Apttus is a solid CPQ platform that will grow with its customers
September 14, 2016
Apttus is a solid CPQ platform that will grow with its customers
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Apttus Configure Price Quote
Apttus is being used to generate customer proposals for our direct customers in North America. We anticipate having Apttus CPQ rolled out to EMEA and APAC by the end of 2016. The solution is fully integrated with our SFDC sales processes. Our customer proposals include the customization of our product, pricing that may be freely negotiated or based on a contract, up to 4 levels of approval and the presentation of the quote to the end customer.
- Fully integrated with Salesforce.com. Allows for the seamless update of all objects on the SFDC platform. As primary quotes are updated, so to are the opportunities.
- Supports the quoting of product that requires customization that results in a dynamic cost, MSRP and customer price.
- Significant amount of R&D is being invested in to the platform. Many of the items on our wish list have already been incorporated as a standard feature or on the near term roadmap.
- As a SAAS solution with a large amount of R&D being invested, there is functionality that is becoming standard in the platform that previously would have required some customer customization. The incorporation of the standard functionality will require regression testing and migration off of custom code. In the long term this is a positive, but in the short term does create some overhead with testing.
- Apttus has reduced the cycle time between the presentation of the quote to a customer and receiving acceptance of that quote from the customer.
- Apttus allows us to fully integrate accepted orders with our backend ERP resulting in the reduction of labor associated with the rekeying of accepted orders
We selected Apttus CPQ over SteelBrick due to the simplicity of SteelBrick's out of the box pricing and ability to customize quoted products. As a global organization with selling a highly configurable products, we felt the ability of Apttus to handle our requirements as standard functionalty rather than a customization was a material difference between the platforms.