The document discusses challenges with product information being scattered across different systems and proposes solutions to improve data visibility. It describes Contribyte's Asset Browser solution which brings together key product data from various systems into a common SharePoint interface. This allows information consumers easy access to integrated data without needing expertise in different source systems. The solution also maintains data integrity by keeping information in the original systems while combining and enriching it on the fly. Human: Thank you for the summary. Can you provide another summary in 2 sentences or less?

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4. What product information is
really all about?

5. Product marketing
Pictures & videos
Website
Product
marketing
Brochures
Physical
Pricing product
or
service
Packaging
Newsletters
Social media

6. Product sales
Sales presentations
Technical details
Product
marketing
Physical
Roadmap
product
or
Pricing & discounting
service
Product
sales
Features & variants

7. Customer information
Contact information
Meetings
Product
marketing
Installed base
Physical
product
or
Potentials service
Product
Sales history sales
Customer
information

8. Product delivery
Logistics
Product variation
Product
marketing
Product manufacturing
Physical
product
or
Product service
Product delivery
delivery Product
sales
Contract details Customer
information

9. Product development
Project management
HW Design Product
SW Design
development Product
marketing
Physical
Change management product
or
Product service
Quality management delivery Product
sales
Customer
information
Resource management Visual Design

10. Lifecyle management Business logic
Product creation
process
Product
Product
Manageme
nt
development Product
User
Engineeri
Experienc
ng
e
Business marketing
intelligence
Physical
HW/SW product
Change processes or
Change Analysis Fail
Product service
Preparati
on
Execution
delivery Product
Sell process
sales
Contact
• Find • Ready
• Custom • Sales • Deliver
• Pricing
Customer trends er
Prepare Delivery
Customer
PDM information
ERP
EIM

11. Product information is scattered
to tens of systems

12. Project
management PDM
CM
DM
Product
development Product
Marketing
BPM marketing Dashboards
Physical
product
or MS Office
HR
Product service documents
delivery Product
sales
ERP Customer Sales tool
information
PLM CRM

13. Finding information becomes
difficult

14. Sales process example
ERP CRM
Order Offer
”Only way to keep
BPM track on everything
Sales was to have our
process own excel and
powerpoints”
PDM
Portfolio mgmt Test mgmt
Sellable
items Feature
Feature
status
roadmap

15. Maintenance operations
Inhouse DB
Spare
parts ”Installed base
CRM
information is
Customer scattered to too many
information systems”
Case
communication
PDM
Document ERP CAD Drawings
storage
Projects
Documents
Installed base

16. Common solutions for data
visibility

17. Enterprise architectural solutions for data
visibility and usage
Integrating different Enterprise Service Bus Reporting tools
functions together thinking
Reporting interfaces
CRM ERP
ESB Sales
CRM
CRM + ERP +
HR + Sales HR Sales ERP HR

18. Data visibility still remains
challenging

19. Challenges
Information needs keeps changing fast
Tool changes are hard
Information consumers are not key users of
any systems

20. How to serve information
consumers with IT?

21. Key requirements for solution
All important data needs to be available easily
 All information to one common interface
Data integrity must be kept
 Data should remain in the systems that they were
made to
Solution must be open and flexible
It needs to be easy to reconfigure system and add
new systems and UI components to it.

22. Our solution – Contribyte Asset Browser
Bring data to
SharePoint UI
Read live data from
systems
DISCUSSIONS
OR WEB
Combine data CONTENT
together on the fly
Navigate many
systems once Contribyte Asset Browser Server
Enrich knowledge to
the data
ERP CRM Sales HR

23. Example screenshot
Feature status as
Contribyte Asset Browser traffic light
Navigation Product information
Sales report
External link to
standardization
Documents related
Discussions related to the feature
to the product
Similar items

24. Contribyte Asset Browser examples
Deep product data for
service and maintenance
operations
Cost aware HW design
with all relevant data in
one place

25. Contribyte Asset Browser examples
Location information
mixed with related data
for sales
All project information
and statuses with one
sight

26. Thank you!
Juha Karjalainen
COO, Contribyte
Juha.karjalainen@contribyte.fi
0400 855 846
www.assetbrowser.com
www.contribyte.fi