Stop fumbling with spreadsheets! Configure and quote in minutes, not days By John Mignardi, CPQ and Industry Applications Specialist, Javelin Technologies Ah, the 1980s. A time for Rubik’s cubes, Pac-Man…and spreadsheets. Personal computers started showing up on desktops and “apps” like Excel were used for creating accounting statements and bills of materials (along with everyday [...]
By: Patrik Skjelfoss, Tacton September 20, 2017 There are plenty of CPQ solutions on the market today, but not many can claim to be powered by an intelligent constraint solver. In this post, we’ll explain what a constraint solver is and how it can help your business. Imagine you work for Zippy-Zappy Electric, a manufacturer [...]
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Follow our guest Louis Columbus on Twitter @LouisColumbus or send him an email at louiscolumbus@yahoo.com . Show Notes: Louis' Blog is at https://softwarestrategiesblog.com Here we offer a free CPQ Vendor List. Louis mentioned many vendors in this interview and in addition to his upcoming Forbes article this might be helpful Our Visual & Virtual CPQ Research Report (that Louis mentioned) is available [...]
You can find more information about Oracle CPQ Cloud at www.Oracle.com/CPQ . In addition to that Novus CPQ offers the "CPQ Provider Series - Fact Sheet" for more information about Oracle CPQ Cloud. You can connect with Vinesh on Linkedin at www.linkedin.com/in/vineshvis If you have questions about Oracle CPQ Cloud please send an email to [...]
You can find more information about Tacton at www.Tacton.com . Novus CPQ offers the "CPQ Provider Series" Fact Sheet and the Visual & Virtual CPQ Research Report for more information about Tacton. Note: Tacton recently received the 2017 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership
This Mark Twain quote is great and also applies when you are about to select a new Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) tool. Here is how it applies: If you (as a CPQ Seller or in some rare cases also the Buyer) are familiar and interested in one specific CPQ Solution then that is the solution that can [...]
Before a CPQ Transformation Project starts I suggest to (almost) all customers (some exceptions below) to spend at least some time to determine where they stand in regards to Organizational Readiness and to determine The complexity of their CPQ Requirements This is important for two reasons To ensure the customer is fully prepared at the [...]
This year the Apttus Accelerate event was at Pier 48 in San Francisco, CA (right next door to the Giants Baseball Stadium) and with 3500 attendees it was definitely considerably bigger than the last one I attended two years ago. I arrived Wednesday and on Thursday I participated in the panel discussion “Why Omni-Channel Should [...]
A full-blown Sales Transformation typically requires a large commitment from your company due to the time, effort, and cost involved in the Transformation. My Definition: A Sales Transformation should improve a company’s sales performance via all Routes-to-Market (Sales Team, Channel Partner, your ecommerce website) by Increasing Sales and Sales Effectiveness Reducing the time required for [...]
