CPQ Podcast

In this episode you hear from VP Product Marketing Giacinto Mozzetta. Giacinto is based in Rome, Italy and has 20+ years of business experience and joined Bit2Win in 2015. Here he talks about the bit2win suite of products, their multi-cloud solution, integration with Microsoft Dynamics, a new Engineer-to-Order (ETO) capability for manufacturing companies, subscriptions, artificial intelligence and much more

• web www.bit2win.com
• email [email protected]
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/giacintomozzetta/

In this episode you hear from Zuora VP & GM of Product Kyle Kolich. Kyle has 20+ years of experience and was with companies like Accenture, Deloitte and Salesforce before he joined Zuora in 2011. He lives with his family in New York City, NY. Here he talks about Zuora CPQ, integrations with eCommerce solutions, AI, headless, open API and much more

• Subscribed Connect London - https://www.zuora.com/resources/events/subscribed-connect-london/
• Kyle's Product Manager Podcast - https://plus.zuora.com/plus/can-i-speak-to-your-product-manager
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylekolich/

In this episode you hear from CDS Visual (a Dover Company) General Manager John Major. John is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has 30+ year of business experience. He sold CDS Visual to Dover in 2021. Here he talks about the time since and after the acquisition by Dover, their visualization platform solution and new products, their relationship to multiple CPQ Vendors, use of AI in visual CPQ, adoption of AR and much more

• web: cdsvisual.com
• email: [email protected]
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmajor1/

In this episode you hear from Omar Bendada, Founder & CEO of Ben Consulting Services (BCS). BCS is a System Integrator (SI) that works with multiple CPQ Vendors like Salesforce, Oracle, Epicor CPQ, PROS, Logik.io, Zilliant & Techform and other SI's like Walpole Partnership. Here Omar talks about their general CPQ methodology, their Partnerships, AI, subscriptions, eCommerce and much more

• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarbendada/
• email [email protected]
• phone +33 (0) 6 81 03 07 93

In this episode you hear from nue.io CEO Mark Walker who lives in Toronto, Canada. Mark has 30+ years of business experience and held a number of executive leadership positions before joined nue.io. Here he talks about this Revenue Operations and (C)PQ Solution, their land & expand approach, their recent seed extension, the top business requirements they see, integrations they support, Dreamforce, OpsStars and much more

• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwalker/
• OpsStars https://www.ops-stars.com

In this episode you hear from Compatio AI CEO & Founder Tim Baynes who lives in Springfield, MO. Tim has 30+ years of business experience with companies like Oracle, Gartner and Configit before he founded Compatio AI in 2018. Here he talks about their recent rebranding from compat.io to Compatio AI, their cross-selling platform solution, the difference of regular configurators and configurators with AI, social commerce, funding rounds and much more

• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothybaynes/
• email [email protected]

We wish everyone a great summer and want to let you know that we will be back on September 3 with a great lineup of interesting CPQ guests. Please let us know if you know of any CPQ Thought Leaders which have not been on the CPQ Podcast yet. If you do send an email to [email protected] so we can talk to them. Here some more interesting information

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In this episode you hear from Oracle NetSuite Group Vice President Allison Auclair. Allison has over 25 years of business experience with companies like SAP and IBM before she joined Oracle NetSuite in 2013. She lives with her family in Amesbury, MA. Here she talks about the acquisition and integration of Verenia CPQ into NetSuite, ecommerce, visualization, subscriptions, headless and much more

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonauclair/

web https://www.netsuite.com/portal/products/crm/cpq.shtml

In this episode you learn a little more about regulatory requirements that impact CPQ Solutions. For example you hear about Scope 1-3 emissions, California Senate Bill 261, Cap & Trade Systems, the difficult environment for current solutions because regulations are available on federal, state and city level, sourcing requirements, CSRE, CSRDDD and much more. If you need to learn more about these regulations checkout "Reuters Events" paper called "Legislation Directory: Insights on all major sustainabililty legislations (2023 Edition)" which was authored by Simran Kaur Chana, David Odhiambo and Oliver Pike.

In this episode you hear from Renaissance Tech Co-Founder & Partner Jeremy Finley. He founded this Infor CPQ focused system integrator in 2013 after 5 years with TDCI. He lives with his family near Columbus, OH. Here he talks about their services offerings, top business requirements they see, challenges their customers experience, AI/ML, IoT, subscriptions and much more

• web renaissancetech.com
• LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/renaissancetech/
• See them @ "Infor CPQ Connect" Nov 6-8, 2023 in Columbus, OH