Adobe's Creative Cloud for enterprise enables enterprise-scale collaboration through Creative Cloud Libraries, which allow teams to store, share, and sync assets across apps and users, ensuring brand consistency across departments and geographies.
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Conga Advantage CPQ
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Conga CPQ empowers sales, partners, and customers to efficiently configure complex products and services offerings, and provide personalized prices and quotes, utilizing codified product and pricing information - to drive higher win rates and a more pleasurable buying experience. Conga CPQ also helps to maintain a single price book, discounting structure, and quoting structure across all channels. With an API-first approach, configuration, pricing, or quoting…
Creative Cloud for Enterprise is really built for marketing departments and creative teams where the value comes from breadth and collaboration: shared libraries, consistent brand assets across a dozen people, version control on big campaign files, that kind of thing. If your team needs the whole suite and needs everyone working in the same ecosystem, the enterprise licensing model makes sense, and the price reflects real value.
It is well suited to providing quick pricing recommendations, allowing those who are quoting to get our agreements out efficiently. Where I find there may be some limitations is around the details that it uses to establish recommendations and the overrides. For example it would be nice to have a way to set overrides for those criteria like length of agreement, etc. and have it apply across the board
The perceived power strength is that it is supposed to contain CPQ, Contract Management, Document generation and template manipulation, and cash/invoice process all in one wrapped package.
It was developed on the Force.com platform.
They provide multiple releases of their product per year.
Adobe’s enterprise licensing model (VIP, Enterprise Agreement, named users, All Apps vs Single Apps, add‑ons like AI Assistant) is difficult to manage at scale, especially across multiple countries and legal entities.
Adobe’s audit and compliance process is highly punitive in tone and structure, even when issues stem from historical deployments or poor uninstall hygiene.
The cost delta between:
All Apps, Single App, Acrobat + AI Assistant.
Is significant, especially for users that only require sporadic access.
Our number one complaint with Conga CPQ has been speed. In my experience, Conga CPQ is extremely slow, especially for large orders.
In my opinion, the configuration methods of Conga CPQ are outdated and error-prone. One literally puts configurations into string-based custom settings, including the API field names. This often leads to deployment issues and run-time configuration errors.
In my experience, Conga CPQ is everything but simple to develop. You need things like a 12-step pricing callback to support custom pricing.
In my experience, Conga CPQ support is not responsive.
When it comes time to lock in a renewal contract for Conga CPQ, in my experience, they delay engagement, so you are truly behind the 8 ball when it comes time to decide if you are going to continue with Conga CPQ.
There is nothing out there that can compete with Adobe Creative Cloud for Enterprise. It is the gold standard in the industry and there is nothing else that we would ever consider using. I have opted to train people in lieu of finding anything more cost effective, because it's worth it to me for people to use the right tool for the job.
The rating is based on several things: 1) Ongoing support requirements being able to be addressed by cross training existing Salesforce administrators 2) Apttus superior corporate vision for the quote to cash space 3) Apttus execution of the corporate vision with automated agents (Max), and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning offerings to leverage the investment in Configure Price Quote 4) Apttus corporate health and investment in the product line
In terms of overall usability, it ranks really well and is probably a leader in its field. Staff are able to learn the systems straight away due to its in built intuitive interface. Permissions are able to be given at the appropriate level so that it doesn't hold up delivery of assets, but yet keeps security and licence management intact.
Conga CPQ is a great tool but lacks good support and [a] very limited knowledge base which doesn't include day to day errors which users face, thus leading us to support and take more time in turn. Also cart performance can be improved drastically which will enhance the user experience as the user doesn't have to wait for the pricing.
Tier1/tier 2 support can only handle native functionality. Customizations have to be escalated to developers which aren’t included in the support program.
I go ahead and copy the people I directly worked with on implementation for assistance. I would rate them an 8 for support assistance.
Be iterative. Take the opportunity to build a catalog based on how Apttus works well. Learn the tool yourself or use an SI. Take the time to build a configuration / pricing migration tool with X-Author for Excel or roll your own. Stick with OOTB Apttus as any customization will cost you every time a new version is released
There is no comparable tool to Adobe Creative Cloud for Enterprise and its apps. Yes, in some professions you can do fine without it, but the level of produced assets will probably be not of the quality you can produce in Adobe Creative Cloud for Enterprise. The sheer width of the apps, covering all aspects of design and production (Images, videos, documents and others) in one ecosystem is a major advantage that no other company can offer, at this scale and quality.
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.
The ability to generate engineered configurations that is right by construction has reduced the cycle time of the customer engagement. The fact that we are able to guide the process and end up with a validated bill of material reduces the iterations with the customers.
As long as the validations rules are correct the generated bill of material is accurate. We are now looking at using Apttus to perform quality checks in our product rules since the tool is able to test different configurations quickly and efficiently.
Configuration that use to take weeks and consumed valuable engineering resources has been transformed to become a customer facing application that is simple enough for customer to self-service.
