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Application software encompasses a diverse range of companies dedicated to delivering functional business applications. These organizations primarily cater to a B2B audience, but many also serve B2C customers or operate within a hybrid model. The offerings within this segment can be categorized into three main areas:

  1. Business Process Automation: This category includes a suite of tools designed to support and enhance business functions across an enterprise. Key solutions in this space feature enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), product lifecycle management (PLM) and a variety of other specialized software.
  2. Business Intelligence: These are procedural software tools that specialize in data mining, performance benchmarking and descriptive analytics. They are instrumental in transforming data into actionable insights, aiding businesses in decision-making processes.
  3. Consumer Applications: A broad set of software solutions aimed at consumer use cases. These applications are designed with the end-user in mind, providing functionality and convenience for a variety of everyday tasks and activities.

Each category within the application software segment is integral to the modern business landscape, offering critical tools and resources that drive efficiency, innovation and competitive advantage.

How We Help

  • Segment TAM & place bets: Being ‘everything to everyone’ is a tempting proposition, but successful application companies make strategic bets about where to focus their commercial efforts. Merging quantitative data science and qualitative market insights, AGI works with clients to make tough decisions in prioritizing marketing and sales focus by segment, product, and geography, maximizing ROI and delivering results
  • Focus on business buyers: World-class SaaS solutions provide wide-ranging value, often impacting multiple business functions through a variety of use cases. In turn, buyers are complex, each with different profiles, expectations and financing capabilities. We work with clients to arm sellers with the insights they need to tactfully target and address different buyers, improving win rates and driving new logo conversion.
  • Optimize the coverage model: Amidst ever-evolving product offerings, use cases, pricing models and buyer profiles, the coverage model can make or break performance. When deployed in alignment with the customer lifecycle and with internal clarity on role-level expectations and rules of engagement, the coverage model can prove to be a strategic advantage. Alexander Group works with clients to design go-to-market models that cover the full range of Identify, Land, Adopt, Expand and Renew, tackling tough questions like single account ownership vs. a bifurcated hunter-farmer model, the usage of overlay specialist roles, and clarify renewal and expansion responsibility.
  • Prioritize adoption: XaaS has flooded the market, making it common for a single company to spend on upwards of 50 applications in a given year. As financial pressures mount on companies to rationalize their tech stacks, adoption and usage are more relevant than ever. We help companies develop Customer Success models and other adoption-oriented programs to drive usage and improve customer experience, leading to custo mer retention and long-term opportunities for account expansion.
  • Manage multiple pricing models: Most XaaS companies deploy multiple pricing models simultaneously, including One-Time, traditional Subscription, and Consumption. Alexander Group helps clients navigate the complexities and implications, including coverage and role design and tactical elements like revenue realization, to drive long-term profitable growth.
  • Align compensation with strategy: Companies that get sales comp right see a 5-10% bump in overall performance. As the leader in XaaS compensation for over 20 years, Alexander Group boasts best-in-class benchmarks and best practices to help clients tackle their toughest challenges, including choosing ACV vs. TCV, compensating for multi-year deals, crediting on renewals, and deciding when to ‘double comp’ multiple roles.

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Upcoming Technology Events

  • EMEA: Six Trends Shaping Sales Compensation in 2026

    Virtual Roundtable

    Actionable insights for our EMEA community from the Alexander Group’s 2026 Sales Compensation Trends Survey

    19 May 2026 | 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. GMT | Complimentary Virtual Event

    As commercial leaders navigate volatility, AI advancements and growth opportunities, sales compensation stands out as the critical tool for transforming strategy into tangible results. Based on insights from sales compensation leaders across 11 industries, Alexander Group’s 2026 Sales Compensation Trends Survey reveals where programmes are evolving and where execution still breaks down.

    What You’ll Learn

    This complimentary virtual event will walk you through the six trends pushing commercial leaders to rethink sales compensation design:

    • Optimism is high, but productivity is a concern.
    • Hiring grows as AI reshapes GTM roles.
    • Sales compensation costs are normalizing.
    • Sales compensation is adapting to GTM and market shifts.
    • Governance and efficiencies need some work.
    • Quotas are the biggest pain point.

    Why Attend

    Want to turn these trends into clearer decisions and stronger execution? Join us to get actionable insights, innovative best practices and the latest trends that set leading organisations apart. We’ll equip you with the knowledge to elevate your programme and drive measurable impact.

    • Tuesday, May 19, 2026
      4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. GMT
    • Virtual
  • Mid-Year Sales Compensation Review: Game-Changing Strategies for Technology Executives

    Virtual Roundtable

    With 95% of technology companies making changes to their compensation plans and budgets projected to increase by 3.3%, 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for sales compensation transformation. Is your organization positioned to compete?

    As we approach the mid-year mark, technology leaders are navigating real pressure on multiple fronts: AI’s accelerating impact on GTM roles, growing urgency around GRR and NRR, and the ongoing challenge of keeping compensation strategy aligned with a market that keeps moving.

    This session opens Alexander Group’s 2026 sales compensation season with a focused preview of the latest research and the questions worth asking as H1 closes.

    Join HR and sales compensation technology leaders for an executive-focused virtual roundtable that delivers actionable insights on the most impactful sales compensation game changers transforming the technology industry.

    What You’ll Learn:

    • Alexander Group’s five tenets of an effective sales compensation program to ensure you’re using comp as a strategic advantage
    • Critical revenue growth strategies as organizations respond to 10.5% average projected revenue growth by refocusing sales coverage models and driving stronger pay-for-performance
    • Why GRR and NRR have become the defining metrics for XaaS organizations, and how leading technology companies are restructuring coverage models and compensation programs to protect and grow customer lifetime value
    • How to get ahead of AI’s growing impact on your sales team, from its effect on customer-facing and specialist roles to how top technology firms are already using it to sharpen their compensation programs
    • Practical frameworks to evaluate your current plans as H1 closes and implement strategic adjustments for H2 success

    This interactive session will provide technology executives with a first look at Alexander Group’s latest sales comp research and a framework for identifying high-priority adjustments heading into H2, offering a timely opportunity to course-correct compensation plans before entering the second half of the year.

    • Thursday, June 11, 2026
      2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET
    • Virtual
  • Sales Compensation Symposium: Virtual

    Industry Focus: All

    Revolutionize your approach at the #1 event for sales compensation professionals and all executives who care about sales comp. Designed specifically for senior executives, join industry peers and renowned experts to gain exclusive access to cutting-edge research, emerging trends, real-world case studies and proven best practices in governance, design and administration.

    • Tuesday, August 11, 2026 –
      Tuesday, August 11, 2026
    • Virtual
  • Sales Compensation Symposium: San Francisco

    Industry Focus: Technology

    Revolutionize your approach at the #1 event for sales compensation professionals and all executives who care about sales comp.
    Designed specifically for executives in HR, Compensation, Sales and Revenue Operations that want to use sales comp more effectively.

    Industry Focus: Technology

    • Thursday, August 13, 2026 –
      Thursday, August 13, 2026
    • San Francisco
  • Sales Compensation Symposium: Chicago

    Industry Focus: All

    Revolutionize your approach at the #1 event for sales compensation professionals and all executives who care about sales comp.
    Designed specifically for executives in HR, Compensation, Sales and Revenue Operations that want to use sales comp more effectively.

    Industry Focus: All

    • Thursday, August 27, 2026 –
      Thursday, August 27, 2026
    • Chicago
  • Executive Forum

    St. Regis Hotel | Chicago, IL

    Join senior sales, marketing, commercial and operations leaders to share stories of transformation, connect 1:1 virtually and take away actionable ideas.

    • Wednesday, September 30, 2026 –
      Thursday, October 1, 2026
    • St. Regis Hotel | Chicago, IL

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