Executive summary Legacy CPQ is any pricing system that fails one of five conditions, whatever its age. Can someone new read the rules? Can you replay an old quote? Will the logic leave with you? Does each deal teach it something? Is anyone extending it as your market...
Dreamforce 2026 ran from 15 to 17 September at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Salesforce launched AIforce and Koa, its first CRM reasoning model. For revenue teams, though, the message was simpler. AI can recommend a price. Something deterministic has to decide...
On 8 September 2026, OpenAI said roughly 10,000 AI agents had proved, in about 88 hours, that a smooth fluid under a smooth external force can blow up in finite time, one statement inside the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. The Clay Mathematics Institute has...
Ten controls make a CPQ foundation strong. Two tests tell you whether yours is, before you buy the next tool. Executive summary Complex quoting has not changed, and neither has the CPQ foundation underneath it. It still comes down to a catalog somebody maintains,...
How to protect pricing, preserve historical quote logic, and decide whether to renew, renegotiate, or migrate. If your CPQ vendor has been acquired, check your non-renewal deadline first. A CPQ vendor acquisition does not automatically rewrite your agreement....
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...
