NetView software automates the administration, management, and communications of sales performance and incentive compensation information and analysis. With NetView, your compensation analysts create and manage the compensation models that match your business needs-with minimal reliance on IT assistance. Your executives, managers, and salespeople can access up-to-date information, anywhere, anytime, from any web browser.

Automated calculations let you do the following:

• Monitor Sales Performance from the global view to the individual salesperson, in real time.
  
  
• Communicate Actionable Information when you need it to make decisions.
  
  
• Administer and Calculate Incentive Compensation automatically, no matter how complex.
  
  
• Analyze Performance and Compensation for timely forecasts, key performance indicators, distributions, and trends.
  
  
• Capture Operations and Sales Data without manual intervention.
  
  
• Track Payroll approvals, adjustments, and processes.
  
  
• Log and Archive Audit Trails for easy access and regulatory compliance.

NetView delivers real-time information and analysis to support executive/managerial leadership, profitable sales operations, and reduced operational waste.
NetView delivers return on investment by focusing on these areas:

• Revenues and Motivation NetView helps salespeople identify high-commission opportunities.
  
  
• Accuracy NetView automates data handling to provide accuracy that avoids disruptive underpayment complaints and the cost of unnoticed overpayments.
  
  
• Efficiency NetView automates traditionally manual processes, getting out more information, more quickly, and with less effort.
  
  
• Productivity NetView reduces tedious clerical tasks to allow sales managers more time in the field with their teams, making sales, teaching best practices, and improving skills. Sales reps can spend more time in front of customers instead of checking and calculating their commissions.
  
  
• Strategy and Action NetView provides executives or managers with critical information necessary for rapid decision-making.
  
  
• Margins NetView provides effective tools to optimize sales proposals and pricing.
  
  
• Investor/Analyst Relations NetView timely cost-of-sales information allows CFOs to be confident when giving mid-period earnings guidance that will impact stock prices.
  
  
• Retention Salespeople who make good money and trust the accuracy of their paychecks aren't as likely to quit.
  

Because Excel is such a great and universally recognized tool, NetView has adopted it as the visible modeling and report creation interface for the SpreadBase™ calculation and information delivery engine. NetView provides the benefits of industrial strength data management technology while retaining all the advantages of Excel. You get more power with less work than you ever imagined possible.

NetView provides dramatic new capabilities to manage your business:

• Flexibility NetView provides all the flexibility of Excel, utilizes your Excel skills and spreadsheet investment, and adds the robustness and automation of integrated, corporate-scale database technology.
  
  
• Productivity The NetView Compensation and Analysis Modeler lets analysts modify compensation calculation models once for an entire group, instead of once for each employee. This template-style process eliminates the errors inherent in repetitious, manual spreadsheet work, and saves enormous amounts of time.
  
  
• Communications and Always Available, Always Current Information NetView delivers timely information to Internet browsers-anywhere, any time-including key performance ratios and rankings, trend lines, forecasts, sales transactions, and compensation. Get the right report now, when you need it.
  
  
• An End to Firefighting NetView automated data capture and calculation nearly eliminate errors, and the crises of underpayment complaints and overpayment waste.
  
  
• Analysis and Leadership Action NetView frees analysts to support executive and managerial decision-making with higher-value analysis.
  
  
• Sales Force Management NetView lets you identify high and low performers quickly. Managers can then take action to improve sales effectiveness.
  
  
• Cost-effectiveness NetView saves you money because you spend less time on administration, you reduce errors by eliminating manual processes, and you have the information you need to prevent missed opportunities.
  

Let's face it, nobody can re-key or cut-and-paste for long without making an error. The accuracy of NetView can eliminate almost all of those calls about underpayments-and avoid costly overpayments.

NetView offers these features to help you increase accuracy:

• Automated Data Entry NetView retrieves sales transactions, personnel information, and any other data you need to calculate commissions or analyze and report on performance. No manual intervention means no opportunity for typos. Optional approval processes support reviews if and when you need them.
  
  
• Automated Calculation Model Selection NetView SpreadBase technology selects the correct model and report based on the person, the period, and any other characteristics you choose. What the user sees or what Payroll gets always follows your rules and procedures.
  
  
• Reusable Report Templates NetView SpreadBase technology dramatically reduces the volume of models you handle. One model calculates and reports for one, two, or hundreds of employees who are on the same compensation plan. Get the model right once, and NetView retrieves the appropriate input data for each individual's report.
  

NetView SpreadBase™ technology provides proficient Excel users with the capability of querying industrial-strength databases (like Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server) and using the data for real-time calculations and web-based reporting.

NetView simplifies commission management:

• The SpreadBase Universal User Interface™ gives analysts the familiar Excel environment for modeling compensation plan calculations and creating report presentations.
  
  
• SpreadBase communicates with your personal desktop copy of Excel, providing you with an intuitive query and data access language that looks and feels like an ordinary, in-cell Excel function; behind the scenes, however, it does much more.
  
  
• Enterprise performance and employee data inputs to your spreadsheet models let you create calculation models the same way you do now, only the inputs are dynamic and reflect the latest changes in company operations and sales. When you "publish" your models with NetView, authorized users see secure, personalized, automatically updated data and reports in their web browsers.
  

If this sounds like an enormous increase in what you can do and show, that's because it is.
 

NetView eliminates the need to collect and assemble sales data at the end of the period. The data is already there, prepared for review and approval.

These NetView features help you eliminate that craziness:

• Real-time Reporting NetView captures transactions every day and reports period-to-date results.
  
  
• Instant End-of-Period Data and Analysis Closing periods with NetView is quicker and easier. The data is already collected. The reports are already created. You can review them at mid-period for any issues that might appear. Review, approve, and send them on at the end-of-period. Done.
  

The NetView application relies on a set of skills most organizations already possess: Internet browser, spreadsheet, and basic database use.

Administrators/Analysts. SpreadBase technology leverages your Excel expertise and experience, and gives your analysts access to industrial-strength database and data management technology. You will need to understand:

• Internet Explorer navigation
  
  
• Basic database concepts and usage
  
  
• Concepts of limiting user access to authorized reports
  

Executives, Managers, and Salespeople. As information users, all you need to do is access the application from your Internet browser, anywhere, any time. You will need only your basic:

• Internet Explorer navigation

IT. IT staff will maintain control of the system, managing back-up and security issues, and providing analysts with access to data when changing compensation plans, corporate strategy, or competitive conditions require new types of analysis. You will need to offer:

• SQL skills for occasional query building
  
  
• Standard automated scheduling and backup procedures
  

Developing software with the flexibility you need is not quick and easy, or cheap. NetView builds on many years of experience developing standard, commercial, self-service software products. At NetView Technologies, we understand the requirements for managing and reporting on frequently changing calculations on large data sets. We know how to combine data from disparate sources. Supporting multiple concurrent users reliably has been critical to our success. We design software for operation and use by business people rather than technical experts.

Using NetView software provides these key benefits:

• Flexibility NetView provides true flexibility to meet your sales and compensation needs-both before and after installation.
  
  
• Minimal IT Resources NetView software requires only a short, 8 to 12 week implementation and only small, clearly defined IT resources and time. NetView allows business analysts or administrators to create and modify compensation models and reports. Weekly resource demands on IT are very minimal, running servers and occasionally providing access to new data elements.
  
  
• Speed to Roll-out Yes, NetView and 8 to 12 weeks is all it takes to get self-service web access to critical sales performance and incentive compensation information.
  
  
• Upgrades and Maintenance NetView includes a continuing software development effort to improve your compensation system with features you ask for and need. NetView Technical Support is focused on efficient use of our products, without disrupting your IT department's other competing projects.
  
  
• Minimal Technology Risk NetView Technologies Marketing, Software Development, and Quality Assurance teams are focused on understanding the needs of your company; creating software that meets your needs; and making certain that our products are reliable, robust, consistent, and accurate.
  
  
• Lower Cost When all is said and done, NetView costs you less up-front and less to operate over the long-run. Let your IT department focus on the projects that require its expertise; let business users manage the processes that require their expertise and knowledge.
  

NetView SpreadBase™ technology provides robust corporate-scale data management:

• Consolidates data from enterprise systems into a NetView database through XML-based communications.
  
  
• Queries databases for current data from within calculation models built in the Microsoft Excel®-based NV Modeler interface.
  
  
• Supports web-based presentations from reports built in the NetView Modeler with its Excel-based Universal User Interface™.
  
  
• Manages and automatically selects the appropriate models to create secure, authorized information based on user or user position and other attributes (calendar period, product line, company division, and so on).
  
  
• Delivers personalized reports to web browsers, anywhere, anytime.
  

NetView implementations include the most requested sales performance and compensation tracking and analytic reports. Using NetView yourself, you can create any model, simple or complex, to show the impact of strategy and team behavior on the metrics that are important to your company. With NetView, these models show the impact of actual performance data automatically imported from your corporate systems.

• Display time-series performance trends, performance distributions and comparisons, and actual-to-budget comparisons, all with alerts for performance outside of limits that you define.
  
  
• Report on complex commission plans, bonuses, MBOs, Spifs, and more.
  

To view examples of the reports and analyses you can create and deliver with NetView, click here for a product tour.

Compensation analysts have better things to do than spend hours a day cutting-and-pasting data, or worse, re-keying it. The job title is "analyst" for a reason; get the time to create real value from your sales and compensation data.

NetView enhances your contribution as a compensation analyst:

• NetView utilizes your skills and detailed historical knowledge so you can create ad hoc analyses of critical performance trends and then deliver them to managers and executives as always up-to-date, always available self-service decision support tools.
  
  
• The efficiency of NetView frees up time for higher-value work.
  

At NetView Technologies, we're here to help you achieve your goals. Please contact us to find out more about our sales performance and compensation solutions.

• Email us: sales@nv-tech.com
• Call us: 781.890.9800
  

NetView implementations are short, measured in weeks not months. Our Client Services team will explore your needs quickly and provide a basic solution to distribute real-time sales performance and compensation information to your employees and automate variable compensation administration and payroll.

We can automate your sales tracking and commission management operations in 8 to 12 weeks.

You won't need many services when you use NetView, but NetView Technologies does offer:

• NetView software implementation
  
  
• Model and plan building (when you don't have the time, not because you won't have the skills and ability)
  
  
• Compensation planning and design through our professional human resource consulting partners
  

Founded four years ago by database technology and computer-aided design software pioneers, NetView Technologies has tapped the high technology resources of the Boston-area to build an experienced software management, marketing, customer service, and sales team to meet the business challenges of incentive compensation and performance management.

We believe that our track record in providing self-service software applications that perform complex calculations on large data sets is precisely applicable to automating commission management, calculation, and reporting processes. We also believed (and believe even more strongly today) that the flexibility of the dominant commission management solution in the market today-spreadsheets-must be a part of any automated solution that would provide the ease-of-use and flexibility to meet the need for integrated, automated sales performance and incentive compensation management and communications.

Please see the COMPANY section of the NetView Technologies website for more information about our management team and advisors.