Ravus Insights

Expert insights into Billing, CPQ, and Quote-to-Cash solutions, including lessons learned from real-world projects, practical strategies, and thought leadership to help you streamline operations, boost efficiency, and make confident decisions in your revenue processes.

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Sep / 2025

Navigating Billing Ecosystem Changes: A Program Management Playbook

Just as a surgical team relies on a pre-operative checklist to ensure a successful procedure, leveraging one for a billing transformation will lay the foundation needed for success from the start.
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May / 2025

Structuring Your Team for Success

If there’s one common theme to this five-part series, it’s that communication and collaboration are cardinal rules for a successful CPQ and Billing transformation. Any transformation that views CPQ and Billing as separate implementation projects…
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Apr / 2025

From Silos to Synergy: Integration Considerations

Air traffic control keeps our skies from descending into chaos, and a well-designed integration will do the same for CPQ and Billing. Without it, misaligned data, delayed invoicing, and manual workarounds cause back-office turbulence.
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Apr / 2025

Migration of Existing Customers

Translating legacy customer data into the new, transformed data model is no small feat. A comprehensive and strategic data migration approach must be developed to ensure invoicing continuity as well as quoting continuity for customers within the deal cycle.
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Apr / 2025

Pricing to Invoicing

The increasing prevalence of subscription and usage revenue models based on factors outside of P * Q have cemented the importance of a well-defined pricing pricing waterfall, providing the ability to quickly identify starting price from prorated, extended totals …
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Mar / 2025

Product & Bundle Design

Welcome to the first stop on the road to clean, error-free invoices that match exactly what was sold: product and bundle structure. Let’s sharpen our claws with part one of this five-part series …
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Mar / 2025

Five Critical Insights for a Successful CPQ-Billing Transformation

The rise of CPQ tools has left no doubt—the age of recurring revenue is here. But the rise of subscription and usage models is only part of the story.
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Feb / 2025

Navigating Account String Changes

In today’s financial environments, organizations rely on integrated systems for accounting and financial reporting. A common setup involves a billing subledger feeding data into an ERP system, typically handling…
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Dec / 2024

Software Trends in the Billing Arena

If you’re reading this viewpoint, you likely have a vested interest in some combination of billing operations, software, and automation. In this discussion, we’ll go deep, be direct, and hopefully broaden your understanding of how software can help (or hurt) your billing transformation goals.
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Aug / 2024

Your Billing Transformation Doesn’t Have To Be A Bear

At Ravus, we have cataloged 40 KPIs and Outcome statements that span 10 departments and can help orient you on the areas of your business you want to improve and the corresponding return on that effort.
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Aug / 2024

Software Options to Support Usage-Based Pricing

Whether you’re thinking about introducing a UBP pricing strategy, are currently making this shift, or have already gone to market with consumption models, this guide provides a simple frame of reference for your back-office revenue strategy.
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Aug / 2024

When Can You Benefit from Adding Managed Services?

All managed services models offer access to technology specific expertise without needing to train or hire full-time staff. When effectively partnered with a focused business strategy…
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Aug / 2024

Practical Applications for AI in Billing & Collections

Vendors are introducing AI in two meaningful ways: to provide better value-driven outcomes for their customers, and to make their application more user friendly.
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