Callidus Software, a global leader in cloud-based sales, marketing, learning and customer experience solutions, announced a new strategic partnership with bpm’online, which includes a joint, collaborative go-to market effort that will bring increased value to customers of both companies.

“Our partnership with CallidusCloud combines the market leading commissions, CPQ and sales enablement clouds with bpm’online’s class leading enterprise platform for business process management and CRM. This combination delivers up to date salesforce automation from ‘Lead-To-Money’,” said Katherine Kostereva, CEO and Managing Partner at bpm’online.

“This Go-To-Market agreement is a big win for our mutual customers,” said Leslie Stretch, CallidusCloud President and Chief Executive Officer. “It will take us both into new markets and opportunities as customers rationalize their lead to money and quote to cash processes by connecting incentives, CPQ and sales enablement with modern CRM technology.”

CallidusCloud and bpm’online both have product suites that have gained prestigious industry recognition. CallidusCloud has been a perennial leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Sales Performance Management and a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Configure-Price-Quote Solutions, 2017.

Bpm’online was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: CRM Suites for Midsize Organizations, 2016. In addition, bpm’online has been recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Sales Force Automation Solutions, 2017 and the Forrester Wave™: Lead-To-Revenue Management Platform Vendors, 2016. Gartner has named bpm’online a Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation, 2017 and the Gartner Magic Quadrant for CRM Lead Management, 2017.