In an increasingly complex, competitive and unpredictable environment, Apsiva Web Catalog can help you to maximize your 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 loose ground to the electronic buying and selling. With Apsiva Web Catalog, you have the right foundation and tools to create and manage your electronic catalogs.

WEBsource is an internal web based catalog that empowers sales and customer service representatives with up-to-the-minute catalog content. Customer Service reps can reduce call hold times and sales reps can create on-the-fly customer quotes. WEBsource features include:

Ubiquitous Catalog Access: With Apsiva WEBsource, you can make your catalog content accessible to your customers, employees, suppliers and partners over the web in a secured form. All your catalog content can be accessible from a browser as it is being managed and updated always giving the audience up-to-the-minute

Multi-Dimensional Search: Catalogs can be searched using a variety of criteria with WEBsource. 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.

Parametric Search: Catalog content can also be searched based on technical specifications or product parametrics. This search makes it easy to filter through thousands of possible hits to the right product in few clicks.

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

Product Life-Cycle Management and Archival: WEBsource provides product life cycle management capabilities making it easy for you to introduce new products and discontinue products on a pre-planned basis. WEBsource also gives you abilities to introduce price updates more seamlessly. Content changes can also be rolled back at any time.

Multi-Channel Capabilities: WEBsource provides robust functionality to manage content - independent of output. Since WEBsource 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 web. Also, your content will be consistent over the web and print.

On Demand Catalogs: On Demand Catalogs fall in between web catalogs and print catalogs. They are system generated PDF catalogs based on templates created by marketing. With these catalogs, sales reps and customer service reps can create custom catalogs without everyday reliance on marketing. On Demand Catalogs can be created from a browser, making them easy to support.

Integrate Documents and Assets: With WEBsource, all your digital assets and documents such as MSDS sheets, installation manuals, owners manuals, repair manuals 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 but also helps you in presenting all pertinent information to your customers for better customer service.

Secured Access to Catalog: While WEBsource makes content ubiquitously available, you can limit the access to your catalog based on user role. WEBsource offers very advanced security features giving you the ability to control the products that a user sees, the prices, or the attributes that a user role sees. You can also control what levels of access a user role has for a given attribute.

Product Accessories and Alternates: WEBsource directly integrates accessories and alternates for a product making it easy for you to up-sell and cross-sell. This feature is directly integrated with accessory and alternate product management, making it easy for you to increase the average order amount. This requires Enterprise add-on.

Shopping Cart & E-Commerce: Apsiva WEBsource offers a variety of means to accept orders. With WEBsource standard users can add products to a shopping cart and the cart can be emailed to sales reps for keying the order into your ERP system. With Apsiva WEBsource Enterprise, orders can be directly loaded into your ERP system without any manual steps. Users can register, login, place orders and check order status. Apsiva WEBsource Enterprise also opens your website for unlimited users and is ideal for deployment as an e-commerce platform.

Configurable Look and Feel: Apsiva WEBsource uses a layered approach to give maximum flexibility to change look and feel of the application with your internal IT resources. Branding, buttons, and functionality can be customized to very high degree without making the implementation expensive.

Open Architecture: WEBsource 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 entire system runs on any operating system, across networks, over the Internet, across all major databases, and uses any available application server.

As organizations around the world move their buying and selling processes online, they are realizing the central role electronic catalogs play. With inadequate emphasis laid on the accuracy and timeliness of the data, organizations are not able to leverage the promise of E-business fully. Organizations are realizing that to fully leverage their electronic catalog, they need a next generation tool that combines the advantages of a centralized master catalog data with channel independent content.

Apsiva offers a complete add on module for web catalog management and deployment, to meet the above challenges. The solution allows you to effortlessly output catalogs from the ONEsource database, in different formats for a variety of purposes.

Apsiva Web Catalog Solution

With Apsiva Web Catalog you can:

Create an Enterprise Portal
With Apsiva Web Catalog, your internal departments such as marketing, sales, operations, and customer service, can access the accurate, up-to-date and unambiguous product content right from ONEsource, through a browser. This capability increases the reach of your content, and helps your users to self serve themselves to make better business decisions.

Extend your Enterprise
With Apsiva Web Catalog, your business partners and customers can also access the ONEsource product information database for products and product literature through a browser. This helps you in integrating your E-business initiatives into your organization, and truly leverage the web.

Provide Extremely Detailed Content for Customers and Users in all mediums
Since the content in the master catalog is stored at the most granular level, your content can be re-purposed with ease. With granular content, your customers can search, sort, and compare information for better consumption, which leads them to better purchase decisions.

Respond at real-time
Your business can respond quickly and dynamically to sudden changes in market conditions (such as an unforeseen price change by a competitor). With Apsiva Web Catalog, your electronic catalogs can be changed on the fly, either for customer syndication, for marketing campaigns or for your own corporate website.

Anytime, Anyplace
As employees, customers and partners are moving towards doing business through a variety of channels, and devices, they require information tailored in different ways. With Apsiva Web Catalog, you can provide your latest and up-to-the-minute accurate product content in the way they desire.

Lower Operational Costs
Producing traditional print catalogs can cost in excess of five dollars a copy. Web Catalogs are cheaper, efficient, and are easier to maintain.

Search Capabilities
Using Apsiva Web Catalog, users can search and view product offering by product keywords, SKU numbers, etc. Users can also use the powerful parametric search functionality to find the right products via technical criterion.

Product Taxonomy and Comparison
Apsiva Web Catalog, presents the product information and product literature categorized by the chosen taxonomy, and helps users in choosing the right products with side by side comparisons.