The Apsiva WEBsource solution provides everything you need 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 for your e-commerce site, a PDF catalog publishing engine for your sales professionals, a restricted catalog for your customer and partners, an enterprise wide product catalog, or as a customer service product lookup catalog. Solution highlights include:

• A complete web catalog solution that can be used in a variety of configurations
• Built-in content management capabilities
• Keyword search, search ranking, category search, parametric search
• Compatible with multiple languages
• Support for micro-catalogs for targeting different market segments
• Support for micro-sites for different sales regions or market segments
• Designed to enable your sales force to setup web and print catalogs on-the-fly
• Support for on demand PDF creation with Adobe InDesign CS2 / CS3 Server
• Interoperability with various authentication protocols
• Scalable architecture with clustering capabilities
• Role and user based field level security protocol
• Easy integration with backend ERP systems
• Fully customizable user interface and programmable API
• Platform independent solution (Compatible with Windows, Mac and Unix)
• Easy to use

Apsiva WEBsource is a web based catalog that can be used as an ecommerce catalog or a web catalog. WEBsource is also ideal for sales representatives and customer service representatives to access 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, 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.

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.

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 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.

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 you 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: WEBsource directly integrates 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 your products.

Shopping Cart & E-Commerce: Apsiva WEBsource offers a variety of means to accept orders. Users can add products to a shopping cart and the cart can be emailed to sales reps. Alternatively, shopping carts can be priced from your ERP system with our API.

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. 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. Your IT department can freely access data and images.

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:

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.