What's New at CIQ is a new motion to highlight innovative new capabilities from CaptivateIQ. Stay tuned each month for the latest updates helping organizations operate more efficiently, hit their targets, and prepare for future growth.   

Focus Areas for ICM Innovation 

In 2025, CaptivateIQ is continuing to focus on bringing innovative new solutions to the market, at an unparalleled rate. As we approached our roadmap strategy for 2025, three major themes emerged to focus on in 2025: 

Building Plans & Running Commissions Faster – Simplify plan creation, automate commission calculations, and provide real-time insights. 

Motivating Teams to Hit Targets – Enable sales teams to understand earnings potential and align behaviors with business goals. 

Managing Business Growth & Scale – Adapt compensation strategies to growing business needs with powerful modeling and enterprise-ready features.

Build Plans Faster with Our New Worksheet Navigator 

While CaptivateIQ has long offered market-leading ease and flexibility in our compensation plan management capabilities, we’re excited to be taking that even further. This month, we’re introducing our new Worksheet Navigator, a streamlined experience for our Calculation Workbook that makes managing your worksheets easier than ever.

While preserving all the powerful functionality you rely on, the new navigation sidebar transforms how you organize and move between worksheets, without all the  horizontal scrolling. Early customers are already raving about the enhanced organization and navigation, making it simpler to manage worksheets at scale.

This redesign not only pairs with the new Quotient Admin Experience, but also lays the groundwork for exciting future enhancements to your modeling workflows.

Manage Business Growth & Scale

Improvements to our SmartGrid engine for Calculation Workbooks

This powerful upgrade delivers faster worksheet loading times (3-5x faster)  and enhanced processing capabilities, ensuring your calculation workbooks run smoothly even as your business scales. Experience improved performance without changing how you work. 

Expanded Permissions for Custom Roles with Updates to Access Controls

Admins can now configure more granular permissions for custom roles. We’ve added options for the following: View, Edit, Update, and Delete access for Payouts, Payroll Groups, Inquiries, Plan Doc management, Quick Reporting (dashboards and data variables), Advanced Reporting (dashboards, exports, report models, and unified worksheets), CIQ Assist, and Workflow Builder.

These enhanced controls give your org greater flexibility in managing user access across the platform. 

Additional Feature Highlights

For additional feature releases including Inquiry Workflow updates, HIPAA compliance offerings, and OpenAPI reporting, please visit our Knowledge Center here.‍

• Inquiry Workflow UI/UX Update: Customers can now leverage workflow builder UI that users can utilize/customize.‍
• HIPAA Compliance: There's now a HIPAA compliant offering of the CIQ Platform.
• ‍OpenAPI Reporting: Users can now request to have the report re-processed as part of the export process.

The Impact: Accelerating Commission Management 

By focusing on speed and scalability, CaptivateIQ’s latest enhancements deliver immediate impact while laying the groundwork for future capabilities.

• Increased operational efficiency with worksheet navigator and SmartGrid improvements.
• Reduced business risk with expanded custom role permissions, HIPAA compliance, and streamlined workflows.
• Improved seller clarity with real-time visibility into their earnings that allows them to focus on activities that matter.

Looking Ahead

This is just the beginning of our journey to transform compensation management. As we continue to innovate, we remain committed to our mission: empowering compensation teams to move beyond administrative tasks and become strategic drivers of business success.

Stay tuned for future What’s New at CIQ updates to keep up with the latest innovations from CaptivateIQ.