E-Commerce & Product Information Management

Product Information Management combines systems and functionalities which enable to gather product information from different sources and to administer and organize those centrally and then to provide those to different users over different channels.

This way it's possible to gather and merge information from different branches, like marketing, product design and ERP-systems, in order to publish those over different output medias, like international internet presentations, print catalogues or datasheets.

• Gather product data
• Organize product data
• Publish product data
• Examples

Gather product data

• System compatibility
  AxCMS.net can be attached to almost every existing system over Web services in order to transfer data from these systems. Already existing import routines can be adapted and extended for that purpose.
• Inherit data
  Flexible tools for inheriting data can be configured individually and large data stocks can be migrated fast and effectively at the initial implementation of AxCMS.net
• Convert data
  Import tools extract relevant content from existing information pools, sort out redundant and irrelevant information and convert data to template neutral formats.
• Deliver data
  An individually configurable roles and rights management enables to define exact workflow routines for active data delivery from individual information producers to the central administration unit.

Organize product data

• Find data
  AxIndexSearch offers a full text search, which enables to find information in almost all formats from Word documents to PDF and CAD files.
• Data relation
  Over a complex system of categories and relations, data can be connected and linked together.
• Administer data
  Imported data can be edited and updated over miscellaneous Content Management Tools.
• Secure data
  Check In/Check Out mechanisms, a freely configurable system for rights management and an extensive versioning of data, create control mechanisms and enable to recover original data.

Publish product data

• Publication control
  AxCMS.net is provided with a pre-configured right and role concept, which already offers a very precise opportunity to create complex control mechanisms. Beyond that the definition of own rights and roles is possible with the AxCMS.net, so it's possible to create the entire company structure with the AxCMS.net.
• Publication formats
  Thanks to the Cross Media Publishing it's possible to publish product information to different formats. For an example it's possible to drop a product description into an internet presentation and at the same time for instance generate a print template in Adobe Indesign format in the same publication.

Examples

Numerous PIM applications have been implemented on base on the AxCMS.net; here are two typical examples:

• Staedtler Mars GmbH & Co. KG
  The leading writing utensils manufacturer in the world provides its whole product palette over the international online presentation. Over the attached Extranet, STAEDTLER offers its retailers product information and other documents for download, which can be administered and used centrally worldwide.
• Lindner Holding KGaA
  Thanks to the complete migration of their international online presentation to the AxCMS.net, Lindner KGaA (a worldwide acting building company) is now able to market their products worldwide.