CPQ Podcas‪t‬ Frank Sohn

Marin Ukalovic is VP + Chief Product Owner, Digital Configuration Lifecyle and has been with SAP since 1999. He lives with his family in Walldorf, Germany. In this interview he talks about co-authoring 5 books the Configuration Workgroup (CWG), various SAP configuration products including Advanced VC (AVC), commerce, subscriptions, APIs and much more

- CWG: configuration-workgroup.com/
- email: sapvc@sap.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marin-ukalovic-7b8a5511/

This is an episode where I share a short outlook of what you can expect from the CPQ market in 2021. Main capabilities discussed are
1. CPQ + eCommerce/self serve
2. Integration with other solutions + data integration
3. More CPQ+ Solutions
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Brian Lesczynski is Director of CPQ at Lippert and lives in Fort Worth, TX. He has been working with the Infor CPQ Solution for 13+ year. In this interview he shares his experience working with Infor CPQ, he talks about how and where CPQ is used, how many users use Infor CPQ, he provides some tips and tricks regarding CPQ maintenance, talks about selecting and implementing a CPQ Solution and much more.  

-website: https://www.lci1.com 

-LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-lesczynski-45b067

Eirik Gudmundsen is the CEO of Xait and lives with his family in Stavanger, Norway and Kevin Geraghty, former CEO of Blueprint CPQ, lives in Cheltenham, England. Xait recently acquired Blueprint CPQ. In this interview Eirik and Kevin talk about the acquisition process, their combined product offering, their future plans, that they closed the acquisition without meeting in person and much more.

Website: www.xait.com

email:
Eirik: Eirik.Gudmundsen@xait.com
Kevin: kevin.geraghty@xait.com 

Protik Mukhopadhyay is a Quote-to-Cash (QTC) expert that works and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this episode he is talking about his new book "Reimagine Enterprise Sales Systems". This book is for QTC practioners and covers topics like data readiness, subscriptions and their importance for B2B, pre-packaged SI Solutions, Process Mining and much more and we also talk about the process of writing and publishing this book.   

website: www.protikm.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/proti

Lakshmi is the Infosys CPQ Delivery Head based in Banaglore, India and Anand is the CPQ Chief Architect based in Frankfurt, Germany. In this interview they talk about what CPQ related services Infosys offers, how they work with various CPQ Vendors, for which CPQ capabilities they see increased demand March and much more
- email: eng_services@infosys.com
- LinkedIn Lakshmi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshminarayanan-c-8a887618/
LinkedIn Anand : https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-kothalkar/