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Company
Overview
QUESTUDIO Inc. is a leading provider
of turnkey digital commerce soluons
that helps manufacturers, distributors
and catalogers manage product content
eciently, across various markeng
channels to customers worldwide.
The company oers enterprises Product
Informaon Management (PIM) and mul-
channel markeng including eCommerce
web catalog soluons.Questudios Digital Commerce Soluons
includes:
Managing rich product content in one
central repository
Making accurate product informaon
accessible to sta across the enterprise
Providing mechanisms to convey product
knowledge to end-customers using
mulple channels and,
Enabling the increase of company sales
and markeng performance.
Enables ready content integraon withback oce CRM and Point-of-Sales
systems.
ProductsQuestudio products are specically targeted to
manage rich product content, extend market reach
and increase sales. The soware products are
oered using perpetual license soware models.
PIM
Powerful Product Informaon Management (PIM)
provides all the features needed to create, manage
and maintain all product content in ONE central
repository.
ecommerce
A exible, feature-rich plaorm that gives B2B and
B2C businesses the ability to eciently develop,
integrate and deploy an eCommerce web catalog.
plugin
A robust plug-in for Adobe InDesign to automate
product catalog page creaon and dramacally
reducing the me to publish print pdf catalogs.
portal
Next generaon web portal to browse rich product
content, generate catalogs, quotes & reports,
run markeng campaigns, and many other things
- complete with a dashboard loaded with useful
informaon.
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SoluonsManufacturers, Distributors and Retailers are taking
advantage of the mulple channels now available
to market/distribute their products. These channels
include Web, eCommerce, Print, CD, email, Dealers,
Tele-Sales and many other creave ways to reach a
global marketplace.
Product Informaon Management
Questudios CatalogStudio PIM soware andservices enable distributors, manufacturers and
retailers to boost sales by streamlining productmarkeng with accurate product informaon
managed in a central database repository.
eCommerce Web Business
Seamlessly publish data from your contentdatabase to the web with WebStudio,
Questudios feature rich and customizable
ecommerce plaorm. Allows customers to
nd what they want fast and place their order
directly into the ERP system.
Catalog Automaon Enterprise Product Catalog Automaon enables
distributors, manufacturers, and retailers to
boost sales and streamline product markeng
with accurate product informaon managed in
a central database repository.
Print PDF Publishing
Accelerate page design with InStudio,Questudios robust plug-in for Adobe InDesign.
Drag and drop text, pictures, tables and product
comparison charts from your content databaseright to our pages.
Mulchannel Markeng
Manage rich product informaon and createproduct catalogs, sales collateral, and custom
eCommerce web catalogs to market across all
channels available.
Integrated Systems
Leverage exisng procurement, inventory, orderand customer management systems through an
open architecture PIM and Web soluon. We
can develop custom interfaces for ERP / CRM
integraon.
Services
Mul-Channel Product Markeng increasessales by publishing product catalog informaon
through print, Web, and electronic media.
Custom eCommerce Websitesprovides secure,tailored, hosted full-funcon online presence
including back-oce data management
Content Creaon & Publishing Servicescreate integrated, normalized, structured central
repository from exisng catalog data, then publish
selected content on-demand to mulple media.
Integrated Turnkey Soluons provide
comprehensive catalog content collecon, eding,
copywring, and design/layout services to create
print and Web catalogs.
Tesmonials
Art Works Distributor, Canada: You reduced our
catalog producon me from 90 days to less than
a week; linking to our database eliminated hours
of revisions for accuracy. Support people worked
relessly to ensure our catalog was produced
on me. Questudio stood out from the pack; I
recommend its soware without hesitaon.
Original Auto Parts Distributor, CA: We invesgated
several catalog content management programs
before selecng Questudio. It is very sophiscated,
with much to learn, and very user friendly. No other
program oers such rich features.
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Industrys most exible catalog soluons
for rich product content management.
CatalogStudio system provides tools to
manufacturers, distributors and retailers
for managing product informaon,
images, prices, customer informaon and
publish to mulple media using a single,central repository database.
Streamlines the enre process of capturing the
product and parts informaon in a single, central
database and publish to Print, PDF, Web, CD and
other electronic media. Informaon served through
dierent media is always up-to-date, accurate and
consistent.
Flexible Product Classicaon
Product Catalog management for any industry
with unlimited products, groups and categories.
Customer specic product pricing, unlimited
product technical aributes, images,
aachments, videos and charts.
Product cross-reference management.
Compable with mulple languages, capture
UNICODE characters.
Search and lter products, text and images.
Easy interface to create mini or supplemental
catalogs with easy to use exible product lters
and sorng.
Quickly generate price list, PDF catalogs using
templates and design your own templates.
Present your product list in compact tables using
powerful pivot table designer.
Easy User Interface
Perfected user interface to maintain all aspects
of product sales materials such as price, text,
graphics and aachments.
Drag and drop support for product assignment.
Data Extracon & Import
Wizard based interface to setup product export
& import templates for repeated use.
Intelligent import mechanism to include products
into the catalog.
Easily update product price or any product
content.
One Repository - Mulple Channels Output
Manage product content in a single repositoryand publish consistent and accurate product
informaon to Web, Print, CD and PDF catalogs.
Security, Workow & Integraon with ERP
Systems
Workow enabled and granular control of
editorial security.
Web and Windows applicaon with SQL-based
product repository.
Granular security for product data maintenance.
Open architecture and API for ERP systems
integraon.
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plugin
A robust plug-in for Adobe InDesign
to automate product catalog page
creaon. Considerably reduces me to
publish catalogs. Simple interface, easy
to learn, get instant producvity.
InStudio Features
AutoFlow to create enre catalog
True InDesign plug-in system that provides
greater control over page layout.
Automacally controls and applies fonts, colors,
styles to the data. Saves me and eort for
graphic designers.
Fast and reliable creaon of complex documents.
Creates regular and complex pivot tables and
applies styles to tables as dened.
Create and apply custom business rules using in-
built scripng support.
Drag & Drop To Create Customized
Catalogs
Drag and drop data from database to InDesign
pages.
Preview catalog content before placing on page
layouts.
Create custom catalogs, smaller catalogs and
yers without changing the structure of the data.
Oponal Template based page creaon to
generate hundreds of pages quickly.
True Bidireconal Data Update
Update data from database in the page or make a
change in the page and update back to database.
Works on Mac & Windows based InDesign
soware.
Integrated with CatalogStudio.
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WebStudio Benets
WebStudio can be enabled in either eCommerce
or Catalog browse only modes
Site navigaon, page layouts, aesthecs can becustomized in house or as an add-on service to
the base license
Easy to use product navigaon based on
category hierarchy, product families and item
details. Enhance details with images, videos,
documents
Using CatalogStudio WebSync feature, product
informaon is always kept in sync with the
website
WebStudio APIs are available for higher levelcustomizaon
EasyAsk (Partner Product) Natural Language
Search is fully integrated with WebStudio to
provide beer search results
Used by Lands End, GAP, WES, NIH, Chrysler and
many other companies, EasyAsk produces more
sales and increases customer loyalty. Embedded
within WebStudio, EasyAsk soware delivers:
Merchandising analycs
Cross Sells and Upsells
Product index scaling and relevancy tuning to
weight searches
New Websites and PIM technology
Training, support and resources
ecommerce
WebStudio is a exible, feature-rich
plaorm that gives business to business
and business to consumer companies
the ability to quickly deploy a web
store or catalog. WebStudio plaorm
can be customized and integrated withthe exisng IT infrastructure such as
ERP Systems, Order Management, and
Pricing & Inventory Systems.
WebStudio Features
Shopping cart & e-commerce
Credit card & purchase orders
B2B or B2C selling
Product search & browse
Customizable site look & feel
Order management
Email nocaons
Buyer group and customized pricing
QuoteCart
API for custom integraon
Hosted or installed edion
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portal
MarketStudio is a next generaon web
portal to browse rich product content,
generate catalogs, quotes & reports, run
markeng campaigns, and many other
things - complete with a dashboard
loaded with useful informaon.Useful Features available in
MarketStudio include:
MarketStudio can be a powerful portal applicaon
in many enterprises where sales & markeng sta,
product managers and execuve management can
take advantage of an easy to use interface to view
and sell products, generate automated catalogs,
run email campaigns and track sales performance.
User congurable dashboard with items such as
recent reports, frequently viewed products and
categories, product sales metrics, key contacts,
useful links, calendar and many others.
Browse products in a hierarchy along with all
details. Users can select one of many congured
catalogs.
Run email campaigns using the built-in email
blaster that can be used for sales & markeng
campaigns for selected products. Import contacts from CRM systems into
MarketStudio and a manage contacts to help run
campaigns or make sales calls.
Generate on-demand catalogs, product spec
sheets, sales quotaons, purchase orders or
any reports using predened templates. These
outputs can also be used in markeng campaigns
that can generate revenue.
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Content
Creaon
Most potenally usable informaon
originates in an unstructured form. If
your electronic data is unstructured,
the raw content doesnt translate into
sales. Creang content for print and
web catalogs is a formidable challenge,
one which Questudio can resolve.
Questudio has experience and knowledge relevant
to collecon and creang content about your
products for various industries. Our content
management industry experts can deliver what you
want, on me - every me.
Questudio has successfully created content for
such diverse industries as Automove, Electronics,Home Furnishings, Staonary, Kitchenware, Health
and Personal Care Products, Computer Industry
and more.
Our services include:
Data Extracon
Data Conversion
Data Mapping
Data Cleansing and Normalizaon
Questudio specializes in internet research and
content extracon from websites of manufacturers
and suppliers. Our team will help you convert or
extract product informaon from various sources,
including exisng PDF documents, InDesign, Quark,
or paper documents for use in dierent markeng
and sales channels. The extracted informaon will
be stored in a relaonal database for mul-channelpublishing. Questudio is one of the leading service
providers in the industry, with solid experience in
converng and creang product informaon for
over 25 dierent industry types.
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A turnkey catalog content conversion,
design, publishing & prinng service
for catalog owners
Key Features
Catalogs published to Web, Print or CD
Upload les online, download PDFs
Web based catalog data viewer
Catalog Publishing
Service
Workow enabled
Make changes to catalog data
Export items to Excel, CSV or PDF
Quickly search products
Build price lists
Catalog page templates
Benets to Catalog Owners
Easy to use and requires very lile training
Lower cost of catalog producon
Signicantly reduce me to publish
Increase the number of catalogs produced each
year
Quality checks & data accuracy
Centralized catalog data, images, templates,
PDFs
Expert catalog publishing consultaon Easily scalable to Questudios soware suite
How it works
Quick service acvaon
No soware to install or purchase
Custom conversion service
Web interface for catalog content
Built-in workow management
Free template design service
Customers review catalog pages and provide
edits Questudio will generate Print-Ready-Catalog
Opon to generate supplements, mini-catalogs
or yers
Increase sales by publishing product
informaon through Print, Web, and
other electronic media. More methods
reaching consumers equates to more
publicity and more sales.
It can be expensive and me-consuming to try
and put together an in-house program to collect
product informaon and then design and produce
product catalogs, literature, and yers. Questudio,
with years of experience can help your business
to manage product informaon and help create
product catalogs, sales collateral, and simple or
complex eCommerce web sites at a much smaller
expense. It also requires fewer dedicated monetary,
personnel, and temporal resources to create andmaintain simple or complex eCommerce websites.
Questudio knows that online is more than just a
new channel - it is a source of growth and can be
the basis for a new business model.
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Web and
Catalog Design
The design of an eCommerce website is
nearly as important as its funconality.
User experience while viewingproduct
informaon is crucial to keeping
customers sased. Questudio will
help develop eCommerce enabledweb pages with advanced search, easy
navigaon and store administraon
all with a custom web design that
exceeds your users expectaons.
Questudios powerful CatalogStudio adopts a
central repository model where the web catalog is
eciently linked, thereby bolstering the database
with price, stock, aributes, images, e-downloads,
and other forms of rich content.
User interface on the website with relevant
funconality for the following features will be
meculously designed.
128-bit SSL security
Store Administraon
Wish Lists
Shipping Status
Order Status
Convenient Check Out
Dierent payment opons
Shipping Calculators
Order History
Custom product layouts
Member Login
Add or delete any web content
Change the template of your website
Add or delete web pages
Oponally search engine compable
Unlimited hierarchy levels
Add dynamic search opons
Assign page protecon for designated pages
Trac monitoring
While online content is becoming more prevalent,
most industries see the value of the printed catalogs
and other collateral. Many industrial catalogs
such as Grainger Product Catalog are established
standards and are commonly used. Questudio
oers print design along with web design to ensure
the product informaon is eciently conveyed forend-users to take advantage of.
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Integraon
Services
Open architectures allows Questudios
soware to seamlessly integrate into
exisng ERP, CRM and other systems.
We bring extensive experience
along with tool-kits to bear in all our
integraon projects.
Questudio leverages exisng procurement,
inventory, order and customer management
systems. Product informaon oen resides in
mulple applicaons and there is a need to
keep them in sync. Related informaon such as
inventory and order status are also required to
be displayed on-demand within the website.
In most situaons, there is no one method of
integraon available. Questudio performs analysis
of customer environment and requirements and
proposes mulple opons to choose from. Opons
include simple le based integraon to real-me
XML based integraon depending upon the crical
nature of the informaon and the frequency of
changes.
Questudio sta have performed integraon with
a variety of applicaons including ERP, CRM,
Inventory and Order Management systems.
Soware systems integrated to our soware
include SAP, Oracle, and various home-grown
back-oce systems used by various customers
The DelDOT Challenge
The State of Delawares Department of
Transportaon publishes annually, a Capital
Transportaon Program (CTP) report which is acatalog with program details related to all the
Road, Bridge and Rail projects carried out within
the State. The data for these projects are being
stored in mulple systems, PRIMAVERA for project
details and FACTS for nancial details related to
each project. These systems are ORACLE based
database systems that are being used to manage
all the projects and related informaon. The report
is created by aggregang the content from these
systems and presenng them in a pre-determined
format. There is also an internal report (long-form)
that is being generated using the same data used
for collaboraon purposes within the department.
DelDOT has been using tradional methods such as
spreadsheets to create this 800 page CTP report.
This method consumed 4 to 6 months of intense
eort and there were always errors involved in
aggregang the content and performing calculaons
of nancial data to present in the report.
DelDOT wanted a database driven system to replace
their current manual process, which would enable
them to automate the reporng process and make
it error free. They wanted an in house system to
produce the CTP report and plan to use the same
database to eecvely produce CD-based report
and provide web access to the project details in
the future. The web access when implemented
will oer all interested pares, the ability to view
all transportaon projects online, thereby creang
more visibility.
The project data and nancial data will be managed
in PRIMAVERA and FACTS Oracle systems and theywanted an interface to be built to load this data
on a periodic basis to create CTP and Long Form
reports.
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Case Studies
School-uniform me is one busy season for
parents, children, and last but not the least uniform
manufacturers/designers. One of the pioneers in
School Uniforms in Rhode Island caters to the needs
of hundreds of schools in the United States for their
uniform supplies. During the uniform season, they
send out custom catalogs to their target audience
throughout the country.
Customer contacted Questudio looking for an
ecient way to customize catalogs. They wanted a
system where they would be able to select a school
from the database and within a couple of clicks be
able to generate a mini catalog containing all theuniform details for Boys & Girls from K to 12 grades.
This includes the details of Summer & Winter
uniforms, their images, prices, School logos etc.
Clothing Company Creates Custom
Mini Catalogs In Just A Few Clicks
With CatalogStudios in-built PDF generator,
creang great-looking mini catalogs is as easy as the
snap of a nger. Once you have a master template
designed and saved in the template gallery, users
can select the desired products using the PDF
wizard, choose the appropriate template, and in a
couple of clicks have a mini catalog pop up on thescreen which can be shared, collaborated, emailed,
thereby playing a role of a markeng tool.
Questudios Catalog Experts designed a PDF
template for Customer to be able to bind all the
data from CatalogStudio and ow it into report
which would come out in a format as desired by
the companys markeng team.
Customer stores data in an ERP system which when
exported does not come out in an easy-to-read at
format but in a CSV format. Nine CSV les would be
exported from the system in a data extract, which
were all interlinked. The name of schools would be
coded in one of the CSV les and the actual names
would be mapped on another CSV le. This applied
to prices, images, descripon as well. They also had
codes to menon whether the prices belong to the
current uniform season or the new uniform season.
This was quite challenging and in order to map
the codes with the related elds, complex stored
procedures had to be wrien and it went through
an exhausve round of tesng. The below image
gives one an idea of what the content looked like
when it is exported from the ERP system to a CSV
le.
One of the requirements was that they should be
able to clear out all the data from the database
anyme a fresh import was done and only retain
the data from the latest import as prices are
constantly changing. This was done in a jiy by the
database experts in Questudio.
At the end of the project, it was a job well done
for Questudio and a step ahead for the Customers
markeng team.
Making Mini Catalogs Is A Simple
Two-Step Process
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DelDOT
Case Study
Industry - Government
Customer
State of Delawares Department of Transportaon
(DelDOT) provides a safe, ecient, and
environmentally sensive transportaon network
that oers a variety of convenient and cost-eecve
choices for the movement of people and goods.
Technology
Microso .Net, MS SQLServer, Oracle Financials
System, Primavera System.
ChallengeThe State of Delawares Department of Transportaon
publishes annually, a Capital Transportaon Program
(CTP) report which is a catalog with program details
related to all the Road, Bridge and Rail projects carried
out within the State. The data for these projects are
being stored in mulple systems, PRIMAVERA for
project details and FACTS for nancial details related
to each project. These systems are ORACLE based
database systems that are being used to manage
all the projects and related informaon. The report
is created by aggregang the content from these
systems and presenng them in a pre-determinedformat. There is also an internal report (long-form)
that is being generated using the same data used
for collaboraon purposes within the department.
DelDOT has been using tradional methods such as
spreadsheets to create this 800 page CTP report. This
method consumed 4 to 6 months of intense eort
and there were always errors involved in aggregang
the content and performing calculaons of nancial
data to present in the report.
DelDOT wanted a database driven system to replace
their current manual process, which would enable
them to automate the reporng process and make it
error free. They wanted an in house system to produce
the CTP report and plan to use the same database to
eecvely produce CD-based report and provide web
access to the project details in the future. The web
access when implemented will oer all interested
pares, the ability to view all transportaon projects
online, thereby creang more visibility.
The project data and nancial data will be managedin PRIMAVERA and FACTS Oracle systems and they
wanted an interface to be built to load this data on a
periodic basis to create CTP and Long Form reports.
Soluon
Questudio has implemented its CatalogStudio soluon
for publishing the CTP report. Plans for CD and web
publishing are under consideraon. A key part of the
system is the integraon of the CatalogStudio soluon
with the ORACLE-based systems in-place at DelDOT.
Questudios technical team worked very closely with
the customers IT team and dened the integraonrequirements, developed the interface design and
implemented the data integraon necessary for the
success in producing the very crical CTP report.
Using data loader module, informaon from
dierent systems is easily loaded into the
CatalogStudio database. The data load can be done
on demand from the source systems. Using pre-
built templates, the enre report of 800 pages is
created with the current content within minutes.
Mulple templates have been provided to enable the
customer to create reports in dierent formats along
with pictures and maps of the proposed project. Forexample, the long-form report provides the ability to
review the reports and make correcons, well before
the nal CTP report is published.
The Result
Using CatalogStudio, the customer is now being able
to create accurate reports with higher eciencies.
This has signicantly improved the previous process
that used to take 4 to 6 months. Since all the data is
being imported electronically into CatalogStudio, user
errors are avoided and the automaon of the reports
avoids calculaon or formang errors. With a central
repository of content the customer can consider
providing web access to transportaon project details
in the State of Delaware.
State of Delawares Department of Transportaon
uses Questudios CatalogStudio to manage
transportaon project content and publish the
Capital Transportaon Program (CTP) report on an
annual basis.
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ICD
Case Study
Industrial Controls Distributors Successfully
Juggles Specicaon Schemas From Over 100
Manufacturers
Creang the rst edion of a 1,200 page printed
catalog is a daunng task. Creang a technical
catalog containing a wide range of products
manufactured by over 100 partners, each with theirown unique informaon schemas, is even more
complex. As catalog content manager Kathleen
Lippenco described, It seems that our products
not only looks dierent, but they all require a
dierent approach for storing and presenng the
data. Some products required conguraon, some
required dimensional drawing libraries, and some
required muldimensional charts.
ICD approached Questudio in 2009 with a list of their
most popular 100,000 SKUs. The specicaons and
adversing materials for the products was scaered
all over the organizaon in engineering books,
internal and external websites, CDs, PCs, and in
loose specicaon sheets. ICD wanted to organize
the informaon into one central repository, which
would then be used to drive their catalog, website,
and internal informaon needs.
Our products are engineered, said Lippenco. It
really takes someone with solid background in our
industry to understand what goes into selecng and
conguring a product. With Questudios specicexperse in this area, we were able to simplify and
standardize our product selecon data.
Questudios Product Informaon Management
(PIM) experts were able to idenfy paerns that
existed across dierent sources of content.
During the informaon architecture phase of theproject, Questudio sampled products from every
product category and manufacturer. The goal was
to dene the format in which data would be stored,
how the elds would be labeled with standardized
labels, and which design templates would be used
for catalog and website pages.
By assigning aributes to products, or by lisng
them in an aribute table, one can dierenate
between them. When integrang products from
mulple manufacturers into one system, the
aributes and values had to be standardized. For
example, one manufacturer assigned Feedback
aributes to products while another assigned
Output aributes. Since these are essenally
the same thing, a common convenon had to be
applied so that they could be combined in one
table or search.
In September of 2010, ICD delivered their rst
full-line catalog to their exisng customers in the
pharmaceucal, food, power, wastewater, and
commercial HVAC markets. The response fromcustomers was tremendous.
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EDI
Case Study
A major Industrial Tools supplier situated on
the east coast chose Questudios CatalogStudio
(PIM) to manage its content and WebStudio to
publish the contents in their new website. One ofthe requirements for the new website was that
WebStudio should have the ability to communicate
with Eclipse EDI to synchronize the ordering
system. For this Questudio had to do an integraon
between Eclipse and WebStudio
Questudios Service team expedited the content
extracon work from various websites provided
by the customer and the same was organized
in a structured way in CatalogStudio. Once
this was completed, Questudios WebStudio
implementaon team connected to the database
where the data was stored and created a link
between the new website and the database. The
User Interface was designed by the creave team
and handed over for implementaon in
parallel.
Once the website was setup using WebStudios
templates and engine, the team went ahead and
congured the admin module for Customer This
is where the integraon between Eclipse and
WebStudio took place.
Questudios WebStudio has a in-built inventory
management system which manages the inventory
of products in the website. Once customers browse
through the website, they have an opon to shoponline using the shopping cart by logging in using
their unique ID. Once customers are done with
their shopping and have submied their order,
WebStudio will generate an order in the form
prescribed by EDI and place it the FTP provided
and display the status as Order Placed in the order
history panel.
EDI in turn checks the FTP every 5 mins and sees
if there are any new orders. On receipt of a new
order placed in the FTP by WebStudio, Eclipse
takes it for further processing. Once the order has
been accepted by Eclipse a response is sent back
to WebStudio with the status as Order Conrmed
and subsequently Order Shipped
On a run-me basis, constant interacon takes
place between EDI and WebStudio to see if any
orders are placed or processed and displays the
informaon in the website accordingly. Integrang
EDI with WebStudio was done seamlessly with the
support of the customer and web-implementaon
team.
Questudio Integrates Eclipse EDI with
WebStudio for Industrial Tools Supplier
Eclipse EDI and Questudios WebStudio
EDI
Case Study