We are delighted to have been included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Configure, Price and Quote Application Suites for the fourth consecutive year. We believe this recognition reinforces our commitment and dedication to making sales processes faster and easier.
“In our opinion, being included by Gartner in this Magic Quadrant for the fourth consecutive year is a great source of pride and is further confirmation, in addition to what we know from our customers, that we are moving in the right direction”, Says Gianluca Cagiano, CEO & Founder of Apparound.
According to Gartner, “this Magic Quadrant evaluates 17 vendors to help application leaders find the best one for their needs”.
As stated by Gartner, “Configure, price and quote application suites enable sales organizations to automate and optimize the creation of quotes and capture of orders.” Furthermore, according to Gartner, “core capabilities include:
- Support for the digital commerce channel via prebuilt UIs, integrations and/or APIs.
- Support for sales users, including integration with salesforce automation solutions.
- Searching for and selecting products and services to sell.
- Selection of product options and features.
- Automatic pricing of the chosen products and services.
- Negotiation of terms and proposal generation.
- Extensibility framework that enables a company to set up the application for its
processes, products and services.”
The effects of the Covid 19 pandemic have highlighted a change in consumer habits and companies are increasingly understanding the importance of reviewing business strategies by digitizing business processes and changing their approach to sales. In this way they can involve the customer more and optimize the effectiveness of each negotiation, thus allowing the company to evolve and be one step ahead of its competitors. All of this is possible only by investing in new technologies.
According to Gartner, “in 2020, the CPQ application market grew by 14.1% to an estimated $1.44 billion”. We believe this growth is due to the fact that CPQ software is a solution that rather than rendering the sales process more complicated, makes the work of the sales network easier and more efficient and is a solution that can easily be integrated into customer relationship management systems (CRM ). We consider, Apparound’s goal, whose value has also been recognized by leading industry analysts, is to continue to support companies in their innovation and growth process by offering them a product that is simple and intuitive to use.
*Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Configure, Price and Quote Application Suites”, Mark Lewis, Dayna Ford, October 21, 2021.
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