Paris – June 26, 2008 - Excentive and Micropole-Univers announce the signing of their partnership.
After the successful implementation of Excentive Compensation Cockpit within a well-known insurance company, both partners intend to actively pursue cooperation on the deployment of solutions dedicated to Compensation Management.
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Paris, May 29, 2008 - Excentive and Umanis seminar draws a full house.
On May 27th, Excentive and Umanis held a joint seminar under the heading: « How to enable effective compensation ». Three guest speakers from Bouygues Construction - among whom, Jean-Manuel Soussan, HR Director - were invited to share with the audience their experiences in using Excentive Compensation Review to manage pay raises and salary reviews.
Bouygues Construction explained how its managers stand now at the core of the compensation process. A process that has been widely improved and clarified since Excentive solution were implemented.
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Paris, March 26, 2008 - Excentive announces the addition of a series of new large-account clients.
Over the last few months, several new clients have signed on with Excentive, including key companies in the Banking & Insurance sector. Several of these clients have already implemented the Excentive software solution.
These new clients include: Caisse d’Épargne Group, Barclays, Groupama OC, UCB (BNP Paribas Group), Bouygues Construction, Veolia Environnement...
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Paris, March 13, 2008 - Excentive participates in the Human Resources Research Panel.
The Human Resources Research Panel, in partnership with Microsoft, organized a round table on « The role of HR Managers in corporate strategy.» This event will be lead by Charlotte Duda, President of ANDRH (National Association of HRM), and Christophe Excoffier, General Manager of Novametrie. David Lerman, CEO Excentive, will contribute his expertise in compensation management.
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Paris – February 19, 2008 - Umanis and Excentive announce the signing of their partnership.
Umanis and the software company Excentive have formalized their technical and business partnership. The agreement signed today concerns the implementation of compensation management solutions for large account clients.
The two companies have already established their partnership in collaborative projects. Umanis is installing the Excentive solution, Compensation Cockpit, in two CAC 40 companies.
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Paris – February 11, 2008 - Two new members appointed to Excentive's sales team.
Excentive has appointed Eric Zouari Sales Manager, France, and Jérôme Turin Senior Sales Executive. In addition to experience selling management software packages, these newest team members are experts in decision-making applied to HR and payroll.
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Paris – February 8, 2008 - Breakfast - « Boost the Effectiveness of Your Commissioning and Incentive Plans »
Business & Decision, Infineo, and Excentive organize this breakfast for all players in the domain of variable compensation: General Managers, HR / Comp & Ben / Sales / Network Managers...
We provide an overview of challenges, methods, and practices for variable compensation as well as the central role that it can play in the execution of company strategy.
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Paris – January 28, 2008 - Excentive's Search for Additional Capital Bears Fruit
Excentive has been apportioning the 2 million euros raised during summer, 2007 from BNP Paribas Private Equity. The software company has developed its R&D team as well as its sales teams in order to strengthen its position as specialist in compensation management.
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Paris – December 10, 2007 - Next Excentive breakfast: Friday, January 18, 2008.
Our next breakfast on compensation management will take place Friday, January 18, 2008 in Paris. It will deal with « How to evaluate and compensate all types of performances. »
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Paris – September 26, 2007 - Excentive organizes in Paris a free session of 3 breakfasts dedicated to compensation management.
Each breakfast lasts only 2 hrs. and 30 mins. These purposefully short breakfasts provide, in as little time as possible, a maximum benefit- key questions, discussions, and demonstrations of our solutions. The choice is yours, you can reserve free seats at one, two, or three breakfasts.
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Paris – September 11, 2007 - Excentive has raised 2M€ to consolidate its growth.
Specializing in performance evaluation and compensation, Excentive has raised 2 million euros from BNP Paribas Private Equity to consolidate its growth in France and expand into the global market. Excentive has already expanded its range of software programs.
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Paris – June 19, 2007 - Excentive Celebrates its 5th Anniversary.
In 2002 Excentive began its work as a computer software company producing compensation management software. Five years later, our company is a market benchmark for variable compensation in France. This is only the beginning; we are adding many more chapters to our story, continuing to create innovative solutions in response to our clients needs.
Paris, May 15, 2007 - Excentive launches Hierarchy Manager: modeling software that builds hierarchical trees of structures and individuals.
The new Excentive software offers an exhaustive view of the different dimensions of your organization: hierarchies and links between persons, positions, structures, and cost centers. With Hierarchy Manager, the company has a centralized HR frame of reference that is dynamically and directly updated by managers.
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Paris, May 11, 2007 & June 7th, 2007 - Excentive organizes a free seminar on « How to automate and manage the individual pay raise processes. »
Friday, April 27, 2007 - Excentive organizes a free seminar on « How to evaluate and compensate all types of performances. »
Discover Excentive software solutions dedicated to managing the evaluation of commercial and non-commercial groups, as well as handling their variable compensation.
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Paris, from March 13th through March 15th, 2007 - Excentive welcomes you to the Human Resources Solutions Show at booth #E25.
Please visit us at the CNIT (Paris, La Défense) during the 13th annual key meeting of the HR community.
Paris, February 13, 2007 - Microsoft and Excentive blow out the first candle of the IDEES program.
A year ago, Microsoft was launching IDEES - a worldwide partnership program intended to encourage the development of high-potential software companies. Excentive was among the first seven companies to join the IDEES team. On this first anniversary, Excentive is proud to celebrate, along with Microsoft, the technological and commercial success of this fruitful initiative. Next February 13th, at the French Senate, Excentive will showcase its achievements along with the other IDEES companies.
For the occasion, the IDEES partners, as well as elected members and representatives of the economic world, are invited to a round table to work on promoting innovation in France.
Paris, December 28, 2006 - Bouygues Telecom chooses Excentive.
The mobile network operator now manages the "parc value" compensation of each of its 12,000 distributors through Excentive Reward Server.
Paris, September 27, 2006 - Excentive runs the workshop « Managing effective variable compensation plans » for the first Plenary Session of the Magellan Comp&Ben Club.
Invited as an expert by the Magellan Comp & Ben Club, David Lerman, Excentive CEO, explained to the members how they can manage their variable compensation plans to increase productivity, transparency and receptivity.
Paris, June 01, 2006 - Excentive launches its « Compensation Meetings », between HR experts and compensation specialists.
One or two mornings every quarter, well-known experts will deal with a compensation-related subject.
The first « Compensation Meeting » will be held in Paris, June 1st, and the topic will be « Develop your own variable compensation system »
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Paris, March 21, 2006 - STILL places transparency at the heart of its drive for motivation.
STILL, one of the Europe's leading manufacturers of fork-lift trucks and associated services (maintenance, short-term and long-term leasing)
has recently deployed the Excentive Reward Server solution to manage its variable compensation plans. STILL employees can access detailed information on their variable income via a customized web portal.
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Paris, February 21, 2006 - Alcatel, Boiron and Cetelem chose Excentive Reward Server to remunerate employee performance.
Excentive strengthens its leader position in the EIM field. Within weeks, Alcatel, Boiron and Cetelem have all chosen Reward Server, a variable compensation management solution. Three sectors, one software; modeled to all types of businesses, whatever their profession-specific needs and performance indicators.
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Paris, February 01, 2006 – Excentive launches its Variable Compensation Barometer in partnership with MCR Consultants
The 1st edition of The Barometer will be published in September 2006. It will provide a detailed insight into the practices of the leading French companies in terms of variable compensation (groups involved, criteria used, amounts paid, management and future of the plans, etc.)
Paris, February 14, 2006 - Excentive organizes the seminar « Variable compensation plans: a strategic project that must be controlled by CIO ».
This free seminar for CIO takes place Friday, March 3rd, 2006 from 9.00 to 10.30 am at the Microsoft Conference Center - 148, rue de l'Université - Paris.
More about the seminar (in French)
Paris, November 20, 2005 - Excentive organizes the seminar " Variable compensation: from calculating to piloting ".
This free seminar will be held on December 8, 2005, 8.30-11.00 am
at l’Aéro-Club de France, Paris. Stanislas Brun, from Air France Cargo, will testify on his own experience in piloting variable compensation.
For more information and to sign up, please click here.
Paris, October 25, 2005 - Microsoft unveiled an agreement intended to encourage software development in France.
Abbreviated to IDEES, the French word for ideas, this agreement involves 8 French software companies, among which Excentive.
To access the press release (in French), click here.
Paris, October 10, 2005 - Revenue Sharing: Glowria.fr, France's leading online DVD rentals, has chosen Excentive to manage royalty agreements with DVD vendors (Sony, Warner, Buena Vista...) and business partners.
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Paris, Septembre 01, 2005 – Excentive, French pionneer in the EIM (Enterprise Incentive Management) market, raised 600 000 € from venture capitalists IDFD and ACCESS2NET.
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Paris, May 30, 2005 - New seminar "Variable compensation schemes: new management & optimization tools".
Free of charge, this seminar covers new ways of managing variable compensation schemes. Andrew Paterson from Eurest France (Compass Group) shares some of his experiences.
The seminar takes place 21th June 2005, 8.30-11.00 am, at Pavillon Kléber, Paris.
For more info (in French) and sign up please click here.
Paris, September 20, 2004 - Eurest has chosen Excentive's EIM solution for its sales force incentive program.
Eurest France, a subsidiary of COMPASS GROUP, the world's largest food service company, has selected Excentive Reward Server for the management of their various sales force incentive programs.
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Paris, April 19, 2004 - Excentive introduces « Pay Plan Designer » a new software for pay plan and incentive simulations.
Pay Plan Designer targets companies wanting to perform in-depth pay plan and incentive cost/benefit simulations.
To access the press release (in French), click here.
Paris April 19, 2004 - Excentive introduces "Excentive workshops"
The idea is to share experiences and have the possibility to make scenario simulations using "Pay Plan Designer".
Paris March 11, 2004 - Sign up for the seminar "How to impact your incentive based pay systems"
This free seminar, organized by Excentive together with Ora Consult and the supermarket chain Système U takes place March 30, 2004, 8.30am at "L'Aéro Club de France", Paris.
Paris, November 19, 2003 - Tir Groupé selects Excentive Reward Server for its online sales force motivation program management.
Paris, October 07, 2003 - Valeur organizes the seminar "Variable compensation: traps and difficulties to avoid "
This free seminar, organized by Valeur together with Boutiny/Bernard Avocats and Excentive, takes place at CNIT Essec Management, Paris, October 29..
Paris, June 12, 2003 - Additional date for the seminar "New management tools for variable compensation plans"
This free seminar, offered together with Microsoft and MCR, takes place at CNIT, Paris, June 27.
Paris, May 17, 2003 - Excentive, EIM software company, organizes the seminar "New management tools for variable compensation plans"
This free seminar, offered together with Microsoft and MCR, takes place at CNIT, Paris, June 4.
Paris, January 27, 2003 - New seminar: "The new ways to manage employees' variable compensation"
After its successful first seminar "The new ways to motivate sales and distribution networks" at CNIT, November 6, Excentive organizes a seminar on employees' variable compensation.
Paris, October 28, 2002 - Excentive, EIM software company, organizes the seminar "The new ways to motivate sales and distribution networks".
This free seminar, offered together with Microsoft, Cegos and Axilog takes place at CNIT, Paris, November 6.
Paris, September 09, 2002 - The software editor Excentive introduces the first EIM solution (Enterprice Incentive Management) in France, Excentive Reward Server.
Excentive Reward Server, already used by Axilog for its sales force incentive program, targets companies that wish to automate and optimize the management of their direct and indirect sales force.
Excentive Reward Server gives the Sales Directors, Marketing Directors, Human Resource Managers a comprehensive tool allowing them to:
Calculate and simplify the creation of complex and variable compensation schemes targeting employees and partners.
Manage motivation programs (sales challenges and competitions, redemption catalogs etc)
Communicate using targeted, triggered and personalized emails, SMS, Fax etc.
Analyse the program activities and their profitability using the multidimensional reporting module.
"Uptil now the companies have used SFA solutions helping them with the follow up of the sales activities (opportunity, contact and agenda management). Excentive Reward Server complements the SFA solutions perfectly adding the sales performance dimension" comments David Lerman founder of Excentive.
"Thanks to Excentive Reward Server we are equiped with an efficient tool for our sales force management. With Excentive Reward Server we are able to rapidly adjust our incentives to the the market. We increase the productivity and the motivation while reducing spent time (double checking the calculations etc) and errors. We also save time being able to easily publish the right information at the right moment only to the relevant people" precise Fabrice Greenbaum Managing Director of Axilog.
The EIM market is growing at full speed. In the US, the EIM market is estimated to 2 billion USD for 2005 by AMR Research Group and 2,6 billion USD for 2006 by The Aberdeen Group.
Excentive Reward Server is composed by several modules that are easily adapted to the organization. Excentive Reward Server is accessed via a web browser avoiding desktop installation.
The personalization of Excentive Reward Server is effected on multiple levels. The advanced management of user rights and needs enables Excentive Reward Server to integrate with the most complex organization (hierarchique, matrix, project, combinations etc.) as well as adapt to the company specific data (product, margin, turnover etc.).
Using an intuitive graphical interface, the rules editor is drastically simplifying the creation of compensation and motivation programs. The possibilities offered by the rules editor is practically unlimited supporting all kinds of personalized compensation schemes: individual, group, regional rewards etc.
The communication module uses a segmentation editor that allows to easily define the program target group(s). Personalized messages and alerts are easily sent by email or SMS. If needed, these can be automically triggered using the rules editor.
"Our sales representatives and distributors recieve regularly a SMS with their actual commission status as well as an email with the score of the challenges in which they are participating" says Fabrice Greenbaum.
The, for the sales force, necessary documents (product fact sheets, prices, self training material etc.) are organized in the document library. The program members access up-to-date and personalized information in their personal and password protected folders.
All actions and transactions are recorded and compiled through an OLAP cube allowing multidimensional analysis and reporting of the performances, progressions, challenge results, paid/outstanding commissons etc.
The integration with existing systems and databases is readily done using XML and SOAP protocoles. They are standard for the .NET framework that Excentive Reward Server is built upon.
Calculate and simplify the creation of complex and variable compensation schemes targeting employees and partners.