Sales Automation

In front-office applications such as assisted selling within SFA, Interactive Selling Solutions and point of sale solutions Array Configuration holds a leadership position in handling complex large scale configuration problems as well as mobile handheld deployments. Array Configuration has proven its unique properties in many customer cases with some of the following characteristics:

• Sales Configuration for the sales force and sales partners
• E-Commerce solutions with a large number of clients
• Sales Configuration solutions on handheld devices such as mobile phones and PDA's
• Sales Configuration solutions distributed on CD-ROM's.

Array Configuration have obtained a strong visionary position in Gartner Groups 2003 Sales Configuration Magic Quadrant.

Service Management

Within post-sale Customer Service and IT Service Management configuration solutions play a vital role in transforming service business functions from a cost center to a revenue generating business entity or even in some cases to a profit center. Service Management solutions have some of the following characteristics:

• Up- and cross selling in the customer service contact center
• Unassisted selling on web-self service sites
• Configuration of purchase orders in Help Desk and Procurement applications
• Validation of change management requests in IT Service Management

Array Configuration's unique capability to do soft needs assessment and automatic alternative suggestion are critical in delivering effective up- and cross selling solutions in the time critical contact center environment.

Design Optimization

In Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Product Life-Cycle Management (PLM) Array Configuration drives huge cost savings via enabling constraint based design reducing the need for expensive engineering resources in design of custom products as well as generally shorting design cycle times. Design Optimization solutions have some of the following characteristics:

• Constraint based design in CAD solutions with integration to common product definitions in PLM
• Generation of full BOM from 3D design
• Validation of manufacturability at design time in real-time

Adding Array Configuration to existing CAD solution enable streamlining of design processes and extends existing engineering design solution to ensure further return on investment in current technology.

Engineering Design

Designing control systems for safe and optimum operation of e.g. railroads or power plants is highly complex and and each change request in the design requires a complete new verification of the functional integrity. Engineering Design solutions have some of the following characteristics:

• Modeling of all components and constraints in even very large engineering turn-key projects such as power plants or rail roads.
• Verification of safety and mission critical systems and constructions

Engineering turn-key project are iterative in nature and Array Configuration allows all combinations to be tested for logical consistency during the design phase, reducing validation time from man-years to just a few man-weeks.

Pervasive Computing

Setup and design of operating systems for electronic equipment and industrial products are traditionally a resource insensitive task often with extensive manual testing. When logic is represented in terms of constraints and consistent data rather than programs, the quality and usability of the product is enhanced, and the resources for programming and test are reduced dramatically. Pervasive Computing solutions have some of the following characteristics:

• Configuration data embedded in the physical product to simplify installation and setup
• Improve man-machine interfaces for easy maintenance
• Gaming rules described as constraints for Computer games
• Operational logic for automation equipment and devices

Array Configuration's delivers extremely compact models; both in terms of modeled problems and the runtime engine itself, resulting in low memory requirements. The model can run efficiently stand-alone as embedded solution on silicon or on mobile clients like Java enabled mobile phones.