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Ernest L.
Sr. Manager, Inside Sales
Machinery
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Very Satisfied User"
5/5
What do you like best about Vendavo?

Through our partnership with EndeavorCPQ, we have significantly enhanced our quoting system. These enhancements include an improved process flow, the addition of reference content to better describe products and options, incorporating email notifications and improving our overall sales responsiveness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vendavo?

Overall, we have been very satisfied. We have found EndeavorCPQ to be proactive in their development of features to enhance the user’s experience. They are actively looking for ways to enhance their products and have been very open to suggestions. In many cases, these suggestions have been incorporated into future releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kevin M.
KM
Kevin M.
Advisory Board Member
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Should be renamed EndeavorROI"
5/5
What do you like best about Vendavo?

The hardest part of configuration is the translation of business rules to programming execution. Endeavor has a rules engine that business people can use to author rules, is most cases those in charge of Product, Marketing & Sales. While CPQ is Configure Price Quote, we have successfully used the rules engine to create Marketing Calendars, which are highly configurable based upon Time of Year, Mix of Products, Promotions, Prices, Bundles, Advertising, PR, Social Marketing Mix. So many rules, so many choices, such a mess in creating a Marketing Promotional and Editorial calendar.

Not so with Endeavor, we are live and using this solution with the ability to edit the rules weekly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vendavo?

Endeavor makes translating business rules into decision applications. The problem is still hard to execute but finally the software part is easy. NOTHING to dislike about Endeavor, love what they do! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mark W.
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Mark W.
Director, IT
Machinery
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Powerful quoting functionality with CPQ"
5/5
What do you like best about Vendavo?

There are several powerful features of CPQ provided by their catalog and guided selling tree models. Mistakes are a thing of the past and quoting an opportunity is just a few clicks away. With the advent of their cloud solution it is now possible to automatically connect to some of our suppliers on the back end allowing them to manage pricing and availability and we're really in a point and click mode.

This application is vital to our success and our entire sales force uses it every day. It has been a major contributor to our growth and our rate of generating opportunities with associated quoting increases constantly. Some of our projects are extremely complex and CPQ is the method we have used for a few years to scale that complexity back to a reasonable amount of work for a sales engineer. We're to the point now that we're even looking at tracking inventory with this application.

The design of the application is simple and intuitive. It takes several aspects of everyday web-based shopping and pulls from that design a framework that most people that use it grasp instantly. Our projects, the associated margins, the requisite options and accessories are all contained in one simple to use location. Quotes are just a click away.

If you're quoting complex (or even simple) solutions, do yourself a favor and look into this one. You won't regret it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vendavo?

As a control freak, allowing some of my back end data to reside in Endeavors cloud has not always been my favorite idea. The trade off, though, is the power of connecting to our suppliers.

In addition to this, we have had some issues with respect to time. Some of our projects creep in terms of scope and application and from time to time we have brought substantial pain upon ourselves in an effort to make things better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Taylor O.
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Taylor O.
Sales Engineer
Machinery
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"CPQ is helping us automate our quoting process and capture critical information needed downstream."
5/5
What do you like best about Vendavo?

The rules engine is very comprehensive. Our products have tons of different possible configurations based on options that relate to one another in different ways. The ability to filter options, automate calculations for different scenarios, and to give the quoter feedback as to what options may be required is going to be a huge help for our current manual quoting process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vendavo?

I wish there was a bit more operator manual type information available on how to operate the Admin Console. There's a lot there to learn and knowing more upfront is definitely helpful. I know this has been worked on recently and the team at Endeavor has done an awesome job of training me to date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Charles C.
Business Intelligence Analyst
Law Enforcement
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Endeavor CPQ Flexible and Robust"
5/5
What do you like best about Vendavo?

I love the flexibility of the product. We have been working with Endeavor for several years now and they are constantly making improvements to their product. Their client service team has been outstanding by being not only responsive, but also very adept at listening to our issues and proposing/designing appropriate solutions. As an example of the flexibility, we have been prototyping with the client services team the ability to fill out categories and products within catalogs dynamically with queries. This eliminates our having to manually change a catalog any time a product changes. This is huge for any company like ours where products are introduced at a rapid pace. Another thing I particularly like is that the client services team does not just handle an issue and leave. They take the time to teach us how to handle the particular issue in the future. They have taught us so much so that we could go forward on our own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vendavo?

I dislike that the administration console is written in Silverlight. The only reason this is an issue is that it will not work with some new browser versions like Edge. I suspect though that this will be rectified soon given the speed at which Endeavor enhances their product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tomas D.
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Tomas D.
Senior Engineer
Design
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Intuitive yet powerful guided selling configurator"
5/5
What do you like best about Vendavo?

That is program is more than a configurator. It has guided selling that helps us simplify the selection process to our customers. The interface of this program is amazing. It's easy to use and setup. I would highly recommend demoing this product before making a final decision on any CPQ project. It has the ability to export and import data so uploading and download tons of data is a breeze. The other great feature is that it has the ability to setup queries and those in turn allow you to add product or remove product without changing rules or code rewriting. Out of the 14 CPQ programs that we reviewed this one came out on top. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vendavo?

Right now I can attach part drawings through image files, but it would be nice to be able to attach PDF or CAD drawings to parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Todd S.
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Todd S.
Sales Engineer
Machinery
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Admin and End User"
4/5
What do you like best about Vendavo?

Flexibility, Integration with popular CRM solutions, Mobile. Working with the Endeavor Team and willingness to get us to our goal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vendavo?

Sometime the updates of features or versions seem buggy. It would be nice to roll out to a test environment. Reporting could be better. (SSRS?) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Machinery
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Verified User in Machinery
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Sales Engineer - Hartwig"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Vendavo?

The ease of use is what I like the most. With the addition of this to our CRM, the quotation process has gotten very fast which allows more time to make sales calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vendavo?

I really wish our setup had even more menu driven drop downs. Also, when doing write-in products, it would be nice if there was a way to past all information in one click versus typing each field in manually or cut and paste each field one at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thanh T.
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Thanh T.
Senior Director of Information Services & Technology
Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Implementation of Quoting Tool"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Vendavo?

The user interface is simple and easy to use. There are many configuration parameter that are configured through the configuration interface without customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vendavo?

There are not much to dislike the product since it has many of the feature and functionality out of the box where other would required customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Machinery
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Verified User in Machinery
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"EndeavorCPQ is top notch"
5/5
What do you like best about Vendavo?

The functionality of the product for our business needs have far exceeded our expectations. The development process is well thought out and implemented on a professional level on par with that of any top firm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Vendavo?

I don't believe there is anything I could actually add here of any value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.