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Company Overview

QUESTUDIO Inc. is a leading provider of turnkey digital commerce solutions that helps manufacturers, distributors and catalogers manage product content efficiently, across various marketing channels to customers worldwide.

The company offers enterprises Product Information Management (PIM) and multi-channel marketing including eCommerce web catalog solutions.

Questudio’s Digital Commerce Solutions includes:• Managing rich product content in one

central repository• Making accurate product information

accessible to staff across the enterprise• Providing mechanisms to convey product

knowledge to end-customers using multiple channels and,

• Enabling the increase of company sales and marketing performance.

• Enables ready content integration with back office CRM and Point-of-Sales systems.

ProductsQuestudio products are specifically targeted to manage rich product content, extend market reach and increase sales. The software products are offered using perpetual license software models.

PIMPowerful Product Information Management (PIM) provides all the features needed to create, manage and maintain all product content in ONE central repository.

ecommerceA flexible, feature-rich platform that gives B2B and B2C businesses the ability to efficiently develop, integrate and deploy an eCommerce web catalog.

pluginA robust plug-in for Adobe InDesign to automate product catalog page creation and dramatically reducing the time to publish print pdf catalogs.

portal

Next generation web portal to browse rich product content, generate catalogs, quotes & reports, run marketing campaigns, and many other things - complete with a dashboard loaded with useful information.

SolutionsManufacturers, Distributors and Retailers are taking advantage of the multiple channels now available to market/distribute their products. These channels include Web, eCommerce, Print, CD, email, Dealers, Tele-Sales and many other creative ways to reach a global marketplace.

Product Information Management• Questudio’s CatalogStudio PIM software and

services enable distributors, manufacturers and retailers to boost sales by streamlining product marketing with accurate product information managed in a central database repository.

eCommerce Web Business• Seamlessly publish data from your content

database to the web with WebStudio, Questudio’s feature rich and customizable ecommerce platform. Allows customers to find what they want fast and place their order directly into the ERP system.

Catalog Automation• Enterprise Product Catalog Automation enables

distributors, manufacturers, and retailers to boost sales and streamline product marketing with accurate product information managed in a central database repository.

Print PDF Publishing• Accelerate page design with InStudio,

Questudio’s robust plug-in for Adobe InDesign. Drag and drop text, pictures, tables and product comparison charts from your content database right to our pages.

Multichannel Marketing• Manage rich product information and create

product catalogs, sales collateral, and custom eCommerce web catalogs to market across all channels available.

Integrated Systems• Leverage existing procurement, inventory, order

and customer management systems through an open architecture PIM and Web solution. We can develop custom interfaces for ERP / CRM integration.

ServicesMulti-Channel Product Marketing increases sales by publishing product catalog information through print, Web, and electronic media.

Custom eCommerce Websites provides secure, tailored, hosted full-function online presence including back-office data management

Content Creation & Publishing Services create integrated, normalized, structured central repository from existing catalog data, then publish selected content on-demand to multiple media.

Integrated Turnkey Solutions provide comprehensive catalog content collection, editing, copywriting, and design/layout services to create print and Web catalogs.

TestimonialsArt Works Distributor, Canada: You reduced our catalog production time from 90 days to less than a week; linking to our database eliminated hours of revisions for accuracy. Support people worked tirelessly to ensure our catalog was produced on time. Questudio stood out from the pack; I recommend its software without hesitation.

Original Auto Parts Distributor, CA: We investigated several catalog content management programs before selecting Questudio. It is very sophisticated, with much to learn, and very user friendly. No other program offers such rich features.

Industry’s most flexible catalog solutions for rich product content management. CatalogStudio system provides tools to manufacturers, distributors and retailers for managing product information, images, prices, customer information and publish to multiple media using a single, central repository database.

Streamlines the entire process of capturing the product and parts information in a single, central database and publish to Print, PDF, Web, CD and other electronic media. Information served through different media is always up-to-date, accurate and consistent.

Flexible Product Classification• Product Catalog management for any industry

with unlimited products, groups and categories.• Customer specific product pricing, unlimited

product technical attributes, images, attachments, videos and charts.

• Product cross-reference management.• Compatible with multiple languages, capture

UNICODE characters.• Search and filter products, text and images.• Easy interface to create mini or supplemental

catalogs with easy to use flexible product filters and sorting.

• 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 attachments.

• Drag and drop support for product assignment.

Data Extraction & 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 - Multiple Channels Output• Manage product content in a single repository

and publish consistent and accurate product information to Web, Print, CD and PDF catalogs.

Security, Workflow & Integration with ERP Systems• Workflow enabled and granular control of

editorial security.• Web and Windows application with SQL-based

product repository.• Granular security for product data maintenance.• Open architecture and API for ERP systems

integration.

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A robust plug-in for Adobe InDesign to automate product catalog page creation. Considerably reduces time to publish catalogs. Simple interface, easy to learn, get instant productivity.

InStudio FeaturesAutoFlow to create entire catalog• True InDesign plug-in system that provides

greater control over page layout.

• Automatically controls and applies fonts, colors, styles to the data. Saves time and effort for graphic designers.

• Fast and reliable creation of complex documents.

• Creates regular and complex pivot tables and applies styles to tables as defined.

• Create and apply custom business rules using in-built scripting 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 flyers without changing the structure of the data.

• Optional Template based page creation to generate hundreds of pages quickly.

True Bidirectional 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

software.• Integrated with CatalogStudio.

WebStudio Benefits• WebStudio can be enabled in either eCommerce

or Catalog browse only modes

• Site navigation, page layouts, aesthetics can be customized in house or as an add-on service to the base license

• Easy to use product navigation based on category hierarchy, product families and item details. Enhance details with images, videos, documents

• Using CatalogStudio WebSync feature, product information is always kept in sync with the website

• WebStudio API’s are available for higher level customization

• EasyAsk (Partner Product) Natural Language Search is fully integrated with WebStudio to provide better search results

Used by Land’s End, GAP, WES, NIH, Chrysler and many other companies, EasyAsk produces more sales and increases customer loyalty. Embedded within WebStudio, EasyAsk software delivers:

• Merchandising analytics

• 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 flexible, feature-rich platform that gives business to business and business to consumer companies the ability to quickly deploy a web store or catalog. WebStudio platform can be customized and integrated with the existing 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 notifications• Buyer group and customized pricing• QuoteCart• API for custom integration• Hosted or installed edition

portal

MarketStudio is a next generation web portal to browse rich product content, generate catalogs, quotes & reports, run marketing campaigns, and many other things - complete with a dashboard loaded with useful information.

Useful Features available in MarketStudio include:MarketStudio can be a powerful portal application in many enterprises where sales & marketing staff, product managers and executive 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 configurable 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 configured catalogs.

• Run email campaigns using the built-in email blaster that can be used for sales & marketing 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 quotations, purchase orders or any reports using predefined templates. These outputs can also be used in marketing campaigns that can generate revenue.

ContentCreation

Most potentially usable information originates in an unstructured form. If your electronic data is unstructured, the raw content doesn’t translate into sales. Creating content for print and web catalogs is a formidable challenge, one which Questudio can resolve.

Questudio has experience and knowledge relevant to collection and creating content about your products for various industries. Our content management industry experts can deliver what you want, on time - every time.

Questudio has successfully created content for such diverse industries as Automotive, Electronics, Home Furnishings, Stationary, Kitchenware, Health and Personal Care Products, Computer Industry and more.

Our services include:• Data Extraction• Data Conversion• Data Mapping• Data Cleansing and Normalization

Questudio specializes in internet research and content extraction from websites of manufacturers and suppliers. Our team will help you convert or extract product information from various sources, including existing PDF documents, InDesign, Quark, or paper documents for use in different marketing and sales channels. The extracted information will be stored in a relational database for multi-channel publishing. Questudio is one of the leading service providers in the industry, with solid experience in converting and creating product information for over 25 different industry types.

A turnkey catalog content conversion, design, publishing & printing service for catalog owners

Key Features• Catalogs published to Web, Print or CD• Upload files online, download PDF’s• Web based catalog data viewer

Catalog Publishing Service

• Workflow enabled• Make changes to catalog data• Export items to Excel, CSV or PDF• Quickly search products• Build price lists• Catalog page templates

Benefits to Catalog Owners• Easy to use and requires very little training• Lower cost of catalog production• Significantly reduce time to publish• Increase the number of catalogs produced each

year• Quality checks & data accuracy• Centralized catalog data, images, templates,

PDF’s• Expert catalog publishing consultation• Easily scalable to Questudio’s software suite

How it works• Quick service activation• No software to install or purchase• Custom conversion service• Web interface for catalog content• Built-in workflow management• Free template design service• Customers review catalog pages and provide

edits• Questudio will generate Print-Ready-Catalog• Option to generate supplements, mini-catalogs

or flyers

Increase sales by publishing product information through Print, Web, and other electronic media. More methods reaching consumers equates to more publicity and more sales.

It can be expensive and time-consuming to try and put together an in-house program to collect product information and then design and produce product catalogs, literature, and flyers. Questudio, with years of experience can help your business to manage product information 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 and maintain 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 andCatalog Design

The design of an eCommerce website is nearly as important as its functionality. User experience while viewingproduct information is crucial to keeping customers satisfied. Questudio will help develop eCommerce enabled web pages with advanced search, easy navigation and store administration – all with a custom web design that exceeds your users expectations.

Questudio’s powerful CatalogStudio adopts a central repository model where the web catalog is efficiently linked, thereby bolstering the database with price, stock, attributes, images, e-downloads, and other forms of rich content.

User interface on the website with relevant functionality for the following features will be meticulously designed.

• 128-bit SSL security• Store Administration• Wish Lists• Shipping Status• Order Status• Convenient Check Out• Different payment options• 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• Optionally search engine compatible• Unlimited hierarchy levels• Add dynamic search options• Assign page protection for designated pages• Traffic 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 offers print design along with web design to ensure the product information is efficiently conveyed for end-users to take advantage of.

Integration Services

Open architectures allows Questudio’s software to seamlessly integrate into existing ERP, CRM and other systems. We bring extensive experience along with tool-kits to bear in all our integration projects.

Questudio leverages existing procurement, inventory, order and customer management systems. Product information often resides in multiple applications and there is a need to keep them in sync. Related information such as inventory and order status are also required to be displayed on-demand within the website. In most situations, there is no one method of integration available. Questudio performs analysis of customer environment and requirements and proposes multiple options to choose from. Options include simple file based integration to real-time XML based integration depending upon the critical nature of the information and the frequency of changes.

Questudio staff have performed integration with a variety of applications including ERP, CRM, Inventory and Order Management systems. Software systems integrated to our software include SAP, Oracle, and various home-grown back-office systems used by various customers

The DelDOT Challenge The State of Delaware’s Department of Transportation publishes annually, a Capital Transportation 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 multiple systems, PRIMAVERA for project details and FACTS for financial details related to each project. These systems are ORACLE based database systems that are being used to manage all the projects and related information. The report is created by aggregating the content from these systems and presenting them in a pre-determined format. There is also an internal report (long-form) that is being generated using the same data used for collaboration purposes within the department. DelDOT has been using traditional methods such as spreadsheets to create this 800 page CTP report. This method consumed 4 to 6 months of intense effort and there were always errors involved in aggregating the content and performing calculations of financial 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 reporting 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 effectively produce CD-based report and provide web access to the project details in the future. The web access when implemented will offer all interested parties, the ability to view all transportation projects online, thereby creating more visibility.

The project data and financial data will be managed in 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.

Case Studies

School-uniform time 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 efficient 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 the uniform 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 CustomMini Catalogs In Just A Few Clicks

With CatalogStudio’s in-built PDF generator, creating great-looking mini catalogs is as easy as the snap of a finger. 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 the screen which can be shared, collaborated, emailed, thereby playing a role of a marketing tool.

Questudio’s Catalog Experts designed a PDF template for Customer to be able to bind all the data from CatalogStudio and flow it into report which would come out in a format as desired by the company’s marketing team.

Customer stores data in an ERP system which when exported does not come out in an easy-to-read flat format but in a CSV format. Nine CSV files 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 files and the actual names would be mapped on another CSV file. This applied to prices, images, description as well. They also had codes to mention 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 fields, complex stored procedures had to be written and it went through an exhaustive round of testing. The below image gives one an idea of what the content looked like when it is exported from the ERP system to a CSV file.

One of the requirements was that they should be able to clear out all the data from the database anytime a fresh import was done and only retain the data from the latest import as prices are constantly changing. This was done in a jiffy 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 Customer’s marketing team.

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DelDOTCase Study

Industry - GovernmentCustomerState of Delaware’s Department of Transportation (DelDOT) provides a safe, efficient, and environmentally sensitive transportation network that offers a variety of convenient and cost-effective choices for the movement of people and goods.

TechnologyMicrosoft .Net, MS SQLServer, Oracle Financials System, Primavera System.

ChallengeThe State of Delaware’s Department of Transportation publishes annually, a Capital Transportation 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 multiple systems, PRIMAVERA for project details and FACTS for financial details related to each project. These systems are ORACLE based database systems that are being used to manage all the projects and related information. The report is created by aggregating the content from these systems and presenting them in a pre-determined format. There is also an internal report (long-form) that is being generated using the same data used for collaboration purposes within the department.

DelDOT has been using traditional methods such as spreadsheets to create this 800 page CTP report. This method consumed 4 to 6 months of intense effort and there were always errors involved in aggregating the content and performing calculations of financial 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 reporting 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 effectively produce CD-based report and provide web access to the project details in the future. The web access when implemented will offer all interested parties, the ability to view all transportation projects online, thereby creating more visibility.The project data and financial data will be managed in 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.

SolutionQuestudio has implemented its CatalogStudio solution for publishing the CTP report. Plans for CD and web publishing are under consideration. A key part of the system is the integration of the CatalogStudio solution with the ORACLE-based systems in-place at DelDOT. Questudio’s technical team worked very closely with the customer’s IT team and defined the integration requirements, developed the interface design and implemented the data integration necessary for the success in producing the very critical CTP report.Using “data loader” module, information from different 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 entire report of 800 pages is created with the current content within minutes. Multiple templates have been provided to enable the customer to create reports in different formats along with pictures and maps of the proposed project. For example, the long-form report provides the ability to review the reports and make corrections, well before the final CTP report is published.

The ResultUsing CatalogStudio, the customer is now being able to create accurate reports with higher efficiencies. This has significantly 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 automation of the reports avoids calculation or formatting errors. With a central repository of content the customer can consider providing web access to transportation project details in the State of Delaware.

State of Delaware’s Department of Transportation uses Questudio’s CatalogStudio to manage transportation project content and publish the Capital Transportation Program (CTP) report on an annual basis.

ICD Case Study

Industrial Controls Distributors Successfully Juggles Specification Schemas From Over 100 Manufacturers

Creating the first edition of a 1,200 page printed catalog is a daunting task. Creating a technical catalog containing a wide range of products manufactured by over 100 partners, each with their own unique information schemas, is even more complex. As catalog content manager Kathleen Lippencott described, “It seems that our products not only looks different, but they all require a different approach for storing and presenting the data. Some products required configuration, some required dimensional drawing libraries, and some required multidimensional charts.

ICD approached Questudio in 2009 with a list of their most popular 100,000 SKUs. The specifications and advertising materials for the products was scattered all over the organization in engineering books, internal and external websites, CDs, PCs, and in loose specification sheets. ICD wanted to organize the information into one central repository, which would then be used to drive their catalog, website, and internal information needs.

“Our products are engineered,” said Lippencott. “It really takes someone with solid background in our industry to understand what goes into selecting and configuring a product. With Questudio’s specific expertise in this area, we were able to simplify and standardize our product selection data.”

Questudio’s Product Information Management (PIM) experts were able to identify patterns that existed across different sources of content.

During the information architecture phase of the project, Questudio sampled products from every product category and manufacturer. The goal was to define the format in which data would be stored, how the fields would be labeled with standardized labels, and which design templates would be used for catalog and website pages.

By assigning attributes to products, or by listing them in an attribute table, one can differentiate between them. When integrating products from multiple manufacturers into one system, the attributes and values had to be standardized. For example, one manufacturer assigned “Feedback” attributes to products while another assigned “Output” attributes. Since these are essentially the same thing, a common convention had to be applied so that they could be combined in one table or search.

In September of 2010, ICD delivered their first full-line catalog to their existing customers in the pharmaceutical, food, power, wastewater, and commercial HVAC markets. The response from customers was tremendous.

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A major Industrial Tools supplier situated on the east coast chose Questudio’s CatalogStudio (PIM) to manage its content and WebStudio to publish the contents in their new website. One of the 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 integration between Eclipse and WebStudio

Questudio’s Service team expedited the content extraction work from various websites provided by the customer and the same was organized in a structured way in CatalogStudio. Once this was completed, Questudio’s WebStudio implementation 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 creative team and handed over for implementation inparallel.

Once the website was setup using WebStudio’s templates and engine, the team went ahead and configured the admin module for Customer This is where the integration between Eclipse and WebStudio took place.

Questudio’s 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 option to shop online using the shopping cart by logging in using their unique ID. Once customers are done with their shopping and have submitted 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 Confirmed” and subsequently “Order Shipped”

On a run-time basis, constant interaction takes place between EDI and WebStudio to see if any orders are placed or processed and displays the information in the website accordingly. Integrating EDI with WebStudio was done seamlessly with thesupport of the customer and web-implementation team.

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