We asked the following 3 questions to all our guests

1. What Product Updates and News are you sharing with your customers at DF18?

2. Did you learn something new at DF18 that our listeners should know?

3. What capabilities did your customers ask for?

The following leaders participated:

Andres Reiner 1–7m

Frederic Laziou 7–14m

Godard Abel 14–20m

Greg Gsell 21–27m

Alex Fuller 27–32m

David Allison 33–36m

Charles Todd 36–46m

Sean Myers 47–52m

Kevin Bennett 52–60m

Manfred

Brian has been with QuoteWerks (aka Aspire Technologies) since 2000 and is a VP of Bus.Dev, Marketing, Sales, Support & Operations. In this interview he talks about his Beer Brewing abilities, their focus on SMB, their integration capabilities, their history with Salesforce, their Partnerships, how many users use their solution and much more

- Contact Brian for questions @ [email protected]

- The QuoteWerks website is @ www.quotewerks.com

- Check their events @ www.events.quotewerks.com

Pascal has been with Salesforce since 2009 and is leading the Salesforce CPQ + Billing Team since 2017. In this interview he shares how much his team has grown and changed since the Steelbrick acquisition, his thoughts about the Cloudcraze and Mulesoft acquisition, ISV Partnerships and much more

- Contact Pascal at [email protected]

- The website is @ https://www.salesforce.com/products/quote-to-cash/overview/

- Pascal will do the Salesforce CPQ + Billing Keynote on Wednesday Sep 26 @ 1pm PST

David Belove is a senior Sales Operations leader specialized in startups and mid-sized companies with over a decade of Salesforce ecosystem experience! In this interview he talks about the Moover tool , his CPQ experience, how he works with Daniel & Max Rudman, Prodly's System Integration Partners and much more

- Contact David for questions @ [email protected]

- The Prodly website is @ https://www.prodly.co

Sri Ayyeppen has 20+ years of experience with CPQ and his firm works with Oracle, Salesforce and Vlocity! In this interview he shares what the Keste innovation culture is, how Keste works with local universities, the key lessons he learned as a CPQ leader, typical challenges they encounter in implementation projects, which verticals they specialize in and much more

-Contact Sri for questions @sriayyeppen 

-The Keste website is @ http://www.keste.com

-Meet the Team @ Dreamforce or Oracle OpenWorld 201

Netformx is a leader in opportunity-to-quote solutions specifically designed for IT solution providers. The Netformx cloud-based CPQ-for-IT application suite enables users to quickly and accurately create differentiated, winning multi-vendor designs, quotes and proposals, while leveraging business insights and analytics to increase productivity and profitability. Netformx has 2,000+ customers globally including ALE, AT&T, Bell Canada, BT, Cisco, Dimension Data & Optus. www.netformx.com / [email protected]

Gerald is co-founder and CEO of enosiX. His company is providing real-time data integration between Salesforce CRM and SAP. In this interview he shares how he got started working with Salesforce CPQ, what he thinks of the SAP acquisition of CallidusCloud, how their data projects typically work and much more

- Send questions to [email protected]

- Or contact him on LinkedIn @https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraldschlechter/

- The enosiX website is @ https://enosix.com

Mick was one of three founders of Configure One in 2000 and is currently serving as VP Product Development. In this interview he shares how he got started with CPQ, the Configure One culture, the importance of integration between CPQ and other enterprise applications, visualization and much more.

- Send questions to [email protected]

- The Configure One website is @ www.configureone.com

- Book that Mick mentioned: David J. Gardner: Mass Customization

This episode contains two short announcements

- We are taking a summer break and will be back with the next new CPQ Podcast on August, 19 2018. 

- We now offer two subscriptions to keep all CPQ Market Players (CPQ Customers, CPQ Vendors, CPQ System Integrators and Researchers) up to date with the latest CPQ trends and developments. Learn more at http://novuscpq.com/subscriptions-cpq-circle/

Paul is based in the Netherlands and founded Sofon in 1998.  In this interview he shares why he founded Sofon, why he considers maintenance very important, what company culture Sofon has, what he considers the most interesting developments in CPQ  and much more

- Send questions to [email protected]  

- The Sofon website is @ https://sofon.com/en