SteelBrick Launches SteelBrick CPQ for the Salesforce1 Mobile App, on Salesforce1 AppExchange, the World's Leading Business Apps Marketplace

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SteelBrick today announced it has launched SteelBrick CPQ for the Salesforce1 Mobile App on Salesforce1 AppExchange, helping accelerate business transformation for the connected world. SteelBrick provides a powerful, out-of-the-box Configure Price Quote (CPQ) application, enabling sales reps to reduce errors, improve productivity, and close more deals. This is the first and only CPQ app that is delivered on the Salesforce1 Customer Platform, enabling sales organizations that use both SteelBrick CPQ and Salesforce to configure products and services, manage pricing, and create and deliver professional-looking proposals and quotes anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Leveraging the power of Salesforce1 Customer Platform, the new social, mobile and cloud customer platform built to transform sales, service and marketing apps, SteelBrick CPQ is immediately available for test drive and deployment on the Salesforce1 AppExchange at www.appexchange.com.

Comments on the News

• "Sales teams are increasingly mobile," said Godard Abel, CEO of SteelBrick. "They need the ability to generate accurate quotes and proposals anytime, anywhere, on any device. With SteelBrick CPQ, sales teams can be more productive, more competitive, and close more deals -- all from their mobile devices. SteelBrick CPQ is a native Salesforce app, so it delivers a familiar experience for Salesforce users, ensuring rapid and complete adoption."
• "Companies are looking to transform the way they build apps to better engage with customers in today's social, mobile and connected world," said Ron Huddleston, senior vice president ISV and Channels, salesforce.com. "With solutions such as SteelBrick CPQ built on the Salesforce1 Platform, now customers can get their apps and data in one place, where everything is connected and in the context of their business."

Salesforce1 – The Customer Platform to Connect with Customers in a Whole New Way

Every day millions of new products, apps and devices are connecting to the Internet. By 2020, there will be more than 50 billion connected things—from smartphones and wearables to jet engines and ultrasound machines. And behind every product, every app and every device there is a customer. Welcome to the Internet of Customers—a revolution where companies will connect every employee, partner, product, app and device to their customer using the power of social, mobile and cloud. Salesforce1 is the next generation social, mobile and cloud platform for this new connected world—the first customer platform built to transform the world's #1 sales, service and marketing apps for the Internet of Customers. Salesforce1 delivers all the speed, agility and power of Salesforce, re-engineered for the needs of today's connected business. With 10X more APIs and services, companies can also build and customize the next generation of connected apps faster than ever before using the Salesforce1 Customer Platform. By connecting and customizing everything—every app, every device, every customer data source, every experience—companies can sell, service and market to customers in a whole new way.

Product Key Features

With SteelBrick CPQ for Salesforce1, sales teams never miss an opportunity to deliver professional and accurate quotes or proposals to customers, whether they are in the office or on the road. Key features include:

• Select and Configure - Guided Selling directs sales reps to the best solution by asking questions about customer needs, so new reps become productive quickly, which is a huge win for high-growth companies. The SteelBrick CPQ Product Configurator also identifies cross-sell and upgrade opportunities.
• Price and Quote – Generate customer-friendly quotes easily and accurately.
• Proposals and Contracts – Create professional looking, branded proposals.
• Add-ons and Renewals – Streamline and automate renewals for existing customers.
• Fast Implementation – Typically two to four weeks for most customers.
• 100% Native on Salesforce - Users can leverage the Salesforce Platform for customization and administration.

Additional Information

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About the Salesforce1 AppExchange

The Salesforce1 AppExchange is the world's leading business apps marketplace. With more than 2,000 partner apps and 2 million customer installs it is the most comprehensive source of social and mobile cloud apps for business. The Salesforce1 Customer Platform is the new social, mobile and cloud customer platform for building next generation apps, powering Salesforce CRM, and more than 3 million custom apps built by customers and partners. Apps built on the Salesforce1 Platform can be easily distributed and marketed through AppExchange.

Salesforce, Salesforce1, AppExchange and others are among the trademarks of salesforce.com, inc.

About SteelBrick

SteelBrick provides easy-to-use Configure Price Quote (CPQ) apps for high-growth customers. SteelBrick CPQ is 100% native on the Salesforce platform, so users can create accurate and professional sales quotes quickly and error-free, without leaving the Sales Cloud. Unlike other CPQ solutions that can take a year or more to go live, SteelBrick provides out-of-the box CPQ that simply works, with most customer implementations completed in just a few weeks. Many high-growth companies use and rely on SteelBrick CPQ including Cloudera, HootSuite, Nutanix and Nimble Storage.  For more, go to www.steelbrick.com.

SOURCE SteelBrick