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Selectica Configuration Platform Features

The Selectica Configuration Platform is designed to accommodate the configuration needs of extremely complex products and services. Therefore, a rich set of features have been developed as part of the platform to assure that virtually any configuration challenge can be met. Whether your industry is Automotive, Financial Services, High Technology, Industrial, Manufacturing, or Telecommunications, the Selectica Configuration Platform has the capabilities to do the job.

Selectica Configuration Platform Features Declarative Constraint Engine Features     Declarative Form Business logic expressed in declarative, not procedural, form. Business entities are represented using parameters. Relationships between parameters are captured as constraints.     Scalable Declarative form compact compared to procedural engine. Inherently scalable for faster throughput.     High Performance State-based engine considers only changes to model, instead of processing entire model, for significantly faster processing.     Simplified Architecture No elaborate procedures are required to get valid configuration     Automated Engine automatically adjusts to added or removed parameter or constraint. Runs all applicable constraints and rejects choice in case of constraint failure. State of business model always correct. Knowledge Base Features     Repository Repository includes business entities and logic     Parameters Parameters (business entities to be configured) can be logical, cumulative, or programmatic     Constraints Constraints (relationships between business entities) can be hard or soft, and can consist of algebraic expressions, function expressions, rules, tables, compatibility/ incompatibility, or resource     Components Components (pre-defined business objects, which are the parts and their attributes) can be hierarchical and can be loaded from a database Modeling Features     Complexity Rich modeling constructs permit modeling at attribute and meta level, instead of component level, easing modeling of complex products and services.     Object-Oriented Supports inheritance to extract common behavior and data. Also supports composition that can reflect physical containment     Parameters Multiple types of parameters are available, including referential parameters, resource parameters, and containers of parameters     Validity Dates Validity dates available for models, parameters, constraints, and components     Extensible Model is extensible to allow user-defined functions Runtime Features     Scalable Shares model across knowledge base. Architecture inherently scalable     Data Driven Database connectivity at various levels, including design-time, load-time, and run-time     Solution Configuration Supports solution configuration, where multiple “independent” sub-configurations can be started, then placed in a parent configuration     Dynamic Modeling Supports dynamic modeling, including run-time sub-classing     Partial Configurations Supports saving of partial configurations     Failure Messages Supports multiple failure message scenarios, including internationalization of messages , as well as custom error messages     Warnings Supports messages that indicate violation of soft constraints

Very simply, the best product configuration software in the world.