Fliptop (Discontinued Product) vs. Vendavo

1. Be sure to specify and understand the impact on your model when looking at volume versus value factors. 2. Ask all your potential vendors about set-up costs and time. 3. Understand, with any predictive model, how it will affect both marketing and sales - a predictive tool should bring the two closer together. 4. Remember - its predictive, not all-knowing and brief/train your teams accordingly.

Vendavo is well suited for large organizations with complex pricing scenarios. Vendavo is very flexible to implement to different businesses. Global processes can be done in Vendavo with a single instance on most occasions with diverse business processes without compromising much of the current business processes.

Incentivized

• Listening to customers - very responsive customer success team.
• Working with customers to build the most predictable model.
• Easy to set up and get useful reporting quickly.

• Graphical interfaces.
• It provides the ability to drag and drop analyzing items (dimensions, measures).

Incentivized

• A little more explanation of how different factors can affect the model in terms of the customer objectives - they've really listened here and have really focussed on the changes we needed to make.
• Update specific fields/features e.g. multi-currency support (now done), non-confusing field names (being released), custom fiscal years for reporting (coming I believe)

• Determining names of customers... i.e. Does Conoco own Conoco Phillips....

Incentivized

Level of customer support, as well as customer support in terms of moving the needle. The Vendavo user forums have been a great way to learn more as well as connect with other industry leaders.

Incentivized

We pushed Fliptop through to preferred vendor because (at that time):

• Fast set up time with zero cost
• Public appexchange listing (passed salesforce security)
• Demonstrated best understanding of our requirements

I have not used any other products similar to Vendavo.

Incentivized

• Before fliptop around 50% of our MQLs were in lower quality accounts, that number has reduced to around 15%.
• We have identified the key market segments that drove over 50% of our growth last year.
• Real focus for the marketing teams and intel on where to focus key email and nurture campaigns.

• Manage our competitiveness and identify pricing opportunities.

Incentivized