Centive Announces the Fall 2008 Release of Compel

(I-Newswire) December 15, 2008 - Centive, the award-winning leader in on-demand solutions for sales compensation and sales performance management, today announced the Fall 2008 release of Centive's flagship solution, Compel. The Fall 2008 release marks the eighth major release of Compel and represents another significant step forward in Centive's leadership position in the sales performance management market.

"We work closely with customers, partners, prospects and industry analysts to ensure that as we continue to develop Compel, we meet requirements for today and anticipate those in the future," said Michael Torto, president and CEO, Centive. "With new features and enhancements in the Fall 2008 release, our customers will gain even more value from their subscription to Compel and their overall investments in sales compensation programs."

The Fall 2008 release of Compel adds powerful new enhancements to support the design, modeling, managing, reporting and analysis of effective, optimized sales compensation programs. Key new enhancements include:

Adjustment Trending Visibility - provides users with a powerful yet easy user interface for researching trends in prior period adjustments and the impact of all historical adjustments on previous periods

Draw & Liability Management - provides customers with a wide array of draw creation options, including dynamic triggering events, guaranteed minimum or additional payment capabilities, comprehensive recovery options and new delayed draw and commission true-up strategies

Split Builder Enhancements - includes streamlining of the split matrix, greater control over priority order and expansion of filtering logic. This enhancement makes building and maintaining splits easier and faster

Custom Reporting Enhancements - leveraging new features built into the Fall 2008 release, the Compel custom reporting tool now offers a variety of new reporting fields to provide more comprehensive reporting including adjustment reporting, draw and liability reports and advanced transaction and compensation detail reports

Compel is a complete on-demand platform for sales performance management. In addition to calculating commission and bonus earnings, the Compel platform includes native support for modeling, complex crediting, data integration, custom reporting and performance analytics; no third party add-on modules are needed to deliver on these core requirements. Compel offers sales, finance and HR professionals the most mature, affordable, complete and fully integrated solution for managing sales compensation and optimizing compensation programs to drive sales performance.


About Centive

Centive, headquartered in Lowell, MA, is the recognized leader in on-demand sales performance management. Companies use Centive Compel, hailed by CIO Magazine as the "most widely used choice for sales compensation management," to accurately model and forecast commission costs, calculate commission and bonus earnings and gain real-time visibility into sales performance metrics. Compel, a salesforce.com AppExchange certified solution, is a winner of the CODiE award for "Best Financial Software," the CRM Excellence and Product of the Year awards from Customer Inter@ction Solutions, and the CRM WizKids Award from Beagle Research. Centive is the first and only on-demand sales compensation / sales performance management vendor to be recognized as a SAS-70 Type II service provider. To learn more about Centive, please visit http://www.centive.com/ or call 1-877-CENTIVE.

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