In an increasingly complex, competitive and unpredictable environment, Apsiva CD Catalog can help you to maximize your catalog's ability to deepen and secure electronic relationships with your customers and suppliers, and to prepare you to quickly take advantage of new opportunities.

As businesses shift more of their processes online, don't lose ground to the electronic buying and selling. With Apsiva CD Catalog, you have the right foundation and tools to create and manage your electronic catalogs.

Ubiquitous Catalog Access
With Apsiva CDsource, you can make your catalog content accessible to your customers, employees, suppliers and partners regardless of their location and network accessibility.

Multi-Dimensional Search
Catalogs can be searched using a variety of criteria with CDsource. Users can search by Part Number, by vendor, by description, by keyword or any other product attribute. Catalogs can also be accessed through an index or a category hierarchy making it easy to locate parts in a variety of ways. Once the results are presented, they can be sorted on a variety of ways. Users can also search on competitor part number with cross-reference search.

Product Comparison
With CDsource users can select similar products and view the differences with side-by-side comparison capability. This feature brings the product images, descriptions, technical specifications and pricing for comparison.

Robust Content Management
CDsource directly accesses the ONEsource system hence content management is integrated into the core of CDsource. Content is managed in a hierarchical fashion to adopt to a wide variety of catalog formats and media. With CDsource, content can be reused across catalog titles without dual maintenance.

Product Life-Cycle Management and archival
CDsource provides product life cycle management capabilities making it easy for you to introduce new products and discontinue products on a pre-planned basis. CDsource also gives you abilities to introduce price updates more seamlessly.

Product Import
With CDsource, you can import the products that you want to be included in a catalog with an easy to use wizard. You can import product data, categorization and images and avoid manual entry.

Easy CD Creation
With CDsource, publishing new CD catalog images is an easy wizard based process. You can create CDs with products and attributes of your choice.

Multi-Channel Capabilities
Since CDsource builds on top of ONEsource the content, your print catalog related content such as benefits, bullets, sell copy, and print catalog pages and indexes can be made easily available over the CD. Your content will be consistent over CD, web and print.

Integrate Documents and Assets
With CDsource, all your digital assets and documents such as MSDS sheets, installation manuals, owners manuals, repair manuals, URLs and print catalog pages can be directly presented to end users at the product level. This not only helps you in complying with the legal mandates and presenting vital information to our customers or sales reps.

Security Access to Catalog
While CDsource makes content ubiquitously available, you can limit the access to your catalog with end user authentication. When a CD catalog is created, you will have the ability to select the attributes and the products that you want to appear in the catalog.

Product Accessories and Alternates
With CDsource you can present product accessories and alternates for a product making it easy for you to up-sell and cross-sell.

Shopping Cart
Apsiva CDsource offers a variety of means to accept orders. With CDsource users can add products to a shopping cart and the cart can be emailed, or printed for fax.

Creating Purchase Orders
With Apsiva CDsource, users can create requisitions or orders along with billing and shipping information and add special comments and instructions in the format that you use. This eliminates order-related errors while retaining your brand and streamlining the process.

Configurable Look and Feel
Apsiva CDsource accepts your branding and images to retain the look and feel of your company.

Open Architecture
CDsource is built from ground up to keep data openly accessible for other systems and for the IT personnel. There are no proprietary technologies employed. The software runs on most desktop environments.

In today's knowledge-based economy, companies are faced with the continued challenge of how to leverage their product content to improve sales, customer service, and supply-chain efficiencies.

For many of these organizations, business-critical product content still resides in "silos", where knowledge and information possessed by the content experts or an archaic system does not get relayed to the end users of content. This results in internal and external audiences accessing inaccurate and outdated content to buy or sell products, build catalogs, to support customers and to perform other important business processes.

Apsiva CD Catalog Solution

With Apsiva CD Catalog you can:

Create CD Catalogs easily from existing data
You can output unlimited number of products onto a CD, with an easy to use CD catalog creation wizard. The wizard pulls product information directly from the ONEsource database speeding the creation of CD catalogs effortlessly.

Provide Detailed Catalog Content for Customers and Users
Since the content in the master catalog is stored at the most granular level, your content can be re-purposed with ease. Not only that, but unstructured content like MSDS, Product literature, Product Images, Installation Guides, etc. can also be bundled with granular product information.

Respond Dynamically
Your business can respond quickly and dynamically to sudden changes in market conditions (such as an unforeseen price change by a competitor). With Apsiva CD Catalog, you can create electronic catalogs on the fly, directly from the ONEsource database.

Anytime, Anyplace
CD Catalogs have all the product data available locally, your customers, sales personnel, and customer service representatives can access the catalogs on the go, and do not require a persistent Internet Connection. Customers and business partners that do not have access to the Internet also benefit from the CD catalog.

Lower Operational Costs
Producing traditional print catalogs can cost in excess of five dollars a copy. That expense combined with time spent mailing catalogs and the manual processes involved in print catalog creation, your investment is usually a multiple of that. With Apsiva CD Catalog, you can transition to a more efficient and cost effective electronic process and realize a return on your efforts for the catalog assembly in one build. Successive campaigns are done for marginal costs.

Control your Brand
With the Apsiva CD Catalog, you can create CD catalogs that will resemble your corporate brand. This keeps your branding consistent across catalogs and helps to retain your corporate identity.

Share Catalogs with Business Partners
You can use Apsiva CD to also share your catalogs with your distributors and resellers in a very cost efficient way.