CPQ & Solution Selling

Accelerate sales growth across your organization

Optimize your sales processes, launch products faster and improve quote accuracy with a single, integrated platform on Salesforce. CloudSense helps you sell more, faster.

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 Go to market in a third of the time, sell four times faster and boost sales by 24%

As the telecommunications industry landscape becomes more competitive, offerings become more complex, and customers demand faster and more accurate quotes, players in the industry need access to advanced tools to ensure success.

CloudSense's Configure Price Quote (CPQ) software allows businesses to configure product bundles of any complexity, calculate prices instantly, and generate quotes in minutes.

By automating and optimizing these processes, CloudSense can help your sales teams sell complex solutions faster and more accurately. 

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Configure

Combine products and services - from simple to complex - into commercial offerings within predefined rules.

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Price

Ensure accurate pricing, mediating offers, discounting and other rules, no matter the product configuration.

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Quote

Generate quotes quickly with prices that are both fair to the customer and profitable for your business.

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With complex quotes taking hours - even days - proposals filled with errors and deals requiring months until close, CPQ is considered to be a B2B must-have in an already cumbersome sales tech stack.

CPQ reduces the bottlenecks associated with complex selling, letting you create bespoke product and service bundles to suit all of you customers' needs, quickly and at the right price.

 

Cut sales cycle time by 70% while boosting deal conversion and average order value

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Improve sales conversion rates

Dynamic deal scoring helps you prioritise the deals that will be most profitable and likely to convert

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Close more deals, faster

A single, consolidated sales process that accelerates deal execution and makes smarter decisions

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Increase average order value and margin

Benefit from guided selling and tailored cross-sells and up-sells

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Improve revenue and pipeline forecasting

See what's in the order bank, how long it's been there and know when revenue will reach your accounts

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Skyrocket sales productivity

Automate sales processes and remove unnecessary admin and the reliance on manual spreadsheets

What is CPQ?

Configure Price Quote (CPQ) software can bridge the gap between your customers’ escalating expectations and your current sales experience.

This guide covers everything you need to know about CPQ, including:

  • What CPQ is and how it has evolved
  • Common reasons for implementing CPQ
  • Core CPQ capabilities
  • Finding a future-proof CPQ solution
  • CPQ benefits – for sales and the rest of your business
  • Getting your CPQ implementation right

Configure Price Quote: The definitive guide

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Why choose CloudSense as your CPQ provider? 95% of CloudSense users say we are critical to their success 

 

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Over 100 successful transformations carried out for some of the worlds largest companies

"CloudSense enables our internal and external partners to sell more, easily. By automating our sales processes our lead-to-order time is cut by 25%."
 
Danielle de Haes, Enterprise CRM Manager

Lead-to-order time reduced by 25%

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With CloudSense, A1 Telekom Austria can configure its larger sophisticated B2B deals faster, processing 7,000 products in 8 minutes. A1 Telekom Austria can now deliver 4 B2B journeys in only 3 months.

Customer offers configured up to 3x faster

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"The CloudSense platform has saved us a lot of work and time. The same goes for crediting with invoices, in particular installment invoices. This was a manual process that is now fully automated."

Marvin Walstra, Manager of Back Office Systems

Over 25% reduction in costs

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Glossary - everything you need to know about commercial order management systems

What is an Order Management System (OMS)?

Order Management refers to the series of actions a business undertakes from when a potential order is first created, to the moment a customer receives their desired product or service to the customer.

An Order Management System is a platform used to fulfill orders and navigate order changes accurately and efficiently. 

From order entry and inventory management to fulfillment and the post-sale experience – an OMS helps you manage the end-to-end customer journey.  

Read our guide, Order Management explained in 8 steps

What is Quote-to-Cash (Q2C / QTC)?

Quote-to-Cash refers to the management of the end-to-end customer lifecycle. Right from a prospect showing intent to buy, to a business collecting the revenue. 

The process covers the multiple steps between generating a quote, with Configure Price Quote software, to accepting and recognizing a customer's money in your billing system. 

What is a Commercial Product Catalog?

A Product Catalog should hold all the commercial product information your teams need to build, define and map new product offerings, while understanding business rules and interdependent products.

It gives you a centralized view of your products, empowering you to easily configure, deploy and manage products, services and commercial offerings.

Want to learn more? Check out our guide 4 reasons your organization needs a unified commercial product catalog

What is Customer Relationship Management?

Customer Relationship Management is a technology used to manage interactions with customers and prospects. A CRM helps build and nurture customer relationships and streamlines processes to boost sales, improve customer service and increase profitability. 

Businesses often extend the functionality of their CRM with complementary technology that can better fulfill specific needs. 

Salesforce is the world's leading CRM - you can read why our platform is salesforce native here.

What is the difference between Digital Commerce vs eCommerce?

Digital Commerce is the buying and selling of products and services using the internet including all of the marketing activities involved in the transactions. 

eCommerce is online selling. 

For more on Digital Commerce, check out these 37 Digital Commerce statistics worth knowing

Does CloudSense run on Salesforce?

SFDC stands for "Sales Force Dot Com". Salesforce is a software company that specializes in Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

It offers a host of cloud-based business applications for companies to use to stay connected to their customers, partners and prospects. 

Read why CloudSense is Salesforce native

What is Minimum Viable Product (MVP)?

MVP is the acronym for Minimum Viable Product. An MVP takes a product to market with basic features, but enough to be usable by customers. Feedback can then be collected to inform the rest of the product development. This approach saves time working on features that may not turn out to be useful.

We cover the importance of an MVP and working iteratively in our guide, The principles of a successful digital reinvention

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