Devart Excel Add-ins vs. Xactly Connect

One of the biggest benefits of Excel is its primary function: The ability to organize large amounts of data into orderly, logical spreadsheets and charts. With the data organized, it's a lot easier to analyze and digest, especially when used to create graphs and other visual data representations. Excel crunches numbers almost instantly, making batch calculations much easier than working things out yourself with a calculator. Depending on your understanding and skill with Excel, the formulas and equations are used to quickly compute both simple and complex equations using large amounts of data.

Incentivized

When the client has source data in Salesforce, Workday or flat files, it works really well. If the client has too much data, it can be really slow or require lots of preprocessing. It's often better to do as much of the calculations as you can in the configuration rather than on the Xactly Connect side. So that regular comp admins with Incent Connect training but no Xactly Connect are able to make changes.

Incentivized

• Devart Excel Add-in supports connectivity with various databases - which really helps to customize and massage data.
• Since data is available in cloud, it is easily accessible everywhere.
• It can also be integrated with SSIS components making it possible to resolve complex problems.

Incentivized

• Direct integration into Salesforce. Which the majority of companies use for sales CRM.
• Uses standard SQL and SOQL so any programmer with this skillset can pick it up easily.
• The code is easily accessible through the Xactly UI. So anyone with an Admin login can look at and modify the code.
• Constantly adding new features.

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• The data pump feature breaks sometimes
• The profile usage monitoring is slow
• The event profiler is delayed

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• Not intuitive
• Difficult to 'self teach'

Incentivized

Very user-friendly for a programming tool.

Incentivized

It is able to handle everything I have thrown at it. It processes quickly and gives great troubleshooting information when things error out.

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Microsoft Excel is the most used tool in the software universe. As such, asking Microsoft Excel to be the tool used post data acquisition makes a ton of sense. Almost everyone we hire has some idea on how to use this tool, which decreases the time spend training new employees.

Incentivized

I have not used another product like Xactly Connect.

Incentivized

• The data compare option saves our dev team a lot of time
• The documenter feature is nice to use for explaining table definitions
• The event profiler is great for usage metrics

Incentivized

• Saves us 10+ hours of work on a weekly basis.
• Ensures that the results are consistent without manual intervention.

Incentivized