THE NEW MAJOR RELEASE
BLACK CAT 16
Coming on January 25th, 2026. Experience the enhancements in Pricefx Agents, Win-Rate driven price recommendations, Pricing Insights Dashboards, and much more.
What's New in Black Cat 16?
Introducing New Business Capabilities
Pricefx Agents Enhancements
Ready-Made Agents and Your Own Tailored Agents
Uncover Business Opportunities and Risks on the Fly: Utilize Agents’ automation to identify business opportunities and risks immediately
Get Recommendations and Act Fast: Leverage the provided smart recommendations to capture the resulting value with a few clicks
Ready-Made Agents: Start in <5 days with ready-made Agents designed for typical business scenarios and pricing situations
Tailored Agents: Just ask Pricefx Copilot to create a tailored agent for your specific needs, while using just natural language
Win-Rate
Understand What Wins in Real Time: Gain insights from past quote outcomes—both won and lost—to identify what led to successful deals, with visual analytics that reveal how factors such as product availability or region impact win-rates and enable faster market response
Optimize Quoting Decisions: Use deal context like customer type or deal size to get recommended prices that balance margin and win probability
Empower Your Sales Team: Sales reps get instant win-rate scores and price recommendations tailored to each quote — helping them focus on what sells, adjust pricing smartly, and close more deals with confidence
Pricing Insights Dashboards
Empower Pricing Teams With Insights: Purpose-built dashboards deliver the insights pricing teams need — from financial visibility to driving smarter decisions
Streamline Pricing Analysis Workflows: Connected dashboards guide users through a seamless flow — from high-level views to detailed insights — making it easy to navigate, analyze, and act — all in one flow
Turn Insights Into Actions: Pricefx Copilot recommends the next best steps based on real-time data. With integrated Pricefx Agents, you can act instantly — without switching tools or losing context
Self-Service Dashboards - Preview
Tailored to Your Business Needs: Create dashboards that perfectly align with business views on data that matter to you
No Technical Skills Required: Design your data views without advanced technical skills – no coding and intuitive setup
Effortless Data Queries: Easily set up data queries matching your specific needs, and visualize results through a variety of chart types
Preview: Available for preview now (can be enabled through Feature Flags); general availability during 2026
Introducing New Technical and Configuration Capabilities
Import Manager
Now available for advanced datasets such as Company Parameters
Enhance Data Management: Benefit from a simpler, more intuitive way to manage data in Pricefx. Export, import, or update directly within the application as an alternative to the Pricefx Excel Client
Import Data Across the Application: Available for Price Lists or Live Price Grids data, Customer and Seller Master Data, and Extensions, Products, and Product Extensions, without needing to open additional tools for a better experience
Now also available for Company Parameters, Manual Price List, Competition Data, Bill of Materials, and Product Reference. Handle advanced datasets with ease.
Platform Management Improvements
Enhanced Low/No Code Integrations: Set up regular data uploads/exports without technical skills, now with improved monitoring and expert options (custom export names, multiple files export, scheduling, notifications)
Enhanced Event Orchestration: Stability improvements (now each customer has its own listener), new notification options, and improvements to auditing
Data Validation: Options to validate uploaded data for selected Accelerators
Low / No Code Integrations
Integrate Data Effortlessly: Enable seamless data integrations of Pricefx and other IT systems without advanced technical skills
Automate Uploads and Exports: Quickly set up automated file-based uploads or exports in just a few simple steps
Leverage Advanced Integration Options: Utilize related options, such as SFTP connection management, data mapping, monitoring, archiving, etc.
Drive Your Self-sufficiency in Pricefx: Available in PlatformManager with other options enabling self-service for Pricefx platform management
Keep in mind our N-1 release policy
- Official support is for the latest 2 releases – Caribou Lou 14.x and Southside 15.x
- Once the Black Cat 16 release is made available, all our customers will be required to use either Black Cat 16.x (N release) or Southside 15.x (N-1 release)
- If you are on the Caribou Lou 14 release, we encourage you to start planning for the upgrade to Southside 15 now