SAP Variant Configurator vs Salesforce CPQ comparison

Configure-Price-Quote software from Salesforce takes the pain out of complicated pricing, helping sales reps rapidly create estimates, proposals, quotes, and orders that look great. Salesforce CPQ (formerly Steelbrick) dramatically speeds proposal and quote generation, allowing image-based product selection constrained by your configuration rules. Managers appreciate control over discounts and processes. The CPQ software connects to your product catalog and populates quotes and orders in your CRM.

SAP Variant configuration is for manufacturing complex products. The customer determines the features of the product. The product configurator improves information exchange between sales, engineering, and production. Variant configuration helps the customer or salesperson to put together specifications for the product and ensure that the product can be produced from these specifications. It also ensures that production costs do not overstep the mark.