Getting started with Product Master

With Product Master, you can leverage Product Information Management (PIM) and collaborative Master Data Management (MDM) capabilities. It creates an accurate and up-to-date repository of products and service information that can be used throughout an organization for strategic business initiatives.

With the PIM capabilities in Product Master, you can:
  • Aggregate information from any upstream system.
  • Enforce business processes to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
  • Synchronize trusted information with the downstream systems.
  • Use built-in tools for modelling, capturing, creating, and managing information.
  • Set up business user workflows for supporting multi-department and multi-enterprise business processes.
  • Manage unstructured data such as product images, videos, and brochures by using Digital Asset Management capability.
  • Collaborate with Supplier by using Vendor Persona for the native Supplier module.

Checking whether the service is installed

An administrator must install Product Master.

To check whether the service is installed:

  1. From the navigation menu, select Services > Services catalog.
  2. Search for Product Master.

If the service is installed and ready to use, the tile in the catalog shows Ready to use.

If the service is installed but no service instances have been created, the tile in the catalog shows Ready to provision.

Important: Even if the service is Ready to use, you must be added to a service instance to use the service.

Accessing the service

Pop-out Product Master is a pop-out service. Your administrator must provide the URL to access the service.

Learn more

To learn more about Product Master, see IBM Product Master information roadmap topic in the IBM Product Master documentation.