CPQ Podcast

In this episode you hear from Dmitri Leichik, Founder & CEO Sculptor CPQ. Dmitri has 20+ years of business and is also a co-Owner of Twistellar Group, a Salesforce Consulting company. Here he talks about Sculptor CPQ, why they build the solution on the Salesforce platform, why they have a free version and what the limitations are, the pricing capabilities they offer, their interactive quoting capabilities and much more

• web https://sculptor.cloud
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitri-leichik-11296423/

In this episode you hear from Tim Beck, CEO & Founder of SaaSteps and Ron Costa, Co-Founder of SaaSteps. Tim has 20+ years of business experience with companies like Conga, FPX and BigMachines and lives in Denver, CO. Ron has 10+ years of business experience with companies like Embraer and lives near Sao Paolo in Brazil. Here they talk about their product incl. ecommerce, payment processing, CPQ, subscriptions, Billing, Renewals and more.

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

email: [email protected]

In this episode you hear from Vinay Toomu, Founder & CEO of ScaleFluidly. Vinay has 20+ years of business experience and lives with his family in Cary, NC. Here he talks about ScaleFluidly's Quote CX solution, why that solution is built for start-ups and SMB customers, reduced total cost of ownership, collaboration features, integrations to Salesforce, SAP and more, a roadmap published on their website, free software trial and much more

• Web scalefluidly.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinaytoomu/

In this episode you hear from Alexander Franck, CPQ Practice Lead at Fluido. Alexander has 10+ years of business experience with CPQ Solutions and lives with his family in Helsinki, Finland. Here he talks about Salesforce Revenue Cloud, Salesforce Industries, Epicor CPQ, Logik.io and Tacton, top CPQ customer requirements, expectations on modern CPQ Solutions from manufacturers, headless CPQ architecture and much more

• web www.fluidogroup.com
• email [email protected]
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/afranck/

In this episode you hear from Mitchell Lee, VP or Product Marketing at Vendavo. Mitch has 30+ years of business experience with companies like BASF and Orica and lives in Norfolk, Virgina. Here he talks about Vendavo's Revenue Optimization Platform (Pricing+CPQ) for manufacturers and distributors, the Market Medium acquisition in 2022, Gartner's MQ Report, managed services, omni-channel usage, ChatGPT and much more

• web www.vendavo.com
• email [email protected]
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchelldlee/

In this episode you hear from Jens Ellebaek, Consulting Offerings Manager at Configit. Jens has 15+ years of business experience and lives with his family in Copenhagen, Denmark. Here he talks about Configit's CPQ Solution, Aftermarket Services, Visual Configuration, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Pricing, customer experience and more

• web configit.com
• email [email protected]
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jens-ellebæk-5249285/
• SmartCon www.smart-variant.de
• CLM Summit https://clm23.virtualhive.live

In this episode I talk to ChatGPT about CPQ topics to learn if and how ChatGPT can be used for anyone that is interested in CPQ. At the end of each question there is a short note about the answer. Take a listen and try it yourself as well.

Anyone interested to follow up on this go to https://chat.openai.com/chat and try it yourself.

In this episode you hear from Nils Olsson, CPO & CSO of Tacton. Nils has over 25 years of business experience with manufacturing companies and Tacton and lives with his family in Stockholm, Sweden. Here he talks about Tacton's SaaS CPQ Solution, their placement in the Gartner MQ Report, combinatorial problem solving, demand for subscription capabilities, demand for visualization, CAD Automation, Pricing capabilities and much more

• web www.tacton.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nils-olsson-400715/

In this episode you hear from Sudhakar Jukanti, Director Business Systems (GTM) at Confluent. Sudhakar has 20+ years of business experience with companies like Oracle, Conga/Apttus and Deloitte. He lives with his family in the Bay Area. Here he talks about his experience with different CPQ Solutions, how Confluent uses their solution, his role as a customer advisory board member, important CPQ KPI's and much more

• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhakar-jukanti-b109201/
• email [email protected]

In this episode you hear from Rick Huebner, CEO & Founder of VISTECH. Rick has software development experience since 1984 and founded VISTECH in 1998. He lives with his family in Hartford, CT. Here he talks about his Software Development experience, their newly announced CPQ Solution SolSuite, the acquisition of a CPQ Vendor by VISTECH that is the basis of SolSuite, data warehouse they provide for BI and Reporting and much more

• web www.vistech.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickhuebner/