How this site sources, labels and corrects its claims

What counts as a source

• The vendor’s own words. For Salesforce: the end-of-sale FAQ, the pricing page, knowledge articles and the developer guides. For Conga: its documentation and the AppExchange listing. For DealHub and Nue: their websites. For Kugamon: the AppExchange listing and kugamon.com.
• Primary records. Press releases from the acquirer (Thoma Bravo), regulatory or major-outlet reporting (Bloomberg), and dated AppExchange listings.
• Not sources. Third-party price listings, analyst estimates, review-site figures and community forum posts. They may be mentioned as what they are — a third-party listing — but never as a fact about the vendor.

The three labels

Estimates appear hatched in charts and labeled in tables. A page never presents an estimate in the same visual weight as a published figure.

How the cost estimates are built

The site has one cost model: 50 users over three years on a three-year term, the same model as the ROI calculator, the TCO page and every cost chart. Competitor figures in it are estimates: the midpoint of the low and high cases in our October 2026 competitor research, with no competitor’s admin cost set at $0.

• Low and high case, then the midpoint. For each competitor we built a low and a high case for licence, implementation and three years of admin, and the model uses the midpoint.
• No $0 admin. Where the research found no admin figure, we keep our earlier estimate rather than show $0: a platform that runs partly outside Salesforce still needs someone to run it.
• Revenue Cloud below list. Revenue Cloud’s licence midpoint ($185 per user per month) sits below its $200 list price because the low case applies a typical discount. The $200 list price itself is published and is quoted as such.
• Kugamon. Kugamon’s licence and implementation are published; its admin is an estimate.
• Third-party price research can inform a low or high case. It is never quoted as a vendor’s price.

At 50 users the totals are about $143,500 for Kugamon CPQ, $897,000 for Revenue Cloud Advanced, $601,500 for Conga, $435,500 for Nue and $283,000 for DealHub. The line-by-line table, with each figure tagged published or estimate, is on the TCO page.

Rules we hold ourselves to

• End of sale is not end of life. Salesforce CPQ stopped being sold to new customers in March 2025. Salesforce says it is supported, renewable, and has no announced end-of-life date. We never say or imply otherwise, and we never use a deadline to sell.
• No customer counts for competitors, no named-customer financials. We do not state how many customers a vendor has unless the vendor published it, and we never describe a named customer’s spend.
• Position against products, not against Salesforce. Kugamon runs on Salesforce. Comparisons are with Salesforce CPQ and Revenue Cloud Advanced as products.
• Vendor claims are attributed. “Native”, “seamless” and “end-to-end” are reported as the vendor’s description; our own test for native is the five questions.
• Timelines are ranges with a basis. Revenue Cloud Advanced’s 12–18 months is what full rebuilds take in practice; where Salesforce’s own page is quoted (3–6 months) it is labeled a best case, because a vendor’s implementation estimate describes the easiest project, not the typical one. Kugamon’s 4–8 weeks is stated as typical and scoped per customer.
• Object names come from documentation. Every SBQQ__, Apttus_ and Revenue Cloud Advanced object on this site is taken from the vendor’s object reference, not from memory.

The facts ledger and the monthly re-check

Every claim with a number, a date or a name lives in a facts ledger with its source URL and the date it was last verified. Once a month the ledger is re-checked against the sources: prices, ownership, product names, acquisitions, documentation status. Changes are applied across every page that carries the claim, the JSON-LD citations are updated, and the page footer’s last-updated date moves. The same month, a sample of pages is tested against public AI assistants to check that what they cite from this site is what the site says.

How to report an error

Email info@kugamon.com with the page URL and the source that contradicts it. Corrections are made within a few days. Vendors are welcome to correct anything said about their product; a link to the published page is all that is needed.

Who writes this

This site is published by Kugamon, a Salesforce-native quote-to-cash and subscription management vendor founded in 2009. That is a commercial interest, and it is why the rules above exist: the site is useful only if a team that ends up choosing Revenue Cloud Advanced, staying on Salesforce CPQ, or picking another vendor still finds every fact on it correct.