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What do you like best about Tacton CPQ?

Works well for the production company and for the end users to purchase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tacton CPQ?

The UI is not that much appreciatable f. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tacton CPQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

I havent had any problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tacton CPQ Overview

What is Tacton CPQ?

Tacton is the leading Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) SaaS partner for design to sales automation for industrial manufacturers. Our trusted configuration engine provides the backbone for your customers’ fast and flawless digital experience. With Tacton CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote), B2B manufacturers can maintain and sell highly customizable products as if they were standard. Our award-winning configuration and pricing engine, allows you to control your custom product’s thousands of parts and commercial rules with small set of constraint, generating millions of valid, builable and profitable product variants. With needs-based configuration, instant pricing for every configurator selection, real-time 3D product visualization and automatic generation of CAD files, your sales reps will be able to define, price and order complex and custom products, without sales engineering support. Let your sales engineers innovate your products and let your sales reps talk value with your customer. With Tacton’s rich APIs and integration solution, data from PLM, ERP, CAD and CRM can be leveraged in Tacton CPQ to remove your data silos. Tacton's Connect to Anying provides easy to use connectors for more than 600 enterprise applications - all powered by Workato. With Tacton’s omni-channel capabilities, you can offer Configuration, Pricing and Quoting of your products not only to direct sales, but also to resellers and end customer in self-service and eCommerce channels. This radically boosts your sales capabilities. With Tacton CPQ you will increase revenue, increase sales velocity, decrease sales costs and decrease costs of order errors and warranties. Sell with certainty – quote with confidence. In Gartner's Magic Quadrant for CPQ, Tacton has been recognized as a a leader for multiuple consecutive years. Tacton provides solutions to our global customers such as ABB, Bosch, Caterpillar, Daimler, MAN, Mitsubishi, Siemens, Toshiba and Yaskawa. Tacton is headquartered in Chicago and Stockholm, with regional offices in Karlsruhe, Warsaw, and Bogota. Tacton Trusted Configuration. Sales Made Simple for Complex Manufacturing.

Tacton CPQ Details
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Product Description

Tacton CPQ’s manufacturing software solutions connect customer with product and factory for smarter business. By putting customers at the heart of the process, we enable better sales and more efficient operations. We go beyond CPQ - letting your customers build relationships with their clients, not just products.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

In contrast to other CPQs, Tacton can handle highly complex and customizable industrial equipment.

With Tacton’s attribute constraints, your product engineering team will be able to express and maintain all the logic of your product variance, separating valid from invalid product configurations.

Our out-of-the-box and easy-to-use configurator, empowers sales rep, resellers and even end-customers themselves to define highly customized and error-free equipment – without involvement of sales engineering.


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Tacton
Year Founded
1998
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Stockholm, Sweden
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+46 (0) 8 690 07 50
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Tacton’s manufacturing software solutions connect customer with product and factory for smarter business. By putting customers at the heart of the process, we enable better sales and more efficient operations. We go beyond CPQ - letting your customers build relationships with their clients, not just products.


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Recent Tacton CPQ Reviews

Harshit  S.
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Harshit S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Tacton CPQ"
Smart configuration, seamless integration, guided selling, 3D visualization, and quick quoting.
Lokesh D.
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Lokesh D.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
2.5 out of 5
"Its ok"
Works well for the production company and for the end users to purchase.
Kannan M.
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Kannan M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Tacton best omni channel support"
Native 3D and AR visualization, most flexible omni channel in the market, SaaS
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Tacton CPQ Media

Tacton CPQ Demo - Tacton Product Modeling
Define your product's variance and modules with easily maintainable features and constraints
Tacton CPQ Demo - Tacton CPQ Configurator
Needs-based configuration, instant pricing, instant Bill-of-Material and 3D visualization empower your sales to define, price and order highly customizable products without sales engineering support.
Tacton CPQ Demo - Tacton CPQ Solution page
Price execution, adjustments and margin control of all configurable products in any given Opportunity
Tacton CPQ Demo - Tacton CPQ Document generation
One-click creation of data-driven and consistently branded quote documents
Tacton CPQ Demo - CAD Automation
For a configured product variant, Sales rep can generate CAD files and drawings without CAD skills or software installed (SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, PTC CREO)
Tacton CPQ Demo - Tacton CPQ Omnichannel
Embed configuration, visualization, net-pricing and quote generation on any website or eCommerce system to offer the full portfolio to end customers and resellers
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Harshit  S.
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What do you like best about Tacton CPQ?

Smart configuration, seamless integration, guided selling, 3D visualization, and quick quoting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tacton CPQ?

Steep learning curve, costly setup, limited customization, and dependency on rule configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tacton CPQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tacton CPQ solves challenges in configuring complex products, pricing accurately, and speeding up quotes. It ensures error-free configurations, aligns sales with engineering, and reduces lead time, benefiting businesses with increased efficiency, better customer experiences, and higher sales accuracy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tacton CPQ?

Tacton CPQ is very good to resolve large complex solution offerings, detailing combinations of products/Sales BoM for a full needs-based solution. Easy to maintain and update as our product portfolio is being updated to serve more use cases.

Sales team gets a complete delivery for a customer that is operationally configured to their production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tacton CPQ?

Out of the box UI, is not fully intuitive and can to some extent look simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tacton CPQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

With a large and complex portfolio, and having sales operating with distributed sales teams globally, CPQ assures that only valid products/solutions are being offered allowing all sales team members to prepare a budget estimate for a customer in all markets. This reduce sales effort and assures that valid product and solutions are offered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tacton CPQ?

Functionality:

The complete quoting phase and more can be handled within the software provided by Tacton.

Configuration complexity:

Constraint based selection combined with integration to third party software.

Integrations:

SolidWorks and customizable external calculations like MathCAD.

Implementation:

User interface available.

Connection between configuration server, design automation, pricing and document generation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tacton CPQ?

License cost:

User based license setup is expensive and makes it a challenge broaden out in an organization to justify the cost per license, when it's not a daily tool for the sales organization.

Manual changes:

Challenge in handling manual changes, like adding/removing several parts to quote and get these represented in a quote. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tacton CPQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

Uniforming complexed product offering.

Speeding up quote time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kannan M.
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What do you like best about Tacton CPQ?

Native 3D and AR visualization, most flexible omni channel in the market, SaaS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tacton CPQ?

Needs based configuration, translate customer needs into 100% accurate technical solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tacton CPQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solve omni channel customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tacton CPQ?

The simplicity by which it handles complex configuration, pricing and quotation.

It has very simple ticketing process also for multiple users working independently. Also the release process to multiple environments is very easy and fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tacton CPQ?

The user interface is not modified so easily and it is mostly hard coded.

Also user creation in the software is a manual process right now which should be automated in future Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tacton CPQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping us to make offers to our customers and do complex configuration, pricing and quotation with very less time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tacton CPQ?

Being able to easily and quickly create cost structures by collecting cost and sales information, and being able to immediately update the cost structure according to the customer's requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tacton CPQ?

The system is buggy when a new product update is released. The program interface is basic, the cost is high, there are tools that have limitations to edit the reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Tacton CPQ:

If you want to simplify the response time is a good option, however, small businesses should consider the cost before purchasing the product as it is somewhat high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tacton CPQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

Through the automation process it was possible to reduce the response time for requests for quotations, thus achieving an increase in sales, improving the relationship with customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tacton CPQ?

The computing power, and the easy way to apply complex logic on TCStudio.

The performanca are really good also in case of complex claculations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tacton CPQ?

TCStudio Debugging not so understandable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tacton CPQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

The computing power, and the easy way to apply complex logic gave a lot of benefits in terms of automatization and configurator performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Tacton CPQ?

The developers are knowledgable and innovative. Brainstorming is enjoyable and productive. What you think you need and what you design together are typically not the same and always for the better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tacton CPQ?

The organization markets itself as global, Reality is, the company does not have the depth in key knowledge areas it needs to support medium to large global organizations. The gap is only managed with w/ 3rd party implementation support which is inferior. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Tacton CPQ:

Small company - write the check, you are their sweet spot.

Medium to large company - find an integration partner who knows Tacton first, then proceed. You will get a good product, but it will take more time and money than expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tacton CPQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

The abiltiy to produce a quote out of a customized CPQ.

Cloud based CPQ, Custom CS configurator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Thompson of Tacton CPQ

Hi there,

First, thank you for taking the time to write a review of our product. I am sorry to hear your experience sounds like it has not met your expectations. We have expanded our global reach by having offices in Chicago, Stockholm, Warsaw, Tokyo, and Karlsruhe. I would love to see how we can offer better support as we take a lot of pride to ensure our customers are happy and satisfied.

If you know your customer success manager, please reach out to them and give us an opportunity to support your needs. if you are unsure, feel free to reach out and I am happy to get you in contact.

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What do you like best about Tacton CPQ?

- New functionality like adding catelog items and filter options provided in latest release.

- Project Management team/Implementation team helps customer to understand select what is best suitable to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tacton CPQ?

Sales team should know actual limitations of the product and should do sales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tacton CPQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Very complex contracts can be implemented in simple methodologies and flexibility of the tool to implement complex configuration in organized way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Thompson of Tacton CPQ

Hi Shridatta,

Thank you for sharing your review of our product. It sounds like you have been overall satisfied with your experience overall, but maybe are concerned about specific capabilities. I can tell you personal direct team trains our sales organization on the product, and we are very focused on training the teams effectively. Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager, or me with your product limitations concerns and I will take them with my enablement team and our product team.

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What do you like best about Tacton CPQ?

Possibility of use in many industries, the possibility of creating in many different, creative ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Tacton CPQ?

There are no tutorials for more advanced projects and solutions at the E-learning Academy. Even short videos, text tutorials on more complex problems would be helpful.

A large number of tacton tools are required to create an application (DA Studio, Visualiser, etc.) and it is a bit difficult to learn and use it in a small team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Tacton CPQ:

Użytkownik Tacton powinien posiadać wysokie umiejętności poznawcze, wyobraźnię przestrzenną oraz przynajmniej podstawową wiedzę z zakresu programowania JavaScript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Tacton CPQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

Possibility to involve potential customers not related to the industry in creating design solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Nick Thompson of Tacton CPQ

Hi there,

Thank you for your review. I appreciate you taking the time and want to ensure you that I have shared your review with our Academy team, which is responsible for customer training. We will continue to add tutorials and other enablment for our customers to ensure they are fully empowered to use the product.