e-Configurator

You need e-Configurator when you need to match product or document modules, components, paragraphs, features, options, etc. to customer requirements, often at the point-of-sale.

Typically, configuration covers two different types of knowledge-rich applications: capturing customer requirements, and translating those requirements into product or document generation as understood by those who must assemble the final product or document.  e-Configurator is unique in its ability to accomplish both of these tasks, to determine your customer's specific needs and generate a bill of materials or document assembly instructions with rolled up costs and other features, suitable for direct use by sales and assembly personnel.

e-Configurator is an optional edition of XpertRule Software's  Knowledge Builder knowledge authoring platform, with advanced features critical to configuration applications including:

Hierarchies.  A hierarchy is built at design-time or run-time by defining the assemblies, sub-assemblies, and components which make up the product or document. Hierarchies can be dynamic by allowing instances of assemblies and components to be added at runtime.

Constraint Knowledge.  Constraints are restrictions placed on the selection of certain combinations of options and features in order to prevent invalid choices being made by the user.  Constraints provide the means to restrict run-time user choices and to ensure valid requirement capture by avoiding invalid user input or warning the user of the invalidity of such combinations after they are made.

e-Configurator surpasses all other approaches to product or document configuration by assuring you of graphical rapid data capture,  and ease of maintenance of configuration knowledge over the long term.