What’s Missing From Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant For CPQ
Bottom line: The 2018 Magic Quadrant for Configure, Price, and Quote (CPQ) Application Suites doesn’t reflect the need for a more enterprise-wide integration across ERP, PLM and CRM systems and the need for vendors to intensify their efforts to innovate. Magic quadrants and market analysis grids are designed to guide enterprise buyers to the best possible […]
Five reasons you need CPQ
You know you need this. Many businesses still don’t use CPQ, or configure price and quotation, tools in their routine sales processes. Maybe they don’t need it but if these businesses still cling to spreadsheet-based approaches to track things like price lists and product catalogs chances are good that they’re dealing with more overhead than […]
Five Ways CPQ Is Revolutionizing Selling Today
Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) continues to be one of the hottest enterprise apps today, fueled by the relentless need all companies have to increase sales while delivering customized orders profitably and accurately. Here are a few of the many results CPQ strategies are delivering today: Companies relying on CPQ are growing profit margins at a 57% greater […]
Boosting selling performance and accuracy through CPQ
They say it can take a product idea ten years from concept to mass-market appeal but that might be only an optimist’s viewpoint. Some of the best ideas in CRM right now have been marinating for at least that long and for some, much longer. Two great examples are analytics and CPQ that companies like […]
3 Ways To Improve Selling Results With SAP Integration
The more integrated the systems are supporting any selling strategy, the greater the chances sales will increase. That’s because accuracy, speed, and quality of every quote matter more than ever. Being able to strengthen every customer interaction with insight and intelligence often means the difference between successful upsells, cross-sells and the chance to bid and […]
5 Ways Real-Time Mobile Apps Delight Customers And Streamline Manufacturing
Providing real-time responses 24/7 on any mobile device anywhere is the new normal in 2017. 54% of B2B companies selling online report that their customers are using smartphones to research purchases, and 52% say that their customers are using smartphones to buy online The majority of CEOs (86%) see mobility as essential to creating and […]
Top 10 Ways Integration Will Transform Manufacturing In 2017
Integrating ERP, CRM, and legacy systems lead to greater manufacturing innovation, setting the foundation to move beyond business models that don’t stay in step with customers’ fast-changing needs. Bringing contextual intelligence into manufacturing that centers on customers’ unique, fast-changing requirements is a must-have to keep growing sales profitably. By integrating ERP, CRM, SCM, pricing and […]
Zuora moves to the center
Zuora, the company that made its bones in subscription billing and payments held its annual user meeting in San Francisco last week and staked out some new turf. It had always been back office focused but its latest messaging includes elements of the front office. Perhaps it’s no surprise given co-founder and CEO Tien Tzuo’s […]
Lighting up Process
I’ve been saying for a while that we’re heading toward an era when process dominates and traditional transactions become just one part of those processes. Now, you might say that’s the way it’s always been and I won’t disagree. But historically, processes were more or less managed by employees who used information systems to inform […]
CPQ Bridging Front and Back Offices
I’ve written many times about how conventional, premise-based, ERP seems to be evaporating and CPQ, configuration, pricing, and quoting, are business processes that illustrate the point. First, let’s all agree that ERP isn’t going extinct as it evaporates—it’s too valuable—but it is getting a haircut. Many of the functions leaving ERP are condensing back into […]
