Alcon Japan goes live with Varicent incentive compensation and sales performance management solutions

Varicent solution to enable modeling and forecasting functionality as well as business ownership

The leading innovator in incentive compensation (ICM) and sales performance management (SPM) solutions, Varicent Software Incorporated, announced today a successful "go live" of Varicent for Alcon Japan Ltd.

After a thorough survey of SPM products, Alcon Japan Ltd. chose Varicent due to their commitment, attentiveness and ability to meet the company's tight implementation timelines. Alcon is rolling out the solution in Japan first with plans to expand globally.

Alcon Japan selected Varicent to have a single solution to manage their incentive compensation needs in a sophisticated and efficient manner. The automated workflow features of Varicent allow Alcon Japan to facilitate communication of national goals down to the territories. In particular, Varicent provides the company the ability to:

-- Develop sophisticated analytics for modeling, forecasting, quota and targets -- Have business ownership of the application -- Meet their demanding schedule

"We are pleased that Alcon Japan chose Varicent to provide the tools they need to manage their sales performance management and incentive compensation processes," said Mark Girvan, Vice President of Business Development for Varicent. "We are especially proud to have added a company with such a strong international presence to our growing list of customers. Using Varicent, companies can manage and automate the process of calculating and reporting variable-based pay, providing more visibility and accountability into one of the organization's largest variable expenses."

Source: VARICENT SOFTWARE INCORPORATED