Archive for April 28th, 2008

Varicent Coverage

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Varicent report cover                         Sales Performance Management Vendor: Varicent

We spent time at the HR Week conference with an executive of Varicent and received a brief product demonstration of their Sales Performance Management solution.

We developed a summary report on their offerings and the company. An excerpt from the Prognosis section of the paper states:

We believe Varicent’s focus on large companies and larger midmarket companies is correct.  We believe there is a genuine need for an inexpensive solution in this space particularly given the pressure on businesses to be more nimble and more agile.  This increased dynamism in business today will no doubt continue to place pressure on sales management to materially and constantly change its sales compensation schemas.

 We also like sales performance management solutions as a productivity improvement tool for sales professionals.  We have witnessed firsthand the lack of a single book of record with which sales professionals can see and/or dispute the way their commissions are being calculated.  The elimination of all of the wasted time and energy spent arguing over whose spreadsheet has more accurate data will boost productivity simply because it frees up sales professional time to spend on customer facing initiatives.”

 

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Emportal – New Sales

Monday, April 28th, 2008

                                                       Emportal Gaining Momentum

We were already preparing this report based on the HR Week show in NYC recently: Emportal Update Report. The key theme of this update was that Emportal had acquired a number of new clients. Now, Emportal has released details on their new market success (see: https://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=848867) . The gist of this press release states:

“WALNUT CREEK, CA–(Marketwire – April 28, 2008) – Uniting the way business works with the way people work, Emportal today welcomed five more enterprise clients to its growing customer base. Emportal eliminates the challenges of managing disparate HR systems and databases by combining the best capabilities of four categories of human capital management — HRMS, ERP, point solutions and HRO — into one “have it your way” software-as-a-service solution. New companies turning to Emportal include FCI; California Waste Solutions; ION; a California headquartered restaurant chain; and a Chicago headquartered payroll and retirement provider. “