PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - May 4, 2012) - Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: [ CALD ]), the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that Accenture and salesforce.com will deliver keynotes at [ C3 ] 2012 (CallidusCloud Customer Connections), its annual conference of customers, partners, and industry thought leaders, held May 6-8, 2012, at the Aria Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mark Woollen, Vice President, Product Marketing, Sales Cloud, salesforce.com, will speak about the social revolution that is taking place today and how companies can transform themselves into social enterprises to create opportunities to delight their customers in meaningful new ways. Specifically, Woolen will showcase how companies are leveraging social, mobile and open cloud technologies to collaborate, communicate and share information with customers and employees to stay competitive in this new business climate.

Jason Angelos, Partner, Sales Transformation, Accenture, will lead an interactive discussion focused on "Next Generation Selling." He will be accompanied by his colleagues, Naveen Jain, Managing Director, Sales Transformation, and Yusuf Tayob, Partner, Sales Transformation, to share how high performers pair improved insights with a distinctive selling experience to deliver superior business outcomes. The discussion will feature examples across industries and selling models -- direct to consumer, direct to business, and through partner.

"C³ is the largest Sales Performance event of the year, and will see an unprecedented gathering of the industry's top thought leaders and practitioners," said Rory Cameron, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Alliances, CallidusCloud. "We are pleased to partner with Accenture and salesforce.com to deliver unparalleled insight into cloud and social sales performance management, mobile sales coaching and learning, cloud CPQ and social sales collaboration, and social marketing automation -- trends that are revolutionizing sales today."

C³ features an industry-leading lineup of sponsors, including Accenture, Canidium, salesforce.com, Deloitte, Compensation Analytics and OpenSymmetry. For the complete list of sponsors, click [ here ].

About C³2012 Global Conference
C³ -- CallidusCloud Customer Connections -- is the number one Sales Performance Management user conference of 2012, bringing together the top technical and industry leaders to help companies transform their sales organizations with the latest cloud, mobile, and social technologies driving the most successful sales effectiveness missions across the globe.

Join the Sales Revolution and experience CallidusCloud™ first-hand at our annual user conference: C³ 2012. Click [ here ] to learn more.

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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