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The Urgency of Services Optimization in a Competitive Landscape
In today's rapidly evolving business environment, service organizations are facing an unprecedented level of complexity and competition. To remain viable and thrive, businesses must maximize the return on their services portfolios. This is especially critical for...
How Services Quoting Drives Business Growth
Automation has long been recognized for its potential to increase productivity. Traditionally, this meant identifying repetitive tasks, or those requiring high manual labor. The type of scenarios that work for product-based processes and quoting, with fixed...
Provus AI Brings Advanced Analytics to Services Quoting
AI’s influence is extending fast across everyday life, our devices, and how we do business. Most businesses (77%) allocate specific funding for AI, while 35% of CROs are forecast to have centralized generative AI operations teams. For many services quoting...
Provus Announces AI Revenue and Margin Goal Seek Capabilities for Services CPQ
SARATOGA, CA – August 21, 2024 – Provus Inc., a leading provider of AI-powered Services CPQ solutions, is announcing new AI capabilities anchored by AI Goal Seek. AI Goal Seek is groundbreaking Services CPQ technology that will generate pricing scenarios for...
Provus announces sponsorship of Dreamforce 2024
It's that time of year again. Dreamforce is just around the corner, and we are thrilled to announce that Provus will be a proud sponsor of Dreamforce 2024. Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual flagship event and the world’s largest tech conference, is famous for bringing...
Services CPQ vs Product CPQ: Choosing the Right Path
CPQ has come a long way since its birth in the early 1980s. That’s when ‘configurators’ started becoming part of the sales process. These allowed teams to offer customers the chance to configure their product while matching product information held in emerging ERP...
Provisio Selects Provus Services CPQ to Drive Speed and Efficiency in Sales Process
SARATOGA, CA – July 11, 2024 – Provus, Provus, a leading provider of AI-powered Services CPQ solutions, today announced that Provisio, a leader in human services consulting, has chosen Provus as its preferred Services CPQ partner. Provisio Streamlines Quoting...
TSIA TECH on Deck Webinar: Actionable AI – Building a Winning Sales Strategy for Services
We are excited to partner with TSIA, the leading advisory firm that helps companies solve critical business challenges across the entire customer lifecycle, for an upcoming webinar on Friday, July 26, 2024. The rise of AI is transforming the sales and revenue...
Services CPQ Series: Quantitative Scenario Modeling
Are you about to send over a first proposal? You’ll know it’s unusual to get acceptance straightaway. It’s more usual to get a reply along the lines of, ‘Hey, can you make a few changes?’ Maybe other stakeholders are now involved, with different priorities. That can...
Services CPQ Series: Advanced Pricing Capabilities
The process of scoping and pricing professional services has more moving parts than ever before. We’re in a world that’s gone way beyond the product-led landscape of orders, renewals, subscriptions, and discounts. At the same...
Asaph Advisors Podcast with CEO Mahesh Baxi on Accelerating Professional Services Sales with CPQ
Provus CEO and Co-Founder Mahesh Baxi recently appeared on the Asaph Advisors Podcast with Mark Sloan to discuss accelerating professional services sales with CPQ. Starting a new business The problems CPQ solves for PS organizations How to make the case for CPQ What...
Part 1: Mind the Gap Series: Connecting Services CPQ to Professional Services Automation
There are many moving parts for Professional Services Organizations (PSOs). You’ve got to identify leads and opportunities. Check up on the progress of current milestones and schedules. Then, forecast ROI and resource allocation for future projects. All that, often...