The award-winning product configurator secures the award in the category “Excellence in Business to Business: Information Technologies” thanks to features for more sustainable configurations. The award ceremony took place on May 14, 2024, at Futurium Berlin.
Sustainability is a topic that concerns everyone. Acting sustainably oneself and also encouraging one’s own customers to do so is an essential part of the mission statement of many companies. The enhanced product configurator “INKAS CPQ+ – the product configurator with a green CO2 footprint” puts this idea into practice right from the beginning of the product lifecycle. In addition to providing the best possible user experience, it is also optimized to enable sustainable configurations, thus acting resource-efficiently already in the conceptual phase of a product.
INKAS CPQ+ has already received a number of awards. On May 14, 2024, it-motive AG was awarded another prestigious German Innovation Award in the category “Excellence in Business to Business: Information Technologies” for the prototype of an advancement of the configurator at Futurium Berlin. The German Innovation Award, presented since 2018 by the German Design Council, is considered one of the most important awards for products, projects, and pioneering achievements that sustainably improve life through innovation and progress.
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New user interface with “green” configuration: The redesigned configurator INKAS CPQ+ operates on the familiar principle of “Configure, Price, and Quote.” What’s new is the addition of the “green configuration” aspect, which integrates a sustainable orientation, ecological concerns, and social responsibility into the development or design process. For its implementation, the configurator interface has been expanded with additional features and the design has been renewed.
Help-Guide: During the configuration process, a help guide runs alongside, providing assistance and suggestions for a more sustainable configuration.
Comparison function: INKAS CPQ+ offers a comparison overview for different configurations to facilitate selecting the best and most sustainable option. All configurations are determined and stored in thThe redesigned configurator INKAS CPQ+ operates on the familiar principle of “Configure, Price, and Quote.” What’s new is the addition of the “green configuration” aspect, whie system using AI. One challenge was to accurately represent and integrate sustainability data into the system.
AR Visualization: Part of the configurator is an AR catalog where the configured product is represented three-dimensionally using the additional tool itmVIS. The product can also be visualized in real space via a mobile device using a QR code. This visualization makes it easier to fully understand the chosen solution, ultimately reducing unnecessary production costs, emissions, and resource consumption.
The described new features for more sustainability will be integrated into the configurator with upcoming releases.
To learn more about INKAS CPQ+, the product configurator for more sustainability, visit inkas-konfigurator.com.
