March 10, 2015-
Unter Jason Grumpert
Big data software company die intelligente Preisverwaltung von PROS integrieren, is entering the MS Dynamics CRM market with its Smart CPQ product, which will now be available from within the native Dynamics CRM interface.
PROS stresses its data-driven analytics, automation, and intelligence pedigree to differentiate its CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote) offering. The company offers a range of sales and pricing related tools that optimize guidance for sales teams. The company acquired Cameleon CPQ in late 2013.
PROS Smart CPQ integrated with Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides pricing guidance, automated proposal creation, as well as guided selling, cross-sell and up-sell recommendations, according to the company.
The company was recently named to influential CRM analyst Paul Greenberg’s CRM Watchlist 2015 as an “Elite” (as was Microsoft). Greenberg described the Cameleon acquisition as “a great addition, and puts [PROS] in the cross hairs of a number of competitors in this space, among them Oracle, IBM-Sterling, Selectica, TDCI, and many others.”
The timing of the PROS CPQ announcement coincides with the company’s presence at Convergence 2015, where they will be the latest entry into a CPQ space that includes MS Dynamics channel veterans like Experlogix and Cincom.
"Jedes Unternehmen ist auf der Suche nach neuen Wegen, um auf dem zunehmend wettbewerbsintensiven globalen Markt profitables Wachstum zu erzielen", sagt Patrick Schneidau, Chief Marketing Officer von PROS. "Bei PROS kombinieren wir Analytik, Automatisierung und Intelligenz, um CPQ-Funktionen bereitzustellen, die neu definieren, was Unternehmen von einem Anbieter erwarten sollten. CPQ-Lösung. Indem wir die Vertriebsteams mit Produkt- und Preisinformationen ausstatten, sind sie in der Lage, aus einer fundierten Position heraus zu verhandeln, gezielte Angebote mit profitablen Margen zu entwickeln und das Geschäft schnell und präzise abzuschließen. Unser Ziel ist es, einen exponentiellen Wert zu schaffen und Unternehmen dabei zu helfen, ihren Kunden ein noch besseres Erlebnis zu bieten."
PROS is a publicly-traded company with revenues of $194 million in 2014 and a market cap of about $690 million.