Apttus CPQ is undoubtedly one of
the front runner CPQ solutions in the market. Apart from the standard CPQ
functionalities, it provides some of the extraordinary features to
comprehensively support enterprise’s CPQ business processes. Below are list of
some of these features which are beyond general CPQ needs but adds tremendous
value to the overall CPQ process.
Incentives & Promotions
Apttus added a new promotions and
incentive modules in its CPQ suite. It has capability to server all needs
around promotions and incentives.
Asset Based Ordering (ABO)
In the context of complete
Quote-to-Cash process, Asset management play a key role in the overall customer
journey. Apttus CPQ provides Assets creation, Asset actions (renew, terminate,
swap, change etc), Asset based pricing, Asset based rules and many more
features to support complete assets management process.
Quote Collaboration
Recently Apttus added Quote
Collaboration feature to support complex quote process for enterprise
customers. This feature allows multiple people and teams to work simultaneously
on a single quote and collaboratively contribute to different aspects of it.
Product Management Console
It’s a brand new console to
manage the product life cycle inside Apttus CPQ. It provides highly intuitive
and responsive user interface to create/clone products, manage pricing, rules,
attributes and bundles/options inside the same page.
Full Cost Module
Not only pricing capabilities but
Apttus CPQ only also provides feature to calculate complete cost. This is
highly desirable for Manufacturing and Engineering industries and help in real
margin analysis.
Quote Intelligence
Apttus has started porting some
of the key functionalities in its own intelligent cloud (Apttus Intelligent
Cloud), to overcome the platform limitations and providing more intelligence
around quoting process. The machine learning capability of the intelligent
cloud would help sales rep in intelligently quote products and services for
customer.
eCommerce Platform
Apttus has revamped its B2B eCommerce platform
and provided some of the key features and APIs to make it more user friendly
and self-serviceable. 
Well, Apttus CPQ stands for Configure Price Quote. It is a software tool which is widely used by the sales personnel. So basically with this tool, the sales executives within an organization will have an overall view of different aspects of a project quote and help them to reach to an optimum level when it comes to the price quote. All of this happens without any dependency on the other individuals.
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