#Product builder software code#
Much easier than writing a unique piece of code in the case of open source. Configuration then only takes a few minutes. Would you like to send a mail from your product configurator to the commercial director when high value quotation rolls out? Using Elfsquad you would only have to choose which mail program you want to utilize for this. This means that for the more accessible cases you only have to select the app you want to connect with through the API, and then that’s that. The edge cases are unique for every customer, and an API-first-solution can facilitate this.Īdditionally Elfsquad is the only product configurator available on so-called low-code-platforms, such as Zapier and Power Automate. Moreover, these are only simple examples. Is special customization required where engineering should have a look first? Then that’s possible.
For instance, should you want quotations of € 300.000,- or more to first go by the commercial director to be signed, then that is possible. The large benefit you enjoy then is that such an app can be formed perfectly according to your work process. When an app is developed API-first, then everything is available in the API. Resulting in limited information in the API, and you still not gaining the flexibility you’re looking for, even if it’s an open source-solution. Often it means that an app has been created with an API on top of it. There are a lot of applications for which an API is available. This brings a lot of advantages in comparison to an open source configurator. This means that we develop everything from the API and from there make it available in the user interface. During the development of our product configurator we chose a different path.Įlfsquad is developed according to the API-first-principle. This may seem handy when you want to add code yourself to adopt an app in your IT-landscape, but this requires quite some specialized knowledge. Open source means that the code for an application is available and customizable for everyone. Often it is thought that this requires an open source solution, but often that is not the case. This means that for every process a specialistic tool is selected, and letting these tools communicate. Even if it was a fantastic method of supporting many kinds of business processes for a long period, it is now time for best-of-breed solutions.
Open source, API-first: what exactly does all of this mean? This looks like open source, but is actually a bit better.
Or is open source not the best solution? In this item you will read why you’re better off picking a product configurator that is built on the basis of the API-first-principle. So you look for an open source product configurator. An important condition for the combination of different tools is that said tools communicate well with each other. Such a behemoth of a system is dated nowadays. In our previous blog you could read about the enormous advantages of specialized tools instead of using a gigantic ERP-system.
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