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Joining as a silver partner, PTC admitted TDCI to their Partner Advantage program.  PTC is a technology provider of content managment systems which include document creation and management as well as visualisation of parametric CAD models.

TDCI is hoping to benefit from access to the PTC resources and technology.   They have interfaced their BuyDesign guided selling, product configuration and 3D visualisation software  (Flex3D) platform with PTC Pro/ENGINEER.

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Product configurator and guided selling solutions for Microsoft Dynamics GP were announced this month by TDCI.

The two modules BuyDesign Configurator and BuyDesign Guided Selling integrate are available as optional applications in GP 10.0 SP2 versions and above.

One of their customers, Porvene Doors, is very happy with the solution and with the benefits typically experience by companies which implement product configurator and guided buying solutions.

Says Stephen Bryan of Porvene Doors:

With our old system, we maintained a full bill of material (BOM) for every size and variation of the doors we make.  That added up to over 50,000 different part numbers and associated BOMs.  The effort and cost to maintain all those parts and BOMs was onerous.  Now we use the configurator to generate that information on the fly as products are ordered – eliminating the vast majority of that data maintenance.  We could not have made this important change with Great Plains alone – it’s the product configurator that makes it possible.”

A product configurator whitepaper by AMR Research, from December 2009, is available courtesy of Configura AB.  This whitepaper has involved 80 company interviews as well as investigation of 16 technology providers.  Configura was among the technology providers detailed in the report as well as many of the companies regularly covered here on configuratorondemand.com such as:

• Access Commerce,
• BigMachines,
• Cincom,
• Configit,
• Configure One,
• Consona,
• Exalt,
• FPX,
• Oracle,
• SAP,
• Selectica,
• Sterling Commerce,
• Tacton Systems,
• TDCI, and
• Technicon Interactive.

The whitepaper gives readers a solid understanding of the benefits of product configurators and insight of various applications in different types of businesses.

A valuable read for anyone evaluating their corporate configuration needs and requirements, as it covers a wide spectrum of both custom off the shelf and cloud-based (SaaS) product configurators.

April 24, 2010	to	April 27, 2010
May 5, 2010	to	May 7, 2010
September 20, 2010	to	September 22, 2010

TDCI showing off their product configurators at the following events in 2010.

May 5 – 7, 2010

The SUN Conference 2010,

Nashville, TN

April 24 – 27, 2010

Convergence 2010, Atlanta Georgia
Convergence is the premier Microsoft Dynamics event.

September 20 – 22, 2010

Perspectives 2010 – TDCI Customer Forum, Columbus, OH.

Perspectives 2010 is their customer forum for users of BuyDesign and MAC-PAC.

TDCI, Inc. (TDCI) announced that Regal Marine Industries (Regal Marine), a world leader in the design and manufacturing of luxury performance boats, selected TDCI’s BuyDesign guided selling and product configuration software which provides enhanced quoting and ordering capabilities for their dealer network.

See other BuyDesign specialty vehicle and boat industrial customers.