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Xactly Forges Strategic Partnership with Sales Training Leader Barry Rhein and Associates

Brings Sales Training and Effectiveness Consulting to Xactly’s Partner Ecosystem for Superior Sales Performance Management Solutions

SAN JOSE, Calif.—September 27, 2007—Xactly Corporation, (www.xactlycorp.com), the market leader in on-demand sales performance management, today announced a strategic relationship with Barry Rhein and Associates, one of the world’s foremost sales effectiveness consultants. Through the partnership, Barry Rhein and Associates will offer sales training and sales effectiveness consulting to Xactly customers as part of Xactly’s extensive sales performance management ecosystem.

“There’s an enormous synergy between sales skill- and mind-set development as practiced so successfully by Barry Rhein, and sales performance management as delivered by Xactly,” said Steve DeMarco, Xactly vice president business development. “Barry provides the catalyst that enables sales methodologies to be effective, while Xactly provides the on-demand infrastructure that enables companies to incent strategically and maximize sales performance. Together, it’s a powerful one-two punch that we’re excited to put at the disposal of our customers to help drive their success.”

Known most recently for his worldwide work with salesforce.com, Barry Rhein works with a company’s sales team to improve their effectiveness and productivity. Through his seminars and workshops, he concentrates on changing sales beliefs and behaviors in a positive way to mold top sales producers and deliver measurable results. Barry is known for his ability to get sales results in days not years. Similarly, Xactly’s on-demand solutions use a combination of real-time visibility, automation and analytics to help companies more closely align sales behaviors with corporate objectives. Both Barry Rhein’s programs and Xactly’s solutions are agnostic to a company’s chosen sales methodology.

“Xactly has successfully married the on-demand delivery model with a robust set of solutions for driving sales performance, and we’re pleased to be partnering with them to extend the value of those solutions through sales attitude and skills development,” said Barry Rhein, principal of Barry Rhein and Associates. “Successful salespeople crave actionable data, real-time visibility into where they stand with regard to plan, and fact-based intelligence as to where to put their best efforts. Xactly provides just that.

Xactly Partner Ecosystem—Aligning with Leaders for Added Customer Value

Xactly’s sales performance management ecosystem includes leading companies in all areas that surround and complement Xactly’s core sales compensation and sales performance management functionality. Xactly and these partners collaborate and offer synergistic solutions to ensure that customers optimize their sales performance management investments and implement the most effective sales performance initiatives possible.

About Barry Rhein
Barry Rhein is the most sought-after sales trainer and consultant in Silicon Valley. Barry’s many successes as a sales trainer include work with salesforce.com where his sales workshops and teachings are used worldwide. Additional successes are with Hewlett-Packard, Business Objects, Ariba, and Informatica as well as hundreds of other companies and thousands of independent salespeople. For more information, visit www.barryrhein.com or call 1-866-966-2233.

About Xactly Corporation
Xactly Corporation is the market leader in on-demand sales performance management. The company’s flagship product, Xactly Incent™, enables sales and finance executives to design, implement, manage, audit and optimize sales compensation management programs easily and affordably. Xactly solutions automate the process of aggregating data from disparate systems into a secure, hosted repository, and enable companies to leverage this business data, which is the lifeblood of sales performance management. Xactly helps companies improve operational performance, optimize sales effectiveness, proactively manage risk and compliance, and maximize profits. The Xactly family of products is used by sales and finance executives, compensation analysts, sales operations and sales professionals across a variety of industries, ranging from SMBs to large enterprises. For more information, visit www.xactlycorp.com or call 1-866-GO-XACTLY.

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