What is Content WorkBench™?
Today, product information is a strategic asset, essential to the success of enterprise core processes. Grihasoft's Content WorkBench (CWB) enables organization to maximize such benefits by providing end-to-end solutions to effectively create, manage, and leverage this product content asset. Employing a Web-based architecture, CWB offers a comprehensive environment for creating, managing, and preparing product information for eProcurement needs.
Why CWB?
Catalog content management is a fundamental requirement of any purchasing organization in an enterprise, that wants to, or already have implemented ERP/SRM solutions. Quality of inventory data content is critical for efficient eProcurement and accurate spend analysis. Companies want to have an efficient, scalable and cost effective catalog management system to search, refine, create and to maintain product content in their inventory systems.
Griha Software Technologies, with its rich experience in developing content management solutions has developed a premium catalog content management system. Griha's content WorkBench (CWB) is a very well conceived, practical and cost effective solution for enterprise catalog content management needs. CWB offers searching, creation and maintenance functionalities within the catalog database. It can be interfaced with existing ERP/CMMS systems to provide seamless content management capabilities within the client's business system.
Feature List
Powerful catalog search:
- Versatile search feature (Keyword, stock number, class, UNSPSC etc)
- Automated fill-in suggestions for keywords
- Grid view of search results with images
- Excel-like filters, sorting functions for search results
Detailed item views:
- Item views with tech specs, image, attachment etc in one-single view
- Cross-link feature across Model no., Manufacturer and Suppliers
- Provision for legacy data view
Support for Griha Taxonomy and SMD:
- Built-in support for Griha Taxonomy with 'template selection' (Noun-Qualifier and attributes)
- Support for IHS SMD* with images
Support for UNSPSC:
- Built-in support for UNSPSC with a keyword and code search
- Hierarchical views of UNSPSC
- Latest version of UNSPSC pre-loaded
Wizard type new item creation:
- Step-by-step, wizard driven item creation feature
- Provision for Manufacturer and Vendor data banks
- Emphasis on standardization and to avoid duplicity during item creation
Powerful administration and monitoring
- Built-in user management with 3 user levels
- Tracking of changes done by user
Others:
- Support for interfacing with existing business systems
- Support for training and future updates
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Benefits
- Web based application, accessible from any where
- Build a centralized product content repository for e-business
- Aggregate and unify multi-supplier product content
- Enable quick search of right item information
- Reduce operational costs for product content maintenance
- Meet data format requirements of today's business systems
- Present accurate, detailed, up-to-date product information to buyers and internal customers
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Technologies
CWB has been developed on Microsoft based technologies. It is based on MVC architecture (three tier) This gives it a high level of scalability and stability.
.Net Framework: 3.5 version
Front end: From end user's perspective, all they require is a simple browser to start off with the CWB. The training time required is also minimal.
Back end: CWB supports both SQL Server 2005 and Oracle 10g.
Hardware and Software requirements:
Hosting Server: Recommended Intel Pentium IV and above processor with 1 GB Ram / 4GB of Hosting space
Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/Server 2003
Web server: IIS 5.1 or above
Database: SQL Server 2005 / Oracle 10g
Browser: IE 6.0 and above
Contact us for more information on CWB, write to info@grihasoft.com
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