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The Sales Management Association’s underwriters provide financial, content, or media support to our global community of sales leadership and support professionals.

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Akeron

Akeron offers a comprehensive end-to-end SPM solution for the entire incentive compensation management process. Akeron’s solutions allow teams to plan objectives and manage sales force bonuses, quotas, and territories, enabling firms to achieve sales goals and optimize financial operations. Akeron’s SPM solution address a broad range of commercial performance management processes including planning, execution, compensation, and analysis.

Headquartered in Lucca, Italy, Akeron serves a global, cross-industry client base that includes leading multi-national corporations as well as small-and-medium sized firms. Akeron operates offices in Paris, London, and New York.

Axiom Sales Kinetics

Axiom Sales Kinetics provides sales teams with a proven sales methodology, an industry-best coaching framework, and client-branded and customized learning content. Axiom also provides a unique software solution that equips managers to leverage these offerings to embed learning into the normal sales cadence.

Axiom’s continuous learning approach routinely outperforms traditional sales training, delivering up to four times greater proficiency and adoption, higher closing ratios, better margins, happier customers, lower stress, and higher team morale.

Ignite Selling

Ignite Selling is a leading global Sales Enablement and Performance Improvement Company, enabling businesses to exceed their revenue goals by improving critical on-the-job behaviors through sales simulations and strategic sales coaching.

Our simulation-based learning solutions help sales teams apply and adopt the strategic and tactical skills needed for success.

Our programs use interactive Learning Maps and Competitive Sales Simulations in both virtual and classroom environments to give learners an engaging and relevant learning experience that prepares them for real-world situations.

With focus on igniting and inspiring sales teams to take their performance to the next level, Ignite Selling has been recognized in recent years as one of the industry’s top sales training and performance improvement firms.

InnoVyne

InnoVyne is a consulting partner dedicated to helping organizations achieve excellence in Sales Performance Management. Founded in 2013, we guide clients through every stage of SPM maturity — from sales compensation strategy and design to technology evaluation, implementation, testing, and ongoing optimization. Our consultants combine business acumen with technical expertise to align incentives, improve transparency, and build scalable compensation ecosystems that deliver measurable results.

200+ end-to-end implementations
60+ certified consultants
$500M+ in annual compensation supported
Global delivery from Canada, USA, and India offices
ISO 27001 certified

Lanshore

Lanshore provides a comprehensive suite of innovative agent automation and SPM solutions, tailored to optimize revenue streams, streamline operations, and drive sales performance. Lanshore’s deep expertise in sales performance management (SPM) and agent automation allows their clients to harness the full potential of these technologies to drive growth and efficiency.

Lanshore tailors solutions to meet clients’ unique needs and objectives. From initial assessment to ongoing support, Lanshore’s team is committed to delivering measurable results and serving their clients as a trusted partner for achieving success in the digital age.

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a global technology company offering software, services, and cloud infrastructure for individuals, businesses, and governments. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, it delivers solutions across productivity, enterprise software, AI, and personal computing.

Microsoft is a trusted leader in digital transformation, with a broad portfolio that includes Azure, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Dynamics, and Windows. Its commitment to innovation, scale, and security makes it a valuable partner for organizations worldwide.

For years, business leaders have recognized that sales compensation is one of the prime motivators for a company’s success and can unlock the ideal type of revenue growth. The right plans can increase profits, control expenses and drive consistent quarter-over-quarter results.

Xactly provides revenue and sales operations professionals with a unified platform to optimize critical processes and drive this predictable growth, seamlessly integrating sales planning, incentive design, territory and quota management, and pipeline and sales forecasting. This comprehensive approach is underpinned by award-winning AI and 20+ years of proprietary pay and performance data to fuel more informed decisions. With Xactly, you gain the visibility, control, and insights needed to design effective strategies, accurately forecast performance, and motivate your sales teams to unlock your revenue potential.

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