Product Information Manager
VISTA's Product Information Manager (PIM) manages and distributes acurate and up-to-date product metadata across the entire publishing supply chain. It facilitates the creation of print and online catalogs and sell sheets, populates marketing websites and transfers data to a variety of supply chain partners.
English
Supported Technologies
OS/400,
DEC OpenVMS,
AIX,
HP/UX,
Silicon Graphics IRIX,
SCO UNIX/PC UNIX,
Solaris/Sun OS
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Pricing
- Unspecified -
solutions@vistacomp.com
732-563-9292
Additional Product Information
As the nature and distribution of content changes, it is critical in the Internet world for publishers to create comprehensive and consistent product information throughout the enterprise and the marketplace. VISTA's Product Information Manager (PIM) manages and distributes acurate and up-to-date product metadata across the entire publishing supply chain. The PIM Solution captures, maintains and enhances data from a variety of disparate sources in a complete web-enabled bibliographic database that incorporates emerging industry standards. It facilitates the creation of print and online catalogs and sell sheets, populates marketing websites and transfers data to a variety of supply chain partners. The solution is equipped with sophisticated online bibliographic searching and reporting facilities. PIM features front-line technology, incorporatiing a streamlined Oracle database-driven desktop publishing system with seamless links to third-party report-writers. PIM adheres to all core publishing standards with up-to-date integration of emerging standards as they are adopted. VISTA participates in all international standards bodies whose work is relevant to the publishing community. The PIM benefits: 1) Provides user-friendly, secure access to one central repository of product information, 2) Eliminates data re-keying, process duplication and information errors throughout the supply chain, 3) Ensures all trading partners possess current and accurate product metadata, 4) Streamlines communications and increases data sharing with external suppliers and freelancers, 5) Enhances strategic editorial and marketing activities, 6) Instills robust data management practices throughout the business. Recent reference: "Product Information Manager holds our new title information sheets, all bibliographic data, full descriptions of the book, the jacket image, selected contract details, territories to which we can sell the title, reviews and promotion plans. The Sales Division accesses jacket images for all presentations to customers. The solution produces late jacket and new title information sheet reports, our complete stock list by subject category, all our publication schedules and our valuation schedule. Our customers increasingly need more and more title information and we were determined to be the first publisher to supply it all electronically to ONIX standards. We are thrilled with the results."