Why should I need a PIM system?

A company is always as successful as its product information is. Product Information Management becomes more and more important as companies look for basic strategic components to manage product data consistently, up-to-date and accurately.

• An ERP system is not enough
• Have you already faced the following situation?

An ERP system is not enough

ERP systems – in international focus also different ERP systems – and numerous isolated applications contain essential product information. The challenge: they are neither centrally managed nor cross-nationally available. The data is maintained redundantly. Therefore, ERP-systems can hardly deal with media-independent product information. It is quite usual to support diverse systems to maintain data, which hoists problems. This is one main issue for PIM systems having found their way into global business awareness. To tie numerous systems to a consistent, centralized PIM, synchronization is essential.

Have you already faced the following situation?

• Your product information is not maintained in a central place but collected in every company department separately which makes it difficult to manage data.
• You can never be sure that the available information really is up-to-date and correct.
• You would like to publish catalogue information customer specifically and personalized but the print costs top your budget.

If you already faced one of more of these challenges, than a PIM-system might be of interest to you!