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Salesforce CPQ End of Sale: enjoy the rest of summer, but decide before fall planning locks.

Salesforce CPQ End of Sale: enjoy the rest of summer, but decide before fall planning locks.

by Daniel Kube | Jul 31, 2026 | Blog Post, CPQ Strategy, salesforce alternative

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...
What Is a Commercial Control Plane?

What Is a Commercial Control Plane?

by Daniel Kube | Jul 14, 2026 | AI and Finance, Blog Post, Revenue Architecture, Revenue Lifecycle Management, salesforce alternative, Thought Leadership

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...
Who Owns the Price When an Agent Quotes It? The RevOps Operating Model for the Agentic Era

Who Owns the Price When an Agent Quotes It? The RevOps Operating Model for the Agentic Era

by Daniel Kube | Jul 7, 2026 | Blog Post, Revenue Architecture, Revenue Lifecycle Management, Thought Leadership

Published September 7, 2026  ·  12 minute read TL;DR: Sophisticated RevOps teams already separate simple from complex. AI agents let you take that separation to the next level. You run the simple lane on induction for precision at scale, while protecting the complex...
Everything After the Quote Is Either Evidence or Assumption

Everything After the Quote Is Either Evidence or Assumption

by Daniel Kube | May 12, 2026 | Blog Post, Gartner Finance Symposium, Revenue Architecture, Thought Leadership

Autonomous Finance Meets Complex Selling: Why Immutable Audit Trails Are Now Non-Negotiable for CFOs in 2026   In this article: The Boardroom Diagnostic · Why 2026 Made This Existential · Shadow Pricing · The Convergence · What Immutable Audit Trails Means · The...
AI can generate the quote. Only governed CPQ can protect the margin.

AI can generate the quote. Only governed CPQ can protect the margin.

by Daniel Kube | May 5, 2026 | Blog Post, Thought Leadership

Gartner says 40% of agentic AI projects will fail. The missing piece is CPQ governance. Daniel Kube, CEO of servicePath™, explains why. Executive summary Gartner predicts more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027 due to escalating costs,...
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