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What's New In Gartner's Hype Cycle For CRM, 2019

What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For CRM, 2019

By Louis Columbus on October 19, 2019

Worldwide enterprise application software revenue totaled more than $193.6B in 2018, a 12.5% increase from 2017. CRM made up nearly 25% of the entire enterprise software revenue market. 72.9% of CRM spending was on software as a service (SaaS) in 2018, which is expected to grow to 75% of total CRM software spending in 2019. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2019 Gartner Hype Cycle for CRM Sales Technology, 2019 Louis Columbus’ blog Partner Relationship Management, configure price quote, CPQ, CRM, customer relationship management, Gartner CRM Hype Cycle, price optimization, PRM, Visual Configurators, Visual CPQ

CPQ Needs To Scale And Support Smarter, More Connected Products

CPQ Needs To Scale And Support Smarter, More Connected Products

By Louis Columbus on December 16, 2018

  For smart, connected product strategies to succeed they require a product lifecycle view of configurations, best attained by integrating PLM, CAD, CRM, and ERP systems. Capgemini estimates that the size of the connected products market will be $519B to $685B by 2020. In 2018, $985B will be spent on IoT-enabled smart consumer devices, soaring to […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CAD, Configit, Configuration Lifecycle Management, configure price quote, CPQ, CRM, CRM Integration, erp, ERP Integration, Louis Columbus' blog, PLM, Product Configuration, Product Models, Sales Configuration, sap, SAP Integration

CPQ’s Time to Shine

CPQ’s Time to Shine

By Denis Pombriant on February 24, 2015

Configure, price, quote (CPQ) software was once a barely thought about branch of CRM falling under the heading of sales enablement. But lately, it’s been getting a lot of attention from a familiar source, Salesforce.com. The question is why? You can easily argue that many forms of business don’t require CPQ so that’s a possible […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apttus, Cloud Computing, configure price quote, CPQ, customer relationship management, Emergence Capital Partners, salesforce.com | 2 Responses

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