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Best-of-breed app makers boost incentive management to advance customers' bottom line
VENDORS OF EIM (enterprise incentive management) are forging incentive software that puts the reins of compensation firmly in executives' hands.
Best-of-breed EIM players Motiva, Callidus Software, and Centiv are casting their products to link more easily with CRM, SCM (supplychain management), and payroll systems and are utilizing portal and dashboard technology to bring crucial incentive data to light. Meanwhile, PeopleSoft and Oracle are offering similar incentive-oriented products that link more easily to enterprise apps.
Both breeds seek to align employee behavior with strategic business goals.
Motiva this month will unveil Motiva 9, the newest version of its EIM suite. Version 9 will feature advanced incentive-plan modeling, data-visualization capabilities, and embedded workflow technology, and will be wired for Web services to provide access to external data and applications.
Web services interfaces are critical for companies to seamlessly link to payroll, HR, or CRM systems without having to hard-code integration between apps, said...