Experlogix CPQ vs. IBM Sterling Configure, Price, Quote

The sales and service process is very it’s best suited. Limited towards other home custom entities.

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Were it not for the fact that IBM CPQ lacks mobile and tablet applications, I would have recommended it 100%. However, I still have that 99% recommendation rate since this solution has saved us a lot by allowing us to close more sales within a short period by creating a channel where we collaborate with customers by offering coupons, sending price lists and orders.

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• It stores the products which the company has and from sending of quotes to delivery is taken care of by Salesforce through automation.
• It has standard objects such as a price book which handles the price of the product and partners will be able to view the price of the product and see the quantity available for them and orders can be placed as per the price book.
• Partner's data will be stored in the CPQ and as per the partner discount and volume discounts will be automatically provided at the final billing which is done through automation
• Product features object will have the information of the product which business sells who's the parent is product and can give a high-level view to the customer what the product is all about. Making purchasing easy for the partner
• Quotes and subscriptions will be managed by the CRM itself and using the automation rules the product order will be captured and product delivery will be maintained

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• Firstly, IBM CPQ makes it easy for customers to make rapid products purchases through configuration, pricing and ordering processes.
• Centralizing selling procedure in one platform by communicating products pricing to clients.
• Improving ROI by attracting customers when discounts are introduced on products as well as offering coupons.

• Designer tool, it could still be friendlier.
• UI look designing is not that easy.

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• Unfortunately, IBM CPQ does not have on-premises applications to use while not connected to the internet. This is no more a challenge since we have a robust WIFI connection in our organization premises.

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Timely and courteous response time from IBM Support any time there was a request that needed to be made.

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The standard objects provided by Salesforce are much more apt than SAP. Out-of-the-box functionality provided by Salesforce is much better than any other CRM. If we want to implement some custom workaround we can use Apex scripting which is much similar to java and is very easy for the developers to grab and implement the Login. There is more drag and drop functionality provided by Salesforce CPQ than any other CRM. Overall implementation is easy than SAP.

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There are tons of Configure, Price and Quote software, but I have not used a lot of them. However, unlike IBM CPQ, HubSpot Sales Hub isn’t operated in compliance with any ISO standards and secured in a data center making it easy to leak customer sensitive data such as payment details.

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• More than 10 years ensuring quality quotes from the sales reps.
• Easy copying.
• Quick provides an good overview.

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• Reporting analytics help us to transform static data into real-time insights that enable us to determine company financial standing.
• Data recovery and backup have maintained and governed vital organization data from catastrophes.
• Pricing, configuration, and quotation procedures enables us to automate selling channel that help customers make rapid informed decisions.

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