WESTPORT, Conn., June 19, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Westport Software Group, Inc., the value leader in Enterprise Incentive Management (EIM) since 1994, today marked one year since its EIM platform Compensation Activity Tracking System (CATS(r)) has been provided on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis. This hosted offering, called CATS(r) EIM On-Demand(tm), has rapidly gained market share in the increasingly competitive on-demand market since it was first introduced in the spring of 2006.
CATS(r) EIM On-Demand(tm) significantly extended the power of CATS(r) 2005 EIM platform, said John A. Laurino, CEO of Westport Software Group. He pointed out that the on-demand offering has resulted in significant new customer growth for the company, attracting customers from both ends of the corporate spectrum.
"We have deployed Westport Software's CATS(r) EIM On-Demand(tm) for a Fortune 100 company and one a 20th of its size. Yet the attraction in both cases was that neither client had to compromise by being forced to accept a different EIM platform because of the decision not to install the software," he said.
According to Westport Software's Chief Technology Officer Lee Apted, "CATS was the first and remains the only EIM offering that provides a common user-interface across a full range of deployment options, from a Windows(r) application, utilizing an integrated database engine, to a highly scalable on-demand solution."
CATS(r) EIM On-Demand(tm) delivers all the advantages of the industry's value leading CATS(r) EIM Platform to organizations with as few as 50-plus payees. It provides them with rapid deployment, flexibility, efficiency, security and reliability at 50 to 75 percent below the cost of an installed, on-premise enterprise implementation. Customers can select from a variety of on-demand reporting and workflow functionality options, via the web-based CATS(r) Portal, according to their unique business requirements.
CATS(r) 2007, the 7th major release and leader in maintaining 'EIM Best Practices' is shipping in June 2007. Available both on-premise and on-demand, CATS(r) EIM solutions enable companies to improve sales performance, align sales strategy with corporate business objectives, and drive revenue and profitability to improve overall business performance.
"CATS(r) continues to be the 'Value Leader' across all delivery platforms, including those SaaS-only multi-tenanted solutions that promise huge scale efficiencies," said Laurino.
The CATS(r) EIM On-Demand(tm) solution was the first to offer a higher level of security than multi-tenanted providers by providing a dedicated pair of servers for each customer. Customers also get the benefit of scaleable performance and high-availability access to the CATS(r) application.
Upgrades and maintenance are included and entirely transparent to end-users. The on-demand framework gives customers full access to all modules in CATS(r) EIM-family of editions of the software including the CATS Administrator, Designer and newly configured Analytic modules. These are features that come unbundled in many other EIM solutions requiring additional licensing and/or the use of third-party software. By accelerating the analysis and reporting process to increase incentive to sales, the CATS Analytic module provides sales, marketing and finance executives with 'on-the-fly' modeling capabilities and strategic insight required to drive sales performance, revenue and profitability.
CATS(r) EIM On-Demand(tm) provides:
* Dedicated computing technology in an on-demand environment. * Lowest cost per person per month among the SaaS providers. * Proven CATS architecture for comprehensive, extensible EIM. * Efficiency and flexibility in an end-to-end solution for long-term success. * Industry-leading service and maintenance from the experts in EIM. * Affordability: 50 to 70 percent below the cost of an on-premise enterprise implementation * Increased efficiencies, reduced operating costs, and immediate ROI. * Best-in-class implementation deployment time and process. * Completely outsourced infrastructure and support services that achieve measurable business benefits more quickly and with lower implementation and operational risk. * Latest functional release guaranteed: Automatic inclusion of complete system maintenance as well as feature, function and capability upgrades, eliminating internal resource time and expense, while insuring that customers are always on the latest release. * Guaranteed high availability, security, SAS 70 compliance and minimal downtime.
CATS(r) EIM On-Demand(tm) is available anywhere in the world to serve prospective clients with low-cost, rapidly deployable EIM solutions.
"CATS is the only EIM solution that provides true database transparency. We have clients who have transitioned from our installed Workstation Edition to our On-Demand Enterprise Edition in less than one day," said Apted.
About Westport Software Group, Inc.
Formed from the software group of Westport Consulting Group, Westport Software represents over 10 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 global 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. For more information, visit www.westportsoftware.com.