Leading Analyst Firm Evaluates the iPad's Impact on Accelerating the CPQ Process

A report from leading analyst firm Gartner has found that prospecting, account management and configure, price, quote processes will benefit from enterprise investment in the iPad. This June 2011 report by Michael Dunne, distinguished analyst at Gartner, entitled 'iPads: Their Impact on the Top Six Sales Processes' evaluates the growing usage of the Apple iPad, and its effect on sales processes, with CPQ ranking third most likely to provide high impact benefits.

Cameleon Software, the global leader in 'straightway generation' product configurator, quotes, proposals and eCommerce software, provides the first mobile configurator natively built for the iPad, and is available in the App Store. Tightly integrated with Force.com, salesforce.com's enterprise cloud computing platform, the app can be used 'as is' or can as well seamlessly integrate with Salesforce CRM, and work in real-time to help companies quickly and accurately configure their products and services.

"Salesforce.com was a pioneer in sharing a vision of how social and mobile technologies impact business. Cameleon shares our vision as they find innovative ways to make mobile configuration a reality," said Kraig Swensrud, chief marketing officer, salesforce.com.

"Cameleon recently received a positive rating from the Gartner MarketScope for the CPQ market*, and I believe we can proudly call ourselves a 'visionary veteran' in this market," said Cameleon CEO Jacques Soumeillan. "For more than two decades, we have helped clients increase revenue. Today we are the first vendor to offer a mobile configurator native on the iPad and iPhone. This demonstrates our in a class by itself ability to enable our clients to furthermore benefit from their CPQ investment by selling more anywhere and everywhere."

The global leader in then

Cameleon Software is the global leader in "then and there generation" product configurator, quotes, proposals and eCommerce software. Our solutions empower both clients' sales teams to streamline their quote-to-order process and increase sales across all channels and marketing teams to define and launch new products faster. Cameleon's solutions integrate to leading CRM and ERP systems including Salesforce, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft and are available both in Saas or On Premises model. Cameleon as well offers the first mobile product configurator natively built for iPad/iPhone. Rated as Positive in the Gartner Group Marketscope, Cameleon Software is a public company with strong references in industries just as insurance and financial services, telecom, hi-tech and manufacturing including Gras Savoye, SFR, Tait Communications, IMS Health, Technip and ThyssenKrupp.

The MarketScope is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise innovation users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this technology, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.