HOUSTON – (June 16, 2011) – Canidium LLC, the leading provider of sales performance and incentive compensation management services, completed an incentive compensation management (ICM) vendor analysis for XO Communications last month, announced Doug Erb, partner and co-founder of Canidium LLC. 

XO Communications is one of the nation’s largest communications service providers focused exclusively on businesses, government, domestic and international telecommunication carriers, cable companies, content providers and mobile wireless companies. With a nationwide sales force, XO Communications understands the vital role of sales professionals within an organization and the importance of implementing effective sales performance and incentive compensation management. As a result, XO Communications enlisted the help of Canidium to perform a vendor analysis to determine the most effective ICM software to improve the company’s incentive compensation infrastructure.

Dennis Scott, executive director of information technology for XO Communications, said: â€œCanidium provided XO Communications the expertise and guidance we needed to lead us through the RFP and selection process which enabled us to proceed through the entire process much more efficiently.  The Canidium team provided candid feedback on the process and ensured that we asked the right questions so we could subsequently be comfortable in our final decision.”

Erb added: “At Canidium we take pride in our ability to work transparently with vendors to ensure the best selection of SPM and ICM software for our clients. We thoroughly enjoyed working with the professionals at XO Communications throughout the vendor selection process and look forward to continuing our relationship with them in the future.”

Canidium uses an unbiased, value added approach to implement and integrate sales incentive and compensation systems, as well as to support business intelligence and analytics in order to achieve optimal results in line with a company’s overall business strategies. For more information on Canidium please visit www.canidium.com.

About Canidium LLC: 

Canidium LLC is the leading provider of sales performance and incentive compensation management services that optimize the relationship between compensation and sales. Canidium’s unbiased, value added approach utilizes best practices and the best of breed vendors to implement and integrate sales incentive and compensation systems, as well as supporting business intelligence and analytics in order to achieve optimal results in line with a company’s overall business strategies.

Based in Houston, Texas, Canidium provides hands-on support during the entire project lifecycle to ensure its Fortune 500 clients receive the critical information necessary to execute and obtain outlined sales objectives.

For more information, please visit https://canidium.com/. Find Canidium on: Facebook /Twitter /Linkedin.

About XO Communications:

XO Communications, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc., is a leading nationwide provider of advanced broadband communications services and solutions for businesses, enterprises, government, carriers and service providers. Its customers include more than half of the Fortune 500, in addition to leading cable companies, carriers, content providers and mobile network operators. Utilizing its unique combination of high-capacity nationwide and metro networks and broadband wireless capabilities, XO Communications offers customers a broad range of managed voice, data and IP services with proven performance, scalability and value in more than 85 metropolitan markets across the United States. For more information, visit www.xo.com.