Features and benefits
IBM Global Data Synchronization for WebSphere® Product Center is a comprehensive data synchronization solution that addresses the full scope of your data synchronization objectives. Key features include:
- Role-based user interfaces that are intuitive to technical and business users
- Tools for modeling and managing complex relationships and classification schemas
- Business process flows that help you manage the data synchronization life cycle of item information as well as trading partner information
- Ongoing support for GS1 standards and industry-leading data pool standards
- Reports that provide summary and detailed information about your global data synchronization activities
- Robust security mechanisms that define and secure information at various levels depending on your needs
- A foundation on IBM WebSphere Product Center, best-in-class product information management middleware
Benefits from IBM Global Data Synchronization for WebSphere Product Center get to the core of your business objectives – maximizing the effectiveness of your trading partner relationships and improving your overall supply chain efficiency to increase revenues. Key benefits include:
- Ability to enrich product information to increase accuracy of attributes
- Compliance with global standards and data pool standards
- Enterprise-class robustness, scalability, and performance capabilities that address immediate global data synchronization needs and grows with you over time
- Sophisticated integration capabilities that let you leverage existing product information throughout your technology infrastructure
- Detailed insight into your global data synchronization activities that can drive process improvements both internally and with trading partners
- Foundation for collaborative activities among supply chain partners, such as radio frequency identification (RFID), collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment (CPFR), and other B2B initiatives

