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Configure One is a web-based product configurator and configure price quote (CPQ) software company based out of Oak Brook, Illinois that focuses on the manufacturing sector. The company is unique in that it was the first CPQ company to take the software to the web (cloud-based).

Founding
The company was founded in 2000. At that time, configure price quote software was a growing industry. The founders of Configure One started the company by answering the question, “Why not take this to the web?” Price and product development software existed at the time, which was a growing industry, but it had not yet reached the Internet or cloud-based systems.

Business and products
Configure One uses "configurator solutions" to develop price quotes for customers. To illustrate what that means, an example would be the construction of a grain elevator and storage silo. Many variables exist in building these, such as elevation, scope, and wind reading. Each grain elevator and storage silo would be built to unique specifications; these specifications can run up to 30 pages of text. Configure One offers a package in building and managing the various parts of this process. The software is web-based and cloud-based. Essentially, the software is used by manufacturing companies to build and manage products and price them accordingly based on all the different aspects and parts that go into a product.

The company describes its product on its website as, "Configure One’s Enterprise Product Configurator is an enterprise CPQ application that enables companies to efficiently sell and process orders for configurable, multi-option, and customizable products and services.”

Configure One's software enterprise system is unique in that it can configure-price-quote complicated projects quickly, by covering the entire "quote-to-production procedure, generating bills of material, manufacturing routings and production drawings."

According to DuPage Policy Journal, Configure One can allow "innovators [to] visualize products instantly in real time via 2-D and 3-D imagery."

The company’s customers include, among others, Emerson Electric, Dow Corning, Mitsubishi, and Stanley Black & Decker. In the years leading up to 2017, the company has experienced a growth rate in staff of 10 to 15% per year.

Employees and locations
Configure One has 56 employees in Illinois. It also has a location in Harlow, United Kingdom. The company is making plans to expand into Asia in the future.

Acquisitions
Configure One was acquired by AutoDesk in 2015, but two years later the companies split from each other. In May 2017, Configure One announced that it acquired the Autodesk CPQ (configure price quote) business, formerly known as Autodesk Configure One.