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Interview with Chirag Gulati, CEO & Chief Architect at RevSolutions

CPQ Podcast - May 19, 2024 12:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode, we dive into the world of CPQ implementations with Chirag Gulati, CEO & Chief Architect of RevSolutions.co. Chirag brings experience working with various CPQ solutions and projects on Salesforce and Conga. Here's what you'll learn: The challenges and rewards of Chirag's exper...

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Interview with Dr. Sebastian Dewhurst, General Manager at EASA Software

CPQ Podcast - May 12, 2024 12:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
This episode features a thought-provoking discussion about using Excel alongside CPQ with Dr. Sebastian Dewhurst, General Manager at EASA Software. We expect this topic to spark passionate views from our listeners! Here's what you can expect to learn: Why EASA Software's customers often prefe...

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Interview with Brion Schweers, SVP Salesforce Revenue Cloud

CPQ Podcast - May 08, 2024 12:30 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this two-part CPQ Podcast episode we explore Salesforce's latest offering: Revenue Lifecycle Management (RLM). Brion Schweers, SVP at Salesforce Revenue Cloud, joins us to unpack RLM's capabilities. Part 1: Building a Flexible Revenue Engine RLM's composable architecture lets you build a...

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Interview with Brian Laufer, VP Strategy at Quotewerks

CPQ Podcast - April 28, 2024 12:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
This episode dives into the world of QuoteWerks CPQ software with Brian Laufer, a QuoteWerks VP with extensive business experience since 2000. Here's what you'll learn: Why Saving Time Matters: Brian explains how QuoteWerks helps businesses streamline processes and free up time. Industry Ag...

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Interview with Suren Reddy, Co-Founder & CEO of Cloudely

CPQ Podcast - April 21, 2024 12:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode of the CPQ Podcast, join me as I chat with Suren Reddy from Cloudely. Suren sheds light on their latest product, "Config," and delves into their System Integration Services tailored for Salesforce, Conga, and Logik.io. Throughout the discussion, Suren covers: The role of artific...

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Interview with John Lehrkind & Tiffany Devlin-Drye from Pierce Washington

CPQ Podcast - April 14, 2024 12:30 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Join us for an interview with Tiffany Devlin-Drye (Principal Consultant) and John Lehrkind (Salesforce Practice Leader) from Pierce Washington! About Pierce Washington System integrator specializing in Salesforce, Logik.io, and Oracle CPQ Backed by private equity investors Team of approxi...

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Interview with Bill Butler, Global Solution Owner for SAP CPQ

CPQ Podcast - April 07, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Join me as I speak with Bill Butler, Global Solution Owner for SAP CPQ at SAP. Bill brings over 25 years of CPQ experience across various vendors like FPX, PROS, and CallidusCloud (now SAP CPQ). He also has leadership experience with system integrator and visual vendor companies. In this episo...

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Interview with John Bruno, VP Strategy at PROS

CPQ Podcast - March 31, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Learn more about the future of sales with AI! This episode features John Bruno, VP of Strategy at PROS, who dives deep into the world of AI-powered CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote). John, a CPQ expert (formerly Forrester Analyst), discusses: How AI is revolutionizing CPQ, boosting margins, and rai...

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Interview with Jan Brolsma, Founder & CEO of elfsquad

CPQ Podcast - March 24, 2024 13:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
This episode features Jan Brolsma, founder and CEO of Elfsquad, a Dutch CPQ vendor focused on small and medium-sized manufacturing companies (mostly up to $200 million annual revenue, and some beyond that) since 2016. Brolsma discusses: The impact of app development on the CPQ space. How Elfs...

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Interview with Scott Green, Founder & CEO of Profit Drivers

CPQ Podcast - March 17, 2024 13:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Join us for a conversation with Scott Green, a seasoned business leader with over 30 years of international experience. Scott is the Founder & CEO of Profit Drivers, a company specializing in System Integration and pricing strategy services for solutions like Pricefx. They also offer their own ...

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Interview with Puneet Gupta, CEO and Founder of amberflo

CPQ Podcast - March 10, 2024 13:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Puneet, a seasoned leader with over 25 years of experience at Oracle, Amazon, and other industry giants, has a passion for innovation. Living in Saratoga with his family, he's been obsessed with metering, billing, and CPQ/Quoting solutions for over a decade. This passion led him to launch his se...

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Interview with Sarika Garg, Co-Founder & CEO of cacheflow

CPQ Podcast - March 03, 2024 13:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Sarika brings over 20 years of experience from companies like SAP and Ariba, along with startup insights, to discuss cacheflow's "deal closing platform." This platform offers CPQ capabilities specifically designed for SaaS businesses, along with features like deal room, subscription management, ...

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Interview with Dipesh Biswas, WisKey LLC Founder & Book Author

CPQ Podcast - February 25, 2024 13:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Join us on this episode as we explore the dynamic world of subscriptions, AI, and CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) alongside Dipesh Biswas, founder of WisKey LLC and author of an upcoming book. With over 30 years of consulting experience for firms like PwC, Deloitte, Cognizant, and Wipro, Dipesh br...

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Welcome to the 300th episode of the CPQ Podcast!

CPQ Podcast - February 18, 2024 13:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
To mark this milestone, we've prepared something special. We're thrilled to present excerpts from our recent webinar titled "Thought Leader Summit Series - Unleashing the Power of Visuals in CPQ." Featuring prominent figures from the CPQ and visual realms such as CDS Visual (a Dover company), El...

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Interview with Josh Nelson, Co-Founder & CEO of High Tide Consulting (Salesforce Revenue Cloud)

CPQ Podcast - February 11, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode we dive into the world of Salesforce Revenue Cloud with Josh Nelson, Founder & CEO of High Tide Consulting. Josh packs a decade of CPQ experience gained through diverse roles. He started as a CPQ customer at Lexmark, tackling the implementation of Oracle CPQ. Then, at Traction on...

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Interview with Walter Wijnands, CEO of Sposea

CPQ Podcast - February 04, 2024 13:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Get ready to hear from Walter Wijnands,CEO of Sposea, a Pricing Solution Provider with headquarters in the Netherlands. Walter has 30+ years of business expertise. In this episode he talks about starting Sposea in 2016 changing from an on-prem solution to a cloud solution in 2018 his wife a...

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Interview with Ryan Lott, Founder & CEO of Neocol

CPQ Podcast - January 28, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Get ready to hear from Ryan Lott, Founder & CEO of Neocol, a Salesforce Revenue Cloud system integrator experiencing explosive growth! In just 3 years, Neocol has quadrupled its team, driven by Ryan's 20+ years of business expertise. He's based in Las Vegas and Nashville, and in this episode, he...

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Interview with Nishit Rawat, Founder & CEO of Bluvium

CPQ Podcast - January 21, 2024 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode you hear from Nishit Rawat, Founder & CEO of Bluvium. Nishit has 20+ years of business experience and founded Bluvium in 2015. Here he talks about the services his Salesforce Revenue Cloud focused lead-to-cash Consulting business offers, proprietary products they offers to simpli...

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Interview with Mike Bristol, Director Product Management at Infor CPQ

CPQ Podcast - December 17, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode you hear from Mike Bristol, Director Product Management at Infor, about their recent Infor CPQ Connect 2023 event in Columbus, OH. Mike has 30+ years of business experience and lives with his family in Longmont, CO. Here he talks about the purpose of this event, the roadmap that ...

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Interview with Daniel DeRosa (Chief Product Officer) and Kiana Mostajabian (Director Product Management) of Revalize Software

CPQ Podcast - December 10, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode you hear from Daniel DeRosa (Chief Customer Officer) and Kiana Mostajabian (Director Product Management) of Revalize Software. Daniel has 30+ years of executive leadership experience and recently joined Revalize and Kiana has worked with Configure One CPQ since before the acquisi...

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Interview with Chris DiEllo, VP of Business Development at Engineering Intent

CPQ Podcast - December 03, 2023 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode, Chris DiEllo, Vice President of Business Development at Engineering Intent, shares his insights on the company's CPQ solution called KBridge (short for Knowledge Bridge). With well over 30 years of business experience, Chris, who resides in Florida, spent 20 years with Configure...

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Interview with Tim Fraser, CCO at Forsys

CPQ Podcast - November 27, 2023 16:09 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Tim Fraser, Chief Customer Officer at Forsys, shares his insights on the company's CPQ solutions, proprietary products, and the role of data in sales success. With over 35 years of experience in the industry, Tim Fraser has a wealth of knowledge to share about CPQ solutions and how they can help...

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Interview with John Banks (CEO and Founder) and Sean Joyce (Head of Go-To-Market) of Continuous Technologies

CPQ Podcast - November 19, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode you hear from John Banks (CEO & Founder) and Sean Joyce (Head of Go-To-Market) of Continuous Technologies which have a combined 45+ years of business experience. Here they talk about usage consumption pricing models, their relationship with Salesforce, credit burndown, scaling th...

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Interview with Charles Bensoussan, Visiativ CPQ Advisor & former President & CEO of Techform

CPQ Podcast - November 12, 2023 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode you hear from Charles Bensoussan, President & CEO of Techform, a company he founded in 2000 and sold to Visiativ in 2023. Charles has 25+ year of business experience and is based near Toulouse, France. Here he talks about the former Techform (now Visiativ CPQ) solution, results ...

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Interview with Parag Jagdale, Co-Founder & CEO of Unific

CPQ Podcast - November 05, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode you hear from Parag Jagdale, Co-Founder & CEO of Unific. His company just released a new CPQ Solution called Quotific CPQ. Parag has 20+ years of business experience and is based in Akron, OH. Here he talks about their new CPQ Solution, the investment they raised in 2016, their H...

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Interview with Meredith Schmidt (EVP, GM) & Brion Schweers (SVP) of Salesforce

CPQ Podcast - October 29, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode you hear from Meredith Schmidt (EVP & GM) and Brion Schweers (SVP) of Salesforce which have a combined 55+ years of business experience! Here they talk about the latest Salesforce Revenue Cloud release as well as upcoming releases that are expected to bring big changes, Dreamforc...

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Interview with Sri Nagavarapu, Sr. Director of Business Applications at Crowdstrike

CPQ Podcast - October 22, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode you hear from Sri Nagavarapu, Sr. Director of Business Applications at Crowdstrike. Sri has 20+ years of business experience and was with companies like PwC, Splunk, Brocade and Tech Mahindra before he joined Crowdstrike in 2022. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his fa...

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Regularly learn more about CPQ with two new event types

CPQ Podcast - October 15, 2023 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
We are excited to announce two new events we will start soon: CPQ Solution Deep Dives CPQ Thought Leader Summits CPQ Solution Deep Dives: Provide information about a typical customer journey with a specific CPQ Solution from selecting a solution to implementing that solution to the experienc...

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Interview with Giacinto Mozzetta, VP Product Marketing at Bit2Win

CPQ Podcast - October 08, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode you hear from VP Product Marketing Giacinto Mozzetta. Giacinto is based in Rome, Italy and has 20+ years of business experience and joined Bit2Win in 2015. Here he talks about the bit2win suite of products, their multi-cloud solution, integration with Microsoft Dynamics, a new En...

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Interview with Kyle Kolich, VP & GM of Product at Zuora

CPQ Podcast - October 01, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
In this episode you hear from Zuora VP & GM of Product Kyle Kolich. Kyle has 20+ years of experience and was with companies like Accenture, Deloitte and Salesforce before he joined Zuora in 2011. He lives with his family in New York City, NY. Here he talks about Zuora CPQ, integrations with eCom...

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