What is CPQ and Why Should it Matter?

What is CPQ and Why Should it Matter?

CPQ helps companies configure product offerings, price them and produce quotes and proposals.  It is functionality used by sales people and can be extended to customers via a self-serve portal.  Ultimately, it is about minimizing the quoting effort and accurately conveying the specific requirements for downstream processes.  As can be seen in the acronym itself, CPQ involves multiple disciplines.  The elements of a quote include …

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    Aras’ Community Event (ACE) 2015 Observations

    Aras’ Community Event (ACE) 2015 Observations

    Part of Aras’ mantra is “Aras is Different”.  As a long time participant in the PLM and engineering software space, this phrase should not to be dismissed as mere marketing hype.  It’s the real deal.  I used to think that Aras was playing catch up and slugging it out in the shadows of the long time established players such as Dassault, PTC and ...

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    February 21, 2012 – The vdR Group Joins the Aras Partner Program

    February 21, 2012 – The vdR Group Joins the Aras Partner Program

    ANDOVER, Mass. and Orange, CA – February 21, 2012 – Aras®, the leading enterprise open source Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software solution provider, today announced that The vdR Group, an open source technology development and integration services company located in Orange, California, has joined the Aras Partner Program. The vdR Group applies its Optimize family of custom enterprise application integration (EAI) services to provide users of the Aras PLM suite and other open source solutions with efficient access to critical data, accelerated time to market and improved profitability.

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