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CPQ Podcast

317 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings

This Podcast is 100% focused on Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) Tools and Processes and will provide you useful insights into this topic. We conduct interviews with many different CPQ leaders and contribute to increase CPQ knowledge in the Market space.

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Interview with Anthony Mirante & Mark Keenan from Technicon

May 21, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MB

In this episode you hear from Anthony Mirante (President) and Mark Keenan (Partner) of Technicon. Tony has 30+ years and Mark has 25+ years of business experience working with discrete manufacturers. They both live in the San Francisco Bay Area and have spent the last couple of decades working with CPQ Solutions. Here they talk about common CPQ Implementation challenges, why they think implementers need 5 years of experience and much more web www.technicon.com  LinkedIn https://www.linke...

Interview with Ali Najefi, Founder of CogentShift

May 14, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes - 42 MB

In this episode you hear from Ali Najefi, Founder of CogentShift. Ali has 15+ years of business experience and lives with his family near Oxford, UK. Here he talks about his Salesforce native CPQ Solution CogentShift, their integration with CDS Visual and DocuSign, their "API friendly" solution architecture, why he sees integrations to other solutions as the biggest growth opportunity going forward and much more web cogentshift.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinajefi/ email a...

Some thoughts about how generative AI may be used in CPQ going forward

May 07, 2023 10:00 - 15 minutes - 20.8 MB

In this episode I share some thoughts about how (generative) AI may be used in CPQ going forward. There are also some thoughts about how users may use it and some thoughts on how CPQ administrators may use it. I'm very interested to hear what you think about this topic and how important it is for your company / use case.  Send feedback to [email protected] 

Google Bard talks about CPQ

April 30, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MB

In this episode I talk to Google's Bard about CPQ topics to learn if and how Bard can be used for anyone that is interested in CPQ. At the end of each question there is a short note from me about the quality of the answer. Take a listen and try it yourself as well. Anyone interested to follow up on this go to https://bard.google.com and try it yourself.

Interview with Dmitri Leichik, Founder & CEO of Sculptor CPQ

April 23, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43 MB

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/dmitr...

Interview with Tim Beck, CEO and Founder of SaaSteps

April 16, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MB

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/  ...

Interview with Vinay Toomu, Founder & CEO of ScaleFluidly

April 09, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MB

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....

Interview with Alexander Franck, CPQ Practice Lead at Fluido

April 02, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MB

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] LinkedI...

Interview with Mitchell Lee, VP Product Marketing at Vendavo

March 26, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MB

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.linkedi...

Interview with Jens Ellebaek, Consulting Offerings Manager

March 19, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes - 44.1 MB

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 htt...

ChatGPT talks about CPQ

March 12, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes - 36.6 MB

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.

Interview with Nils Olsson, Chief Product Officer + Chief Strategy Officer

March 05, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes - 44.1 MB

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/ni...

Interview with Sudhakar Jukanti, Director Business System (GTM) at Confluent

February 26, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MB

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 sjukant...

Interview with Rick Huebner, CEO & Founder of VISTECH

February 19, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MB

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/ric...

Interview with Gianluca Cagiano, CEO & Founder of Apparound

February 12, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MB

In this episode you hear from Gianluca Cagiano, CEO & Founder of Apparound. Gianluca has worked with Product Configuration Solutions since 1995 and founded Apparound in 2008. He lives with his family in Pisa, Italy. Here he talks about the three main Apparound application modules, their average implementation times, the latest Gartner MQ Report, Sustainability efforts, Subscriptions, AI and Machine Learning and much more web www.apparound.com    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianlu...

Interview with Ralph Schwarz, Global CPQ Product Manager at Cincom

February 05, 2023 14:38 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MB

In this episode you hear from Ralph Schwarz, Global CPQ Product Manager at Cincom. Ralph has been with Cincom for ~40 years and has worked on the Cincom CPQ Product for the last 15 years. He lives in Cincinnati. Here he talks about their cloud-based and on-prem solutions, Omni-Channel capabilities, CPQ Analyst Reports, CPQ and artificial intelligence, headless, micro-services and much more web https://www.cincom.com/us/cpq    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-schwarz-697395b/  ...

Interview with John Dionne, President of CloudFirst Labs

January 29, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes - 42.8 MB

In this episode you hear from John Dionne, President of CloudFirst Labs. John has ~ 25 years of business experience and lives with his family in Tampa, Florida. Here he talks about their SI and ISV Partnership with Salesforce, their Product Offerings incl. AgileQuote (their flagship CPQ Product) which is built on Salesforce Lightning, their - Professional Service Offering, -focus on P+Q, - subscription offering, -roadmap and much more.  Web loudfirstlabs.com   LinkedIn https://www.linked...

Interview with Mahesh Baxi, CEO & Co-Founder of Provus Inc.

January 22, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MB

In this episode you hear from Mahesh Baxi, the CEO & Co-Founder of Provus Inc. a software company that provides a end-to-end services quoting solution. Mahesh has 30+ years of experience and lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here he talks about Provus Service Quoting Solution, Product CPQ vs Services CPQ, their investors, collaboration with Salesforce Revenue Cloud, integrations and more Web www.provusinc.com  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/maheshbaxi/  email ma...

Interview with Patrick Johnston, VP Global Sales at Yagna iQ

January 15, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MB

In this episode you hear from Patrick Johnston, VP Global Sales at Yagna iQ. Patrick has 30+ years of international business experience working for large corporations and startups in Asia, Europe and North America. Here he talks about Yagna's channel eco-system platform, channel CPQ, Gartner MQ Report for CPQ, their relationship with Cisco, their ISO 27001 certification and much more Web www.yagnaiq.com    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-johnston-1725412/  email patrick.joh...

Welcome to the CPQ Podcast in 2023

January 08, 2023 11:00 - 3 minutes - 4.69 MB

We wish all our listeners a happy and healthy 2023! Here we announce a couple of short updates Next CPQ Podcast episode will be released January 15, 2023 Review the CPQ Podcast so more like-minded listeners can find it We now have YouTube channel that regularly provides video of CPQ Leaders, Customers, Thoughtleaders etc. Subscribe to it at https://youtu.be/D-j7hzi4nQc  Any questions send to [email protected] 

Interview with Kevin Geraghty, CPQ Practice Lead & Managing Director

December 18, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MB

In this episode you hear from Kevin Geraghty, CPQ Practice Lead & Managing Director at Xait. Kevin lives in Cheltenham, UK and was a guest on the CPQ Podcast before as founder & CEO of Blueprint CPQ. Here he talks about various Xait CPQ features & functions, the CPQ product integration with other Xait products, their Sales & Revenue Enablement Solution focus, their AI/ML and service efforts and much more web www.xait.com  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevingeraghty1/  email kevin...

Interview with Oz Lavee, CTO of Panaya-Foresight

December 11, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39 MB

In this episode you hear from Oz Lavee, CTO of Panaya-Foresight. Oz has 15+ years of business experience and lives near Tel Aviv in Israel. Here he talks about their new CPQ Change Impact Analysis solution for Salesforce CPQ called Panaya-Foresight, dependency maps, how trust speeds up change, how improv acting and computer science enhance each other, Dreamforce '22 and much more LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozlavee/  web https://www.panaya.com/salesforce/simplify-salesforce-cp...

Interview with Rob Zesch and Mladen Sudar from Helioz Technologies

December 04, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MB

In this episode you hear from Rob Zesch (CEO & Founder) and from Mladen Sudar (Chief Visionary & Success Officer) at Helioz Technologies. Both have 25+ years of business experience, Rob lives in Cincinnati, OH and Mladen in Croatia. Here they talk about products and services of Helioz Technologies, the relationship to TraceParts (a 3D company), zipCPQ, top customer requirements, headless architecture and more LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/robzesch/  Rob Phone 513-450-9950   web ...

Interview with Travis Parigi, Software Entrepreneur

November 27, 2022 16:17 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MB

In this episode you hear from former LiquidFrameworks Founder & CEO Travis Parigi. He sold his company in 2021 to ServiceMax and left ServiceMax early in 2022. Travis lives in Houston, TX with his family and is currently thinking about his next endeavor. Here he talks about how he started the company, why he converted the code in 2012, what (CPQ) start-ups should consider, how to approach investments, common pitfalls of early stage start-ups and much more. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com...

Interview with Kuldip Hillyer, Founder & CEO of Kugamon

November 20, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MB

In this episode you hear from Kuldip Hillyer, Founder & CEO of Kugamon. Kuldip has 20+ years of business experience and Kugamon is providing a CPQ and Subscription Billing application for Salesforce-Lightning. Here he talks about three key product capabilities they have focused on in the last 12 months incl. core cpq functions, new admin and eCommerce functions, their App Empathy Design Philosophy, the importance of design and much more linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuldip/  websit...

Interview with Rick Hassman, CEO at Lean Tech Advisors

November 17, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MB

This is a special episode with Rick Hassman, who was previously also the CIO of Pella. Our discussion is centered around 2 blog posts that talk about acquisitions of Software Vendors. Here the link to my blog post and here the link to Rick's blog post  Hear what Rick's thoughts and concerns are for the Fenestration Industry and what he suggests customers should do now that Paradigm was acquired by Builders FirstSource.  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickhassman/  email Rick.Ha...

Interview with Chris Shutts, Co-Founder & CEO at Logik.io

November 13, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes - 44.3 MB

In this episode you hear from Chris Shutts, Co-Founder & CEO at Logik.io.  Here Chris talks about the growth of Logik.io, Dreamforce '22, Commerce Logic Engine, their customer KeySight Technologies, their new Oracle Migration Program, a study called "State of B2B e-commerce for manufacturers", the importance and impact of a headless architecture, the future of CPQ, their Partner Program and much more web www.logik.io  email [email protected]  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophe...

Interview with Sven Krause, former CIO of Hillrom

November 06, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MB

In this episode you hear from Sven Krause who has 20+ years of business and technology experience and recently joined In Mind Cloud (specialized manufacturing CPQ Vendor) as a board member and advisor. For the last 2 years, Sven served as the CIO of Hillrom, a $3B MedTech company based in Chicago (now part of Baxter). Prior to that, he was with E&Y and Arthur Andersen for over 17 years serving manufacturers in Germany and the US. Today, Sven talks about his experience with CPQ from a custome...

Interview with Pascal Yammine, CEO Zilliant

October 30, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MB

In this episode you hear from Ziliant's new CEO Pascal Yammine. Pascal was previously the GM and SVP of Salesforce Revenue Cloud and joined Zilliant in August 2022. He lives with his family in Chicago. Here he talks about his recent move from Salesforce to Zilliant, the opportunities he sees for Zilliant, agreement management and quoting, Zilliant's Partnerships, first impressions from customer discussions and much more email [email protected]  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com...

Interview with Calvin Chow (Q2C Practice Enablement Lead) & Karl Hinderks (CPQ Practice Lead) of Slalom Consulting

October 23, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MB

In this episode you hear from Calvin Chow and Karl Hinderks of Slalom Consulting. Both have worked for 15+ years in Quote-to-Cash and CPQ. Calvin lives in Dallas/Ft Worth and Karl in Vancouver, Canada. Here they talk about their service offerings, what topics are most interesting for their customers, top business requirements, current demand and much more email [email protected]  [email protected]  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvin-chow-3179425/  https://www.linked...

Interview with Boaz Meridor, Co-Founder & Board Member at Uptima

October 16, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MB

In this episode you hear from Boaz Meridor, Co-Founder & Board Member at Uptima (a System Integrator) Boaz is an entrepreneur at heart and has 25 years of business experience and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here he talks about Salesforce Revenue Cloud, Manufacturing Cloud, a recent investment they received from Salesforce and DocuSign, current demand for CPQ, their "Everything to Revenue" approach and much more email [email protected] LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/merido...

Interview with Mark Sloan, Managing Director at Asaph Advisors

October 09, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MB

In this episode you hear from Mark Sloan Managing Director Asaph Advisors. Mark has ~ 30 years of business experience with companies like Accenture & Convergys and is based in Washington D.C.. Here he talks about how (tech) companies that sell Hardware and Software products or pure consulting companies should sell professional services (incl. educational, managed), the RARE methodology and much more. email [email protected]  Phone 703-507-9788 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/m...

Interview with Chris Hergesell, Managing Director at Accenture

October 02, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MB

In this episode you hear from Chris Hergesell Managing Director NA B2B Sales & Commerce Lead and Global B2B Sales & Commerce Product Lead at Accenture. Chris has 25+ years of business experience and is based in Houston, TX. Here he talks about Accenture's CPQ professional services, triple citizenship, current demand for CPQ solutions, why he sees CPQ as a critical enabler of commercial excellence, cpQ, visual & virtual capabilities, AI/ML, Metaverse and more LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.c...

Interview with Eyal Orgil, CRO at Dealhub.io

September 25, 2022 10:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MB

In this episode you hear from Eyal Orgil, CRO at dealhub.io. Dealhub offers a solution with CPQ, CLM and more capabilities. Eyal lives with his family near Tel Aviv in Israel and has 25+ years of business experience. Here he talks about the latest investment rounds Dealhub received, some key capabilities their solution offers, their global expansion plans, their collaboration with Hubspot, upcoming Industry Analyst Reports and much more. web:  dealhub.io  LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.c...

Interview with Brion Schweers (SVP) and Kevin Whitley (VP) from Salesforce Revenue Cloud

September 18, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes - 45 MB

In this episode you hear from Brion Schweers (SVP) and Kevin Whitley (VP) of Salesforce Revenue Cloud. Both have 20+ years of business experience and will be at Dreamforce in San Francisco from September 20-22. Here they talk about the newest Salesforce Revenue Cloud component: Subscription Management, current economic headwinds, Logik.io, collaboration with Salesforce Industries and much more. LinkedIn Brion https://www.linkedin.com/in/brion-schweers-71363211/  LinkedIn Kevin https://www...

Interview with Sergey Jermakov, COO & Co-Founder of Graip.ai

September 11, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 41.3 MB

In this episode you hear from Sergy Jermakov, COO & Co-Founder of Graip.ai . This is a company that offers an AI platform that automates manual tasks related to document processing. Sergey lives in Riga, Latvia and here he talks about how their Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and self-learning AI based product can help to automate sales related processes, how this can be integrated with CPQ and much more. web: www.graip.ai  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jermakov/  email: hello@...

Interview with Sandeep Jain, CEO & Co-Founder of MonetizeNow

September 04, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43 MB

In this episode you hear from Sandeep Jain, CEO & Co-Founder of MonetizeNow. This is a company that offers a unified CPQ, Billing and Usage Solution for B2B SaaS businesses in the tech industry. Sandeep lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area and here he talks about their solution approach, their solution architecture, an investment they received, competitors they see, their focus on the P in CPQ and much more. web: www.monetizenow.io  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sa...

Interview with Steve Clune, CEO of CLD Partners

August 28, 2022 10:30 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MB

In this episode you hear from Steve Clune, CEO of CLD Partners. They offer a quoting product for Professional Services called PSQuote. Steve lives with his family in Virginia and has 25+ years of business experience with ERP Solutions and is a long-term partner of FinancialForce. Here he talks about their Salesforce native PSQuote solution, what other PSA tools they support, how long it takes to install the solution and much more. web: https://psquote.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin....

Interview with Bill Fox, CEO of Experlogix

August 21, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MB

In this episode you hear from Experlogix CEO Bill Fox and learn more about their CPQ Solution. Bill lives with his family in Birmingham, AL and has an MBA from Harvard. Here he talks about his business experience before he joined Experlogix in 2020, the current business growth and expansion plans of Experlogix, top customer requirements they see, market worries, their relationship to Microsoft and more web: www.experlogix.com  email: [email protected]  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.c...

Summer Break Announcement 2022

July 10, 2022 10:00 - 4 minutes - 6.08 MB

We wish everyone a great summer and announce that we will be back in August with a great lineup of interesting CPQ guests. We also ask you to take to minutes to help us  provide CPQ Podcast Reviews, since that really helps likeminded listeners to find us suggest interesting learning events for CPQ so our listeners can attend them suggest guests for the CPQ Podcast that have something important to say about CPQ  Learn more about CPQ. Every day!

Many CPQ Demos are sub-optimal

July 03, 2022 10:00 - 11 minutes - 16.4 MB

Many CPQ Demos are done each day but many of them are sub-optimal. Why is that and what can be done to improve that? In this episode Frank talks about his experience with CPQ (and Pricing) Demos and provides Tips & Tricks to make better Demos for CPQ Vendors and potential customers. If you have more questions about this contact him at [email protected]  

Interview with Laith Al-Hashimi, Founder & CEO of the Sirocco Group

June 26, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes - 42.8 MB

In this episode you hear from Laith Al-Hashimi, Founder & CEO of the Sirocco Group. His team is providing System Implementation Services for CRM and CPQ Solutions globally. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden and has 20+ years experience. Here he talks about their CPQ Vendor Partners: Salesforce, Tacton and Experlogix, Aftermarket Services, IoT, AI/ML, Subscriptions, customer expectations and much more website: sirocco.se  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laithalhashimi/  email: laith.al...

Interview with Luigi Aditiarama, VP of Product & Strategy at Veloce

June 12, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MB

In this episode you hear from Luigi Aditiarama VP Product & Strategy at Veloce. Luigi lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area and has experience with CPQ for 10+ years. Here he talks about why Veloce is an option for customers with failed CPQ Projects, why Veloce is a high performance option for complex configuration & pricing requirements, what headless CPQ is and much more website: https://www.veloceapps.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigiaditiarama/  email: l...

Interview with Sreekanth Lapala, Founder & CEO of Dextara Digital

June 05, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 41.3 MB

In this episode you hear from Sreekanth Lapala, the founder & CEO of Dextara Digital. Dextara Digital is a unique, India based, company because they are a Salesforce System Integrator, and they also offer a proprietary CPQ Solution. Here Sreekanth talks about their uniquely wide product and service offerings, team growth, their CPQ architecture, the top business requirements they see and more web: www.dextara.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreekanth-lapala-b3a4171/  email: s...

Interview with Kristina Harrington, COO at GenAlpha

May 29, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MB

In this episode you hear from Kristina Harrington, Founder, President and COO of GenAlpha Technologies. Kristina co-founded the company in 2011 and lives near Milwaukee, WI. Since Feb '22 they offer a CPQ in addition to their eCommerce & Aftermarkets Solutions. Here she talks about their new and existing solutions, what top business requirements they see, Data Analytics, omni channel and much more. website: genalpha.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinaharrington/  email: k...

9. CPQ Job & Event Cast - e-world energy & water Congress (Bit2Win)

May 26, 2022 10:00 - 56 seconds - 1.32 MB

If you want to learn more about Bit2Win's  ( https://www.bit2win.com ) omni-channel sales suite plan to attend this industry event in Essen, Germany from June 21-23, 2022.  Learn more about the event @ https://www.e-world-essen.com/en/ 

Interview with Jos Harms and Marcel Jonker from Virtutec BV

May 22, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes - 42 MB

In this episode you hear from Jos Harms and Marcel Jonker from Virtutech BV, this is a Dutch startup company that was founded in 2020. They offer a visual solution (2D, 3D, AR, VR) with 3 different products for Sales & Marketing, mounting processes and Services. Here they talk about their product offering and how they help customers virtutec.io (website will be live soon May 2022) LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcelljonker/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jos-harms-45153ba/  email j...

Interview with Andy Pieroux and Ingmar Hermans from Walpole Partnership

May 15, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MB

In this episode you hear from Andy Pieroux, Founder & Managing Director + Ingmar Hermans, Senior Managing Partner at Walpole Partnership. This IT consultancy is based in the UK + both have 20+ years of business experience. Here they talk about CPQ Solutions they support, the top CPQ related customer requirements they see and much more walpolepartnership.com    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingmarhermans/  https://www.linkedin.com/in/apieroux/  [email protected]    in...

Interview with Emil Westrin, co-Founder & CEO of vloxq

May 08, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MB

In this episode you hear from Emil Westrin, co-Founder and CEO of vloxq. Emil has 8 years of business experience and lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Here he talks about Vloxq's challenges as a CPQ startup founded in 2020, their Products & Services, what they mean by "Plug & Play CPQ", what an ideal customer is for their solution, how long a typical implementation project is, what 3rd party solutions they integrate with and more vloxq.com  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/emil-at-vloxq/  ...

Interview with Brian McCann, Chief Product Officer at CloudSense

May 01, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MB

In this episode you hear from Brian McCann, Chief Product Officer at CloudSense. Brian has 30+ years of business experience and lives in Austin, TX. Here he talks about Cloudsense's Products & Services, why Gartner did not have them in their latest MQ Report, how the Vlocity acquisition by Salesforce impacted them, growth areas he sees, most common challenges their customers experience and much more. www.cloudsense.com  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianmccann2/  email brian.mcc...

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