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Comprehensive Support for Your SPM Implementation
Comprehensive post-implementation SPM support is designed to help organizations operate, maintain, and evolve their incentive compensation environment over time. It combines the right expertise, capacity, and continuity to address both planned changes and day-to-day operational needs across technology and process.
Post-implementation SPM support covers target areas such as:
- SPM Enhancements and updates: Planned improvements that extend or refine existing functionality, such as new reports, workflows, or configuration changes that support evolving business needs.
- New vendor modules: Ensure utilization of new features and functions that would be of value.
- Compensation plan changes: Updates that modify plan rules, policies, or structures to reflect changes in sales strategy, coverage models, or organizational design.
- Production support: In-cycle assistance when questions or issues arise in the live environment, including support with calculations, results validation, and issue investigation.
- Staff augmentation and capability gap coverage: Additional capacity or specialized skills that work alongside internal teams to support ongoing administration, analysis, and system updates.
Support approaches flex based on change volume, compensation cycles, and required expertise. Dedicated resources provide continuity and system awareness as needs are prioritized and work is delivered over time.
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What Post-Implementation SPM Support Covers
OpenSymmetry assists organizations in post-implementation SPM support services to ensure all processes are operating at their best. Clients received support throughout distinguished planned changes, such as enhancements or scheduled updates. Our team can also be of assistance during in-cycle changes, like production support during compensation cycles, as well as workflow and reporting upgrades.
- Plan changes/adjustments, and enhancements
- Reporting/analytics updates
- Workflow modifications
- Administration support
- Production support
The scope of post-implementation SPM support services may also include such operational steps as documenting changes and validating updates before they impact results.
Enhancement & Configuration Support
A team of system experts ready to tackle plan changes/adjustments, reports/analytics, workflow modifications, and system enhancements.
System or Data Admin
An extension of your team, there to assist with business process administration, SPM management, comp admin queries and tasks, and so much more.
Resource & Support Flexibility
Resource availability in onshore, offshore, or a mix to provide cost-saving options with a “follow the sun” support model.
Support can be aligned to regular operating cycles or periods of higher change volume. OpenSymmetry post-implementation SPM support is designed to help organizations balance everyday administrative needs while continuing to support evolving requirements over time.
How to Choose the Right Support Model After Go-Live
Selecting the right post-implementation support model starts with understanding how your SPM or ICM environment operates in steady state. Key factors often include how frequently compensation plans change, the number of participants supported, the complexity of rules and crediting logic, the volume of exceptions or adjustments, data and integration dependencies, and available internal bandwidth. These variables help determine whether teams primarily need added capacity, specialized expertise, or a combination of both.
Support models can flex to align with these needs. Onshore support can be a strong fit when close collaboration with internal stakeholders is required or when work is tightly tied to local business cycles. Offshore support can help address recurring operational work or extended time zone coverage, particularly for global programs. A blended or dual-shore approach is often used to balance availability, cost considerations, and coverage across regions. In all cases, support is designed to complement existing governance and ownership models rather than replace them.
Prioritization also plays a role. During active processing and pay periods, questions, discrepancies, and exceptions typically require more immediate attention. Planned enhancements, reporting updates, and structural plan changes are often better scheduled outside peak cycles. Aligning work types to timing helps teams maintain stability while continuing to evolve the environment.
Common questions to help assess the right fit include:
- How often do our compensation plans change throughout the year?
- Do we have dedicated internal bandwidth for administration and ongoing updates?
- How complex are our rules, crediting models, and data integrations?
- Are we supporting participants across multiple regions or time zones?
- Which activities tend to create the most pressure during pay cycles?
Answering these questions internally can help organizations determine the most effective post-go-live support approach for their steady-state SPM operations.
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About Us
OpenSymmetry enables clients to achieve greater operational efficiency and get better sales results. We are a global consulting company specializing in the planning, implementation, and optimization of industry leading technology suppliers of sales performance management solutions.
About Us
OpenSymmetry enables clients to achieve greater operational efficiency and get better sales results. We are a global consulting company specializing in the planning, implementation, and optimization of industry leading technology suppliers of sales performance management solutions.