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Copyright © by Don Cochran

After some recent reviews over the last two to three months of more than a dozen Configuration Solution Suppliers in North America and Europe, it is apparent that customers are demanding easy to learn and easy to use rule creation and maintenance capability and many of the software suppliers have listened.

Market Watch, September 2004

By Don Cochran, regular Market Watch Contributor, Configuration Work Group Review

We can sum up more or less everything that's been happening in the product configurator market space with one very simple question: Where's the money?

Market Watch, January 2005

By Don Cochran, regular Market Watch Contributor, Configuration Work Group Review

The day of the large Configurator implementation is nearly gone. Reason: ROI, in a year or less.

Is it up, or is it down?

One moment you read in the most recently reported trends that profits are up and spending is up, and then your read that they're down. The latest forecast, I think, is that spending is up for 2005 by 3% to 8%, but that of course depends on who is doing the interviewing.

So you're thinking about moving to the IPC? Here's a guideline, maybe even the guideline you've been looking for, offering an overview of what the IPC is, what kind of system you need to run it, and how to prepare your VC models to move them into the IPC world. Marek Duda, Oct. 10, 2005

In this article we will give a short summary of what you need to do to feed your IPC with models of configurable materials which were created in your variant-configuration (VC) module of R/3.

By Marek Duda, Sybit GmbH

Another round of random ramblings on the Marco Island Conference. This time around, it's the October 8-10, 2007 coverage.

Copyright by Steve Schneider

Well, here we are again with the 2007 edition of random ramblings from the Fall 2007 Marco Island CWG conference. It is such a hardship having to deal with the Florida sunsets without a good microbrew. Yuengling isn't bad, but it's a long way from Spotted Cow or Fat Tire.

Another round of random ramblings on the Marco Island Conference. This time around, it’s the October 16-18, 2006 coverage.

Copyright © by Steve Schneider

Oh darn..Had to drive all the way from Michigan to Marco Island again. The sacrifices we all make for our employers.As you can see from this shot, it can be a really rough life..