Configuring product structures and relationships

The InfoSphere® MDM Product domain enables developers to maintain complex product structures and relationships.

The Product domain supports several types of complex products, and provides customization capabilities to support additional types as required. InfoSphere MDM supports the following complex product types:
  • compositions, such as bundles and product offerings
  • associations, such as cross-sell and up-sell
  • roots and variants
The Product domain includes a number of product properties to enable you to describe complex products:
  • product structure type
  • inter-product relationships
  • variant indicators
The Product domain also provides you with the ability to capture and retrieve product relationship information, including:
  • relationship type
  • cardinality
  • optionality
  • constraints of the target product

Another key feature of the Product domain is its ability to treat a group of related products as a single business entity. For example, the Product domain enables users to retrieve a product instance along with all of its related products that share a given type of relationship.