Alliance between great names

It was a great day for the pair of software providers who announced a strategic alliance, not to mention bloggers who enjoy classic company names.

Today it was on-demand sales compensation management specialist Xactly Corporation and RightNow Technologies; the firms will be teaming RightNow service, sales, and marketing product with Xactly’s sales compensation management programs.

Xactly now hopes to provide clients with on-demand sales, services and compensation management product to firms in industries such as high technology, telecom, travel and hospitality, public sector, education, and financial services.

Founded in 1997, RightNow Technologies itself is billed as the firm “leading the industry beyond CRM to high-impact customer experience management solutions.” RightNow boasts a clientele of more than 1,500 companies around the world, including Alaska Air, Andrews Federal Credit Union, Banknorth Group, Bell Microproducts, Briggs Corporation, Cendant, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Dow Chemical, Dun & Bradstreet, Friend Communications, Germany Pioneer, International Rectifier, Kodak, Merry Maids, Paddy Power, Sketchers, The Right Start, Thomas Cook, Victoria International, and Victoria University of New Zealand.