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....
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...
Executive summary Salesforce CPQ is End of Sale, not End of Life. Nothing shuts off. But Salesforce’s strategic quote-to-cash investment has moved to the Agentforce Revenue Management suite, and Revenue Cloud Advanced is now CPQ’s designated successor. The real...
Quick answer. Net revenue retention can rise while gross profit falls, because NRR measures retained and expanded revenue, not the cost of delivering it. When a contract grows on a price never tied to current cost-to-serve, usage scales revenue and margin erosion...
A 2026 CFO guide to pricing, margin, and AI quotes: where commercial authority should live, and how to prove the rule applied to a deal was the rule Finance intended. Executive summary A commercial control plane is the governed layer where an enterprise defines and...
Finance should never discover the margin. It should design it. The number you defend to the board was decided weeks earlier, in a quote nobody in finance reviewed, by someone whose job that day was to land a signature. By the time it reaches you, the only task left is...
