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InfoSphere MDM Collaborative Edition

Overview

Enables companies to create a single, up-to-date repository of product and other information that can be used throughout the organization for strategic business initiatives.

  • Collaborative Processes – made possible through the capabilities for collaborative authoring tasks
  • Extendable Authoring UI – business user interface for authoring / search
  • Flexible Data Model – for managing product catalogs, category hierarchies, attributes, and relationships
  • Data Synchronization – imports and exports with deltas and versioning
  • Advanced Business Rules through ODM Integration: Enables business users to leverage a single interface for product creation, rules authoring, and rules association through an integrated solution with IBM Operational Decision Manager . Helps drive product personalization, advanced bundling and configuration, complex offers, and more
  • Advanced Catalog Management - An accelerated solution with an out-of-the-box data model, business process workflows, and integration components tailored for IBM WebSphere Commerce .
  • User and Role Security – granular access privileges to enforce complete and accurate data
  • Includes BPM Express - implement policies and coordinate multi-step / multi-role workflow for data stewardship and data governance

Features and Benefits

  • Intuitive out-of-the-box user interfaces (UIs) and a UI generator - the out-of-the-box native UI is dynamic, adapting to the configurations in the data model, access controls and workflow, and incorporates user settings and preferences to help users reduce implementation time
  • Business process collaboration tools - collaboration in the creation and maintenance of product information is a key function of a Product Information Management (PIM) system. InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server provides a comprehensive, out-of-the-box workflow capability that is highly scalable and configurable
  • Service-oriented architecture (SOA) capabilities - supports a SOA environment via inbound and outbound web services. Different business functions can be offered as services to accept and respond to requests across a network or via the web
  • Global Data Synchronization (GDS) module - maximizes the effectiveness of trading partner relationships and improves overall supply chain efficiency to increase revenues
  • Rich data model for all aspects of product information - manage item and location information with numerous classification, merchandising, geographic, and operational hierarchies
  • Organizational modeling with role and attribute level security – ability to segment various attributes of product data by business responsibility (e.g. logistics, finance, pricing, marketing, and supplier) as well as control user actions (view only, edit, approve) based on their roles
  • Multiple hierarchies and taxonomies – organize and browse products and services, such as product type, organizational hierarchy, departmental hierarchy, web hierarchy, enterprise resource planning (ERP) hierarchies and other system hierarchies
  • High performance, scalability, and reliability – ability to manage millions of products with translated and localized product data across geographies
  • Open and interoperable - operates in heterogeneous IT environments. Integrates with industry-leading message bus tools such as WebSphere MQ, and supports multiple protocols such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP, JMS and Web Services for ease of integration
  • Flexible deployment and manageability - tools for system administrators for fast deployment and ease of management
  • Pre-built integration templates - data cleansing and data movement capabilities via IBM InfoSphere DataStage and IBM InfoSphere QualityStage

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