questudio inc. - print catalog & pim software brochure

5/24/2018 Questudio Inc. - Print Catalog & PIM Software Brochure

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.


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.


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.


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.


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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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

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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.


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.


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

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