PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 25, 2012) -  Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: [ CALD ]), the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that Du, the second largest telecommunications provider in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has selected CallidusCloud's™ Commissions to automate and improve auditability of their commission process. Celfocus, a CallidusCloud partner, will be fully responsible for the Commissions solution implementation. The agreement was signed in the second quarter of 2012.

[ CallidusCloud Commissions ] enables companies to deploy targeted incentives and commission programs to drive sales execution. It provides businesses the ability to automate the calculation and payment of commissions across internal and external sales. With its extensive modeling and analytics capabilities, it provides clear insight into the performance of current plans as well as a highly accurate forecast of future performance. Sales operations and finance enjoy significant time and cost savings whilst the sales teams enjoy faster, more accurate and more transparent commission payments.

The Commissions solution is delivered as part of CallidusCloud's sales and marketing suite, a SaaS suite that is designed to help businesses drive [ enterprise engagement ], [ sales performance management ] and [ sales effectiveness ] throughout the sales cycle with award-winning, multi-tenant cloud software. CallidusCloud offers the following SaaS and mobile solutions: [ candidate assessment tests for hiring ], [ video interviews ], [ marketing automation ], [ quotes and proposals ], [ sales enablement ], [ sales coaching ], [ sales commission management ], [ learning management ] and [ content authoring ], underpinned by analytics and [ enterprise gamification ].

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About Celfocus
Celfocus ([ www.celfocus.com ]), founded in 2000, is a joint venture of Vodafone Portugal, a fully owned subsidiary of Group Vodafone, and Novabase, the largest Portuguese information technology company listed on the Euronext Lisbon Stock Exchange. Celfocus combines the wireless telecommunication business know-how of Vodafone with the extensive IT expertise of Novabase. Celfocus provides solutions exclusively for the Mobile Telecommunication market and, within this market, is specialized in the following domains: Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Order Management (OM), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business Intelligence (BI), Sales Performance Management (SPM) and Intelligent Network Applications and Services. Managing the full delivery project lifecycle from Concept through to Operations, and specializing in Analysis, Development and Implementation for the Telecommunications Industry, Celfocus has earned recognition for its successful projects in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia. 

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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