PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - Aug 31, 2012) - Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: [ CALD ]), the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced its 1,500^th customer today -- Performance Analytics, a leading provider of enterprise performance management solutions for financial and operational reporting. Performance Analytics has selected CallidusCloud's LeadFormix™ marketing automation solution to improve lead management and intelligence. The agreement was signed in the third quarter of 2012.

"We are delighted to welcome Performance Analytics to our Marketing Cloud and are pleased to announce that we now have over 1,500 customers across our four clouds," said Leslie Stretch, President and CEO, CallidusCloud. "CallidusCloud^® has paved a path of innovation to become a world-class, leading SaaS company that is experiencing rapid growth both in customer numbers and revenue. Commissions is growing like never before, whilst the newer products such as our marketing automation solution are delivering huge value to our customers, from small businesses to the largest global enterprises on the planet."

CallidusCloud's LeadFormix solution provides an easy-to-use, collaborative SaaS platform designed for Inside Sales, Sales, Marketing, and Web Optimization teams to maximize their sales pipeline growth. The platform goes beyond demand generation and workflow automation to provide real insight into a website visitor's intent, deriving actionable intelligence to convert a visitor into a qualified sales lead. The solution uses effective collaboration methodologies and enables knowledge sharing within communities across an organization's internal and external networks to bridge the gap between sales and marketing and boost revenues.

[ LeadFormix ] 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 CallidusCloud
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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