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Acquire, govern and syndicate product data across channels
IBM Product Master (formerly IBM InfoSphere® Master Data Management Collaborative Edition) provides trusted product information management (PIM) and collaborative master data management (MDM) capabilities. It creates an accurate and up-to-date repository of product and service information that can be used throughout organizations for strategic business initiatives. Product Master aggregates information from any upstream system, enforces business processes to ensure data accuracy and consistency, and synchronizes trusted information with downstream systems.
Product Master helps organizations achieve better operational efficiency, manage compliance and drive data-based digital transformation.
Five reasons to master your product data
Five reasons to master your product data Read the blog post (link resides outside IBM)
Benefits
Helps users better understand data
Improves ease of use with new persona and role-based interfaces to help users better understand their data with an intuitive experience to deliver business value to end-users.
Improves data stewardship and governance
Enhances data stewardship and governance by enabling consistent and fast delivery of trusted information across the enterprise.
Manages digital assets
Provides the ability to manage unstructured data — such as videos, images, product brochures, product data and more — from one centralized place.
Provides powerful workflows
Enhances your key workflows with a powerful collaborative authoring task. Streamlines critical business processes including new product introduction (NPI).
Improves productivity with machine learning
Improves end user productivity by leveraging machine learning (ML) capabilities for data standardization and categorization.
Runs on IBM Cloud®
Provides flexibility and lowers cost through a subscription-based pricing model.
Modern MDM: The hub of enterprise data excellence
Modern MDM: The hub of enterprise data excellence Read the analyst report
Key features of Product Master
Flexible and adaptive data model
The first solution in the market with a truly flexible and adaptive data model that helps organizations react to changes efficiently. Introducing a new category of products or adding a new attribute on existing products can be achieved in minutes without any dependency on IT or system integrators (SI).
Easy integration with key enterprise applications
Run in heterogeneous IT environments using scheduled and on-demand jobs, import/export templates, XML, multiple protocols, and REST/web services for ease of integration with other enterprise applications. Get set up and going fast by using prebuilt data models, industry workflows and integration tooling features.
User interface-based rules engine for data quality
Provides a powerful user interface (UI)-based rules engine that makes it easy to create and maintain hundreds of thousands of data quality rules without the need for any coding or scripting knowledge. The rules engine makes it easy to adapt to ever-changing business demands.
Provides supplier collaboration
The built-in supplier portal allows for efficient collaboration with suppliers thereby removing the manual error-prone process of exchanging product information. The system also provides dashboards with supplier scoring on various parameters such as turnaround time, supplier data quality and more.
Enhances data stewardship
Uses prepackaged validations, rules, calculations and automation to enforce data quality and business rules. Provides role- and attribute-level security to help you segment product data by business responsibility — such as logistics, finance, pricing, marketing, supplier. Gives you the ability to control user actions like view, edit and approve. Ensures users access only the data relevant to their role or business function.
Provides performance and scalability
Delivers a high performance and scalable MDM solution with advanced collaborative capabilities that enable you to process and manage large volumes of enterprise data. Also, the docker-based deployment allows for auto scale up of the core services thereby providing automated scaling capability for any load.
Provides omnichannel experience
Get out-of-the-box connectors to the most popular commerce solutions and marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Magento, Adobe, Google Merchant Center, and HCL Commerce to provide a truly omnichannel experience. In addition, the GS1 connector to data pool provider, 1WorldSync, helps syndicate the product information to thousands of providers in an automated and seamless manner.
Provides person-based dashboards
The various persona-based dashboards provide quick and meaningful insights into the product data on data completeness, data quality, vendor performance and more.
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