Guided Selling, Quoting and Configuration Solutions

BuyDesign® is a guided selling, quoting, and configuration solution developed to help manufacturers streamline the entire interest-to-order cycle for customized products. BuyDesign can help you:

• Increase sales by becoming 'easy to do business with'
• Reduce administrative and sales engineering costs
• Reduce lead times
• Reduce order errors

Modular Components

BuyDesign is made up of primary applications for:

• Interest capture - tools to capture your end customers' attention, imagination, and business.
• Requirements capture - tools to make it easy for professional designers to specify your products.
• Quote and order management - comprehensive support for multi-level sales channels.
• Sales Activity Analysis - Visibility of quote and order activity across all channels.

All BuyDesign applications incorporate advanced capabilities for:

• Product configuration - a powerful engine for guided selection, configuration, pricing, and document/data generation.
• Product visualization - dynamic generation of configuration-specific rendered images, 2D models, and 3D models.

BuyDesign is built on a foundation of supporting applications for:

• System and deployment management - online, distributed, or combined approaches.
• Enterprise integration - data synchronization, transactions, and web services.

You can choose to implement some or all BuyDesign components to meet your specific needs:

• BuyDesign Channel Sales provides complete, ready-to-deploy selling solutions.
• BuyDesign Configurator, BuyDesign FlexRender, BuyDesign Flex2D and BuyDesign Flex3D components are utilized by the BuyDesign selling solutions. They can also be integrated into your own custom applications and/or existing enterprise systems to add powerful, consistent product configuration and visualization capabilities.
• BuyDesign Build-Your-Own, BuyDesign Virtual Catalog, and BuyDesign Spec-In can be deployed as front-end extensions to core BuyDesign selling solutions or as stand-alone applications that extend your reach even further into the buying process and demand chain.

Advanced Software Architecture

Built on the stable, robust, and widely deployed Microsoft .NET technology platform, BuyDesign's advanced software architecture is inherently reliable, scalable, and easy to manage. And it's designed to integrate smoothly with your existing environment, while providing the flexibility to adapt to changing business needs over time.

Download BuyDesign's Technology and Architecture datasheet.