Built on the Force.com cloud computing architecture, Vendavo’s pricing software can now be more easily integrated with the popular on-demand CRM offering.

The enhanced application provides pricing data to a broad swath of users across the enterprise.

While no partnership existed between SAP and Right Hemisphere, the enterprise software company saw the PLM-based vendor as a strong investment opportunity.

Pricing applications software vendor and consulting firm will provide data-driven price management applications and services to joint clients to improve price setting and execution processes across the business.

New release combines profit margin data with production velocity information to reveal true profitability of products, customers, and markets, as well as performance against return-on-asset goals.

Two relatively recent entrants in the product profitability category are EIS Analytics, a Vancouver, WA-based on-demand software supplier, and pVelocity, a Toronto-based packaged software firm.

Deal with NetWeaver ally Vendavo will enable manufacturers to more easily improve product and customer profitability through tight integration of third-party software with SAP CRM and master data modules and order-to-cash execution processes.