Overview

IBM® Product Master provides a highly scalable, enterprise Product Information Management (PIM) solution. Product Master is the middleware that establishes a single, integrated, consistent view of products and services information of an enterprise.

Product Master capabilities

To become a global, on-demand e-business, an enterprise needs a source of product and services information to address business needs such as global data synchronization, e-commerce, supply-chain management, and trading-partner management.

Product Master provides PIM solutions to the enterprise that centralize and optimize product data. Relevant and unique content is then delivered to any person, system, business partner, or customer. Product Master provides an enterprise solution that accelerates the time to market, increases market share and customer satisfaction, and reduces costs. With Product Master, companies can manage, link, and synchronize item, location, organization, trading partner, and trade terms internally and externally.

Product Master provides the following PIM solutions:
  • A flexible, scalable repository that manages and links product, location, trading partner, organization, and terms-of-trade information.
  • Tools for modeling, capturing, creating, and managing information with high user productivity and high information quality.
  • The ability to integrate and synchronize information with existing systems, enterprise applications, repositories, and masters.
  • Business user workflows for supporting multi-department and multi-enterprise business processes.
  • The ability to exchange and synchronize information externally with Business Partners.