Posts Tagged ‘Varicent’

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.”

 

The report is available via Vital Analysis for $295. Please complete our request form or email us at: contact@vitalanalysis.com

Coming Soon: New HR Reports

Friday, April 18th, 2008

A Flurry of New Reports Coming Soon

We recently attended HR Week in New York City and met with executives from a number of HR and HR Services providers at that conference. Specifically, we had in-depth discussions with:

Veritude – Kate Donovan and Laura Cleveland – We will update our Fall 2007 report on Veritude. They’ve recently scored a big win and are moving in some new directions.

Kenexa – Phil Stewart and Brandt Hamby – They’ve acquired StraightSource recently and advised us of additional announcements. We’ll prepare a new report on Kenexa after next week’s analyst event.

Workscape – Daryl Ashley, Tony Marzulli, Marc Moschetto – Workscape’s succession planning products and benefits outsourcing offerings dominated our conversation. An update report will be developed.

Emportal – David Lee – We re-connected with David and discovered that Emportal’s secured several new clients. We’ll update our report on them.

FutureStep – Bill Gilbert, Kelly Cartwright – Great first meeting and a solid RPO briefing. New report to be issued.

Salary.com – Elle Hoxie – Salary.com is clearly busting out from being a data-driven solution. New report to be issued.

Varicent – Brian Hartlen – Varicent’s laying claim to the Sales Performance Management space. New report to be issued.