Varicent
Formerly IBM Cognos Incentive Compensation Management
Varicent is an enterprise sales performance management platform covering incentive compensation, territory and quota planning, and revenue intelligence; Lanshore implements, operates, and extends Varicent for enterprise comp teams.
www.varicent.comVaricent is one of the most complete enterprise SPM suites on the market, spanning incentive compensation management, territory and quota planning, and sales planning. Originally IBM Cognos ICM, it has evolved into an AI-native platform with purpose-built assistants across plan design, analysis, and research.
Analyst standing
Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Incentive Compensation Management, Q1 2025, and a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Sales Performance Management — its eighth consecutive Leader placement.
Platform capabilities
- Incentive compensation management at enterprise data volumes
- Territory and quota planning with what-if modeling
- Sales planning and capacity modeling
- Revenue intelligence and pipeline analytics
- Flexible calculation engine for complex plan mechanics
Who it fits
Mid-market to large enterprises with complex, high-volume comp plans — especially organizations that outgrew spreadsheet-based comp or lighter-weight tools.
AI & agentic capabilities
- Sales Planning Assistant for territory and quota scenarios
- Designer Assistant for plan build and change
- Research Assistant for natural-language analysis of comp data
Lanshore + Varicent
Implementation, managed services, and agentic augmentation — from the team behind Agentic SPM by Lanshore.
- Full-lifecycle Varicent implementation: plan design, calculation build, data integration, and go-live
- Managed comp operations — Lanshore agents run your Varicent calculation cycles, validations, and exception queues (see the SPM Operations demo, which includes an Xactly-to-Varicent migration mode)
- Migrations onto Varicent from Xactly, SAP Commissions, and spreadsheet estates
- Agentic augmentation: dashboards and custom apps layered on Varicent data
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Varicent — FAQ
- Does Lanshore implement Varicent?
- Yes. Lanshore delivers full-lifecycle Varicent implementations — plan design, calculation build, integrations, testing, and go-live — plus ongoing managed operations after launch.
- Can Lanshore migrate us from Xactly or SAP Commissions to Varicent?
- Yes. Platform migrations are a core Lanshore service; our operations demo includes an agent-assisted Xactly-to-Varicent migration workflow that mirrors the real engagement pattern.
- How does Agentic SPM work with Varicent's own AI assistants?
- They're complementary. Varicent's assistants work inside Varicent; Lanshore's agents work across your whole stack — Varicent plus CRM, ERP, and spreadsheets — and around your specific comp plan.
Talk to Varicent specialists
A 30-minute call. We look at your stack, your plans, and whether this platform — or another — fits best.
