Salesforce Revenue Cloud vs. Tacton Design Automation

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Salesforce CPQ
Score 7.7 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Salesforce Revenue Cloud (formerly Salesforce CPQ or SteelBrick) is built and delivered on the Salesforce Platform and Salesforce1 Mobile App which enables users to create accurate sales quotes quickly and submit error-free orders on the fly from any device.
$30
Per User per Month
Tacton Design Automation
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Tacton Design Automation provides constraint-based and parametric engineer-to-order automation inside SolidWorks, PTC CREO and Autodesk Inventor. With needs-driven design, CAD engineers can configure designs of complex products – including feedback on incompatible choices - and automatically generate complete 2D drawings, 3D models and quote documents. The configurator-powered Tacton Design Automation is designed to propose a solution that's not just buildable, but optimal for the…N/A
Pricing
Salesforce Revenue CloudTacton Design Automation
Editions & Modules
Basic
$30
Per User per Month
Professional
$50
Per User per Month
Enterprise
$75
Per User per Month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Salesforce CPQTacton Design Automation
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Salesforce Revenue CloudTacton Design Automation
Top Pros
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Features
Salesforce Revenue CloudTacton Design Automation
CPQ
Comparison of CPQ features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Revenue Cloud
7.7
32 Ratings
11% below category average
Tacton Design Automation
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Ratings
Quote sharing/sending7.331 Ratings00 Ratings
Product configuration6.232 Ratings00 Ratings
Configuration options6.330 Ratings00 Ratings
Pricing rules7.929 Ratings00 Ratings
Price adjustment8.231 Ratings00 Ratings
Purchase history and open contracts8.424 Ratings00 Ratings
Guided selling/Sales portal6.620 Ratings00 Ratings
CPQ reporting & analytics8.324 Ratings00 Ratings
CPQ-CRM integration9.229 Ratings00 Ratings
Attachments to quotes8.531 Ratings00 Ratings
Order capturing8.114 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
QuoteWerks
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Rhino
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
SAP Sales Cloud
SAP Sales Cloud
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Salesforce Revenue CloudTacton Design Automation
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(48 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.9
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Salesforce Revenue CloudTacton Design Automation
Likelihood to Recommend
Salesforce
What I like best is the ease of use to be able to track all opportunities and quotes in my daily sales tracker I also like the fact that you can reorganize the view for your opportunities. For instance, it is very similar to a spreadsheet where you can filter them by date, dollar amount, name, and several other ways. I found this to be less appropriate when we have to do multiple roles while assigning one task to multiple users. Column resizing within the Quote Line Editor is not supported in the Salesforce mobile app.
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Tacton
For design automation for SOLIDWORKS, I feel Tacton Design Automation is the best solution out there. It's simple to develop and implement for the design/engineering department. But can be implemented within the sales team as well with Tacton CPQ. When a company has products that are modular and/or have many sizing updates, this is where Tacton excels. If you have products that are completely customized, then Tacton or even design automation isn't the best suited for that.
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Pros
Salesforce
  • Salesforce CPQ easily maps to standard and custom fields within the opportunity in SFDC, allowing you to avoid time spent duplicating effort or copying and pasting deal criteria.
  • Salesforce CPQ connects directly to pre-determined price book, making it very easy to provide a proposal based on standard cost and/or add discounts to standard cost and reflect those reductions on the order form as appropriate.
  • Salesforce CPQ provides the ability for administrators to configure workflows for approval based on certain discount %'s on the standard cost, offering a quick and easy way to route automatically through the organization for approval.
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Tacton
  • Tacton has a non-linear solver, meaning it can solve lots of equations without them being is a particular order. This enables the software to be incredibly flexible.
  • Tacton has a great interface to set up configurators for people to use. No knowledge of programming languages is required. The configurator uses equations similar to Excel equations to control what the users options are.
  • Tacton has the ability to easily add lists of data like product lists, beam or pipe sizes that because available for user selections or for calculations.
  • The Tacton configurator also automatically builds the user interface as you set up user inputs making it much easier to set up then competitor software.
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Cons
Salesforce
  • Our Salesforce is very messy, which tells me it's not super easy to clean up.
  • I always have a really hard time removing a contacts from an account - it seems like you can't simply remove the relationship so we have lots of people named DO NOT CONTACT or things of that nature.
  • Sometimes when saving it doesn't seem like things actually save.
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Tacton
  • Layout mode is probably the most lacking aspect of the software (within Tacon Design Automation Engineer). Something so powerful as having modular parts should be more heavily supported. Although, I've heard Tacton is focusing on updating this with better functionality.
  • The constraint editor does not display complex/lengthy constraints very well. I end up using Excel to visually break out in cells the different aspects of the constraint.
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Likelihood to Renew
Salesforce
The company is very easy to work with and is growing by leaps and bounds. We do not anticipate switching vendors anytime in the near future
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Tacton
No answers on this topic
Usability
Salesforce
After the initial set up, end users who are not the most tech savy are generally finding it easy to navigate
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Tacton
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Salesforce
There have been some issues with multi-year pricing of certain products and services which we have been assured will be resolved but I guess are still underway, the support team apart from this has not been needed much and in the rare scenarios, it has been needed the resolutions of conflicts has been prompt and quick, so the overall support would have my high regards for being so helpful and customer-oriented so as to assure good performance of their toolset and customer satisfaction.
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Tacton
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Alternatives Considered
Salesforce
There is no comparison to a fully functional instance of CPQ. Nothing comes close due to the amount of customization and ease of use that CPQ offers once it's fully built out. Other solutions may be easier to build or administer, but for the users and business needs, CPQ is the best solution possible.
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Tacton
Drive Works is the main competitor for the TactonWorks module of Tacton. We actually discovered DriveWorks and purchased it before we discovered Tacton and started to use it. Once we discovered Tacton we liked it so much better we dropped using DriveWorks and switched to Tacton. I think you could accomplish what you need to in DriveWorks, but it is easier to setup in Tacton and Tacton has alot of features that really can make your product configurators nice
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Return on Investment
Salesforce
  • Salesforce CPQ has helped a lot with overall visibility to the quote to order process. Reps have more insight into the business and the business has more insight into Sales Rep interactions. This makes troubleshooting issues much easier.
  • Our reporting capabilities have improved immensely. The ability to easily create fields allows you to capture new data points very easily.
  • Communication in Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce, in general, is a big improvement for our business. The ability to have a chatter feed on any object is very helpful. This can also be used for feed tracking to give some basic change management controls/history.
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Tacton
  • Time to produce submittals went from 1-2 weeks down to a couple of days. Then, once approved, normally to produce the fabrication drawings (70+ unique parts) it would take from 4-6 weeks. We can get it down to as little as a few days.
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Salesforce CPQ Screenshots

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