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TDCI and FeneTech to Integrate Their
Software Offerings
TDCI Inc. and FeneTech Inc., two software providers serving the window and door industry, have formed a strategic alliance to integrate their respective products. Work between the two companies has already started, with the product configurator component of TDCI’s BuyDesign already integrated into the FeneTech’s FeneVision order entry application.
“No one understands window and door manufacturing better than FeneTech, and we’re excited about working with them to create the most advanced quote-to-delivery solution available in the fenestration industry today,” says Dan DeMuth, TDCI president. “TDCI’s BuyDesign provides window and door manufacturers with intuitive Web-based configuration and quoting tools that nicely complement our order entry, manufacturing, and customer service software,” adds Ron Crowl, FeneTech president. “Together, our solutions can have a huge positive impact on a window and door company’s business performance.”
Integration of the BuyDesign Configurator into the FeneVision order entry application enables all of BuyDesign’s advanced product configuration, visualization, and data generation capabilities within FeneVision, officials explain. It also provides a single configuration rules management environment for the combined solution. Standard links for sharing of customer, product, and order information between the two supplier’s systems are also being developed.
Using these links, the BuyDesign application for dealer or direct sales force quoting and ordering can be deployed as a Web-based online solution, or as a distributed desktop/laptop PC solution with automated synchronization via the Internet. Orders can then be passed directly into FeneVision to drive the manufacturing and shipping process. TDCI’s applications for Web site consumer interest generation and for download of configurable product catalogs for use within AutoCAD by architects and designers are also available as part of the packaged solution.
FeneTech, based in Aurora, Ohio, offers FeneVision production control and business management systems specifically developed for the window and door industry. Its manufacturer customers include Traco, Polaris Technologies, Sunrise Windows, Intigral and numerous others. TDCI ’s BuyDesign guided selling and configuration software is in use at Atrium, Kolbe & Kolbe, Quaker Windows, Therma-Tru Doors and many others, it reports.
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