Koalog releases Koalog Configurator(TM) v0.13

Paris, France, November 2003 - Software company Koalog(TM) announces the
release of Koalog Configurator(TM) v0.13.
Unlike current configurators, using the old technology of rule programming,
Koalog Configurator(TM) is powered by the technology of constraint
programming.
This original technological choice offers brand new functional
possibilities:

CONFIGURE IN ANY ORDER
Other configurators impose a predefined sequence of selections on the user,
thus restricting the manner and order in which choices can be expressed.
This can make the configuration task a slow and tedious process.
In particular, when no solution corresponding to the user choices is found
at the end of it, the user is invited to restart from the beginning.
With Koalog Configurator(TM), there is no such constraint.
The user can express preferences and wishes in any order, and modify them at
any time.

SELECTIONS VIOLATION
Moreover, Koalog Configurator(TM) comes with an interactive prioritization
module (orexplanation module) that allows the user to violate previously
made selections.
If the user makes a selection which conflicts with earlier selections, the
configurator will prevent the selection being made.
Instead, the configurator will show the user which previous selections are
incompatible with the most recent failed selection, and then it will prompt
the user to prioritise among them.
The configurator will discard the low-priority selections, and will continue
as if those selections had not been made.

PRICING RULES
In addition to configuration rules, Koalog Configurator(TM) support pricing
rules.
With pricing rules, you can define individual configuration item prices
depending on user selections.
Hence, bundles or version-dependent prices can be implemented.
During the configuration, the user is informed about the impact of his
selections on the final price range.
Moreover, the user can directly modify the price range: the configuration
engine reduces the set of possible configurations accordingly.

GUI
Koalog Configurator(TM) comes with an intuitive Swing maintenance tool and
fast web components.
An example of a car configurator built upon Koalog Configurator(TM) web
components is available at http://www.koalog.com/php/jcf.php.

ABOUT KOALOG
Koalog(TM) is a software company specialized in complex Java(TM)
applications.
Its software suite Koal-ET (Koalog Exhaustive Testing) provides the
programmers, quality engineers, testers and project managers with powerful
tools for testingand quality measurement.

Koal-SE (Koalog Smart Engines) is a set of software components (constraint
solver and configurator) dedicated to planning, scheduling, resource
optimization and configuration.
Koalog(TM) was founded in 2002.
Visit http://www.koalog.com for more information.

Best regards,
Yan Georget