CPQ Podcast

Dr. Albert Haag has worked with Product Configuration and CPQ Solutions since 1985 and was one of the architects of the SAP Variant Configuration (VC) and IPC and lives in Bad Duerkheim, Germany. In this interview he talks about compressed tables and how these can benefit customers, his research work with his daughter Laura (a PhD candidate), his Judo skills, his time at SAP and Tacton, investment opportunities, and more links: http://product-management-haag.de http://researchgate.net/profile/Albert-Haag

Scott Heide is a successful entrepreneur with 30+ years of business experience in Engineering Processes and Solutions and lives in Medfield, Massachusetts. In this interview he talks about EPQ (Engineering, Price, Quote), the difference between EPQ and CPQ, the capabilities of their product KnowledgeBridge, their Partners, standard and custom system integrations they support, top 3 requests they hear from their customers and much more

• website www.engineeringintent.com
• email [email protected]

Lawrence Matusek has 30+ years of professional experience with Product Configuration, CPQ, and ERP Solutions in the Manufacturing Industry and lives in Rochester, NY. In this interview he talks about various CPQ Solutions that eLogic has implemented, their SAP Partnership, the Configuration Work Group (CWG - an SAP User Community), the business impact of the pandemic, SAP Quote 2.0, interest in visualization, analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning, IoT Solutions and much more

• website www.elogic.com

Jordan Hahn has 10+ years of business experience with Pricing & CPQ Solutions. He lives with his family in Denver, Colorado and is responsible for the Vendavo Intelligent Pricing CPQ product. In this interview he talks about his product, the convergence and trends he sees from CPQ adjacent spaces, mentions a surprising influencer he listens to, value pricing in general as well as challenges & benefits of value pricing and much more

• website www.vendavo.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanhahndenver/

Stephane Kors has 14+ years of experience with Product Configuration and CPQ Solutions. He lives with his family in Paris, France and is focused on the French CPQ Market. In this interview he talks about his partners Salesforce CPQ, KBMax, PROS, Conga/Apttus, Tacton and Threekit, consultant certifications, why 3D is so interesting, the biggest customer challenges they see and much more

• website itcelerator.fr
• email [email protected]
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephane-kors-crm-cpq-digital/

Dr. Markus Lindemann is an experienced business leader who also spent some time teaching at the University of Aachen. He lives in Germany and spent time with SAP and webMethods beside others before he joined Configit. In this interview he talks about Configit's Configuration Lifecycle Management offering, Virtual Tabulation Technology, three configurator options, SaaS Software, subscriptions, growth plans, partner communities, Software Review Sites and much more

• website configit.com
• email [email protected]

Kuldip Hillyer is the founder & CEO of Kugamon, a Quote-to-Cash + CPQ Solution that is 100% native to Salesforce and build on Lightning. In this interview we continue the discussion we started recently to talk about their capabilities for Product Configuration, Pricing, Quoting, Subscriptions, integrations with eCommerce and how they work with Salesforce, that Salesforce is exiting the standalone CPQ business and a customer success story.

• website kugamon.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kugamon/

Wessel de Haan is Commercial Director at Elfsquad and lives in the Groningen Area, Netherlands. Elfsquad is a CPQ Software Solution that is focused on manufacturers and based in Drachten, Netherlands. In this interview Wessel talks about how their AI-based solution helps manufacturers, native visual capabilities, API first principle, support of ATO/CTO/ETO, rich quotation documents, plans for the remainder of 2021 and much more

• website www.elfsquad.io/en/
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesseldehaan/

Suren Reddy is a leader with 25+ years of business experience who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He founded 2 companies in the last decade, Cloudely + Infocomply.com. In this interview he talks about Cloudely, shortly about Infocomply, their Service offerings for Conga/Apttus CPQ+CLM and Salesforce Revenue Cloud, their business expansion plans, that people in certain industries have more CPQ knowledge, Robotic Process Automation and much more.

• website cloudely.com
• email [email protected]

Barry Hoffman is an experienced business leader with 20+ years of experience in various large and small businesses and lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this interview he talks about how they work with partners like VW, Mitsubishi, Lucid an GM, their Beam + Spotlight products, what a Retail Configurator is, how they use pixel streaming, Enterprise VR , AR, the ZeroLight Product Landing Page offering and much more

• website zerolight.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhoffmannl/