CPQ Podcast

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

• 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

1. We are taking a summer break and will be back with the next new CPQ Podcast on August, 19 2018.
2. 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/

Show Notes:

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

Show Notes:

Mikita founded PandaDoc with Serge Barysiuk in 2014. PandaDoc offers an all-in-one software to stream sales documents that also includes a CPQ solution. In this interview he shares what company culture they have developed, how they work with online review sites, what customers are ideal and much more

• Send only CPQ related questions to [email protected]
• The PandaDoc website is @ www.pandadoc.com
• Meet Mikita at Hubspot INBOUND 2018 from Sept 4-7 in Boston, MA

Shaowei and Greg founded Veloce in 2017, they both have 20+ years experience in CPQ. In this interview they share why they founded Veloce, how they run their start-up, why Siebel customers are ideal for their solution, how they simplify the model maintenance and much more

• Send questions to [email protected] and/or [email protected]
• The Veloce website is @ https://veloceapps.com
• To meet them at Dreamforce 2018 in San Francisco, CA drop them an email to setup some time

FLSmidth is a leading supplier of equipment and Solution for the Cement and mineral industry. Morten started working with Tacton's Product Configuration tools at FLSmidth in 2008. In this interview he shares how FLSmidth selected their CPQ tool, what their users require to accept the tools. Runtime integration of configurators between FLSmidth and suppliers. Distributed configurators. 3D and 2D integration configuration.

• Send Morten questions to [email protected]
• The FLSmidth website is @ http://www.flsmidth.com

Tony started working with CAD and Product Configuration tools in the 80s and he founded his company in 1987. In this interview, Tony discusses Technicon's partnership with Tacton, his background in complex manufacturing, what he considers to be game-changers in CPQ for manufacturers.

• Send him any questions to [email protected]
• The technicon website is @ www.technicon.com
• The interviews with Nils Olsson can be found here

John is the author of the Forrester Wave 2017 Configure-Price-Quote Solutions Report. In this interview he shares how he works with CPQ Solution Providers, what role configuration and pricing plays for ecommerce and CPQ, where he expects the CPQ Market to go and much more

• Send John an email @ [email protected] or contact him on Twitter @John_Bruno
• See John @ B2B Next in Chicago from September 24-26

Dan has many years of business experience with his own company as well as companies like IBM and BMC. In this interview he shares how he started with CPQ, why he considers Artificial Intelligence the most interesting CPQ topic and much more

• Send Dan an email @ [email protected]
• The PROS website is @ www.pros.com