Parag Kulkarni

Have you ever wondered what it takes for a company with over $1 Billion in yearly revenue to build their own CPQ system? Join us as our host Sandeep Jain meets with Parag Kulkarni, the SVP of SaaS Engineering at Nutanix to discuss everything from Cricket to the challenges companies with large SKU’s face when implementing and maintaining CPQ platforms.

• Discussed Parag's previous work experience with Netscreen, Juniper, and now Nutanix
• Nutanix is in the hybrid cloud infrastructure space and revenue is around 1 Billion yearly
• Quote 2 Cash stack includes salesforce for CRM, NetSuite for ERP, and an homebuilt platform for CPQ that integrates with Salesforce
• The reason they built their own CPQ system is they wanted to have more agility as a company and move more quickly as they transition into a heavier subscription based model.
• Their product catalog contains more than 1000 SKU’s and mainly supports USD but also does transactions in Euro’s and the Korean Won

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