8×8 Taps CallidusCloud to Streamline Partner Commission Process

PRESS RELEASE — DUBLIN, CA–(Marketwired – Oct 20, 2015) – Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: CALD) — 8×8, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based unified communications and contact center solutions, has selected CallidusCloud Commissions to streamline the company’s incentives and commission payment processes for its direct sales force and channel sales partners. The agreement was completed in September.

Following a Sales Performance Management market evaluation, 8×8 selected CallidusCloud for its usability, track record of innovation, complementary product suite and the ability to deliver a scalable solution. CallidusCloud Commissions will replace manual commission management processes to ensure on-time, accurate payment and provide the agility to make changes to 8×8’s compensation plans as needed.

“CallidusCloud’s Commissions will allow our finance team to automate manual processes in our commission calculations and streamline the management and distribution of compensation plans, upleveling our commissions process,” said Raghavan Sarathy, vice president of finance at 8×8. In addition, the software will allow us to have greater visibility into our channel partner commissions as that part of our business continues to grow.”

“The trend of using compensation to drive specific sales behaviors makes an automated process highly critical,” said Jimmy Duan, chief technology officer at CallidusCloud. “Keeping track of commissions payments on spreadsheets can be error-prone, time-consuming and challenging to increase sales performance. 8×8 plans to use CallidusCloud Commissions to not only compensate its sales force and channel partners, but to also incentivize them to sell using gamification and other sales engagement techniques that will maximize the value of every customer.”

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Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: CALD), doing business as CallidusCloud^®, is the global leader in cloud based sales, marketing, learning and customer experience solutions. CallidusCloud enables organizations to accelerate and maximize their lead to money process with a complete suite of solutions that identify the right leads, ensure proper territory and quota distribution, enable sales forces, automate configure price quote, and streamline sales compensation — driving bigger deals, faster. More than 4,000 leading organizations, across all industries, rely on CallidusCloud to optimize the lead to money process to close more deals for more money in record time.