CPQ integrations connect and seamlessly embed CPQ software with other business systems, applications, and platforms. These integrations enhance the functionality of CPQ software by enabling it to integrate with other business-critical systems, such as CRM, ERP, ECommerce platforms, and other business applications.
Integrating CPQ with your other business systems enables you to maximize the value of your CPQ solution with streamlined workflows, improved accuracy, and enhanced business efficiency.
The Benefits of CPQ Integration
Integrate to Improve accuracy
On average, manufacturers are only achieving 40% of their potential because they spend too much valuable time manually updating inventory control, production reporting, and pricing reports. Connecting your CPQ solution with other data sources enables you to automatically push and pull data to and from other business systems, reducing the need for manual data input. Seamless automatic data transfer between different teams frees up time to focus on designing, selling, and producing rather than spending time on error-prone manual administration tasks.
Integrate to Streamline workflows
Integrating your CPQ solution with your CRM and ERP systems provides a single source of truth for all your product and customer data. This seamless data flow between teams ensures that business reporting metrics, customer, and product data are accurate and up-to-date and ensures consistency across teams.
Integrate to Improve sales performance
Equipping sales with data-driven account planning, negotiation, relationship-building, and networking capabilities can result in 4-5x higher growth. An integrated CPQ solution gives sales teams a complete set of tools to accurately configure and sell custom product configurations. With access to up-to-date data product pricing, custom options, discounts and up-sell/cross-sell opportunities, quote and sales cycle times are reduced and sales performance increases.
Popular CPQ Integrations
The open architecture of DriveWorks technology makes it easy to connect directly with other business systems, without the need for any 3rd party involvement. These integrations enhance the functionality of your CPQM solution enabling it to push and pull data to and from systems such as CRM, ERP, CAD and e-commerce platforms.
Integrate With CRM
Integrating your CPQ solution with your CRM system enables your sales teams to sell more effectively. With a complete customer view, sales teams can nurture leads through the buying process and quickly configure and price accurate quotes and proposals to close more deals, faster.
Integrate with ERP
Integrating your CPQ solution with your ERP system gives sales teams access to real-time product data, such as pricing, stock levels, production and invoicing. It connects the front-end of your business with the back-of-house operations so different teams across your organization can use a centralized, automated tool. This enables them to collaborate more effectively and produce accurate quotes for your customers.
Integrate with ECommerce
As B2B online purchase volumes continue to increase, integrating your CPQ solution with your e-commerce platform is key to maximizing sales. The integration enables online customers to accurately configure, visualize and buy your custom products all in one place. This streamlines the customer buying experience, increases sales and improves customer satisfaction.
Integrate with Accounting Systems
Integrating your CPQ solution with your accounting software makes it easier for sales reps to quickly put accurate quotes together on standardized templates without having to do complicated manual calculations. This speeds up quoting and invoicing cycles and ensures that sales and billing documents are consistent.
Integrate with CAD
Integrating CPQM with CAD enables you to automatically share design engineering knowledge with your sales teams and streamline workflows. It makes it easier for sales reps to accurately configure and sell custom products that are manufacturable. DriveWorks is a SOLIDWORKS Gold Partner Product and the chosen design automation and CPQ configurator solution for integration with SOLIDWORKS® 3D CAD.
Adam Baker, DriveWorks Product Manager – Integration
“DriveWorks CPQ for Manufacturing can synchronize data using core principles of REST API standards. This process enables seamless integration with other business systems to perform operations and calculations and pass data back and forth directly between those systems.
These integrations streamline workflows enabling manufacturers to supercharge the value of their CPQ solution.”
DriveWorks CPQM Integrations In Action
Seamless integration with CRM and ERP systems
SharkCrates, based in Wisconsin, US, manufacture custom and collapsible shipping crates and pallets. They started using DriveWorks to help them streamline their order processes.
By customizing the workflow, SharkCrates have created a DriveWorks configurator which automatically creates deals in their CRM system, creates items in their ERP system, creates documents and sends http requests.
“DriveWorks has given us an edge over our competition by making us more innovative”
Austin Beck, Digital Transformation Specialist at SharkCrates
SOLIDWORKS® & WooCommerce Integration
PMF-System, headquartered in Switzerland, is an award-winning start-up company specializing in custom-made furniture for industry.
PMF have built an online DriveWorks configurator that their customers can easily access and interact with.
As DriveWorks is a SOLIDWORKS® Gold Partner Product, the out of the box integration with SOLIDWORKS made it easy to set up the configurator and start automating their product lines.
PMF has used the further integration capabilities of DriveWorks to integrate their configurator with the e-commerce solution WooCommerce. PMF selected WooCommerce because it easily integrates with DriveWorks, owing to DriveWorks’ ability to send HTTP requests.
Seamlessly Integrate DriveWorks CPQ With Your Other Company Systems
Bidirectional data transfer
Eliminate errors introduced during data input and transfer by integrating DriveWorks with your company systems.
Universal integration
Communicate with any system using our native Microsoft SQL integration, ODBC drivers or through the DriveWorks API.
Web services
Communicate with web services, such as your CRM system, logistics partners, ERP system and more without custom code.