Last Updated on 8 years by RichBohn
This CRM Review examines Cameleon.
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:
For complete pricing details, please contact the company directly.
For a proper demo of this CRM solution:
For a proper demo of this CRM solution, please contact the company directly.
Rich’s View of Cameleon:
To instantly view the complete In-Depth Review of this CRM solution, download the Kindle version from our page at Amazon.com!
This review is undergoing a major update and should be available real soon now!
Go ahead, Get a second opinion!
I have never claimed to be the only source of CRM software reviews. If you would like an alternative view of this CRM solution, here are some links that you can visit. However, if you are looking for totally independent, no BS! CRM reviews, I will look forward to working with you when you get back to my site!
Sorry, I have yet to find an independent review of this solution.
Short List:
If you are considering this program, you should also look at these other CRM solutions:
- Coming Soon!
Rich’s Recommended Web Sites
https://twitter.com/CameleonSW
https://plus.google.com/u/0/114435896694669352151/posts
http://www.linkedin.com/company/cameleon-software
https://www.facebook.com/CameleonSoftware
http://www.youtube.com/Cameleonsoftware
Rich’s Recommended Reads
Leave a Reply