OpenSymmetry and Excentive International Announce Global Partnership

Weston, CT, February 29, 2012 --(PR.com)-- OpenSymmetry and Excentive International are announcing today their active engagement in a global partnership, which includes specific 2012 objectives for North America and EMEA.

This partnership is based on well-balanced driving forces from both sides:

For OpenSymmetry - with a leadership position in Sales Performance Management (SPM) – it is adding a new solution for its customers. “We saw repeated successful deployments of Excentive International on large projects, characterized by a mix of high complexity and large transaction volumes. As a vendor-agnostic SPM player, it became obvious we had to include Excentive in our offer as an alternative for our customers,” comments Todd LeBaron, CEO of OpenSymmetry. “We see OpenSymmetry as the keystone of the SPM market in North America,” adds Fabio Ronga, CEO of Excentive International. “This partnership represents an important step in our current strategy: to make our US subsidiary the #1 operation of Excentive International,” comments Ronga, referring to a strategic announcement made last month (http://bit.ly/jan-pr).

For Excentive International, who achieved market success and reported high growth during the last 2 years, OpenSymmetry is strengthening its implementation eco-system. “Their long-time expertise will serve us well, not only in North America, but also in EMEA and APAC where OpenSymmetry is well established and highly respected,” says Ronga. “What we saw from Excentive International at customers like Turkcell and Telecom Italia convinced us such a partnership will provide a fresh outlook on large complex SPM deployments,” concludes LeBaron.

About OpenSymmetry
OpenSymmetry is the only dedicated Sales Performance Management consulting firm with a global team of experts to address all your compensation needs. Our consultants are on the forefront of understanding the complexities of incentive compensation programs and offer expertise in Plan Design, Solution Selection, Implementation, Managed Services, and Reporting & Analytics, with delivery across the industry's leading solution providers.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in London, Sydney and Johannesburg, OpenSymmetry is positioned to provide independent advice on all aspects of Sales Performance Management and Incentive Compensation. OpenSymmetry has alliances with the leading software vendors and has an extensive client list including global brands such as HSBC, ING, AXA, Vodafone, First Data and Hertz.

About Excentive International
Excentive International (www.excentive.com) provides a Total Compensation software solution covering Employee Performance Management (EPM) and Sales Performance Management (SPM). Our customers typically range from large to very large leading companies, across all industry sectors, leveraging human capital to differentiate from competitors; using the solution to attract, motivate and retain human capital. Excentive International’s Total Compensation Management software manages Incentive Compensation to drive Sales Performance and Salary, Bonus and Equity Compensation to drive Employee Performance.

We have offices throughout the US and Europe as well as partnerships spanning to Asia to globally serve our customers.

For more information contact:
North America:
Jeff Yoder, tel (203) 820-1032, jeff.yoder@excentive.com
Meredith Oakes, 512-354-4939, meredith.oakes@opensymmetry.com
International: Tanya Jansen, tel +41 26 504 2512, tanya.jansen@excentive.com

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