Westport Software Group's Leading EIM Platform CATS Marks Two-Year Milestone at VWR International


WESTPORT, Conn., April 24, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The Westport Software Group, developers of the leading Enterprise Incentive Management (EIM) platform Compensation Activity Tracking System (CATS(r)), marked an important two-year milestone in which CATS(r) has been in continuous use throughout VWR International, Inc., a leading supplier to the global research laboratory industry.

VWR International, Inc. (www.vwr.com) is a leading worldwide distributor of scientific equipment, supplies, chemicals and furniture, servicing the industrial, government, life science, education, electronics and pharmaceutical industries. With worldwide sales in excess of $3 billion U.S. dollars, VWR's business is highly diversified across products and services, geographic regions and customer segments. Through strategic partnerships with respected manufacturers, the company supplies over 750,000 products to the scientific community.

"We're proud that, in the two years CATS(r) and the CATS(r) Portal have been deployed at VWR, the application has been successfully delivering accurate and timely incentive compensation information and data to the global sales organization and its management team," said Westport Software Group CEO John A. Laurino.

At VWR, International the CATS(r) EIM platform has been successfully implemented for 600 incentive plan participants.

About CATS(r)

CATS(r) has represented the leading edge of incentive compensation software design and administration since 1994. Since its inception CATS(r) has been helping to transform incentive compensation into a strategic tool that aligns and motivates people, partners and channels across the extended enterprise. As the only comprehensive EIM software solution that guarantees to administer any incentive compensation plan without the need for off-line data preprocessing or application customization, it is the value leader among EIM platforms. All installed CATS licenses are perpetual with unlimited users, administrators and plan participants, resulting in the best total cost of ownership and best cost per participant in the EIM space.

About Westport Software Group

Formed from the software group of Westport Consulting Group, Westport Software represents over 18 years of cutting edge relational database design for several mission critical sales and marketing applications. Starting in 1990 with Enterprise, the most highly regarded marketing 'front end' interface for community and regional banks with their service bureaus, WSG went on to develop PMAPS(r) the managed healthcare, legal, commercial and financial industry's proposal management standard, and finally CATS(r), the oldest and most successful family of incentive compensation applications for both designing and implementing complex plans for paying internal and external sales forces across the entire Fortune 5000 spectrum of companies. Additional information is available at www.westportsoftware.com.



            

Coordonnées