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January 25, 2019

The Quote to Cash Tour

I was recently anointed Senior Marketing Consultant at Advanced Technology Group (ATG), and one of my primary duties is to travel the country, educating the unwashed on Quote to Cash and Monetization. A four-day bus ride landed me in Topeka, Kansas. Below is the dialogue from the keynote given in front of about 200 people.
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Culture_Careers | ViewsJay Allen
July 5, 2018

ATG Spotlight: Paul York

If you want to have a successful career at ATG, I suggest becoming good friends with Paul York. He is one of three IT Support gurus at ATG and can help solve all your problems. Well at least IT related ones.
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ATG SpotlightRebecca Miller
May 2, 2018

ATG Inks Lease for New Missoula Offices

Advanced Technology Group (ATG) is thrilled to announce Old Sawmill District (OSD) as the future home for their new Missoula campus. OSD will support ATG's rapidly growing team of 130+ employees with a central location, great proximity to downtown, the river, trails, housing, and entertainment.
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NewsJay Allen
ATG Cares There Are Giants Among Us
December 21, 2017

ATG Cares: There Are Giants Among Us

Jason Anderson is the sort of guy you either want to hug or punch in the throat the first time you meet him. He smiles all the time. He walks around the office fist-bumping and high-fiving everyone. He doesn’t use periods when he talks. He has red hair. Those are his punch-in-the-throat traits.
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ATG CaresJay Allen
December 19, 2017

ATG Cares: Introducing atgSHE

What is atgSHE? ATG is passionate about finding and retaining top talent in the world of Quote to Cash and creating a supportive environment for all in the workplace. That’s why, in 2016, we created atgSHE – where SHE stands for Successful, Happy, and Equal.
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ATG CaresSamantha Austin
ATG Quote to Cash Experts
October 23, 2017

And a Car in Every Garage

During the 1928 Presidential election, the Republican Party famously declared that President Hoover would, “Put a chicken in every pot, and a car in every garage.” Henry Ford had perfected the technique of turning producers of cars into consumers, and the automobile was viewed as not only a status symbol, but a type of conveyance that would open opportunities to anyone.
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ViewsMichael Giacometti
ATG Michael Giacometti Of Movie Prices and Juicers
September 28, 2017

Of Movie Prices and Juicers

There are some interesting pieces of information that came across my desk recently. The first was an article talking about the whole idea of MoviePass and AMC’s resistance to it. The second was how AMC’s stock has dropped 47% because of the larger problem of lower revenue for movie studios as well as the changing habits of consumers. The final piece was an article learning about Juicero, the company that sold the $400 internet-connected juicer, went under. In my mind, which centers around CPQ and Subscription, this is all related to a larger issue: Failing to relate and adapt to your consumer.
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ViewsMichael Giacometti
September 18, 2017

ATG Cares: Company and Employees Contribute to Hurricane and Wildfire Relief

ATG has a strong commitment to helping those in need within our communities; after the events of this summer, we have seen the need to extend our hand to those struggling across the country. This summer has been a tumultuous and devastating season for tens of thousands of people in Texas, Florida, and Montana. Montana has suffered from a severe drought that has caused fires to break out all over the state. So far, there have been over 1,400 fires, which have charred 1.3 million acres and caused severe air pollution.
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ATG CaresSamantha Austin
August 22, 2017

The Call of the Wild – ATG Employees Who Came Home to Montana

The Transition from a Large to a Growing Company: ATG Employees Share Their Stories - The size of a company can have an impact on almost every aspect of its work environment, from daily operations to individual job responsibilities to office culture. So, what is it like to leave a large, established company and move to a small but quickly growing one? Some of our employees came to ATG with experience from much larger companies such as Oracle and Google. Three of them offered to share their experiences; find out what they had to say.
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ViewsSamantha Austin
ATG Quote 2 Cast Summit 2017
August 16, 2017

Quote 2 Cast 2017 Curtain Call

Well, ATG’s inaugural Quote 2 Cast Summit is in the books, but I am pleased to say that the ripples from this deep dive into the pond are continuing to flow! What an amazing couple of days – watching customers, prospects, educators, analysts, partners, and colleagues interact with one another with meaningful conversations about life, career, projects, family, and passion. From the shores of the Blackfoot and Clark Fork rivers, to the heights of Snowbowl, to the confines of the historic Wilma Theatre, even to late night festivities at Red’s Bar – pods of two, or four, or 10, or even 20, were forming and reforming throughout the week, engaging in genuine dialogue on the key topics of our industry.
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Quote 2 Cast | ViewsTom Stergios
ATG Quote 2 Cast Summit
July 31, 2017

ATG Q2Cast Primer: Your Day on the Mountain

I’d like to say I was chosen to shepherd the Snowbowl team because of my four decades in Montana and my astute leadership skills, but I was recently mockingly made aware that I was picked because I don’t work on client projects and I had the most leathery skin in the office. But you don’t know that, so you’ll assume I’m a qualified outdoorsman.
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Quote 2 Cast | ViewsJay Allen
July 26, 2017

ATG Q2Cast Preview: Your Day on the River

You are dressed and ready to go. Vulcanized rubber chest-high waders, your favorite college t-shirt with the sleeves cut off, and a woefully floppy hat. Warrior. You spend the next three hours in front of the bathroom mirror alternately practicing your fly casting sans rod or reel and your meet and greet skills. Nine cups of coffee later, it’s go-time.
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Quote 2 Cast | ViewsJay Allen
ATG Quote to Cast Summit
July 18, 2017

“You Spelled ‘Quote to Cash’ Wrong.”

“You have a typo in your title.” Everyone keeps telling me that. “Quote to Cash is spelled wrong.” No, that is intentional I respond. “Troutforce was taken, so we went with Quote to Cast.” After a little back and forth I usually get an, “Oh, I get it... kinda.”
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ViewsTom Stergios
Peter Coffee Salesforce
July 6, 2017

Peter Coffee on Emerging Trends in Quote to Cash

If you’re looking to stay on the cutting edge of cloud-based technologies and how they impact Customer Experience, then Peter Coffee is your source. As the VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce and a thought leader in emerging trends in Technology and how it impacts the Customer Experience, Coffee has seen the company through continuing evolutions and has been consistently ahead of the curve in how new technologies will affect customer interactions – for better or worse.
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ViewsSamantha Austin
The Human Factor
June 13, 2017

The Human Factor

Robot Recruiting? No, Thanks. Since we were old enough to talk, the question we most often ask is 'Why?' It's the nature of human curiosity, so I’ll start with a ‘why?’ Why do we have Recruiters?
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Culture_Careers | ViewsMeagan Damrow
May 9, 2017

ATG Cares: Rebuilding Together

Despite rain, mud, an electrical shut down, and the worst weather day Britt Marron has ever seen as a house captain for Rebuilding Together, Advanced Technology Group employees spent the day helping to repair a St. Louis woman’s home.
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ATG Cares | Culture_CareersKelli Ourada
May 5, 2017

ATG Featured in CBS News Story

When you think of high-tech companies you tend to think of them located in Silicon Valley, but there’s another state gaining traction with hundreds of new companies opening. CBS News reporter Meg Oliver recently traveled to Big Sky Country to find out what’s behind the trend.
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Culture_Careers | NewsMeg Oliver, CBS News
April 20, 2017

ATG Partners to Teach Students Saleforce’s Lemonade Stand

Middle school students at the Grand Center Arts Academy in downtown St. Louis recently got an introduction to potential careers in information technology and hands-on experience with Lemonade Stand, a Salesforce® app, thanks to a group of Advanced Technology Group (ATG) consultants and their middle school teacher.
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ATG Cares | Culture_CareersATG News Team
March 13, 2017

ATG Extends Billing Domain Expertise to the 4C Group – One of Europe’s Largest Independent Consultancies

OVERLAND PARK, KS – Advanced Technology Group (ATG), a leading provider of Quote-to-Cash consulting and implementation services, today announced a new strategic partnership with 4C Consulting, a leading European Salesforce consultancy. ATG will provide domain expertise, expert services, and a variety of tools and training as 4C ramps its Salesforce Quote-to-Cash practice across Europe.
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NewsPress Release
Advanced Technology Group Monetization Ecosystem Quote to Cash Strategy Implementation
February 13, 2017

ATG Partners with University of Montana to Teach Salesforce Class

Advanced Technology Group has teamed up with the University of Montana to teach a class that allows students to take classroom learning and apply it to real-world business projects and gain firsthand experience in the information technology systems industry. ATG has been teaching in Professor Cameron Lawrence’s class for two semesters, and so far, the course has received rave reviews.
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ATG Cares | Culture_CareersATG News Team
January 20, 2017

ATG Cares: ATG Analyst Emcees 2017 Martin Luther King Day Community Celebration

Ja’Ton Simpson was a little nervous when he realized that there were more than 400 people at Missoula’s 2017 Martin Luther King Day Community Celebration, and they were all waiting for him to speak. Seeing his coworkers from Advanced Technology Group (ATG) in the audience gave him a boost of confidence, and he was able to “speak from the heart” about the Civil Rights Movement leader and how his legacy impacts today’s society.
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ATG Cares | Culture_CareersATG News Team
January 12, 2017

Agility v Rigor: Dawn of Revenue

The times they are a-changing, and a superhero-like battle is brewing. We at ATG witness first-hand the intensifying pressure to drive new business faster and cheaper while maintaining compliance. The tension mounting between product and finance teams is sort of like Batman v Superman—both fight for good but have entirely different modes of operation.
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Featured | ViewsTom Stergios
January 10, 2017

The Product Catalog Problem

At ATG, we’re lucky enough to spend most of our days with clients who are transforming the way their company sells its offerings. The motivation for this change can differ from organization to organization. Some companies have outgrown and outpaced their homegrown back-end systems. Others are merging subscription revenue with a traditional one-time sale business model, and many more are striving to cut their time-to-market with new products.
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ViewsMitch Colyer
December 27, 2016

DevOps – The New Agile

DevOps and Agile, although very different concepts, share some common principles and adoption challenges. Moreover, many industry leading software professionals find themselves in the role of change agent in these exciting domains – challenging us to think deeper about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
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ViewsEd Harrold
December 21, 2016

ATG Cares: ATG Raises Money to Fight Breast Cancer

Tom Stergios and the leadership team at Advanced Technology Group wore pink every day during October. Fashionably dressed in pink socks, pink shirts, and pink accessories, the team led ATG’s efforts in the American Cancer Society’s “Real Men Wear Pink” campaign and won the Western Montana competition.
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ATG Cares | Culture_CareersATG News Team
November 15, 2016

CPQ & Billing Tools Ensure Successful Projects

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas – November 10, 2016 – Advanced Technology Group (ATG), the quote-to-cash consulting and implementation experts, announced today that it has updated its Configure Price Quote (CPQ) and billing implementation tools to educate employees and customers and ensure that the company has a consistent process for helping clients solve many of their biggest problems.
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NewsPress Release
November 1, 2016

ATG Consultant Adds Insight on Salesforce CPQ

Salesforce plans improvements to mobile and desktop UI, and to predictive capabilities, in fully integrated Quote to Cash process — formerly SteelBrick. The newly branded Salesforce CPQ will further the integration of what was once SteelBrick into the Salesforce platform, while also providing Einstein capabilities for the quote-to-cash process.
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NewsJesse Scardina, techtarget.com
October 30, 2016

ATG Women Featured in Missoulian Article

Across the globe, only 24 percent of senior business leadership positions are held by women. That’s up from 22 percent in 2015, but the percentage of firms with no females in senior management stands at 33 percent. According to consulting firm Grant Thornton, which recently published a report on gender diversity, the lack of female executives costs companies hundreds of billions of dollars because extensive research has shown that male-only boardrooms produce poorer financial results.
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ATG Cares | Culture_CareersDavid Erickson, Missoulian
October 16, 2016

ATG Expands Partnership with goTransverse

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas – Advanced Technology Group (ATG), the Quote-to-Cash consulting and implementation experts, today announced that they have expanded their strategic partnership with goTransverse, the award-winning leader in innovative monetization solutions, to further boost their expertise in the cloud billing space and continue to help revolutionize how companies optimize their monetization ecosystem. As part of the partnership, 15 ATG consultants were trained last week on goTransverse’s cloud-based agile monetization and billing platform.
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NewsPress Release
October 12, 2016

The Power of Cross-Platform Code Bases

In today’s world, new technology is released every day to meet and create new expectations from end users. This technology includes both physical devices and new ways to interact with those devices. Devices come in all shapes and sizes, whether it is a mobile device that runs Android or iOS, or if it is a desktop that runs the latest Windows or Mac OS. No matter the form factor, people need access to the same applications across all platforms, without jumping through all of the hoops of different versions of the business applications, in order to stay connected and effective in daily tasks.
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ViewsJustin Wiseman
An Open Letter to ATG
August 18, 2016

An Open Letter to ATG

Cancer. No, not the type that can ruin a company culture. But the real, life-changing, wear-a-ribbon cancer that often elicits averted glances and pity. That saps the strength and focus. That preempts life's plans and can leave the stricken feeling helpless, hopeless, and isolated. That cancer.
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Culture_Careers | ViewsJay Allen
August 2, 2016

Agile Benefits For More Than Just Software Development

Agile has been around for a long time. There are many who still claim that while agile may be a useful concept for software development, it cannot apply to other types of projects. In this article, we will delve into agile a bit. First, we will introduce the agile manifesto itself, try to explain what makes any process agile, and discuss process purity. Second, we will explore a few “core” agile concepts. Finally, we will take a look at how they may expand beyond the “just for software development” argument.
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ViewsJoel Sisk
June 1, 2016

Migration and Conversion – A Simple Approach

So, what are you doing? A conversion or a migration? Well, the answer will be surprising to some. In almost all cases, it’s both. We’ve been using these two terms interchangeably for some time now, but they mean completely different things. Data conversion is the transformation of data from one format to another, basically your Extract, Transform, and Load of the data.
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ViewsLarry Davis
January 10, 2016

Selecting the Right Billing Solution

We inherently know how to buy things. When buying a car, how do adults weigh the balance of price, size, fuel efficiency, and curb appeal? We simply evaluate our needs and preferences, review our budget, shop around, strike a reasonable bargain and move on. Simple right? Don’t you wish that choosing enterprise software was this easy? Unfortunately, the world of software, especially billing software, is incredibly muddled.
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Views | billing | cloud billing | monetizationTom Stergios
December 7, 2015

Beauty in the Beast

Last time, I wrote about a two-headed monster. The poor conflicted PM/BA hybrid. All of that inner turmoil about issues meeting the business need and the conflict with time and budget. I have been contemplating that argument and, for me, it highlights one of the beauties of the PM/BA hybrid. When resolution to that conflict is being driven by one person, some level of personalities and egos are removed from the equation.
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Culture_Careers | ViewsHolly Foster
September 8, 2015

The Inner Turmoil of a PM/BA Hybrid

A two-headed monster, the BA/PM Hybrid. I started out calling them Jekyll & Hyde, however I realized that is not the appropriate representation of the dichotomy of a business analyst and project manager within one person. Jekyll and Hyde are drastically different personalities of the same person, however, at any given time only one is present. The internal battle is much more difficult for the BA/PM hybrid because both minds are present, and often conflicted with each other, at the same time.
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Culture_Careers | ViewsHolly Foster
 

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