ZPPS 6.2 includes new application module that helps B2B companies shape product demand to increase profits.
Austin, TX (PRWEB) July 24, 2007 -- Zilliant, the leading provider of price optimization and price management software for manufacturers, distributors and industrial service companies, today announced the general availability of ZPPS 6.2. In addition to numerous usability, performance and application integration enhancements, ZPPS 6.2 also introduces a new application, ZPPS Pricing Information Manager. ZPPS Pricing Information Manager lets companies enrich product master data with pricing attributes and relationships, enabling them to design and execute profitable product mix and demand shaping strategies.
"Zilliant is committed to providing the industry's most robust and comprehensive price management solution for B2B companies," said Eric Hills, vice president of marketing at Zilliant. "As with every release, our focus was on enhancements that would drive the greatest margin and profit lift, and 6.2 is exceptional in this regard. It helps sales people optimize customer price and product mix concurrently, without requiring them to change their existing processes and systems."
Key ZPPS 6.2 enhancements include:
- ZPPS Pricing Information Manager - a comprehensive application for cataloging, enriching, and exploiting product pricing data. ZPPS Pricing Information Manager drives better pricing and mix decisions across product portfolios based on substitute and complementary product recommendations, competitive offering maps, private label equivalents, and lifecycle considerations.
- Zilliant Price Evaluation Service - a real-time price lookup service for 3rd party applications like SAP and salesforce.com that calculates final prices from ZPPS price policies. Price Evaluation Service makes it easy to integrate optimized pricing into existing quote and order management processes.
- Enhanced Analytics usability - a new wizard-based KPI Designer enables business users to easily create business measures and filters on the fly, including complex metrics that involve thresholds, moving averages, status vs target comparisons, etc.
- Additional localization packs - out-of-the-box translations that allow global sales forces to price quotes and agreements in local languages and formats.
- Full 64-bit application support - significantly increases scalability and performance to handle massive transaction volumes common to manufacturers and distributors.
About Zilliant:
Zilliant is the leading provider of price optimization and price management applications for manufacturing, distribution, high-tech, and industrial service companies. Zilliant Precision Pricing Suite (ZPPS) uses existing transactional data to improve decisions across all facets of price analysis, setting and execution. ZPPS applications combine powerful price segmentation and optimization science with easy-to-use business applications to help companies achieve the best pricing possible on every deal, increasing profits by tens of millions of dollars. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Zilliant is a privately held company. Investors include Austin Ventures, Cardinal Ventures, JP Morgan Partners, and Trellis Partners. For more information contact Zilliant at 877.893.1085 or visit www.zilliant.com.
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