PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 21, 2012) - Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: [ CALD ]), the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that a major North American technology provider has selected the CallidusCloud™ Sales Enablement and Collaboration Portal solution to drive the performance of its more than 3,000 member sales organization. The agreement was signed in the first quarter of 2012.

The company will deploy the Sales Enablement and Collaboration Portal to drive sales productivity through cloud and mobile knowledge sharing, peer-to-peer collaboration, and real-time guided selling. The company has already successfully deployed CallidusCloud's Sales Performance Management suite to motivate and drive sales performance with targeted commissions and rewards.

The [ Sales Enablement and Collaboration Portal ] is a SaaS-based solution that enables marketing, subject experts, solution leaders, and sales to collaborate and share best practices so the sales force and channel can rapidly communicate value to the buyer and win more business when they need it most -- when selling.

The Sales Enablement and Collaboration Portal is delivered as part of the CallidusCloud, a comprehensive [ SaaS suite ] designed to help businesses drive more effective sales at each stage of the talent lifecycle, from making the right sales hire, to making it easier to sell, to motivating sales execution with targeted incentives and rewards, to building a knowledge-based work culture with high frequency coaching and development. The CallidusCloud platform is an award-winning, multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure that includes the Hiring Cloud, the Marketing Cloud, the Sales Effectiveness Cloud, the Learning Cloud, and a best-in-class SaaS Reporting & Analytics platform.

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About Callidus Software
Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: [ CALD ]) is the market and technology leader in [ sales effectiveness and cloud computing ]. Our customers gain a competitive advantage by maximizing sales cost efficiencies and driving improvements in sales effectiveness. CallidusCloud's award-winning multi-tenant SaaS applications set the standard for performance management of a company's sales force and channel partners. Over 2.5 million users rely on our solutions to power their performance. For more information, please visit [ www.calliduscloud.com ].

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