8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 10, 2008

CHORDIANT SOFTWARE, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	93-1051328
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 Commission file number:

000-29357

20400 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Suite 400

 Cupertino, CA    95014

(Address of principal executive offices and zip code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (408) 517-6100

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Item 5.02  Departure of Directors or Principal Officers: Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.

On January 10, 2008, the Board of Directors of Chordiant Software, Inc. (the “Company”) expanded the size of the Board of Directors to 7 members.

On January 10, 2008, the Board of Directors of the Company elected Dan Gaudreau, effective February 1, 2008, as a Class III Director to serve until the 2010 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, or until his successor is elected and qualified.  Since 1997, Mr. Gaudreau has been employed by Actuate Corporation, an enterprise reporting and performance management software company and is currently the Senior Vice President, Operations and Chief Financial Officer.  Additionally, the Board of Directors appointed Mr. Gaudreau to serve on the Audit Committee.  The Board of Directors also designated Mr. Gaudreau as an independent member of the Board.  Richard Stevens and David Springett will remain as members of the Audit Committee.

On January 10, 2008, the Board of Directors of Chordiant Software, Inc., elected Allen Swann, effective February 1, 2008, as a Class II Director to serve until the 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, or until his successor is elected and qualified.  Since May of 2006, Mr. Swann has been the Head of Strategy for the Healthcare Division of Manpower Software plc., a leading provider of workforce optimization and e-rostering solutions, headquartered in the UK.   Mr. Swann is also a Non-Executive Director of Solid Information Technology, a privately held Finnish company headquartered in the US, that develops and markets a small footprint in memory, highly scalable and resilient relational database and is Chairman of CopperEye, a UK privately held company that develops and markets high performance data retrieval software for interrogating very large volumes of flat file data.

The Company previously disclosed in July 2007 that David Weymouth advised the Company that he intended to resign as a member of the Board of Directors.  On January 16, 2008, Mr. Weymouth tendered his resignation as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors effective February 1, 2008.

A copy of the press release issued in connection with Messrs. Gaudreau’s and Swann’s appointments to the Board is attached to this Report as Exhibit 99.1.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

Number	Description
99.1	Press Release of Chordiant Software, Inc. dated January 16, 2008.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Dated: January 16, 2008	CHORDIANT SOFTWARE, INC
	By:	/s/    STEVEN R. SPRINGSTEEL
		Steven R. Springsteel Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

EX-99.1

Chordiant Software Expands Board of Directors,

 Adds Dan Gaudreau and Allen Swann

Cupertino, Calif.—January 16, 2008—  ChordiantSoftware, Inc. (Nasdaq: CHRD), the leading provider of Customer Experience (Cx™) software and services, today announced that its board of directors has elected two new members, effective February 1, 2008. The Chordiantboard elected both Dan Gaudreau, Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations and Chief Financial Officer at Actuate Corporation, the leading enterprise reporting and performance management applications company, and Allen Swann, Head of Strategy and former Interim CEO for the Healthcare Division of Manpower Software plc., a world leader in workforce planning, directors.

“Both of these executives are outstanding individuals who will provide invaluable guidance and support to us as we further Chordiant’s objective of growing our business profitably while we aggressively expand into new international markets,” said Steven R. Springsteel, Chairman, President and CEO of Chordiant Software. “Dan bringsoutstanding experience in finance and operations, as well as the area of high-performance enterprise reporting. Allen, a former Chordiant President of International Operations, will addan important fresh perspective on the internationalhealthcare market. He’ll also advise the Chordiant team on our expansion into key new international geographies and markets.”

Dan Gaudreau has over thirty-five years of financial experience in various high tech companies and markets. Before joining Actuate, Dan served as Vice President Finance and CFO at Plantronics, Inc., where he helped the company achieve record earnings in the two fiscal years following the firm's IPO. Prior to Plantronics, Dan was Vice President, Finance and Operations and CFO at Ready Systems, where he helped guide the company through a large private equity placement. Prior to Ready Systems, Dan was a finance executive at Apple Computer.

Allen Swannwas formerly President of International Operations at Chordiant,following the merger of ChordiantSoftware and Prime Response Ltd.in 2001.  He was responsible for growing Chordiantsales outside North America and delivered several multi-million dollar contractwinsacross Europeduring that timeframe. From 2003 to 2004 he served as President of Worldwide Sales at Chordiant. Today as Head of Strategy at Manpower’s Software Healthcare Division in the UK, he guides their offerings and is expanding thesales and marketing structure to address the burgeoning healthcaremarket across various countries. Since July 2005 Allen has served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Solid Information Technology, a privately held Finnish/US software company, marketing high performance in-memory relational database solutions. Allen is also Chairman of CopperEye, a privately held UK/US software company that develops and markets software for the interrogation of large data structures for the rapid retrieval of individual records. Prior to Prime Response, Allen was a founding employee of Oracle UK. As UK Sales Director, he helped establish the foundation of the Oracle UK’s rapidly growing revenue stream and impact over a twelve year period.

Chordiant also announced that director David Weymouth resigned effective February 1, 2008.  As previously reported back in July, 2007, Weymouth, who has served on the Chordiant Board since 2005, would tender his resignation once a successor was found. Weymouth resigned due to the pressing demands on his schedule from a full-time position he had accepted with a UK company in 2007.

“Through the past three years David has served our Board, our investors, and the Chordiant team extremely well,” said Springsteel.  “His counsel on technologies, customers and markets has been highly valued and certainly instrumental in our success. While we are excited with our new directors, we will miss David greatly and we thank him for his many contributions.”

The above additions and changes become effective February 1, 2008, and on that date expand the Chordiant Board of Directors to seven positions.

About ChordiantSoftware, Inc.

Chordiant helps leading global brands with high-volume customer service needsdeliver the best possible customer experience. Unlike traditional business applications, Chordiant Customer Experience (Cx) front-office solutions blend multi-channel interaction management with predictive desktop decisioning, enabling companies to capture and effectively anticipate and respond to customer behavior in all channels, in real-time. For global brands and leading enterprisesin insurance/healthcare, telecommunications and financial services, this deeper understanding cultivates a lasting, one-to-one relationship that aligns the most appropriate value proposition to each consumer. With Chordiant Cx solutions, customer loyalty, operational productivity and profitability reach new levels of return. For more information, visit Chordiantat www.chordiant.com.

SafeHarborStatement

This news release includes "forward-looking statements" that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements in this release are generally identified by words, such as "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will," "would," "guidance," "projects" and similar expressions which are intended to identify forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause the results of Chordiant to differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements. Other risks relating to Chordiant's products are detailed under "Risk Factors" in Chordiant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007. These filings are available on a Web site maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov. Chordiant does not undertake an obligation to update forward-looking or other statements in this release.

Chordiantand the Chordiantlogo are registered trademarks of ChordiantSoftware, Inc. The Customer Experience Company and Cx are trademarks of ChordiantSoftware, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

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Integrated Corporate Relations

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