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[RECORDED] Product Data Mastery - Reducing Returns to Increase Margin Through Better Product Data
Improving product data quality will inevitably increase your sales. However, there are other benefits (beyond improved revenue) from investi...
Understanding Product Taxonomy vs. Website Navigation
For small businesses with limited product assortments and small budgets, maintaining two hierarchies for their products can be cost-prohibit...
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[RECORDED] Product Data: Insights for Success - How AI is Automating Product Data Programs
Artificial Intelligence is changing the way businesses interact with their customers. From hyper-personalized experiences to chatbots built ...
Blog
AI’s Value for Product Data Programs
By Dan O'Connor, Director of Product Data, Earley Information Science AI is all the talk of every business trying to find new ways to engage...
Blog
The Product Data Syndication Problem
By Dan O'Connor, Director of Product Data, and Joe DiNardo, Co-Founder and COO of Syndic8.io. Product data syndication has become one of the...
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[RECORDED] How to Use Software to Accelerate Product Data Design, Optimization and Metrics Driven Decision Making
Some product information management (PIM) tools make it difficult to change core data models once they have been set up in the system. To av...
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[RECORDED] What is PIM and Why Your Ecommerce Business Needs It
If you want to deliver a truly personalized product experience and strengthen customer loyalty, a Product Information Management System (PIM...
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[RECORDED] What do you recommend? Delight customers and increase revenue with product recommendations
Today your ecommerce customers expect to be shown recommendations as they browse your product catalog. But, “most popular” is a filter that ...
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4 Reasons B2B Manufacturers need Strong Product Data
There are many manufacturers who have started to take the leap forward in the digital space, but there are still a great number who rely sol...
Presentations
Using Product Data to Drive Chatbot Dialogs - GS1 2019
Speakers Seth Earley and Dave Skrobela dive into the many ways that well designed product information attributes can drive your chatbog dial...
Blog
5 Key Types of Product Taxonomy and How They Can Drive Your Business
Product taxonomies are critical to the customer experience on ecommerce platforms, marketplaces and websites. In order for customers to find...
Webinars
The Business Value of Taxonomy - Your Competitors Know It
RECORDED WEBCAST AVAILABLE We still hear it today – executives ask “Why do we need a taxonomy?” Then the various follow-ons : “Can’t we just...
Blog
How Does Visual Search Work?
Visual search has been gaining a lot of momentum. Product images are of course provided on websites to assure purchasers that they have sele...
Blog
PIM Project Best Practices - Communicating With Stakeholders
Why is stakeholder communication important? Once you have initial buy-in for a PIM project, how do you encourage the people who have an inte...
Webinars
Grow Revenue and Improve Operations with Visual Search
Recorded - available as on demand webcast Visual search – the ability to search your product catalog and supply chain based on a photo taken...
Articles
Up Your Customer Experience Game By Leveraging Your Product Data
This Article originally appeared on Modern Distribution Management on March 22, 2021. You all know what they say, “Data is king.” But how do...
Blog
PIM Implementation: Lessons Learned from 3 SAP Hybris Case Studies
With the acceleration of digital transformations brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, almost every organization is facing challenges in how ...
Webinars
Product Data Projects – Building an ROI with Hard Data
Recorded - available as on demand webcast While most organizations engaging in B2B or B2C commerce understand the intuitive value of product...
Blog
Online grocery shopping: How product data attributes can lead to a brighter future
The online experience can be directly correlated to the quality of the product data in your key systems. Grocery has lagged behind other sec...
Blog
What is a PIM and why should you want one?
A Product Information Management (PIM) system provides a central location for product data that is used in downstream systems. It is where y...
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Tackling Complex Product Configuration Documentation Challenges with Component Content
Any organization that sells a solution with many options, components, or parts has a significant challenge when it comes to providing docume...
Blog
How Governance Keeps Your PIM Optimized for the Long Term
Governance is a program used to ensure data is being managed efficiently. There are many aspects of governance that should be considered whe...
White Papers
The 5 Key Factors of Highly Successful PIM Deployments
Online marketplaces, social media, mobile technologies and new shopper journeys have transformed the way that buyers make purchase decisions...
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8 Steps to PIM readiness - are you prepared make the jump?
There are many famous quotes that tell you to “Just Do It” (Nike Slogan), “Start before you’re ready. Don’t prepare, begin.” (Mel Robbins*) ...
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How to pick the right PIM software for your ecommerce business
Not all PIM software packages are equal, there is not a one size fits all answer. Every company is different, has different requirements and...
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How Taxonomy Design Can Make or Break the Customer Experience
The display taxonomy on an ecommerce website is the backbone of the customer experience. It provides the structure, navigation paths, breadc...
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Global Attributes for Ecommerce – When and When Not to Use Them
In our last few blogs we’ve been focusing a lot on taxonomies and taxonomy design for ecommerce sites. In this blog we will shift gears a bi...
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Measuring Website Usage and Taxonomy Effectiveness
Recorded - available as on demand webcast Using analytics to understand and optimize your Taxonomy to drive high-performance eCommerce. In t...
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Power of Product Data Series: Taxonomy Design Can Make or Break the Browse Experience
Recorded - available as on demand webcast When designing a display taxonomy, many sites lose track of the customer journey at *each step* in...
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Homegrown to Commercial PIM: Transition Strategies for Success
Recorded - available as on demand webcast It’s hard enough to design and implement a ‘garden variety’ product information management (PIM) p...
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Power of Product Data Series: The Power and Peril of Global Attributes
Recorded - available as on demand webcast Attributes are powerful tools in Digital B2B, but they are also a lot of work to design and mainta...
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How Product Attribute Schema Design Provides a Competitive Advantage
In this age of digital transformation, organizations compete on their data. Every interaction, whether internal to the company or external, ...
Webinars
Power of Product Data Series: Stop Hiding Product in Your Taxonomies
Recorded - available as on demand webcast Many product taxonomies start with good intentions but are corrupted over time by a proliferation ...
Blog
Getting The Most From Images On Your B2B Ecommerce Site
Or, How to Get More Than 1000 Words From Your Product Images. Images are powerful and becoming more vital to online success as B2B customers...
Webinars
Power of Product Data Series: Get More than 1000 Words from Your Product Images
Recorded - available as on demand webcast In this conversation, our digital commerce experts walks through the impact that product images ha...
Blog
Product Taxonomy Mutual Exclusivity - One Product, One Place
Mutual Exclusivity is an organizing principle for taxonomies which requires every SKU in your product catalog have one (and only one) place ...
Webinars
Power of Product Data Series: One Product, One Place
Recorded - available as on demand webcast In this 15 minute - no B.S. - session, our digital commerce experts will use real world examples t...
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Power of Product Data Series: The Real-World Impact of Product Data on User Experience
Recorded - available as on demand webcast Product content will make or break your digital commerce user experience. But what does that reall...
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Winning in the Digital Divide by Harnessing the Power of High-Quality Product Data
The pressure is on for B2B distributors to up their online game as millennials, who are digital natives, are increasingly becoming their buy...
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The Secret to Successful Marketing to the Technical B2B Buyer
Recorded session -- view the webcast. The B2B technical buyer is a unique persona with specialized needs. In order to get and keep this valu...
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The Grocery Revolution: How Does Your Digital Customer Experience Stack Up?
Recorded - available as on demand webcast Whereas most Retailers have already made the leap to a digital paradigm, Grocery has lagged behind...
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To Differentiate Your Customers’ Online Experience, Change Your Product Descriptors
This blog originally appeared on the MDM.com. When was the last time you went shopping for something intangible? Where instead of being able...
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Omnichannel Taxonomy & Attribute Design
Digital commerce leaders have made the mental shift from “what products do I sell?” to “how do my customers want to buy from me?” – savvy si...
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Digital Transformation: What it means
Many life events can justifiably be called a transformation, and their effect is pervasive. Moving to another country, for example, may requ...
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Bridging Silos and Managing Change During Digital Transformations
“There’s No Budget for the Common Good” Organizations have been using digital technologies for decades, but the last several years have seen...
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The Need for a Context-Aware Architecture to Drive Digital Transformation Success
A great deal of attention is being given to digital transformation. According to Forrester, “Seventy-four percent of business executives say...
Webinars
Digital Transformation Trends to Watch in 2019
We’ve all heard it – digital transformation is coming for us. From how our customers engage with us, to how our partners leverage us, and ho...
Blog
Product Information Management: 4 Key Principles of Good Product Data
In a slight departure from our previous article on proactively (and tactically) preparing for a product data transformation, let’s explore s...
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Commercial PIM Systems: 4 Best Practices To Conduct Before a PIM Evaluation
As your business and product data complexity grows, so too may your need for an enhanced Product Information Management (PIM) system that ac...
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7 Tools To Help Build Sustainable Data Governance
These days, no matter what industry you operate in, your competitive advantage depends on the quality of the data that is flowing through yo...
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Differentiating Your Company through the User Experience
How to integrate Content, Product Data and Knowledge to Meet Your Customer’s Needs Organizations are continuing the never-ending journey of ...
Webinars
Winning the Digital Grocery Smackdown
(or, how to keep Amazon and Walmart from eating your lunch – and dinner) With Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market just a few short mo...
White Papers
Building Personalized Experiences
Through the power of attributes across product, customer, content, and asset domains. Applying customer and journey context means serving up...
Blog
The Internet of Things and Product Data
In 2012, IBM estimated that the number of devices that were expected to be connected to the internet by 2015 would be in 1 trillion. It turn...
Webinars
Enterprise Adoption of AI Technology: Looking ahead to 2018
Recorded - available as on demand webcast Though media, analysts and vendors are ushering in the AI revolution with gusto, the reality in mo...
Articles
The Problem of Personalization: AI-Driven Analytics at Scale
This Article originally appeared in the November/December 2017 issue of IT Pro, published by the IEEE Computer Society. Despite all the inve...
Blog
Physical to Digital – How the Grocery Sector is Poised for Transformation
Covid Is Accelerating Transformation of the Grocery Industry The grocery industry is the last major retail sector to seriously address consu...
Blog
How Taxonomy Enables Innovation in B2B Ecommerce
Taxonomies have evolved over the years from being a way to navigate a website to providing the underpinnings of advanced ecommerce innovatio...
Webinars
Product Information Management for Conglomerates: The Best Approach for Complex Decentralized Enterprises
Recorded - available as on demand webcast Implementing Product Information Management (PIM) in any organization is complex. Getting consensu...
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Shiny Things and Bad Data: The Two Biggest Challenges Facing CIO’s and CTO’s
When I speak to CIO’s and CTO’s, they are grappling with two things: Staying up to date with new capabilities that the business either wants...
Webinars
Brand Choreography - How Product Information Supports Your Brand Promise
Recorded - available as on demand webcast Your customers have rising expectations about their digital experience across every channel and to...
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3 Ways Product Data Can Help Fulfill Your Brand Promise
Digital transformation as a concept has lost a lot of its meaning and has become a catch-all for many types of information initiatives. What...
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What Is the Difference between Taxonomy and Ontology?
Struggling to differentiate between a business taxonomy and business ontology? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. This post breaks down the key ...
Blog
Product Information Governance Leads to Process Improvement
Governance is essential to product information and taxonomy management. Governance ensures consistency, accuracy and adherence to the brands...
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The Product Data Black Hole: How to Avoid the Taxonomy Junk Drawer
Every house has one: The junk drawer. The place you shove things when you are not quite sure where to put them or whether to keep them. Most...
Webinars
The Paradox of Product Standards & Brand Differentiation: Can You Have Both?
Recorded - available as on demand webcast Brands and retailers are faced with a dilemma: how can I comply with product attribute standards a...
Blog
How Metadata Runs The World
Ask Google, Facebook, Uber or any of the $billion startups (the so called unicorns) out there if metadata runs the world. A friend sent me a...
Blog
The future of B2B eCatalogs - Be Like Amazon
If you’re a B2B distributor that’s been around for a while, then you probably grew up in a specific vertical and developed a reputation with...
Blog
B2B: To Compete in Digital, You Need to Own Your Product Information
If you’re like most B2B manufacturers or distributors, you’re taking a page from the B2C playbook and you’re building out the product experi...
Webinars
Product Information is the Key to Winning the Customer Experience Race
Recorded - available as on demand webcast In today’s competitive online retail marketplace, winning is defined by a retailer’s ability to di...
Articles
Analytics, Machine Learning, and the Internet of Things
This Articles originally appeared in ITProfessional Magazine, Jan/Feb 2015. Our increasingly connected world, combined with low-cost sensors...
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At Earley Information Science, we know that data drives digital. Using our field-proven methods, we'll make your data work harder. We want you to be successful and we're ready help wherever you are in your transformation journey—from strategy and design to implementation and optimization.