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03 What is Product Information Management?

05 Why should you invest in a PIM solution?

06 What is Ascend PIM?

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What is Product Information Management?Product Information Management (PIM) is an application that allows businesses to provide trusted product content to improve the purchase experience of their customers by engaging with them throughout their purchase lifecycle. By contributing relevant product information for individual segments and product insights, a PIM solution improves operational excellence and increases revenue opportunities.

A PIM solution

Accelerates new product introduction

Improves sales by providing the right product for the right customer at the right time

Reduces supply chain costs and identifies bottlenecks through better reporting

A PIM solution keeps all the business users on the same page by providing synchronized product data across all applications by connecting with vendor

data, marketplaces, eCommerce platforms, 3rd party data pools and Digital Asset Management solutions.

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You need a PIM solution if you want to:

Simplify and automate aggregation of product information from multiple sources

Maintain trusted and rich product data throughout your enterprise

Maintain consistent real-time data across your enterprise, Marketplaces, and data pools with ease.

With a PIM solution you can:

Focus on what matters most – drive revenue by customer obsessed product innovation

Achieve strategic agility by using product data as an asset

Be ready to connect to other modern technologies and other data domains

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Why should you invest in a PIM solution?

Providing trusted, relevant and insightful product data is one of the fundamental strategic imperatives for enterprises .

Consumers rely on rich product content and detailed product information to make purchase decisions. Business leaders depend on PIM solution to provide rich, complete and accurate data to take key data-driven decisions on how to procure, sell and market products.

As a result of increased information demands, the need for product data accuracy and consistency is a necessity. A PIM solution is core to providing this rich Product Data Experience.

Henrique BonorinoCIO / Saint Gobain Abrasives

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Consumers rely on rich product content and detailed product information to make purchase decisions. Business leaders depend on PIM solutions to provide rich, complete and accurate data to take key data-driven decisions on how to procure, sell and market products.

As a result of increasing demand for information, accuracy and consistency of product data is bigger necessity than ever before. A PIM solution is core to providing this rich Product Data Experience.

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What is Ascend PIM?

Riversand Ascend PIM is an out-of-the-box solution for managing the complete information lifecycle of a product. By incorporating industry best practices and most commonly used models, it is designed to let you start addressing your data onboarding, management and syndication needs immediately.

Riversand Ascend PIM is meant to be used by business teams that are looking for a solution that can be implemented with a minimum of fuss and is ready to use immediately. Enterprise customers looking for a custom solution can also avoid a longer implementation cycle by using Ascend PIM. This will help them achieve quick wins to start their digital transformation through faster implementation.

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Ascend PIM Solution

Onboard & Ingest

Supplier Collaboration built for speed and agility; with focus on assortment expansion

Assortment Optimization: Ability to prioritize speed or quality based on category/supplier

Integrated Asset Onboarding process

Flexible and Dynamic governance with ability to bounce rejects to suppliers

Enrich, Contextualize & Govern

Contextual data management – e.g., Seasons, Countries,Channels

Data Governance & business conditions to enforce quality and completeness of data

Enrichment process flows to collaborate with various internal groups

Product Update and Discontinue process flows: Contextual governance

Publish & Distribute

Pre-configured syndication profiles to default channels (Blob Store, Event Hub, sFTP)

Rest APIs for on-demand pull by the rest of the ecosystem

Connectivity to major e-Commerce systems

Connectivity to marketplaces, e-Retailers

Digital Asset Management Business-Driven Administration Reference Data Management

Taxonomy & Attribute Management Pre-Configured User Personas Smart Training, Self-help

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Why should you get an Ascend solution?

A complete solution

In contrast to solutions that specialize in one aspect of

information life cycle, this is a complete end-to-end solution that

provides excellence across the information value chain with

access to the full set of use cases for your industry.

Price point

The solution is designed to be offered at an accessible price

point. The ability to pay only for what you need today gives you

the freedom to grow. The solution will grow with you instead of

tying you down.

Simplicity

If Ascend PIM’s usability had to be described using one word, it

would be “Simple”. The emphasis on the design of the product is

on simplicity and it is meant to be launched and used with

minimal IT intervention.

No waiting period

Or rather, no waiting! Period! With Riversand Ascend, the system

is live on day one with default configurations. The solution can

then be ‘Personalized’ within 4 weeks to make it ‘your own’

through configurations.

Seeing is Believing

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Riversand cloud-native master data management solutions are designed to support customers’ digital transformation journeys through improved business agility, faster adoption and improved collaboration across the enterprise. Riversand has a vision of helping companies know their customers better, move products faster, automate processes, mitigate risk and run their businesses smarter. Our customers, partners and analysts recognize us as a trusted partner, visionary and a leader.

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