Firepond Announces BroadSoft Implementation

Firepond has announced that VoIP vendor BroadSoft's (News - Alert) product is now implemented on the Firepond CPQ OnDemand application. BroadSoft has integrated Firepond CPQ OnDemand with Salesforce.com's application.

 

"The BroadSoft implementation uses many standard features of the Firepond CPQ OnDemand application, including rule-driven workflow, proposal generation, tiered discounting and data export," says Firepond's president Bradlee Sheafe, adding that the implementation also uses features such as data-driven functions to "accomplish specialized tasks."

 

Sheafe says BroadSoft will use Firepond's Product DataManager as the master data source, since this will allow them to "deploy data updates to Firepond CPQ OnDemand so that all users have immediate access to the latest data."

 

"We chose Salesforce.com's (News - Alert) SFA and Firepond CPQ OnDemand because of the ease of use and flexibility," stated Tom Notar, vice president of Sales Operations for BroadSoft, adding that "we needed a product to automate the configuration and pricing of our offerings with easy data integration into Salesforce."

 

In March, Firepond announced that Kelvin Hughes, a designer and manufacturer of marine navigation systems, chose Firepond CPQ OnDemand for "streamlining its quoting, pricing and proposal approval processes."

 

Hughes will use Firepond's multi-tenant application with single sign on through Salesforce.com's SFA application. Like Salesforce.com, Firepond's multi-tenant application offers multiple new releases per year. End-user companies simply log on to access these new enhancements through an Internet browser.

 

Hughes is based in Essex in the United Kingdom with offices throughout the world. With a range of marine navigation equipment and service offerings, the firm wanted a product that would integrate into Salesforce.com and allow access to users around the world.

 

Firepond CPQ OnDemand allows for product and pricing rules to be centrally administered supports multiple currencies. Using Firepond's Product Data Manager, Kelvin Hughes' business analysts want to be able to make changes to their product and pricing data while "accelerating the distribution to a worldwide sales force."