Selectica Awarded 7th Patent for Its Flagship Constraint-Based Configuration Engine

SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 18, 2012) - Selectica (NASDAQ: SLTC), provider of software that accelerates sales cycles and streamlines contract processes, today announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent for efficiently configuring products and services using dynamic components.

"Solution selling is critical to increasing the top-line as well as improving margins. However, customers are stymied by inadequate technologies that fail to apply the product configuration, compatibility and pricing rules across their solution portfolios," said Kamal Ahluwalia, Chief Strategy Officer at Selectica. "Our latest patent continues a tradition of innovation at Selectica and further enables customers to efficiently allow their sales channels to configure and price complex products and services."

The latest patent applies to the declarative constraint engine that powers Selectica Guided Selling, and provides companies with an optimal method for using dynamic components while configuring products and services with large number of options and possible solutions, rather than relying only on static parameters and components. The result is that the system needs fewer computational and memory resources -- even while configuring complex solutions -- making it very affordable and scalable.

The patent is the seventh awarded thus far to Selectica sales configuration software. A patent that enables rule patterns is currently pending.

Selectica will be discussing and demonstrating Selectica Guided Selling and the benefits of using constraint-based technology to handle complex configurations at salesforce.com's Dreamforce '12, to be held September 18-21 in San Francisco, California.

About Selectica
Selectica (NASDAQ: SLTC) develops innovative software that the world's most successful companies rely on to improve the effectiveness of their sales and contracting processes. Our guided selling, sales configuration, and contract lifecycle management solutions support the Global 2000 and growing mid-size firms in closing billions of dollars' worth of business each year. Our patented technology, delivered through the cloud, makes it easy for customers in industries like high-tech, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and government contracting to overcome product and channel complexity, increase deal value, and accelerate time to revenue. For more information, visit www.selectica.com. 

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