The MediaMine product information lifecycle management solution, which automatically generates printed brochures, catalogues, datasheets and e-business solutions, is based upon five components:
Product Information Manager
The Product Information Manager is a configurable software solution enabling customers to create high volumes of multilingual, multiprofile rich product information. An integral part the product information lifecycle management solution, the Product Information Manager is a platform on which products are enriched with additional attributes, marketing texts in multiple languages, rich media, product relationships and taxonomies after being triggered by ERP data.
This part of the product information lifecycle management has a workflow engine that speeds up the time consuming process of launching new products by ensuring that information is up-to-date throughout the product information lifecycle. Personalized to-do lists and status reporting functions of the Product Information Manager enables seamless collaboration across organizational and geographic boundaries.
The Product Information Manager, which supports all languages and 2-byte characters, is an invaluable tool for product marketers, brand managers, marketing agencies, sales representatives, distributors and customers for driving multi-channel sales and identifying cross-selling opportunities.
Publication Manager
The Publication Manager extends the value of the product information lifecycle management solution`s Product Information Manager by enabling end-users to generate on-demand printed product information (catalogue, product sheets, mailings) in a brand consistent and cost-effective way.
Integration Manager
The Integration Manager enables companies to integrate the product information lifecycle management suite with content management systems, ERP, CRM or other legacy systems on the back-end, and with CMS, e-Business, procurement and reseller systems on the front-end
As long as the system to be integrated can provide or receive information from external systems in a digital format, the Integration Manager integrates the different components of the product information lifecycle management suite and third party components in a matter of days.
Print Publication Manager
The creation of printed product collaterals is labour intensive, expensive, slow and prone to error.
Having a central product information repository as part of product information lifecycle management allows the process of publishing marketing materials across all media channels to be automated. The Print Publication Manager reduces costs and ensures that product changes flow seamlessly through all channels, directly to the end user.
By merging up-to-date content with a variety of templates, the Print Publication Manager can automatically generate complex printed catalogues, product leaflets, datasheets, brochures and web catalogues. The Print Publication Manager can also syndicate product information to web content management and commerce systems.
Media Manager
MediaMine’s product information lifecycle management supports images, documents, spreadsheets, sounds and video. The Media Manager allows users to create automatic thumbnails for common file formats and low-res files for e-publishing, extract and manage media file meta data (copyright), make advanced searches, and upload MS Office, common image formats, documents, video, animation and technical specifications on a file/document basis. With this product information lifecycle management tool, users can also resize, change colour space, crop, zoom, etc.
