Zilliant Delivers "Price Engine Ready" Recommendations to Packaged Order Management Applications
Latest release of Zilliant's Price Integration Framework provides seamless integration to quote and order applications from SAP, Oracle and Siebel
Austin, TX - May 15, 2006 - Zilliant, the leading provider of data-driven price management applications, today announced the general availability of its Price Integration Framework 5.4, which enables the Zilliant Precision Pricing Suite (ZPPS) to accept and publish pricing rules from leading enterprise order management applications. A component of the recently released ZPPS 5.4, the Price Integration Framework provides easy, upgradeable integration support between Zilliant’s science-based pricing setting and execution applications and transaction-oriented order management systems from leading ERP and CRM vendors. It extracts transaction, product, and customer data from the order management application, uses the data to produce optimized price recommendations, and then feeds pricing rules and conditions back into the application in the native format of its pricing engine.
“Most companies have deployed packaged order management applications from vendors such as SAP, Oracle and Siebel. These investments have improved the integrity and scalability of pricing administration, but have done little to enhance pricing intelligence and profitability,” said Eric Hills, Zilliant VP of Marketing. “That is why so many customers are integrating ZPPS with their order management applications, to create a holistic, data-driven system for price setting, execution, and fulfillment that unleashes the full power of pricing. Our investment in the Price Integration Framework helps our customers achieve this goal in a scalable, supportable fashion.”
Price Integration Framework 5.4 supports SAP’s Java Connector (SAP JCo) to connect directly to pricing-related RFC/BAPI interfaces. This “price engine ready” feature enables Zilliant’s many customers who run SAP to integrate Zilliant’s price recommendations into SAP’s pricing module.This integration approach will accelerate deployment, increase adoption, and maximize business benefits for these customers without introducing risk or complexity to their order management processes.
About Zilliant
Zilliant is the leading provider of data-driven price management solutions that enable our customers to fully exploit their enterprise transactional history to improve price setting and execution. Zilliant’s Precision Pricing Suite combines proprietary price segmentation and optimization science with easy-to-use business applications to help customers determine and negotiate the “best” pricing for every sales transaction. Greater price differentiation and smarter price strategies have helped Zilliant’s customers increase 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 .
