Sales Activity Analysis Added to BuyDesign® 6.0 Guided Selling and Configuration Suite from TDCI

Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) September 3, 2008 -- TDCI, Inc. (TDCI), the leading provider of configurator-based software solutions, announced today immediate availability of BuyDesign Insights, a new sales activity analysis application, along with Release 6.0 of the BuyDesign guided selling and configuration solution suite. BuyDesign Insights extends the BuyDesign suite to provide sales management with visibility and analysis of quoting and ordering activity across all indirect and direct sales channels. In addition to BuyDesign Insights, BuyDesign 6.0 delivers a number productivity and performance enhancements to the product configurator, quoting & ordering, and distributed system management components of the suite.

BuyDesign is a comprehensive guided selling and configuration solution developed to streamline the sales process for customized products. BuyDesign helps companies that manufacture products with a wide range of features, options, and dimensions increase sales by becoming 'easy to do business with' while at the same time helping them reduce order processing time, cost, and errors.

"With BuyDesign Insights, sales managers and other executives now have the ability to track and analyze all stages of the sales process from quote to order - even for dealers and distributors," said Dan DeMuth, TDCI President. "This greatly extends the manufacturer's visibility of the pipeline since they typically have not had access to indirect channel activity until an order is placed. This increased visibility helps manufacturers improve dealer collaboration, sales forecasting, and production planning."

In addition to basic information about quotes and orders such as product, quantity, and price, BuyDesign Insights also captures details about product configurations, including specific features, options, and dimensions. This information provides added insight for manufacturing planning as well as the basis for analysis of option selection trends and the impact of pricing and promotion programs.

Also available for immediate delivery, BuyDesign 6.0 includes a wide range of enhancements to improve the ease-of-use, implementation flexibility, and performance of BuyDesign. Enhanced components include BuyDesign Configurator, BuyDesign Channel Sales quoting and ordering, and BuyDesign InTouch distributed system management. For more about the BuyDesign guided selling and configuration suite, including the new BuyDesign Insights component, visit www.tdci.com/buydesign.

About TDCI and BuyDesign

TDCI (www.tdci.com) specializes in helping manufacturers and their distributors streamline the buying process for customized products. TDCI's BuyDesign® software is a comprehensive web-based guided selling and configuration solution developed to help companies increase sales by becoming 'easy to do business with' while improving profitability by reducing order processing time, cost, and errors. Built using a powerful product configurator, BuyDesign provides modular applications for guided product selection and configuration, product visualization, quoting and ordering, drawing and data generation, consumer interest creation, intelligent product catalogs and more.

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