Data Quadrant Awards 2022
Sales Compensation
SoftwareReviews names Core Commissions and CaptivateIQ as Sales Compensation Data Quadrant Award Winners.
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Sales Compensation
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Gold Medalists
Core Commissions
Core Commissions
Core Commissions is a leader in commission automation software. Founded in 2005, Core Commissions provides an affordable web-based commission management solution to automate the calculation of complex sales commission and incentive pay plans. The application handles the most complex data relationships and rule management scenarios while providing web-based access for salespeople to their pay statements and performance dashboards. Core’s highly customizable no-code SaaS solution allows businesses of any size to meet their requirements of automating complex commission and incentive management calculations more economically than spreadsheets or other solutions.
9.3
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+100
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99%
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to Recommend
CaptivateIQ Inc
CaptivateIQ
CaptivateIQ is Sales Compensation software that manages and tracks your team’s sales commissions with greater accuracy, speed, and transparency. With CaptivateIQ Connect siloed data sources to build a single source of truth for commission admins, management, and reps, set up any commission plan using this logic-based data modeling platform, automate payouts in seconds, and share clear and actionable data points to shift selling behavior and keep teams motivated.
9.2
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+99
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Emotional
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95%
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Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
CaptivateIQ
Breadth of Features
Core Commissions
Business Value Created
CaptivateIQ
Ease of Customization
Core Commissions
Ease of Data Integration
Core Commissions
Ease of IT Administration
Core Commissions
Ease of Implementation
Core Commissions
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
CaptivateIQ
Quality of Features
Core Commissions
Usability and Intuitiveness
CaptivateIQ
Vendor Support
Core Commissions
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
CaptivateIQ
Breadth of Features
Core Commissions
Business Value Created
CaptivateIQ
Ease of Customization
Core Commissions
Ease of Data Integration
Core Commissions
Ease of IT Administration
Core Commissions
Ease of Implementation
Core Commissions
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
CaptivateIQ
Quality of Features
Core Commissions
Usability and Intuitiveness
CaptivateIQ
Vendor Support
Core Commissions
Other Evaluated Vendors
Varicent Software
Varicent Incentive Compensation Management (ICM)
Varicent Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) removes friction from the compensation process, accelerates the ability to make plan changes and adopt new strategies, and enables new insights to outdo previous performance. Varicent enables businesses to continually refine and improve their sales strategies - from plan, operate, pay, and insights - to maximize revenues. Varicent ICM can help you remove friction from the sales compensation process, improve incentive calculation, adapt your sales strategy to shifting business priorities, and enable your compensation admins.
8.5
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+94
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
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85%
Likeliness to
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to Recommend
Spiff Inc
Spiff
Spiff is a sales compensation platform that automates commission calculations and motivates teams to drive top-line growth. With a combination of an intuitive UI, real-time visibility, and seamless integrations, Spiff aligns and enables finance and sales operations teams to self-manage complex incentive compensation plans and provides transparency for sales teams. Spiff automates and optimizes commissions plans (goodbye Excel spreadsheets) and motivates commissioned reps. Spiff resolves the headache of running commissions for the finance team, reduce friction between finance and sales, and increase sales performance.
8.5
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+85
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
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85%
Likeliness to
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to Recommend
SAP
SAP Commissions
Maximize sales performance with incentive compensation management (ICM) software. Increase the effectiveness of sales teams with strategic incentive compensation management that drives profitable behaviors and grows revenue. With SAP Commissions, you can motivate sales, shape behaviour, and increase revenue with incentive compensation management software.
8.4
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Composite
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+94
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
85%
Likeliness to
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to Recommend
Xactly
Xactly Incent
Xactly Incent is sales compensation software that empowers companies to successfully design, implement, and manage intelligent incentive compensation programs. With robust functionality and seamless integration with existing ERP, CRM, and HCM systems, Xactly Incent maximizes the ROI of incentive compensation with improved efficiencies, greater timeliness and accuracy, and plan optimization.
7.7
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+79
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Emotional
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79%
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to Recommend
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