In-Depth CRM Review

Cameleon

Cameleon Software, Inc.
5215 Old Orchard Road
Suite 270
Skokie, Illinois 60077-1064

Telephone: (847) 583-8450
Toll Free:
Fax: (847) 583-8451
Email: Contact Cameleon
Web: http://www.cameleon-software.com/

CRM Category: Field Sales Support – Cloud
Sub-Category: Configure/Quote/Propose
Seats: Small Enterprise

About the Company:

Since 1987, Cameleon Software has been helping companies streamline their quote-to-order processes, increase sales across channels and bring new products to market faster.

Our multichannel and multi-device solutions for product configuration, eCommerce and quotes and proposals integrate with leading CRM and ERP systems, including Salesforce CRM, SAP, Microsoft and Oracle.

Recommended by Gartner and other analyst firms, Cameleon Software is a public company with a strong presence in industries such as insurance and financial services, telecom, hi-tech and manufacturing.

Our customers include a wide range of SMB and enterprise businesses worldwide, including ADT/Tyco, Cable ONE, Sage, SFR, Technip and ThyssenKrupp.

About the Product:

Cameleon enables you to reduce time-to-market, increase sales productivity and provide an outstanding customer experience. Like a Chameleon, our application adapts to all channels and devices to improve your overall sales effectiveness.

Product Modeling

Cameleon’s product modeling solution allows business teams to optimize the design, development, deployment and management of all your products and services.

With our innovative approach—based on ease of use, collaboration and best practices—you can reduce your product model creation effort and accelerate your time-to-market while enjoying an unmatched user experience.

Browser-based collaborative modeling environment
Modeling of customizable, profile-based user interfaces
Modeling of sales processes to guide business users
Modeling of catalogs to consolidate product information
Pricing management: Cross-sell, upsell rules, pricing grids and calculations
Design of sales processes by channel
Product and service configuration models
Management of roles and access rights
Versioning and distribution of models

Product Catalog

With Cameleon Product Catalog your customers are able to search, compare and buy your products and services through an intuitive and user-friendly interface, and thus benefit from an amazing buying experience.

Cameleon Product Catalog empowers product managers to quickly manage large volumes of data & complex pricing rules to respond more effectively to changing market conditions.

Intuitive, AJAX-based navigation with multi-criteria search and ranked results
Cross-sell, up-sell and promotional opportunities
Product recommendations and comparisons
Profile-based content and pricing
Custom layout and branding
Social media-ready and search engine optimized (SEO) catalog
Easy to maintain through Cameleon Product Modeling

Sales Configurator

Cameleon’s easy-to-deploy, web-based product configurator integrates with your front- and back-office applications such as: CRM, PRM, eCommerce portals, ERP, etc…

Cameleon Product Configurator is designed to eliminate errors in quotes and orders, reduce cycle time and costs in the quoting process and help you bring new products and services to market faster.

Nested configuration to handle loops, packages and bundles
Context-driven branding, content, pricing and behavior
Interactive sales scripts supported by rich media
Cross-sell, up-sell and promotional opportunities
2D/3D drawing generation
Bills-of-material (BOM) and routings generation
Multichannel, multicurrency and multi-language
Dynamic constraint engine driving real-time management of rules and options
Fully customizable UI generated on the fly
Easy to maintain through Cameleon Product Modeling

Pricing and Quoting

The more complex the offer, the more time required to create a quote—and unfortunately the more likely it will be incorrect. Cameleon Pricing and Quoting enables you to price products and services in real-time and generate a quote in front of your customer.

Cameleon Pricing and Quoting integrates with your front- and back-office applications for the ultimate in performance and scalability.

Real-time pricing, costing and promotions calculation for even the most complex products & services
Deployment of pricing and promotion information across all sales channels in a few clicks
Generation of 100% accurate quotes mixing standard and configurable items
Customizable quotes with history tracking
Automated and collaborative quotes approval process through workflows
Management of pricing, discounts and promotions without the need for IT support through Cameleon Product Modeling

Proposal Generation

Cameleon Proposal Generation enables sales teams and channel partners to generate customized and branded sales proposals for different sales contexts.

Whether your sales rep is in his office, visiting a customer or traveling, he will be able to generate proposals from his mobile device and enjoy a social and interactive validation process thanks to a tight integration with social networks such as Chatter (salesforce.com) and Facebook.

Customized and branded proposals
Add detailed product information on each line item
Retrieve and merge customer information
Add external content: Technical datasheets, installations, plans, etc…
Add pre-defined content: Cover letters, terms and conditions
Display cross-sell, up-sell and promotional opportunities
Generate a document in Microsoft Word and/or Adobe PDF

Price:

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