CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
15 December 2005
Company News
Access Commerce Outlines Top Ten Risks Associated with Product Configurator Software Implementation
Access Commerce announced the release of their latest whitepaper, "Top Ten Risks of a Configuration Project and How to Avoid Them." Written to educate companies implementing configuration, pricing and quotation software projects, the whitepaper compliments two earlier Access Commerce whitepapers, "Optimizing the Lead-to-Order Process: An Executive Guide" and Configurability Strategy: A Competitive Advantage." "Top Ten Risks" reinforces the benefits of product configuration by clearly identifying key risks associated with adopting new configurator software and providing proven actions to mitigate them.
The concepts, ideas and strategies detailed in the Top Ten Risks whitepaper are the result of more than 200 product configuration software projects completed at mid-size to Fortune 100 companies in a variety of industries around the world. Companies will find useful information that can be applied during all project implementation phases: project planning, configuration model design, project execution, and solution deployment and roll-out. The strategies compile a mix of proven methods from successful experiences of others, as well as lessons learned along the way from bumps in the road, stalled and even failed projects.
"Access Commerce has a proven track record delivering business benefits from successful product configuration software implementation projects," stated Kurt Haller, Executive Vice President of Access Commerce. "By making some of this experience available through a series of whitepapers, we can educate our prospective customers and at the same time, reinforce our leadership position as the most deployed product configurator worldwide.
About Access Commerce
Access Commerce is a provider of Advanced Selling Solutions. Access Commerce provides Product Configuration and Advanced Selling Solutions that simplify the sale of complex products and services and streamline key steps in the lead-to- order process to eliminate errors, reduce costs and improve throughput. Using its sales and partner applications, manufacturers can guide their employees, partners and customers through needs analysis, configuration, pricing, quotation and order fulfillment processes. Access Commerce customers include innovative mid-sized companies, as well as members of the Fortune 1000, such as Aréva, Eaton, Invacare, Manitou, Saint-Gobain, Schneider Electric, Socomec, Technal, ThyssenKrupp and X-Rite.
Access Commerce is headquartered in Toulouse, France and Chicago, Illinois and has offices located in North America, France and Germany. For more information, please visit http://www.access-commerce.com .
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