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     E-Catalog

Configure One, Inc.
900 Jorie Boulevard, Suite 190
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523

 

About the Company:

Founded in 2000, Configure One is a privately held e-catalog and product configurator software company headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, near Chicago. Our European operation, Configure One Europe, Ltd., is located in Essex County, near London.

Configure One is known around the world as a configurator software company that is a leader in providing enterprise product configurator and electronic catalog software.  We’ve built our company on the principals of creating web-based product configurator and electronic catalog software that is simple to use, yet powerful enough to offer flexibility in today's complex sales and manufacturing environments. As a configurator and an e-catalog company, our goal is to provide our customers with a competitive advantage in their own markets by improving bottom line results. Our Concept Enterprise Product Configurator, Concept E-Catalog, and Concept E-Commerce products enable our customers to increase sales while reducing costs by automating much of the sales, order entry, and engineering processes.

We seek to build business relationships based on integrity and value that will last a lifetime. As a product configurator company, much of our development over the years has its roots in enhancements built to address specific business problems faced by our customers, and all of our software is developed at our Oak Brook, IL facility.

One of the unique aspects and critical success factors for Configure One is our commitment to provide the best customer service in the entire software industry.  Every employee is evaluated and rewarded based on your satisfaction level with Configure One’s products and services.

Configure One is financially stable and has been debt-free, growing, and profitable since its second full year in existence.  Configure One qualifies as a U.S. veteran-owned business, and all of its founders are involved with the day-to-day business operations. In addition to being debt-free, the company has no venture capital or other third party investors. Configure One’s executives can therefore make decisions that are based on the needs of the company and our customers.

Today, we continue to work closely with our customers as we grow and prosper, based on our commitment to design, develop, market, install and support the best possible configurator and e-catalog solutions available today.

Tactical Solution:

Category:

Sub-Category: E-Catalog

About the Product:

Configure One’s User-Friendly E-Catalog

Configure One’s Web-based Concept E-Catalog software allows companies to rapidly implement and easily maintain enterprise electronic catalog software and electronic commerce software solutions for Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer applications. Whether you’re using the Concept E-Catalog in conjunction with the Concept Enterprise Product Configurator or as a standalone e catalog implementation, you’ll be impressed with the strategic business benefits that this rich-in-functionality e catalog software product will deliver. Concept E-Catalog’s extensive content management tools let administrators of electronic catalog software installations implement and maintain the solution without requiring any programming skills.

Business Benefits

• Frees up IT staff by allowing Marketing and others without programming skills to implement and maintain the electronic catalog
• Allows users to quickly find the items they require even if you sell millions of SKUs
• Helps increase sales and customer loyalty by allowing sales reps, distributors, and customers to find products faster
• Perfect for after market part sales
• Directs customers to your applicable distributors right when they’re ready to purchase, thereby providing a value-added service to your distributors
• Lets your customers search and select your product 24/7 via online catalog
• Matches your desired workflow – letting users order, request order, quote, or request a quote for the items in their shopping cart
• Offers customers method for requesting a quote or placing an order, letting sales or your distributors automatically create a quote upon request
• Integrates with the Concept Enterprise Product Configurator to let users customize your products to fit their needs

Delivers a Fully Integrated Solution

• Provides full product configurator functionality via the Concept Enterprise Product Configurator
• Includes full featured shopping cart functionality via Configure One’s Concept E-Commerce functionality
• Integrates with existing product data repositories wherever that data is stored, including ERP, MRP, CRM, or legacy systems
• Makes it easy to import product data in Excel, XML, and other formats
• Utilizes Web 2.0 tools such as AJAX architecture to deliver enhanced usability

Enhances Marketing and Sales Efforts

• Look and feel can be easily modified to match your company’s website branding, including colors and fonts
• Makes it easy to incorporate thumbnail and full images of items
• Includes pricing functionality to display the appropriate price of items
• Allows users to get to more information on items through Item Detail Pages
• Lets you attach product brochures and spec sheets in various file formats (for example, .PDF, html, CAD files, and AVIs) to individual items

Provides an Easy-to-Use Tool for Your End Customers

• Users can easily download product brochures and spec sheets from links you provide, or view information on Item Detail Pages
• Users control their view of the data such as the number of items included on a single page
• Users can search by best match, lowest price, and highest price
• Includes anonymous and logged in user functionality, so users can perform some tasks without a password
• Favorites functionality lets users place items into their favorites area for future viewing and/or adding to a shopping cart
• Recently Viewed Items section allows users easily get back to items they have recently clicked on
• Users can efficiently find the item(s) they’re looking for through global searches, filtered searches, point and click browse category drill downs, or a combination of approaches such as running a filtered search on a browsed product subcategory
• Unique Locate Distributor functionality allows end users to find their closest distributor(s) of your products and then to automatically contact the distributor(s) they choose
• Optional 3D product data integration lets users spin, zoom, and explode 3D information right in the web browser with the need for any browser plug-in software

Easy to Administer

• Catalog Category Manager lets you easily create categories and subcategories, and maintain catalog items appropriately in Concept E-Catalog’s hierarchical category structure
• Capable of handling over 5 million individual catalog items in a given implementation
• Includes robust yet easy to use content management tools
• Implementation-specific search weighting allows administrators to determine how an item will be relevant when a search term is found in its attributes

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