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This excerpt taken from the CALD 10-K filed Mar 12, 2009. Products
The Callidus product suite provides an end-to-end solution for
all aspects of the SPM process. With our products, organizations
gain insight into sales and incentive effectiveness, optimize
territories and quotas, automate incentive compensation
management, streamline sales dispute resolution, and deliver
sales incentive reporting to the sales team. While our
horizontal solution is applicable to every industry, Callidus
additionally provides value-added industry-specific solutions.
Our products combine a complete web-based solution with flexible
rules-based architecture, grid-based computing, reporting,
analytics and workflow functionality. Callidus solutions provide
the flexibility to serve a broad range of industries and
organizations of every size, ranging from hundreds to hundreds
of thousands of sales people. Our products are cross-platform
and standards-based, enabling them to be integrated with a wide
range of IT systems and processes. Callidus also provides
packaged, certified integration with salesforce.com and SAP
NetWeaver, enabling an organizations sales team to
seamlessly access Callidus from its Sales Force
Automation/Customer Relationship Management system of choice.
TrueComp
Software
Our TrueComp software automates the modeling, design,
administration, reporting and analysis of pay-for-performance
programs for organizations ranging from hundreds to hundreds of
thousands of sales people. Our customers use TrueComp to design,
test and implement sales compensation plans that reward based on
the profitability of the sale, discourage excessive sales
discounts, encourage team selling, and promote new product
introduction or other sales activities that customers wish to
encourage. TrueComp enables our customers to
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accurately acquire and reflect all relevant sales data, apply it
precisely to each payees pay-for-performance program, and
automate the day-to-day activities associated with administering
transaction-driven, variable incentive compensation. TrueComp
provides a flexible, user-maintainable system that can be easily
modified to align direct or indirect sales compensation with
corporate goals and shareholder value. It also provides modeling
functionality to enable the finance organization to accurately
forecast compensation spend, or to perform plan modeling to
understand the impact on spend of a change in compensation plan.
This combined modeling functionality enables organizations to
substantially reduce their exposure to unexpected compensation
overspend.
TrueComp collects and integrates the different data feeds used
to compile applicable sales data. The TrueComp Repository module
serves as the database, and TrueComp Manager serves as the
business user-facing application to
set-up
compensation plans, manage day-to-day operations, and make
manual adjustments. The TrueComp Grid component provides
high-performance processing of compensation data and results,
and together with our parallel processing functionality, enables
organizations to manage global compensation. The
applications modular, structured approach to defining
compensation plans avoids the reliability, flexibility and
maintenance issues associated with homegrown solutions. The
Manager module guides users through the process of paying
variable compensation via a graphical and intuitive rule editor,
which is usable by compensation analysts without coding or
scripting skills. The TrueComp application was initially shipped
in the first quarter of 1999.
TrueInformation®
Software
Our TrueInformation software is a self-service, highly scalable
web-based production reporting application for incentive
compensation systems throughout the organization.
TrueInformation provides sales and incentive reporting
capabilities to sales, finance, and business partners, giving
them immediate access to personalized pay-for-performance
information. By providing timely and accurate compensation
information throughout the enterprise, TrueInformation builds
trust and confidence among operational and finance
personnel thereby improving morale and operational
results, while reducing errors that increase the costs of
incentive compensation. The TrueInformation application includes
sophisticated date-effective organizational, position and
title-based security that allows for appropriate controls on
dissemination of sensitive compensation data, and is accessed
through an intuitive web-based interface that offers ease of use
throughout the organization. TrueInformation allows integration
with salesforce.com via AppExchange, and also provides
Powered by SAP NetWeaver-certified integration to
offer accessibility from products such as SAP CRM. It is also
accessible from homegrown customer portals. The original
TrueInformation application was initially shipped in the fourth
quarter of 2002.
Callidus
TrueAnalytics
Callidus TrueAnalytics software is a web-based reporting and
ad-hoc query application that provides executives and
compensation analysts with the insight and analysis they need to
drive sales and incentive performance, whether they are in
sales, marketing or finance. With Callidus TrueAnalytics
software, organizations can gain further benefit from the
valuable information within the TrueComp Suite of applications,
and can combine it with other information to provide analytic
dashboards, key performance indicators, management reports, and
ad-hoc analysis. Organizations can quickly identify
opportunities to drive customer, product, geographic and channel
performance with new incentive plans, as well as analyze and
optimize incentive spend and key profitability measures.
Callidus TrueAnalytics eliminates the need to wait for ad-hoc
reports, and delivers rapid insights into key issues by
providing exception variances, alerts, and personal
indicators resulting in increased business agility
and better decision making on how to drive revenue and grow
profits. Callidus TrueAnalytics software enables organizations
to benefit from rapid time to deployment. In addition, because
Callidus TrueAnalytics software is integrated with our TrueComp
software, organizations can quickly turn insight into incentive
plan changes to align sales behavior with key business
objectives. TrueAnalytics allows integration with salesforce.com
via AppExchange, and also provides Powered by SAP
NetWeaver-certified integration to offer accessibility
from products such as SAP CRM. It is also accessible from
homegrown customer portals. Callidus TrueAnalytics software was
initially shipped in the first quarter of 2006.
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TrueResolution®
Software
Our TrueResolution software is a rules-based application that
streamlines and automates the sales and incentive performance
management workflows and business processes within
organizations. It serves as the foundation for our packaged
workflow solution offerings, helps users manage compensation
disputes and reduces the associated cost and diversion of
management and sales resources. Scalable for the largest sales
and channel organizations, the TrueResolution application
eliminates manual, error-prone sales operation processes and
allows dispute resolution to be initiated from the field, where
the majority of disputes originate. TrueResolution automates
functions such as changes, transfers and splits to territory
assignments, quota adjustments, organizational changes,
cleansing of bad data, and payee information updates. The
TrueResolution application enables sales professionals and
business partners to submit and track their claims through a
completely web-based self-service workflow process, which
automates the evaluation, routing, resolution and approval of
day-to-day requests and consistently communicates payment and
resolution status to sales people. The TrueResolution
application keeps management informed of changes that may affect
compensation, produces an audit trail for all requests and
resolutions, reduces errors and the risk of fraud, and promotes
enforcement of enterprise policies. The TrueResolution
application was initially shipped in the second quarter of 2002.
TrueProducertm
Software
Callidus TrueProducer software is for insurance carriers with
independent distribution channels or captive agents that want to
streamline their producer administration in order to have one
location to view and update. Our TrueProducer software provides
a 360-degree
view of every detail of every producer in these organizations.
TrueProducer provides the following benefits: increases loyalty
of independent and captive producers by improving the service
provided; decreases cost of servicing the distribution channel
by having all the producer information in one interface;
integrates with TrueComp to eliminate the need to reenter data
that is required to pay compensation; ensures data integrity by
enforcing data validation; and streamlines business processes
for signing on new producers. TrueProducer is a web-based
application that is easy to deploy across the entire enterprise.
It provides integration with other Callidus applications,
including access to compensation, dispute resolution, analytics,
and reporting. TrueProducer was shipped in the second quarter of
2007.
Callidus
Plan Communicator
Callidus Plan Communicator accelerates the process of rolling
out a sales plan to the field and gaining acknowledgement from
each sales person. With Callidus Plan Communicator,
organizations can transform the sales plan approval process, so
that it is completely online and in real time. Plan Communicator
saves time and improves productivity by eliminating manual
processes (fax, paper,
e-mail) for
managing, auditing and tracking sales plan acceptance. Plan
Communicator is a 100% native force.com (Salesforce) application
and provides integration to Callidus TrueComp data or to
salesforce.com data sources. Callidus Plan Communicator was
initially available in the third quarter of 2008.
TrueMBOtm
TrueMBO enables organizations to implement and manage
pay-for-performance initiatives to every employee, every
department and every class of incentives. This enables
organizations to implement an integrated pay-for-performance
solution from a single vendor on a multi-tenant
software-as-a-service (SaaS) architecture. With TrueMBO,
organizations can transform the process of setting objectives
and goals, making them completely online and transparent. The
self-service application empowers managers to set and review
objectives in a collaborative manner. TrueMBO saves time and
improves productivity by eliminating manual processes for
managing, auditing and tracking objectives and goals. With
TrueMBO, managers spend less time on administrative tasks and
more time coaching and giving valuable feedback
increasing employee morale and overall productivity, while
ensuring alignment with corporate objectives. TrueMBO was
initially available in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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TrueQuotatm
TrueQuota provides sales and finance teams with a solution that
ensures sales quotas are allocated fairly, in a timely manner,
and are aligned with corporate revenue goals and opportunities.
TrueQuota is for sales and finance teams that are spending too
much time in the quota-setting process, often due to multiple
spreadsheets, lack of solid historical revenue and performance
data, and no effective process. TrueQuota effectively manages
the process across sales teams and regions in a coordinated and
timely manner, ensuring everyone is brought into the process and
offers a single place of reference for up to date, approved
quotas to be put into effect in TrueComp. TrueQuota was
initially available in the fourth quarter of 2008.
These excerpts taken from the CALD 10-K filed Mar 17, 2008. Products
The Callidus product suite provides an end-to-end solution for
all aspects of the Sales Performance Management process. Our
products are available either installed on-premise, or as a
subscription, software-as-a- service (SaaS) offering through
Callidus On-Demand. With our products, organizations gain
insight into sales and incentive effectiveness; optimize
territories and quotas; automate incentive compensation
management; streamline sales dispute resolution, and deliver
sales incentive reporting to the sales team. While providing a
horizontal solution applicable to every industry, Callidus
additionally provides value added industry specific solutions
for financial services companies by streamlining producer
on-boarding, managing talent and regulatory processes around
producer management. Our products combine a complete web-based
solution, flexible rules-based architecture, grid-based
computing, reporting, analytics and workflow functionality that
provide the flexibility to serve a broad range of industries and
organizations of every size ranging from hundreds to hundreds of
thousands of sales people. Our products are cross-platform and
standards-based, enabling them to be integrated with a wide
range of IT systems and processes. Callidus also provides
packaged, certified integration with salesforce.com and SAP
NetWeaver, enabling an organizations sales team to
seamlessly access Callidus from its Sales Force
Automation/Customer Relationship Management system of choice.
Callidus
On-Demand
Callidus On-Demand delivers all the advantages of Sales
Performance Management, available in an on-demand,
software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription model without
compromise of features and functionality. By running Callidus
On-Demand, organizations gain the benefit of SPM with a
deployment that provides flexibility, efficiency, cost savings,
security and reliability. Callidus On-Demand can be configured
with a selection of service levels and options that suit an
organizations business objectives, requirements and
resources. Callidus On-Demand customers can select either a
Technical Operations or a Business Operations service level.
Technical Operations includes the infrastructure, infrastructure
operations, and Callidus Software application operations layers
required for SPM. The Business Operations service level provides
all the benefits of Technical Operations and adds Business
Operations to it. With the Business Operations service level,
Callidus Software performs all the tasks involved in
establishing, running and managing the organizations
Callidus Software SPM system. Companies selecting this service
level do not need to hire and train a compensation analyst or
compensation administration team to design and run the system.
Callidus On-Demand was launched in the first quarter of 2006.
TrueComp
Software
Our TrueComp software automates the modeling, design,
administration, reporting and analysis of pay-for-performance
programs for organizations ranging from hundreds to hundreds of
thousands of sales people. Our customers use TrueComp to design,
test and implement sales compensation plans that reward on the
profitability of the sale, discourage excessive sales discounts,
encourage team selling and promote new product introduction or
other sales activities customers wish to encourage. Our TrueComp
software enables our customers to accurately acquire and reflect
all relevant sales data, apply it precisely to each payees
pay-for-performance program, and automate the day-to-day
activities associated with administering transaction-driven,
variable incentive compensation. TrueComp provides a flexible,
user-maintainable system that can be easily modified to align
direct or indirect sales compensation with corporate goals and
shareholder value. It also provides modeling functionality to
enable the finance organization to accurately forecast
compensation spend, or perform plan modeling to understand the
impact on spend of a change in compensation plan. This combined
modeling functionality enables organizations to substantially
reduce their exposure to unexpected compensation overspend.
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Our TrueComp software collects and integrates the different data
feeds used to compile applicable sales data; the TrueComp
Repository module serves as the database and TrueComp Manager
serves as the business user-facing application to set up
compensation plans, manage day-to-day operations, and make
manual adjustments. The TrueComp Grid component provides
high-performance processing of compensation data and results,
and together with our parallel processing functionality enables
organizations to manage global compensation. The TrueComp
applications modular, structured approach to defining
compensation plans avoids the reliability, flexibility and
maintenance issues associated with homegrown solutions. The
TrueComp Manager module guides users through the process of
paying variable compensation via a graphical and intuitive rule
editor, which is usable by compensation analysts without coding
or scripting skills. The original TrueComp application initially
shipped in the second quarter of 1999.
TrueInformation
Software
Our TrueInformation software is a self-service, highly scalable
web-based production reporting application for incentive
compensation systems throughout the organization. The
TrueInformation software provides sales and incentive reporting
capabilities to sales, finance, and business partners, giving
them immediate access to personalized pay-for-performance
information. By providing timely and accurate compensation
information throughout the enterprise, our TrueInformation
software builds trust and confidence among operational and
finance personnel, thereby improving morale and operational
results while reducing errors that increase the costs of
incentive compensation. The TrueInformation application includes
sophisticated date-effective organizational, position and
title-based security that allows for appropriate controls on
dissemination of sensitive compensation data, and is accessed
through an intuitive web-based interface that offers ease of use
throughout the organization. TrueInformation allows integration
with salesforce.com via salesforce.com AppExchange, and also
provides Powered by SAP NetWeaver certified integration to offer
accessibility from products such as SAP CRM, as well as being
accessible from customer homegrown portals. Our original
TrueInformation application was initially shipped in the fourth
quarter of 2002.
Callidus
TrueAnalytics
Callidus TrueAnalytics software is a web-based reporting and
ad-hoc query application that provides executives and
compensation analysts with the insight and ad-hoc analysis they
need to drive sales and incentive performance, whether they are
in sales, marketing or finance. With Callidus TrueAnalytics
software, organizations can gain further benefit from the
valuable information within the TrueComp Suite of applications,
and can combine it with other information to provide analytic
dashboards, key performance indicators, management reports, and
ad-hoc analysis. With Callidus TrueAnalytics software,
organizations can quickly identify opportunities to drive
customer, product, geographic and channel performance with new
incentive plans, as well as analyze and optimize incentive spend
and key profitability measures. Callidus TrueAnalytics software
eliminates the need to wait for ad-hoc reports, and delivers
rapid insights into key issues by providing exception variances,
alerts, and personal indicators resulting in
increased business agility and better decision making on how to
drive revenue and grow profits. Callidus TrueAnalytics software
enables organizations to benefit from rapid time to deployment.
In addition, because Callidus TrueAnalytics software is
integrated with our TrueComp software, organizations can quickly
turn insight into incentive plan changes to align sales behavior
with key business objectives. TrueAnalytics allows integration
with salesforce.com via salesforce.com AppExchange, and also
provides Powered by SAP NetWeaver certified integration to offer
accessibility from products such as SAP CRM, as well as being
accessible from customer homegrown portals. Callidus
TrueAnalytics software was initially shipped in the first
quarter of 2006.
TrueResolution
Software
Our TrueResolution software is a rules-based application that
streamlines and automates the sales and incentive performance
management workflows and business processes within
organizations. It serves as the foundation for our packaged
workflow solution offerings, in addition to providing a packaged
application for managing compensation disputes, thereby reducing
the associated cost and diversion of management and sales
resources. Scalable for the largest sales and channel
organizations, the TrueResolution application eliminates
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manual, error-prone sales operation processes and allows dispute
resolution to be initiated from the field where the majority of
disputes originate. Our TrueResolution software automates
functions such as changes, transfers and splits to territory
assignments, quota adjustments, organizational changes,
cleansing of bad data, and payee information updates. The
TrueResolution application enables sales professionals and
business partners to submit and track their claims through a
completely web-based self-service workflow process, which
automates the evaluation, routing, resolution and approval of
day-to-day requests and consistently communicates payment and
resolution status to sales people. The TrueResolution
application keeps management informed of changes that may affect
compensation, produces an audit trail for all requests and
resolutions, reduces errors and the risk of fraud and promotes
enforcement of enterprise policies. The TrueResolution
application was initially shipped in the second quarter of 2002.
TrueProducer
Software
Callidus TrueProducer software is for insurance carriers with
independent distribution channels or captive agents that want to
streamline their producer administration in order to have one
location to view and update producer information. Our
TrueProducer software provides a
360-degree
view of every detail of every producer in these organizations.
TrueProducer provides the following benefits: increases loyalty
of independent and captive producers by improving the service
provided; decreases cost of servicing the distribution channel
by having all the producer information in one interface;
integrates with TrueComp to eliminate the need to reenter data
that is required to pay compensation; ensures data integrity by
enforcing data validation; and streamlines business process for
signing on new producers. Key elements include but are not
limited to: producer demographics, licenses, appointments,
continuing education, contracts, and payment schedules.
TrueProducer is a 100% web-based application that is easy to
deploy across the entire enterprise. It provides integration
with other Callidus applications, including access to
compensation, dispute resolution, analytics, and reporting.
TrueProducer was shipped in the second quarter of 2007.
TrueQuota
Software
Our TrueQuota software enables the finance and sales operations
teams to identify opportunities to change quotas to maximize
revenue based on historical performance, and to allocate quotas
effectively using sophisticated business rules. Our TrueQuota
software provides the functionality for organizations to model,
compare and select quota scenarios that best achieve corporate
or sales region revenue goals, and effectively manages the
process across sales teams and regions in a coordinated and
timely manner, while ensuring required constituents are brought
into the process. TrueQuota provides configurable workflow
processes based on quota setting best practices; supports
multiple types of quota, whether product level, account level,
or regional; provides top-down quota allocation; enables roll up
of quotas and other metrics across the different aspects of the
business; supports a descriptive, guided workflow process,
ensuring the process is clear and followed; and is 100%
web-based for ease of deployment. TrueQuota was shipped in the
fourth quarter of 2006.
Products The Callidus product suite provides an end-to-end solution for all aspects of the Sales Performance Management process. Our products are available either installed on-premise, or as a subscription, software-as-a- service (SaaS) offering through Callidus On-Demand. With our products, organizations gain insight into sales and incentive effectiveness; optimize territories and quotas; automate incentive compensation management; streamline sales dispute resolution, and deliver sales incentive reporting to the sales team. While providing a horizontal solution applicable to every industry, Callidus additionally provides value added industry specific solutions for financial services companies by streamlining producer on-boarding, managing talent and regulatory processes around producer management. Our products combine a complete web-based solution, flexible rules-based architecture, grid-based computing, reporting, analytics and workflow functionality that provide the flexibility to serve a broad range of industries and organizations of every size ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of sales people. Our products are cross-platform and standards-based, enabling them to be integrated with a wide range of IT systems and processes. Callidus also provides packaged, certified integration with salesforce.com and SAP NetWeaver, enabling an organizations sales team to seamlessly access Callidus from its Sales Force Automation/Customer Relationship Management system of choice. Callidus On-Demand Callidus On-Demand delivers all the advantages of Sales Performance Management, available in an on-demand, software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription model without compromise of features and functionality. By running Callidus On-Demand, organizations gain the benefit of SPM with a deployment that provides flexibility, efficiency, cost savings, security and reliability. Callidus On-Demand can be configured with a selection of service levels and options that suit an organizations business objectives, requirements and resources. Callidus On-Demand customers can select either a Technical Operations or a Business Operations service level. Technical Operations includes the infrastructure, infrastructure operations, and Callidus Software application operations layers required for SPM. The Business Operations service level provides all the benefits of Technical Operations and adds Business Operations to it. With the Business Operations service level, Callidus Software performs all the tasks involved in establishing, running and managing the organizations Callidus Software SPM system. Companies selecting this service level do not need to hire and train a compensation analyst or compensation administration team to design and run the system. Callidus On-Demand was launched in the first quarter of 2006. TrueComp Software Our TrueComp software automates the modeling, design, administration, reporting and analysis of pay-for-performance programs for organizations ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of sales people. Our customers use TrueComp to design, test and implement sales compensation plans that reward on the profitability of the sale, discourage excessive sales discounts, encourage team selling and promote new product introduction or other sales activities customers wish to encourage. Our TrueComp software enables our customers to accurately acquire and reflect all relevant sales data, apply it precisely to each payees pay-for-performance program, and automate the day-to-day activities associated with administering transaction-driven, variable incentive compensation. TrueComp provides a flexible, user-maintainable system that can be easily modified to align direct or indirect sales compensation with corporate goals and shareholder value. It also provides modeling functionality to enable the finance organization to accurately forecast compensation spend, or perform plan modeling to understand the impact on spend of a change in compensation plan. This combined modeling functionality enables organizations to substantially reduce their exposure to unexpected compensation overspend.
Table of ContentsOur TrueComp software collects and integrates the different data feeds used to compile applicable sales data; the TrueComp Repository module serves as the database and TrueComp Manager serves as the business user-facing application to set up compensation plans, manage day-to-day operations, and make manual adjustments. The TrueComp Grid component provides high-performance processing of compensation data and results, and together with our parallel processing functionality enables organizations to manage global compensation. The TrueComp applications modular, structured approach to defining compensation plans avoids the reliability, flexibility and maintenance issues associated with homegrown solutions. The TrueComp Manager module guides users through the process of paying variable compensation via a graphical and intuitive rule editor, which is usable by compensation analysts without coding or scripting skills. The original TrueComp application initially shipped in the second quarter of 1999. TrueInformation Software Our TrueInformation software is a self-service, highly scalable web-based production reporting application for incentive compensation systems throughout the organization. The TrueInformation software provides sales and incentive reporting capabilities to sales, finance, and business partners, giving them immediate access to personalized pay-for-performance information. By providing timely and accurate compensation information throughout the enterprise, our TrueInformation software builds trust and confidence among operational and finance personnel, thereby improving morale and operational results while reducing errors that increase the costs of incentive compensation. The TrueInformation application includes sophisticated date-effective organizational, position and title-based security that allows for appropriate controls on dissemination of sensitive compensation data, and is accessed through an intuitive web-based interface that offers ease of use throughout the organization. TrueInformation allows integration with salesforce.com via salesforce.com AppExchange, and also provides Powered by SAP NetWeaver certified integration to offer accessibility from products such as SAP CRM, as well as being accessible from customer homegrown portals. Our original TrueInformation application was initially shipped in the fourth quarter of 2002. Callidus TrueAnalytics Callidus TrueAnalytics software is a web-based reporting and ad-hoc query application that provides executives and compensation analysts with the insight and ad-hoc analysis they need to drive sales and incentive performance, whether they are in sales, marketing or finance. With Callidus TrueAnalytics software, organizations can gain further benefit from the valuable information within the TrueComp Suite of applications, and can combine it with other information to provide analytic dashboards, key performance indicators, management reports, and ad-hoc analysis. With Callidus TrueAnalytics software, organizations can quickly identify opportunities to drive customer, product, geographic and channel performance with new incentive plans, as well as analyze and optimize incentive spend and key profitability measures. Callidus TrueAnalytics software eliminates the need to wait for ad-hoc reports, and delivers rapid insights into key issues by providing exception variances, alerts, and personal indicators resulting in increased business agility and better decision making on how to drive revenue and grow profits. Callidus TrueAnalytics software enables organizations to benefit from rapid time to deployment. In addition, because Callidus TrueAnalytics software is integrated with our TrueComp software, organizations can quickly turn insight into incentive plan changes to align sales behavior with key business objectives. TrueAnalytics allows integration with salesforce.com via salesforce.com AppExchange, and also provides Powered by SAP NetWeaver certified integration to offer accessibility from products such as SAP CRM, as well as being accessible from customer homegrown portals. Callidus TrueAnalytics software was initially shipped in the first quarter of 2006. TrueResolution Software Our TrueResolution software is a rules-based application that streamlines and automates the sales and incentive performance management workflows and business processes within organizations. It serves as the foundation for our packaged workflow solution offerings, in addition to providing a packaged application for managing compensation disputes, thereby reducing the associated cost and diversion of management and sales resources. Scalable for the largest sales and channel organizations, the TrueResolution application eliminates
Table of Contentsmanual, error-prone sales operation processes and allows dispute resolution to be initiated from the field where the majority of disputes originate. Our TrueResolution software automates functions such as changes, transfers and splits to territory assignments, quota adjustments, organizational changes, cleansing of bad data, and payee information updates. The TrueResolution application enables sales professionals and business partners to submit and track their claims through a completely web-based self-service workflow process, which automates the evaluation, routing, resolution and approval of day-to-day requests and consistently communicates payment and resolution status to sales people. The TrueResolution application keeps management informed of changes that may affect compensation, produces an audit trail for all requests and resolutions, reduces errors and the risk of fraud and promotes enforcement of enterprise policies. The TrueResolution application was initially shipped in the second quarter of 2002. TrueProducer Software Callidus TrueProducer software is for insurance carriers with independent distribution channels or captive agents that want to streamline their producer administration in order to have one location to view and update producer information. Our TrueProducer software provides a 360-degree view of every detail of every producer in these organizations. TrueProducer provides the following benefits: increases loyalty of independent and captive producers by improving the service provided; decreases cost of servicing the distribution channel by having all the producer information in one interface; integrates with TrueComp to eliminate the need to reenter data that is required to pay compensation; ensures data integrity by enforcing data validation; and streamlines business process for signing on new producers. Key elements include but are not limited to: producer demographics, licenses, appointments, continuing education, contracts, and payment schedules. TrueProducer is a 100% web-based application that is easy to deploy across the entire enterprise. It provides integration with other Callidus applications, including access to compensation, dispute resolution, analytics, and reporting. TrueProducer was shipped in the second quarter of 2007. TrueQuota Software Our TrueQuota software enables the finance and sales operations teams to identify opportunities to change quotas to maximize revenue based on historical performance, and to allocate quotas effectively using sophisticated business rules. Our TrueQuota software provides the functionality for organizations to model, compare and select quota scenarios that best achieve corporate or sales region revenue goals, and effectively manages the process across sales teams and regions in a coordinated and timely manner, while ensuring required constituents are brought into the process. TrueQuota provides configurable workflow processes based on quota setting best practices; supports multiple types of quota, whether product level, account level, or regional; provides top-down quota allocation; enables roll up of quotas and other metrics across the different aspects of the business; supports a descriptive, guided workflow process, ensuring the process is clear and followed; and is 100% web-based for ease of deployment. TrueQuota was shipped in the fourth quarter of 2006. This excerpt taken from the CALD 10-K filed Mar 16, 2007. Products
Our product suite addresses key aspects of the planning,
execution, and visibility of the sales performance management
process. Our products help automate incentive compensation
management and sales and incentive analytics. Our core products
combine a flexible rules-based architecture with grid-based
computing, providing customers with reliable, flexible and
highly scalable solutions. Our products are Java-based, enabling
efficient implementation on multiple operating systems, and all
of our products are designed to be operated by business users
rather than IT administrators. Our product suite features
user-defined security combined with a complete audit trail,
allowing for reduced errors in incentive compensation, enhanced
trust and confidence between sales and finance personnel and
more effective investment in sales performance and incentive
compensation programs.
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TrueComp
Software
Our TrueComp software automates the modeling, design,
administration, reporting and analysis of
pay-for-performance
programs for enterprise-level sales and distribution
organizations. Our customers use TrueComp to design, test and
implement sales compensation plans that reward on the
profitability of the sale, discourage excessive sales discounts,
encourage team selling and promote new product introduction or
other sales activities customers wish to encourage. Our TrueComp
software enables our customers to accurately acquire and reflect
all relevant sales data, apply it precisely to each payees
pay-for-performance
program, and automate the
day-to-day
activities associated with administering transaction-driven,
variable incentive compensation. TrueComp provides a flexible,
user-maintainable system that can be easily modified to align
direct or indirect sales compensation with corporate goals and
shareholder value.
Our TrueComp software consists of four principal modules: the
TrueComp Integration module collects and integrates the
different data feeds used to compile applicable sales data; the
TrueComp Repository module serves as the database; the TrueComp
Manager module serves as the user interface to set up
compensation rules, run queries, and make manual adjustments;
and the TrueComp Grid module is our proprietary computing
architecture. The TrueComp applications modular,
structured approach to defining compensation plans avoids the
reliability and maintenance issues associated with internally
developed solutions and enables systematic administration over a
high volume of transactions and varied compensation plans that
is not attainable using manual methods. The TrueComp Manager
module guides users through the process of paying variable
compensation via a graphical and intuitive rule editor, which is
usable by compensation analysts without coding or scripting
skills. The original TrueComp application initially shipped in
the second quarter of 1999, and to date has accounted for a
majority of our revenues.
TrueInformation
Software
Our TrueInformation software is a self-service, highly scalable
web-based production reporting application for incentive
compensation systems throughout the organization. The
TrueInformation software provides sales and incentive reporting
capabilities to sales, finance, and business partners, giving
them immediate access to personalized
pay-for-performance
information. By providing timely and accurate compensation
information throughout the enterprise, our TrueInformation
software builds trust and confidence among operational and
finance personnel, thereby improving morale and operational
results while reducing errors that increase the costs of
incentive compensation. The TrueInformation application includes
sophisticated date-effective organizational, position and
title-based security that allows for appropriate controls on
dissemination of sensitive compensation data and is accessed
through an intuitive web-based interface that offers ease of use
throughout the organization. Our original TrueInformation
application was initially shipped in the fourth quarter of 2002.
Callidus
TrueAnalytics
Callidus TrueAnalytics software is a web-based reporting and
ad-hoc query application that provides executives and
compensation analysts with the insight and ad hoc analysis they
need to drive sales and incentive performance, whether they are
in sales, marketing, or finance. With Callidus TrueAnalytics
software, organizations can gain further benefit from the
valuable information within the TrueComp Suite of applications,
and can combine it with other information to provide analytic
dashboards, key performance indicators, management reports, and
ad hoc analysis. With Callidus TrueAnalytics software,
organizations can quickly identify opportunities to drive
customer, product, geographic and channel performance with new
incentive plans, as well as analyze and optimize incentive spend
and key profitability measures. Callidus TrueAnalytics software
eliminates the need to wait for ad hoc reports, and delivers
rapid insights into key issues by providing exception variances,
alerts, and personal indicators resulting in
increased business agility and better decision making on how to
drive revenue and grow profits. Callidus TrueAnalytics software
enables organizations to benefit from rapid time to deployment.
In addition, because Callidus TrueAnalytics software is
integrated with our TrueComp software, organizations can quickly
turn insight into incentive plan changes to align sales behavior
with key business objectives. Callidus TrueAnalytics software
was initially shipped in the first quarter of 2006.
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TrueResolution
Software
Our TrueResolution software is a rules-based workflow
application that streamlines and automates the resolution of
incentive compensation disputes, thereby reducing the associated
cost and diversion of management and sales resources. Scaleable
for the largest sales channel organizations, the TrueResolution
application eliminates manual, error-prone sales operation
processes and allows dispute resolution to be initiated from the
field where the majority of disputes originate. Our
TrueResolution software automates functions such as changes,
transfers and splits to territory assignments, quota
adjustments, organizational changes and payee information
updates. The TrueResolution application enables sales
professionals and business partners to submit and track their
claims through a completely web-based self-service workflow
process, which automates the evaluation, routing, resolution and
approval of
day-to-day
requests and consistently communicates payment and resolution
status to sales people. The TrueResolution application keeps
management informed of changes that may affect compensation,
produces an audit trail for all requests and resolutions,
reduces errors and the risk of fraud and promotes enforcement of
enterprise policies. The TrueResolution application was
initially shipped in the second quarter of 2002.
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