The Apsiva WEBsource solution makes it easy to publish your catalogs online to achieve your corporate goals. Apsiva WEBsource can be used in a variety of configurations such as an online catalog, a PDF catalog publishing engine for your sales professionals, a restricted catalog for your customers and partners, an enterprise wide product catalog, or as a customer service product lookup catalog. Solution highlights include:

• A web catalog solution to publish your products online
• Built-in content management capabilities
• Keyword search, search ranking, category search, parametric search
• Support for micro-catalogs for targeting different market segments
• Support for micro-sites for different sales regions or market segments
• Ability to activate, add or de-activate products on the fly
• Support for on demand PDF creation with Adobe InDesign CS3 / CS4 /CS5 Server (Add-On)
• Interoperability with popular authentication protocols
• Scalable architecture with clustering capabilities
• Role and user based security
• Easy to integrate with backend ERP systems
• Fully customizable user interface
• Platform independent solution (Compatible with Windows, Mac and Unix)
• Easy to use

Apsiva WEBsource is a web based catalog ideal for deployment as an online catalog, sales reps catalog, a CSRs catalog, or as an up-to-the-minute enterprise wide catalog. Apsiva WEBsource features include:

Ubiquitous Catalog Access: With Apsiva WEBsource, you can make your catalog content accessible to your customers, sales representatives, 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.

On Demand Catalogs: Your sales representatives and customer service representatives can create On Demand Catalogs with customized product selection and pricing. On Demand catalogs can be either mini catalogs accessible through a website or PDF catalogs. This capability is available right from the browser, making it easy to use. (Add-On Module)

Tuned for organic search: Products published through Apsiva WEBsource are automatically tuned for keywords so your products rank higher in organic results in search engines.

Search: Catalogs can be searched using a variety of criteria with WEBsource. Users can search by keywords, part numbers, 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.

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 product options. (This feature may require customization)

Product Comparison: Users can select similar products and view the differences with side-by-side product comparison capability. This feature displays product images, descriptions, technical specifications and pricing for comparison.

Robust Content Management: WEBsource has an integrated content management capability. Content that is managed can be not only be used for web, but it can also be used in a wide variety of catalog formats and media. Content can also be reused across multiple 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, 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. Additionally, your content will be consistent across web and print.

Integrate Documents and Assets: With WEBsource, all your digital assets and documents such as Images, 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 in improving customer service, but also in complying with legal mandates.

Secured Access to Catalog: While WEBsource makes content ubiquitously available, you can limit the access to your catalog based on a user's privilege. WEBsource offers advanced security features giving you the ability to control the a users view of the available product selection, pricing, and other product attributes.

Product Accessories and Alternates: With WEBsource you can display accessories and alternates for a product making it easy to up-sell and cross-sell. This feature is directly integrated with accessory and alternate product management, making it easy to setup products.

Shopping Cart & E-Commerce: Apsiva WEBsource offers an API for integration with your enterprise systems.

Configurable Look and Feel: Apsiva WEBsource uses a layered approach so the look and feel of your site can be changed.

Open Architecture: WEBsource is built from ground up to keep data openly accessible. The system runs on any operating system, across all major databases. Your IT department can freely access data by executing SQL queries. Images are freely located on file system for easy access.

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 timelines of the data, organizations are not able to leverage the promise internet 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:

Empower your Sales Representatives
With Apsiva WEBsource, your sales representatives can create web and PDF catalogs dynamically. This gives your organization the "edge" to provide compelling custom catalogs to your prospects.

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
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.