Latest Salesoptimization Podcast Episodes
ChatGPT talks about CPQ
CPQ Podcast - March 12, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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://c...
Interview with Nils Olsson, Chief Product Officer + Chief Strategy Officer
CPQ Podcast - March 05, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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, combinat...
Interview with Sudhakar Jukanti, Director Business System (GTM) at Confluent
CPQ Podcast - February 26, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 Solut...
Interview with Rick Huebner, CEO & Founder of VISTECH
CPQ Podcast - February 19, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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, t...
Interview with Gianluca Cagiano, CEO & Founder of Apparound
CPQ Podcast - February 12, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 ...
Interview with Ralph Schwarz, Global CPQ Product Manager at Cincom
CPQ Podcast - February 05, 2023 14:38 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 capabiliti...
Interview with John Dionne, President of CloudFirst Labs
CPQ Podcast - January 29, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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)...
Interview with Mahesh Baxi, CEO & Co-Founder of Provus Inc.
CPQ Podcast - January 22, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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,...
Interview with Patrick Johnston, VP Global Sales at Yagna iQ
CPQ Podcast - January 15, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 ...
Welcome to the CPQ Podcast in 2023
CPQ Podcast - January 08, 2023 11:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe 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...
Interview with Kevin Geraghty, CPQ Practice Lead & Managing Director
CPQ Podcast - December 18, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 othe...
Interview with Oz Lavee, CTO of Panaya-Foresight
CPQ Podcast - December 11, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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, h...
Interview with Rob Zesch and Mladen Sudar from Helioz Technologies
CPQ Podcast - December 04, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 Technologi...
Interview with Travis Parigi, Software Entrepreneur
CPQ Podcast - November 27, 2022 16:17 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 co...
Interview with Kuldip Hillyer, Founder & CEO of Kugamon
CPQ Podcast - November 20, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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...
Interview with Rick Hassman, CEO at Lean Tech Advisors
CPQ Podcast - November 17, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis 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 ...
Interview with Chris Shutts, Co-Founder & CEO at Logik.io
CPQ Podcast - November 13, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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", t...
Interview with Sven Krause, former CIO of Hillrom
CPQ Podcast - November 06, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 Chicag...
Interview with Pascal Yammine, CEO Zilliant
CPQ Podcast - October 30, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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...
Interview with Calvin Chow (Q2C Practice Enablement Lead) & Karl Hinderks (CPQ Practice Lead) of Slalom Consulting
CPQ Podcast - October 23, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 custo...
Interview with Boaz Meridor, Co-Founder & Board Member at Uptima
CPQ Podcast - October 16, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 i...
Interview with Mark Sloan, Managing Director at Asaph Advisors
CPQ Podcast - October 09, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 co...
Interview with Chris Hergesell, Managing Director at Accenture
CPQ Podcast - October 02, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 citize...
Interview with Eyal Orgil, CRO at Dealhub.io
CPQ Podcast - September 25, 2022 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 cap...
Interview with Brion Schweers (SVP) and Kevin Whitley (VP) from Salesforce Revenue Cloud
CPQ Podcast - September 18, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 Mana...
Interview with Sergey Jermakov, COO & Co-Founder of Graip.ai
CPQ Podcast - September 11, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 ...
Interview with Sandeep Jain, CEO & Co-Founder of MonetizeNow
CPQ Podcast - September 04, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 ap...
Interview with Steve Clune, CEO of CLD Partners
CPQ Podcast - August 28, 2022 10:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 a...
Interview with Bill Fox, CEO of Experlogix
CPQ Podcast - August 21, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn 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 plan...
Summer Break Announcement 2022
CPQ Podcast - July 10, 2022 10:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe 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 fo...
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