Over the last two decades, merchants worldwide have invested heavily in eCommerce applications to solve their specific challenges in web catalog management — including such areas as product presentation, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI) and automated data collection.
Yet, recently, a growing number of businesses are realizing that these solutions, while excellent at addressing very specific challenges, have not helped solve their web catalog management problems.
In fact, if anything, these essential applications have created yet another silo where product data resides and evolves independently from the other systems in the enterprise. This, in turn, leads to duplicate, conflicting, incomplete and erroneous information that prevents effective web catalog management, decreases conversions, hurts sales, and hinders business responsiveness and decision making.
STEP’s web catalog management functionality streamlines the process of producing digital product catalogs used for eCommerce or e-trading. Specifically, STEP helps merchants with the following product information management activities:
STEP helps improve multichannel publishing and product information management processes by centralizing product information and images. Automated workflow ensures priorities are highlighted and the status of production visible to the organization. And the system’s automated production tools improve productivity and allow more time for creative design.