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Salesforce CPQ is not end of life. That is the harder problem.

Salesforce CPQ is not end of life. That is the harder problem.

by Daniel Kube | Sep 1, 2026 | AI and Finance, Blog Post, Pricing Strategy, Revenue Innovations, salesforce alternative

Salesforce CPQ end of life has no date, so the decision defaults to later, every year, while the discovery bill grows. Decide at today’s size. Salesforce just took the deadline off the table, and that is the worst news your quoting roadmap has had all year. Read...
Your Q4 quotes are next year’s audit file

Your Q4 quotes are next year’s audit file

by Daniel Kube | Aug 25, 2026 | AI and Finance, Blog Post, CPQ, CPQ Strategy, Office of the CFO, Pricing Strategy, Revenue Innovations

AI made your quotes faster. Gartner’s 2026 data says speed was the wrong half of the problem. Nineteen working weeks remain to fix the right half. Executive summary We bought speed. The constraint was discount authority. And that gap is going into next year’s audit...
The $3.8T PE exit backlog: why cross-selling shouldn’t wait for CRM consolidation

The $3.8T PE exit backlog: why cross-selling shouldn’t wait for CRM consolidation

by Daniel Kube | Aug 12, 2026 | AI and Finance, Blog Post, CPQ Strategy, Pricing Strategy, Thought Leadership

Buyers do not punish different prices. They punish unexplained prices. And the cross-sell thesis in your investment committee deck should not be waiting on a CRM migration. Pricing governance is the difference between price variance a buyer accepts and price variance...
Deterministic AI governance: 5 reasons AI revenue projects fail in 2026, and how to fix each one

Deterministic AI governance: 5 reasons AI revenue projects fail in 2026, and how to fix each one

by Daniel Kube | Aug 7, 2026 | AI and Finance, Blog Post, Revenue Architecture, Thought Leadership

AI can build a quote in seconds. Then a customer asks why the price is what it is, and no one in the room can answer. 40% of enterprises will demote or decommission their autonomous AI agents by 2027, over governance gaps, not technical ones. (Gartner, 2026) That gap...
Your sovereign cloud offer is a catalogue problem, not a data centre problem

Your sovereign cloud offer is a catalogue problem, not a data centre problem

by Daniel Kube | Aug 4, 2026 | Blog Post, CPQ Strategy, Revenue Architecture, Revenue Lifecycle Management

Executive summary Everyone is telling European managed service providers (MSPs) that sovereign cloud is a growth engine. The numbers agree. Gartner forecasts $80 billion in worldwide sovereign cloud infrastructure spending in 2026, with European spending growing 83%...
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