Product Database: A centralized content database that product management or merchandising can use to add and maintain product information such as categorization, products, descriptions, pricing, images and documents. The same product database also acts like a master source for web, cd, sales, customer-service and call center catalogs.

Electronic Catalog Access: With a web based catalog, you can make your products accessible to customers, employees, suppliers and partners over the web in a secured form around the clock throughout the year.

Search-Engine Optimized Catalog: Catalog content can be optimized to make products more findable through search engines such as Google and Yahoo. This powerful feature can increase the revenues of an organization significantly.

Multi-Dimensional Search: Catalogs can be searched using a variety of criteria such as Item Number, description, keyword or any other product attribute. Catalogs can also be accessed through an index or a category hierarchy making it easy to locate parts in a variety of ways.

Parametric Search: With parametric search, catalog content can be filtered from a big result set to a smaller set based on technical specifications. This feature makes it easy to filter through thousands of possible hits to the right product in few clicks.

Product Comparison: Some users like to compare similar products by placing them side by side to view the differences. This feature displays the respective product images, descriptions, technical specifications and pricing for comparative purposes.

Robust Content Management: With direct integration between content management and the website, you can reduce the time required to publish new products and update existing products.

Shopping-Cart Support: Some online product catalogs require a shopping cart to help customers in buying multiple products. Shopping-Cart support requires a dynamic web catalog system that tracks a users session and state.

Security: In a secured online catalog system, only the product information that online users are authorized to see will be available to them. This powerful feature makes sure that other business data such as procurement information, stocking information can be hidden if necessary.

Branding Freedom: The ability to change look and feel of the standard product to match the corporate brand. Most organizations have a corporate brand that needs to be enforced on the website.

Documents and Assets: Additional product information, technical notes, user guides, product manuals, MSDS sheets and URLs can be published to the web along with product information.

User Authentication: This feature ensures that the online catalog can be accessed only when the proper credentials such as username and password are entered by a user. Authenticating each online users has its benefits but requires additional business processes such as customer registration, online customer technical support, and user preference management.

User Registration: With this feature, new online customers and users can register to shop and/or view content. In certain cases this might require an approval or proper assignment of this user to a user role: partner, standard customer, new customer, preferred customer, etc.

User Preferences: The system gives users the ability to manage their billing address, shipping address, contact information, and authentication information.

Customer Wish-List: Some online product catalogs require additional options to help customers in saving a customers frequently purchased products to facilitate a future purchase or to save a list of most-frequently bought products.

Customer-Specific Pricing: Some organizations have multiple tiers of customer pricing going down to the levels of product specific customer pricing. This information is usually managed in the order entry system or order processing system.

* Requires Enterprise Web Catalog Add-On Module and Professional Services