TDCI Elevated to Microsoft Managed ISV Partner Status for BuyDesign® Product Configurator and Guided Selling Software
New Status Based on Growing Market Acceptance of BuyDesign Software for Microsoft Dynamics Solutions
(December 2010) TDCI Inc. (TDCI), the leading provider of configurator-based software solutions, announced today that Microsoft has elevated TDCI to Managed ISV Partner status as an emerging partner. The new partner status has been earned based on growing acceptance of TDCI’s BuyDesign® Product Configurator and Guided Selling software suite as add-ons to Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and Microsoft Dynamics GP with planned availability for Microsoft Dynamics CRM in Q4 2010.
Microsoft Managed ISV Partners are chosen based on criteria including revenue potential, revenue growth, and an established track record of success working with Microsoft. With this program, Microsoft and partners gain mutual benefits in product direction, sales, and marketing. Less than 5% of Microsoft ISV partners are included in the Managed ISV Partner program. TDCI has been a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner since early 2007.
BuyDesign is a comprehensive product configurator and guided selling solution suite that streamlines the sales, engineering, and manufacturing processes 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 reducing order processing time, cost, and errors.
BuyDesign components available as add-ons for Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and Microsoft Dynamics GP include: BuyDesign Configurator, a powerful browser-based product and sales configurator; BuyDesign Flex2D and Flex3D, optional product visualization extensions that dynamically generate configuration-specific 2D drawings and 3D CAD models; and BuyDesign Channel Sales, a robust Web-based sales quoting, proposal generation and ordering solution. All BuyDesign applications are built on the Microsoft technology platform and are designed to interoperate with existing enterprise systems.
Joe Corigliano, Microsoft Director of Business Development for Microsoft Dynamics products, said: “We consider product configurator, guided selling, and related capabilities to be strategic aspects of our Microsoft Dynamics solution set in a number of the industries we serve. We recognize that those capabilities are fundamental to the way many companies do business and can make all the difference in their competitive success. We are very happy to be working with TDCI as a strategic software developer to deliver those capabilities to our customers as they are an industry leader in this space.”
“We appreciate the level of confidence Microsoft has shown by designating TDCI as a Microsoft Managed ISV Partner,” said Dan DeMuth, TDCI President. “We have worked hard to develop our application integrations such that they extend the power of Microsoft Dynamics solutions and these integrations have received enthusiastic responses from the Microsoft Dynamics teams. We are also working actively with Microsoft Dynamics Value Added Resellers (VARs) and other Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to incorporate the solutions into their sales plans to help them win more business. The response has been overwhelmingly positive. We look forward to our solutions winning more business for Microsoft and its partner channels”.
In addition to Microsoft Dynamics, BuyDesign is integrated with a number of other popular ERP systems and enterprise systems operating on Microsoft Windows and IBM System i (iSeries, AS/400) platforms.
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 product configurator and guided selling 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, and more.
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