that it has been recognized with a 2008 Market Leader Award in the category “Incentive Management” by CRM magazine.

Recipients for the CRM Market Leader Awards were determined through an extensive three-month process and proprietary rating formula that involves industry analysts, financial and corporate information, product and functionality assessments, and scores reflecting customer satisfaction.

Centive’s flagship solution, Compel®, was recognized by CRM magazine as an affordable, on-demand tool that enables companies to automate the entire incentive compensation management process in one secure, centralized system. Powerful features such as plan modeling, commission expense forecasting, custom reporting and performance analytics helped secure Centive’s inclusion as a 2008 CRM Market Leader.

Compel integrates with CRM systems to enable sales representatives and managers to forecast compensation based on opportunities within their pipeline. This integration provides Centive’s customers with full automation of the sales lifecycle –From Prospect to PaycheckTM; – to ensure that sales representatives stay focused, aligned and motivated to close the right business.

In addition, Compel was recognized for supporting Sarbanes Oxley corporate compliance initiatives by providing accuracy, security, process controls and a complete audit trail. To date, Centive is the only on-demand sales compensation management vendor to have successfully completed a SAS 70 Type II compliance audit. Continued...