Overview
Hive CPQ sells Configure Price Quote software for manufacturers of complex, configurable products. The platform combines a product configurator with bill of materials generation, document generation, a dynamic pricing engine, 3D visualization, a low-code Design Studio, a dealer platform, a spare parts module, an API and MCP connectivity. The company was founded by Frederik Taleman, who is CEO. The idea dates back to 2003, when Taleman built a student project to help his father, a salesman at a door manufacturer, calculate door prices. Hive CPQ NV was registered on 21 June 2017 and is headquartered at Kleindokkaai 17 in Ghent. The company has 11-50 employees. Stijn De Mulder is CTO, Yorick Matthys is Director of Professional Services and Vera Vingerhoets is Sales & Marketing Director. Target industries are discrete manufacturing, doors, HVAC+R, outdoor products, machines and vehicles. Hive CPQ is ISO 27001 certified, audited by Kiwa, and hosts data in Germany.
Stated facts & numbers
- Founded: 2017
- Founder: Frederik Taleman (CEO)
- Headquarters: Ghent
- Legal form: NV, company number 0677.439.585
- Employees: 11-50
- Product: Configure Price Quote platform with configurator, pricing, BOM, 3D visualization, dealer platform and Hive AI
- Customers: Reynaers Aluminium, Dynaco, Joris Ide, De Clerck, Zolare, Nauta, S2, Skylux, Haco, Metrohm, Etap, Royal De Boer
- Certification: ISO 27001
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- Configure-to-order. Without the chaos. Hive CPQ is a configure-price-quote platform for manufacturers of complex, configurable products. Buyers and dealers configure within your rules, pricing is applied instantly, and every quote comes out validated with the right bill of materials behind it. For Odoo partners, that's the layer your manufacturing clients need on top of Odoo, no configuration logic to build per project. Odoo Experience Days, 24 to 26 September, Brussels Expo. Booth H8, hall 7.
- For almost 4 years, Koen has cycled to the office. Rain, wind, dark mornings. He just shows up. We lease bikes through o2o Bicycle Leasing, which is how Koen ended up on an upgrade. He has not stopped smiling since. The dark months are coming, so we added one more thing: a Hive fluo vest. Now he is faster and impossible to miss at a roundabout in November. Ride safe, Koen.
- 80% of the revenue came from 20% of the possible configurations. The remaining variants still had to be engineered, quoted and built one at a time. That was the starting point of the case study Savaco presented at Engineering Industry Day: a family-owned manufacturer of highly configurable products, running its product chain on SOLIDWORKS, Windchill | PTC Technology, Word and Excel. The rebuilt architecture puts Microsoft Dynamics Finance & Operations, Windchill, Perfion and Hive CPQ on one platform. Every product variant is now
- With today's AI, you can vibe code your own CPQ." We agree. You can. So will Hive CPQ be replaced by vibe-coded apps? That is where the nuance comes in. There are a few things worth settling before you start building one. With AI at today's level, that question is worth taking seriously. Two years ago Frederik would not have expected to spend this much time on the question. Read the full article. Link below. https://lnkd.in/eMhK-Tex
- Croissants and CPQ. Second edition of our partner event yesterday, for everyone who could not make the June date. We talked about where the partnership stands: what has worked between us, what has not, and what AI is doing to the way configurators get built. Then everyone picked a breakout room: implementation, sales or integrations. delaware BeLux, 9altitudes Belgium, Dynamate, Bravx, Walpole Partnership and Combine A/S, thanks for coming over and sharing your thoughts. Today was the webinar edition for the partners further afield,
- Quoting every window on an architect's plan takes 2 to 4 hours. The programs this industry runs on were built for the workshop, not for sales. They calculate well but they quote slowly. We built it the other way around. Drop in the architect's plan and our sales agent reads the drawing, picks up the dimensions and opening directions, and prepares the configuration. Your rep reviews instead of retypes. Underneath it sits one general window and door model with real profile databases. Switch material, recalculate, keep what carries
- We're changing how the doors and windows industry sells. For years, quoting a window project meant hours of manual work: dimensions, profiles, glazing, hardware, U-values, price lists from every supplier. Complex products, complex calculations. We're now bringing AI into that process. And it changes everything. With Hive CPQ, you can: • Upload a building plan, sketch or window schedule and get a complete configuration and quote back. All you do is review. • Let our Sales Agent read incoming quote requests and prepare the
- Configure without leaving Dynamics 365. You already know Hive CPQ integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365, and that we position ourselves as the next-generation AI-native CPQ for the Microsoft space. Here is the part that is easy to overlook: we are no longer only integrated. Hive CPQ is now fully embedded within the Dynamics 365 apps. Your sales team opens an opportunity and configures the product in the same window. Pricing stays live, options are validated while you build, and the bill of materials comes together as you go. A few
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