SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce [NYSE:
CRM], the global leader in CRM, today announced that Gartner, Inc.
has positioned Salesforce as a Leader in its November 2018 Magic Quadrant for Configure, Price
and Quote Application Suites for Salesforce CPQ.
With automated quoting, pricing, contracting and billing
processes, Salesforce CPQ empowers companies to accelerate sales
growth.
"Delivering a fast, automated and integrated CPQ process is
crucial to providing customers with a seamless buying experience,"
said Pascal Yammine, SVP & GM,
Salesforce CPQ & Billing. "Powered by Lightning, Salesforce CPQ
enables teams to quickly generate quotes, proposals and
orders—streamlining the sales cycle and building deeper customer
relationships."
According to Gartner, "configure, price and quote (CPQ)
application suites enable sales organizations to automate and
optimize the creation of quotes and orders for complex,
configurable products or services. CPQ application suites exist
within a larger ecosystem enabling the quote-to-cash business
process. Leading CPQ solutions support the configuration of
products, creation of quotes and capturing of orders across
multiple channels of customer interaction. Those channels include
direct sales, the contact center, points of sale, resellers and
customer self-service."
Additional Information
- The November 2018 Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Configure, Price and Quote Application Suites is
available here
- Learn more about Salesforce CPQ here
- Read the blog post here
Connect with Salesforce
- Follow @salesforce and @SalesforceCPQ on Twitter
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Configure, Price, and Quote
Application Suites. Christina Klock,
Mark Lewis, Melissa Hilbert, 5
November 2018.
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