360-Degree
View of Product Information
All aspects of the product information are managed
in one central platform and repository. This means
that all stakeholders - internal departments and
customers - can access the latest product information.
Channel Independent
Many content management solutions are media dependant,
i.e. content changes are managed at distribution
level (e.g. paper catalog design tool or web-site
authoring system). This results in enormous inefficiencies
and inaccuracies due to repeat effort and multiple
storage of the same data. In addition, each channel
may manage content changes differently, resulting
in the same product having an inconsistent message
and different marketing brand in each channel.
With Apsiva, product information is managed outside
a specific catalog media. Only at the last moment,
when the channel requires the information, is the
latest information published to the channel.
Repeatable Process
Apsiva allows companies to leverage economies of
scale in their product information management processes.
The system automates many of the tasks required
to create and maintain catalog information.
The effort required to make changes to an existing
catalog or to create a new catalog is only incremental
resulting in huge cost savings and opportunity cost
gains.
Repurposable Content
Product information is stored in its most granular
level - attributes. This means that the data can
be massaged and manipulated in multiple ways to
suite the requirements of media-specific catalogs,
customers or channel partners.
This provide tremendous revenue opportunities since
product information can be pushed to previously
unattainable sales channels (e.g. online exchanges)
and dynamically - catalog can be created on-the-fly
and customized to a particular customer's requirements.