Callidus Software Unveils First Business Performance System Application at Demo 99.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 1999--

Exclusive Product Event Showcases TrueComp Enterprise

Application for Linking Compensation Management to Corporate

Financial Performance

Callidus Software, Inc., the business performance systems company, today unveiled TrueComp onstage at Demo 99, one of the technology industry's highest-visibility venues for new product introductions.

TrueComp is the first in a new class of enterprise applications, called business performance systems (BPS), which improve financial performance by automating the variable cost accounting processes that impact both top and bottom-line results.

TrueComp provides CFOs with a complete solution for effectively managing variable compensation programs -- such as sales commissions -- allowing them to link compensation with ccheduled to ship this quarter. Beta customers include Adaptec, Cadence, Netscape, and Sybase.

"With 8 to 12 percent of revenue going to commission compensation, businesses recognize the need to eliminate errors and derive strategic ing variable compensation programs, coupled with constantly changing business needs, places an extremely high barrier to providing a packaged enterprise application for effectively managing these programs," said Chris Shipley, executive producer of Demo.

"TrueComp from Callidus Software leaps these barriers. It's an innovative, Java-based, enterprise application that delivers the necessary global view and flexibility to manage corporate-wide compensation programs easily and accurately -- and adapt those programs quickly as business needs change."

TrueComp Applican programs into a set of strategic tools for intrust between finance and sales personnel with ay predict and report profitability using accurate

compensation allocation data

-- Help sales teams gain ownership and insight into their

contributions to corporate performance.

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     TrueComp achieves this throughof TrueComp Server, TrueComp Modeler,
TrueComp Manager, and TrueComp Viewer:

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-- TrueComp Server is the core of TrueComp. Leveraging a rules-based

engine, it stores and manipulates all transactions, application

logic and supporting information as data according to the rules

of the compensation plans to ensure accurate allocation and

calculations. The server supports exception handling, allowing

companies to easily customize compensation programs. It also

readily integrates with other accounting, payroll, and

order-entry enterpriseles

transactions and potential changes to ncial managers to quickly create compensation plans

and manage the entire compensation process without pover the Web,

quickly and inexpensively, requiring only a standard Web browser

for access. The VieFeatured at Demo 99

Callidus Software can be seen at Callidus Software's booth, Feb. 8-10.

About Callidus Software

Callidus Software (http://www.CallidusSoftware.com) is a San Jose-based compan 1996 and is privately backed by Crescendo Vene Design Systems (NYSE:CDN), Netscape Communications (Nasdaq:NSCP), and Sybase Inc. (Nasdaq:SYBS).