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
Pricefx 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
125+ Pricefx Agents: Start in <5 days with Pricefx 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