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Tacton Configurator Cuts Quotation Time from Days to Hours for Siemens
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Siemens Power Generation employs advanced configurator software to speed up the process of quoting for advanced power solutions for industrial applications.
Stockholm, Sweden - November 8, 2007 - Tacton Systems, a global vendor of configuration software, announced today that its Tacton Configurator technology has been implemented at Siemens Power Generation - Oil & Gas and Industrial Applications division.
Siemens Power Generation - Oil & Gas and Industrial Applications is a leading global producer of systems and solutions for power generation within key industrial markets, such as oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, metals, and pulp & paper. The complex nature of its technology has traditionally meant a highly-specialized quotation process involving large amounts of sales and engineering input and, consequently, lengthy lead times in the tendering process.
With the integration of the Tacton Configurator, Siemens Power Generation will now empower sales personnel within its Turbo Machinery division to deliver rapid and accurate proposals for projects, at the same time as providing project engineers with detailed and correctly-itemized plans. The local sales force will now be able to compile a budget offer in a matter of minutes. The same tool will be used by Proposal Engineers for creating firm bids in hours, rather than days.
In the Siemens Power Generation solution, Tacton has implemented the TCserver, the server-based engine in the Configurator solution; the TCstudio, the graphical maintenance tool used to define how products can be combined into solutions; and the TCsite, the sales web interface. Tacton has also developed from scratch a back-end system database containing product data. Proposals can be generated automatically by selecting components from the product structure and then simply adding cost data and text. The solution will also simplify maintenance procedures once the system is in place.
"From a Siemens' customers perspective, they will meet a Siemens supplier who can deliver a much more detailed offer in a much shorter time than competitors in the marketplace," says Jan Nilsson, Project Manager, Siemens Power Generation - Oil & Gas and Industrial Applications. "Since the configurator always selects a valid solution, it's no longer necessary to have an in-depth knowledge about the products in order to produce a quality-assured bid."
"The logic engine that we provide assists sales people in the market by enabling them to generate a correct bid in a short time, says Christer Wallberg, CEO, Tacton Systems.
About Tacton Systems
Tacton is a global vendor of sales configuration software and services, with channel partners around the world. Tacton Configurator Solution enables effective selling of customized products whether online or from a PC at the point of sale. Tacton Configurator can be tightly integrated with any existing system and has standard integrations with leading e-Commerce, ERP, CRM, PLM and CAD systems. Tacton's solutions are used by customers including GE Healthcare, Ericsson, ABB, Pentair Water, Hoffman Enclosures, ASSA ABLOY, Mod-Pac, FlWoods and Albany Door Systems.
About Siemens
Power Generation - Oil & Gas and Industrial Applications
Siemens Power Generation Oil & Gas and Industrial Applications, of which Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery (SIT AB) is a part, is responsible for the full range of products, solutions and services designed to serve the needs of its oil and gas clients and industrial power users. SIT AB in Finspong, with its workface of around
2300 talented and competent employees who contribute through their expertise to empowering industries all over the world offers a full range of world-class turbomachinery.
About Siemens Power Generation
Siemens Power Generation - industry, a division of Siemens AG, is one of the premier companies in the international power generation sector providing leading-edge power and energy solutions. It develops and builds fossil fuel power plants and power-generating components as well as wind turbines, turbines for use as mechanical drives and compressors for industrial applications.
www.siemens.com
For more information, contact:
Tacton Systems
Christer Wallberg,
Chief Executive Officer
Telephone: +46 (0)8 690 07 50
Cell: +46 (0)730 32 49 70
Email: christer.wallberg@tacton.com
Tacton Systems
www.tacton.com
info@tacton.com
