New ArtiCAD-Live Portfolio to Revolutionise KBB Design and Sales

ArtiCAD, a leading supplier of CAD solutions to the Kitchen, Bedroom and Bathroom industry, announces the launch of the first two products from its new ArtiCAD-Live technologies portfolio.

Previewed at the recent KBB show, the ArtiCAD-Live portfolio is a constantly expanding suite of new design software products, based on innovative technologies, all of which will make it easier for organisations to sell to their customers.

ArtiCAD i-Design is a stunning new web-based tool, specifically designed to help Kitchen, Bedroom and Bathroom businesses generate more and better qualified sales leads from ArtiCAD customers' websites, drawing sales prospects to their business. Instead of just visiting a website for information, i-Design allows sales prospects to quickly and easily create and submit a detailed room layout for their kitchen, bedroom or bathroom project. As they submit the room layout details, they are also asked some key qualification questions. Each submitted sales lead can then be accessed by the ArtiCAD i-Design user via a dedicated lead management tool, where they can be filtered, analysed, prioritised according to the qualification responses and then acted upon. The prospect's room layout can immediately be uploaded into the ArtiCAD-Pro or BathCAD design solution, ready for the designer to create a design.

Theresa Turner, a director of ArtiCAD: "i-Design deliberately stops short of allowing the prospect to create a design,  as this is the area of expertise of our customers. But by enabling prospects to quickly and easily provide all the required information, we are dramatically speeding up the sales process whilst also helping to foster a strong relationship between the potential customer and the ArtiCAD designer. This application is also hugely beneficial to organisations with a need to communicate detailed room layouts from remote locations to a central design office."

The second new product from the ArtiCAD-Live portfolio is ArtiCAD i-Choose. This is a web or PC-based multi-function tool designed to increase sales conversion rates by delivering interactive customer presentations either via the Internet, in a face to face environment or running stand-alone on a screen in a showroom. i-Choose allows ArtiCAD designers to offer their customers a means of viewing and choosing some of the key elements of their specific room design such as door and handle styles, floor, work surface and wall tile finishes, at the click of a button and without re-rendering time. As with all ArtiCAD applications, i-Choose presentations are quick and easy for the designer to generate.

One of the many advantages of i-Choose is in providing prospective customers with the ability to visualise their specific design with as many combinations of finishes as the designer wants them to view and make their selection from. i-Choose can operate with ArtiCAD i-Design to provide an end-to-end web-based sales process.

Theresa Turner added: "Initial reaction to these first two products from the ArtiCAD-Live portfolio has been very enthusiastic. Our customers can immediately see how both technologies can contribute significantly to the speed and ease with which they can sell to their customers."

The ArtiCAD-Live portfolio will continue to be expanded, underpinning our position as innovators at the forefront of sales solutions for the KBB industry.

For further information, please contact:

Theresa Turner
ArtiCAD Ltd
York House, Wolsey Business Park, Watford
Hertfordshire, England, WD18 9BL
Tel +44 (0)1923 888101
Fax +44 (0)1923 888096
web http://www.articad.cc