TDCI Partners with Scene7® to Deliver Rich Media Applications within BuyDesign® Guided Selling and Configuration Solution
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November 8, 2006 Columbus, Ohio. TDCI Inc, a leading enterprise solution provider, today announced that the company is partnering with Scene7, Inc., provider of the industry-leading Scene7 On-Demand rich media platform, to deliver several new capabilities within TDCI's BuyDesign guided selling and configuration solution. BuyDesign is a comprehensive software solution that helps companies increase sales and improve profitability by enabling them to become 'easy to do business with' while reducing order processing time, cost, and errors.
TDCI is incorporating Scene7's platform solutions into BuyDesign to provide a rich media product configuration and ordering experience. The Scene7 rich media platform is an easy-to-use, Web-based system that gives business users the control to upload, manage, enhance, and publish dynamic rich media content with minimal IT support.
BuyDesign Configurator combined with Scene7's capabilities for visually configuring product images online enables users to visualize all of a product's texture, material, color, pattern and surface options dynamically generated from a single master image with swatches applied while offering streamlined ordering, selection and status processing. BuyDesign eliminates the need to create individual part numbers for every valid product configuration and Scene7's image rendering eliminates the need to create
individual photos for every possible product variation providing even greater content management ROI. Customers and channel partners can visualize all options to gain purchase confidence while the manufacturer avoids the need for photos of every SKU.
Scene7 eCatalogs combined with the BuyDesign Storefront or Channel Sales applications allow companies to integrate interactive versions of print materials with their online quoting and ordering systems. Dynamically assembled and served, Scene7 eCatalogs are ideal for delivering segmented, personalized interactive versions in real-time. Unlike pre-built online catalogs, eCatalogs are instantly reconfigured and updated on the fly
allowing companies to deliver more relevant, targeted visual catalogs to drive multi-channel sales more cost-effectively.
"We've been impressed by Scene7's technology for handling images," stated Dan DeMuth, TDCI president. "It aligns well with our strategy to provide capabilities that enable companies to be completely self-sufficient in providing guided selling solutions to their channel partners and customers."
"TDCI shares a complementary approach with Scene7 about the value companies gain from having the ability to maintain a central repository of product content for use across all of their selling systems and channels," said Doug Mack, CEO of Scene7 . "The BuyDesign Configurator is an ideal tool to combine with Scene7 On-Demand for managing and distributing product content cost-effectively."
About Scene7
Scene7 provider of the leading on-demand rich media platform enables companies to grow revenues, enhance customer experience and cut production costs. Scene7's solutions are built on an integrated technology platform for unrivaled breadth, depth, scalability and ease of use. Solutions include Dynamic Imaging, eCatalogs, Product Configurators, Targeted email & print, and Image Management. Available both as software and On-Demand, leading companies worldwide have selected Scene7, including Amazon, Harrods, Macy's, Office Depot, Levi Strauss & Co., La-Z-Boy and QVC and partners IBM, Microsoft, Akamai and Adobe. Visit www.scene7.com.
About TDCI
TDCI is an enterprise solution provider that specializes in helping manufacturers and their distributors streamline the selling process for customized products. TDCI's BuyDesign software is a guided selling and configuration solution developed to help companies increase sales and improve profitability by becoming 'easy to do business with' while reducing order processing time, cost, and errors. BuyDesign supports the entire 'interest-to-order' cycle with modular components for guided product selection and configuration, product visualization, quoting and ordering, drawing generation, and status inquiry. BuyDesign also includes applications for web-based interest generation and for product specification from within popular design products such as AutoCAD and others. For more information about TDCI and BuyDesign, visit www.tdci.com.
Sharon Binkley
Marketing Communications
TDCI Inc. -- www.tdci.com
614.781.2325 x171
sbinkley@tdci.com
