Data and Database Management Software
Software delivers repository for product information.
Press Release Summary:
WebSphere® Product Center v5.0 helps companies assemble accurate, consistent central repository for storing and managing information regarding products, locations, trading partners, organizations, and terms of trade. Workflow supports multi-department as well as multi-enterprise business processes. Intuitive user interface is provided for modeling, managing, viewing, and navigating data models and business processes to match customer's needs.
Original Press Release:
IBM WebSphere Product Center V5.0 Delivers a Single, Reliable Repository of Product Information
Overview
Companies across a wide range of industries face challenges to comply with industry-specific mandates and regulations, to create new revenue streams, or to discover innovative ways to reduce costs. A fundamental prerequisite to effectively face these business needs is to establish a single, reliable, integrated source of product information that can be used both internally across the enterprise and externally by customers and
trading partners.
WebSphere® Product Center, a product information management
solution, helps companies assemble an accurate, consistent central repository for storing and managing information regarding products, locations, trading partners, organizations, and terms of trade. Powerful tools help users manage, assemble, link, and classify product information productively.
Retailers, consumer products manufacturers, and consumer electronics manufacturers are some of the leading industries that are broadly adopting product information management solutions. Companies in these industries depend on delivering accurate, timely, and comprehensive product information to their customers and trading partners to drive sales and reduce expenses.
These industries also have external mandates for initiatives like global data synchronization and radio frequency identification (RFID), as well as requirements for generating
up-to-date product information for e-commerce and business-to-business (B2B) initiatives, and keeping product information consistent across all customer and trading partner touch points. WebSphere Product Center provides the single, reliable
repository of product information that allows companies in these
industries to effectively address each of these challenges.
Studies led by A.T. Kearney have quantified the benefits of global data synchronization, which is just one of the solutions enabled by WebSphere Product Center. Through global data
synchronization, retailers and manufacturers are expected to save roughly $1 million for every $1 billion of revenue. According to A.T. Kearney, these savings are realized in many ways, such as a 3 to 5% reduction in shelf out-of-stocks and
a two-week reduction in speed to market for new items.
WebSphere Product Center will benefit customers by helping them
establish a single, integrated, consistent view linking information regarding products, locations, trading partners, organizations, and terms of trade to meet their industry-specific and general business needs.
For more information about WebSphere Product Center and other related offerings and services, visit http://ibm.com/websphere/prodinfomgmt/
Key prerequisites
WebSphere Product Center V5.0 is supported on the AIX® V5.2
platform. For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and
Software requirements sections.
Planned availability dates
o May 31, 2004, Electronic software delivery
o June 21, 2004, Media and documentation
At a glance
WebSphere Product Center gives customers:
o Flexible, scalable data model to manage and link wide range of
product information
o Sophisticated workflow that supports multi-department as
well as multi-enterprise business processes
o Intuitive user interface for modeling, managing, viewing,
and navigating data models and business processes to match a
customer's specific needs
o Robust security that establishes user profiles both internal and external to the enterprise
o Stable, secure open-standards based architecture, which
allows integration into the client's existing IT environments
o Built-in synchronization capabilities to integrate with
internal legacy systems, enterprise applications, and repositories as well as to connect with external partners
o Serves as foundational infrastructure for global data
synchronization and RFID
o Extendible solution design that integrates seamlessly with
WebSphere Business Integration to greatly enhance the value of a customer's product information management solution
o Easy integration with WebSphere Commerce Server to publish rich, consistent, connected, and up-to-date product information to Web store front
