Data Quadrant Awards 2023

Sales Compensation

SoftwareReviews names CaptivateIQ, Core Commissions, Compass, and Qcommission as Sales Compensation Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Sales Compensation

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Gold Medalists

45Reviews

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.

9.3

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Score

+99

Emotional
Footprint

96%

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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.

9.2

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Score

+99

Emotional
Footprint

98%

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21Reviews

Xoxoday

Compass

Compass is the #1 gamification software that automates and digitizes Sales Contests and Commission Programs. With game-like elements, rewards, recognitions, and complete access to relevant information, Compass turbocharges the entire salesforce.

9.0

Composite
Score

+99

Emotional
Footprint

96%

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16Reviews

CellarStone Inc

Qcommission

QCommission is a flexible sales commission software. It calculates your sales people’s compensation accurately and reduces errors related to spreadsheets and manual methods. It allows you to calculate commissions as soon as the commission period is over and saves a lot of time. It can communicate calculated commissions in a detailed and clear manner.

8.9

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Score

+97

Emotional
Footprint

89%

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

CaptivateIQ

Breadth of Features

CaptivateIQ

Business Value Created

CaptivateIQ

Ease of Customization

CaptivateIQ

Ease of Data Integration

Xactly Incent

Ease of IT Administration

CaptivateIQ

Ease of Implementation

CaptivateIQ

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

CaptivateIQ

Quality of Features

CaptivateIQ

Usability and Intuitiveness

CaptivateIQ

Vendor Support

Core Commissions

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

CaptivateIQ

Breadth of Features

CaptivateIQ

Business Value Created

CaptivateIQ

Ease of Customization

CaptivateIQ

Ease of Data Integration

Xactly Incent

Ease of IT Administration

CaptivateIQ

Ease of Implementation

CaptivateIQ

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

CaptivateIQ

Quality of Features

CaptivateIQ

Usability and Intuitiveness

CaptivateIQ

Vendor Support

Core Commissions

Other Evaluated Vendors

18Reviews

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.

8.8

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Score

+92

Emotional
Footprint

88%

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25Reviews

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.

8.7

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Score

+96

Emotional
Footprint

87%

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16Reviews

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.

8.4

Composite
Score

+93

Emotional
Footprint

85%

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15Reviews

Performio

Performio’s solutions for incentive compensation management enable you to quickly and accurately adapt with confidence to changing market conditions. The Performio platform helps you spend more time making decisions and less time administering compensation. Performia commissions process should be seamless, so you can spend your time designing plans that help you enter new markets, launch new products, and adapt to change.

8.4

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Score

+91

Emotional
Footprint

84%

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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.

8.4

Composite
Score

+86

Emotional
Footprint

84%

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