Apttus has just raised another $55 million in a series E funding round. This comes as a slight surprise as Apttus had been powering towards an IPO as a means to raise additional funds. Preparing for an IPO that hasn’t come Kirk Krappe originally indicated that Apttus would IPO in the first half of 2017,…
Apttus has announced the general availability of its Incentives Compensation Management solution (ICM). The solution provides a comprehensive portfolio for companies to manage their strategic sales programs. The deliverables include commissions, bonuses, SPIFFs and contests for both direct selling teams and its channel initiatives. There are three main foci for the product: Incentives, rebate management…
Following a Salesforce announcement yesterday this could be the best time to start a Salesforce consultancy. The company announced a $50 million SI trailblazer fund from Salesforce Ventures. It is specifically aimed at accelerating the growth of cloud consulting firms. Salesforce also announced the SI Trailblazer Alliance Initiative. In the same way that Salesforce trailhead…
At Apttus Accelerate in San Francisco, Enterprise Times spoke to Kamal Ahluwalia, Chief Revenue Officer at Apttus. Ahluwalia spoke about how Apttus has evolved. It no longer simply delivers applications but aims to deliver outcomes. He explains a three point strategy of how the Sales teams are trained to deliver solution selling into clients. That…
Apttus has brought Snap performance to life with the help of Azure. In creating the Apttus Intelligent Cloud (AIC) on the Azure platform they have enabled the application to scale up for larger and more complex enterprise. The market leader for Quote-to-Cash has received some criticism from customers with 10,000 thousands of products that quotes and…
The keynote at Aptttus Accelerate was gate crashed by Max, the Aptttus virtual assistant. While it is still tagged by the organisation as “the world’s first and only Quote-to-Cash virtual assistant” it became clear that it can become far more than that. Most technical demonstrations at industry events are risky. People often find it challenging to…
Apttus Accelerate started with a training and partner event at AT&T park that was well attended. More than 140 signed up for a room that seated only 100. That the room was full, with people standing in the aisles, is an indication how motivated its partners are to be part of the event. Gopkiran Rao SVP…
Apttus has announced that Lenovo has completed the first phase of implementing its CPQ software. Starting this week Lenovo are using Apttus CPQ in North America to significantly improve their quotation process for clients. Initially the PC group will use Apttus but by July the data centre group will also use the solution. For customers this means…