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From Awareness to Action: Assessing Your Services Quoting Maturity

How confident are you that the quote you send today will still be profitable six months from now? Quoting is the earliest point in the customer journey where Services organizations can influence the outcomes for an entire project, setting the tone...

How Intelligent Services Quoting Unlocks Competitive Advantage, Risk Control, and Compliance

Quoting isn’t just about winning deals. It’s about winning the right deals precisely and efficiently. In Services, every quote sets the stage for consistent delivery, predictable profitability, and positive customer experience. But when scoping is...

Margin Matters: How AI-Powered Services Quoting Protects Profit While Fueling Growth

Revenue growth is meaningless without margin protection. In Services organizations, the quoting process is where revenue is born. It’s also where margins often die. While many teams focus on top-line growth, the consequences of misquoting can eat...

The Top 5 Consequences of Services Misquoting – And How to Fix Them

What if you were losing millions before even getting started? For many Services organizations, this isn’t just a hypothetical. It’s reality. Sixty-two percent of Services teams “fly blind” when quoting, relying on disparate spreadsheets, tribal...

How a Connected Services Outcomes Strategy Drives Business Growth

As service organizations face rising complexity and greater customer expectations, traditional methods for managing service quoting, delivery, and financial planning no longer suffice. It’s time for businesses to adopt a modern, connected strategy...

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Provus announces sponsorship of Dreamforce 2024

Provus announces sponsorship of Dreamforce 2024

It's that time of year again. Dreamforce is just around the corner, and we are thrilled to announce that Provus will be a proud sponsor of Dreamforce 2024. Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual flagship event and the world’s largest tech conference, is famous for bringing...

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Services CPQ vs Product CPQ: Choosing the Right Path

Services CPQ vs Product CPQ: Choosing the Right Path

CPQ has come a long way since its birth in the early 1980s. That’s when ‘configurators’ started becoming part of the sales process. These allowed teams to offer customers the chance to configure their product while matching product information held in emerging ERP...

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Services CPQ Series: Quantitative Scenario Modeling

Services CPQ Series: Quantitative Scenario Modeling

Are you about to send over a first proposal? You’ll know it’s unusual to get acceptance straightaway. It’s more usual to get a reply along the lines of, ‘Hey, can you make a few changes?’ Maybe other stakeholders are now involved, with different priorities. That can...

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Services CPQ Series: Advanced Pricing Capabilities

Services CPQ Series: Advanced Pricing Capabilities

The process of scoping and pricing professional services has more moving parts than ever before. We’re in a world that’s gone way beyond the product-led landscape of orders, renewals, subscriptions, and discounts. At the same...

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Services Ops Podcast Episode 3: The Impact of AI in Services

Services Ops Podcast Episode 3: The Impact of AI in Services

  AI isn’t coming to Services Ops. It’s already here. It is forming the basis of many purchasing decisions, where an AI roadmap is an essential element. However, there’s still plenty to be done for Professional Services Organizations (PSOs) to realize AI’s...

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4 Key Areas to Evaluate in Your Services Quoting Process

4 Key Areas to Evaluate in Your Services Quoting Process

Historically,  business-to-business (B2B) companies purchased products and other raw materials for use in manufacturing (i.e., parts purchased for vehicle or electronics manufacturing). During this time, transactions were driven primarily by personal relationships...

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Services Ops Podcast Episode 1: Intro to Services Operations

Services Ops Podcast Episode 1: Intro to Services Operations

  In the inaugural episode of The Services Ops Podcast, Mahesh Baxi, Co-Founder and CEO of Provus, and Chris Souza, Head of Marketing at Provus, will unravel the complexities of The Quote-to-Cash Process. They’ll discuss specific solutions to common barriers...

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