Questudio's Digital Commerce Solutions Manage Product Content Across Channels

Company
Overview
QUESTUDIO Inc. is a leading provider
of turnkey digital commerce solutions
that helps manufacturers, distributors
and catalogers manage product content
efficiently, across various marketing
channels to customers worldwide.
The company offers enterprises Product
Information Management (PIM) and multi-
channel marketing including eCommerce
web catalog solutions.
Questudio’s Digital Commerce Solutions
includes:
• Managing rich product content in one
central repository
• Making accurate product information
accessible to staff across the enterprise
• Providing mechanisms to convey product
knowledge to end-customers using
multiple channels and,
• Enabling the increase of company sales
and marketing performance.
• Enables ready content integration with
back office CRM and Point-of-Sales
systems.
Products
Questudio products are specifically targeted to
manage rich product content, extend market reach
and increase sales. The software products are
offered using perpetual license software models.
PIM
Powerful Product Information Management (PIM)
provides all the features needed to create, manage
and maintain all product content in ONE central
repository.
ecommerce
A flexible, feature-rich platform that gives B2B and
B2C businesses the ability to efficiently develop,
integrate and deploy an eCommerce web catalog.
plugin
A robust plug-in for Adobe InDesign to automate
product catalog page creation and dramatically
reducing the time to publish print pdf catalogs.
portal
Next generation web portal to browse rich product
content, generate catalogs, quotes reports,
run marketing campaigns, and many other things
- complete with a dashboard loaded with useful
information.

Solutions
Manufacturers, Distributors and Retailers are taking
advantage of the multiple channels now available
to market/distribute their products. These channels
include Web, eCommerce, Print, CD, email, Dealers,
Tele-Sales and many other creative ways to reach a
global marketplace.
Product Information Management
• Questudio’s CatalogStudio PIM software and
services enable distributors, manufacturers and
retailers to boost sales by streamlining product
marketing with accurate product information
managed in a central database repository.
eCommerce Web Business
• Seamlessly publish data from your content
database to the web with WebStudio,
Questudio’s feature rich and customizable
ecommerce platform. Allows customers to
find what they want fast and place their order
directly into the ERP system.
Catalog Automation
• Enterprise Product Catalog Automation enables
distributors, manufacturers, and retailers to
boost sales and streamline product marketing
with accurate product information managed in
a central database repository.
Print PDF Publishing
• Accelerate page design with InStudio,
Questudio’s robust plug-in for Adobe InDesign.
Drag and drop text, pictures, tables and product
comparison charts from your content database
right to our pages.
Multichannel Marketing
• Manage rich product information and create
product catalogs, sales collateral, and custom
eCommerce web catalogs to market across all
channels available.
Integrated Systems
• Leverage existing procurement, inventory, order
and customer management systems through an
open architecture PIM and Web solution. We
can develop custom interfaces for ERP / CRM
integration.
Services
Multi-Channel Product Marketing increases
sales by publishing product catalog information
through print, Web, and electronic media.
Custom eCommerce Websites provides secure,
tailored, hosted full-function online presence
including back-office data management
Content Creation Publishing Services
create integrated, normalized, structured central
repository from existing catalog data, then publish
selected content on-demand to multiple media.
Integrated Turnkey Solutions provide
comprehensive catalog content collection, editing,
copywriting, and design/layout services to create
print and Web catalogs.
Testimonials
Art Works Distributor, Canada: You reduced our
catalog production time from 90 days to less than
a week; linking to our database eliminated hours
of revisions for accuracy. Support people worked
tirelessly to ensure our catalog was produced
on time. Questudio stood out from the pack; I
recommend its software without hesitation.
Original Auto Parts Distributor, CA: We investigated
several catalog content management programs
before selecting Questudio. It is very sophisticated,
with much to learn, and very user friendly. No other
program offers such rich features.

Industry’s most flexible catalog solutions
for rich product content management.
CatalogStudio system provides tools to
manufacturers, distributors and retailers
for managing product information,
images,prices,customerinformationand
publish to multiple media using a single,
central repository database.
Streamlines the entire process of capturing the
product and parts information in a single, central
database and publish to Print, PDF, Web, CD and
other electronic media. Information served through
different media is always up-to-date, accurate and
consistent.
Flexible Product Classification
• Product Catalog management for any industry
with unlimited products, groups and categories.
• Customer specific product pricing, unlimited
product technical attributes, images,
attachments, videos and charts.
• Product cross-reference management.
• Compatible with multiple languages, capture
UNICODE characters.
• Search and filter products, text and images.
• Easy interface to create mini or supplemental
catalogs with easy to use flexible product filters
and sorting.
• Quickly generate price list, PDF catalogs using
templates and design your own templates.
• Present your product list in compact tables using
powerful pivot table designer.
Easy User Interface
• Perfected user interface to maintain all aspects
of product sales materials such as price, text,
graphics and attachments.
• Drag and drop support for product assignment.
Data Extraction Import
• Wizard based interface to setup product export
import templates for repeated use.
• Intelligentimportmechanismtoincludeproducts
into the catalog.
• Easily update product price or any product
content.
One Repository - Multiple Channels Output
• Manage product content in a single repository
and publish consistent and accurate product
information to Web, Print, CD and PDF catalogs.
Security, Workflow Integration with ERP
Systems
• Workflow enabled and granular control of
editorial security.
• Web and Windows application with SQL-based
product repository.
• Granular security for product data maintenance.
• Open architecture and API for ERP systems
integration.

plugin
A robust plug-in for Adobe InDesign
to automate product catalog page
creation. Considerably reduces time to
publish catalogs. Simple interface, easy
to learn, get instant productivity.
InStudio Features
AutoFlow to create entire catalog
• True InDesign plug-in system that provides
greater control over page layout.
• Automatically controls and applies fonts, colors,
styles to the data. Saves time and effort for
graphic designers.
• Fast and reliable creation of complex documents.
• Creates regular and complex pivot tables and
applies styles to tables as defined.
• Create and apply custom business rules using in-
built scripting support.
Drag Drop To Create Customized
Catalogs
• Drag and drop data from database to InDesign
pages.
• Preview catalog content before placing on page
layouts.
• Create custom catalogs, smaller catalogs and
flyers without changing the structure of the data.
• Optional Template based page creation to
generate hundreds of pages quickly.
True Bidirectional Data Update
• Update data from database in the page or make a
change in the page and update back to database.
• Works on Mac Windows based InDesign
software.
• Integrated with CatalogStudio.

WebStudio Benefits
• WebStudiocanbeenabledineithereCommerce
or Catalog browse only modes
• Site navigation, page layouts, aesthetics can be
customized in house or as an add-on service to
the base license
• Easy to use product navigation based on
category hierarchy, product families and item
details. Enhance details with images, videos,
documents
• Using CatalogStudio WebSync feature, product
information is always kept in sync with the
website
• WebStudio API’s are available for higher level
customization
• EasyAsk (Partner Product) Natural Language
Search is fully integrated with WebStudio to
provide better search results
Used by Land’s End, GAP, WES, NIH, Chrysler and
many other companies, EasyAsk produces more
sales and increases customer loyalty. Embedded
within WebStudio, EasyAsk software delivers:
• Merchandising analytics
• Cross Sells and Upsells
• Product index scaling and relevancy tuning to
weight searches
• New Websites and PIM technology
• Training, support and resources
ecommerce
WebStudio is a flexible, feature-rich
platform that gives business to business
and business to consumer companies
the ability to quickly deploy a web
store or catalog. WebStudio platform
can be customized and integrated with
the existing IT infrastructure such as
ERP Systems, Order Management, and
Pricing Inventory Systems.
WebStudio Features
• Shopping cart e-commerce
• Credit card purchase orders
• B2B or B2C selling
• Product search browse
• Customizable site look feel
• Order management
• Email notifications
• Buyer group and customized pricing
• QuoteCart
• API for custom integration
• Hosted or installed edition

portal
MarketStudio is a next generation web
portal to browse rich product content,
generatecatalogs,quotesreports,run
marketing campaigns, and many other
things - complete with a dashboard
loaded with useful information.
Useful Features available in
MarketStudio include:
MarketStudio can be a powerful portal application
in many enterprises where sales marketing staff,
product managers and executive management can
take advantage of an easy to use interface to view
and sell products, generate automated catalogs,
run email campaigns and track sales performance.
• User configurable dashboard with items such as
recent reports, frequently viewed products and
categories, product sales metrics, key contacts,
useful links, calendar and many others.
• Browse products in a hierarchy along with all
details. Users can select one of many configured
catalogs.
• Run email campaigns using the built-in email
blaster that can be used for sales marketing
campaigns for selected products.
• Import contacts from CRM systems into
MarketStudio and a manage contacts to help run
campaigns or make sales calls.
• Generate on-demand catalogs, product spec
sheets, sales quotations, purchase orders or
any reports using predefined templates. These
outputs can also be used in marketing campaigns
that can generate revenue.

Content
Creation
Most potentially usable information
originates in an unstructured form. If
your electronic data is unstructured,
the raw content doesn’t translate into
sales. Creating content for print and
web catalogs is a formidable challenge,
one which Questudio can resolve.
Questudio has experience and knowledge relevant
to collection and creating content about your
products for various industries. Our content
management industry experts can deliver what you
want, on time - every time.
Questudio has successfully created content for
such diverse industries as Automotive, Electronics,
Home Furnishings, Stationary, Kitchenware, Health
and Personal Care Products, Computer Industry
and more.
Our services include:
• Data Extraction
• Data Conversion
• Data Mapping
• Data Cleansing and Normalization
Questudio specializes in internet research and
content extraction from websites of manufacturers
and suppliers. Our team will help you convert or
extract product information from various sources,
including existing PDF documents, InDesign, Quark,
or paper documents for use in different marketing
and sales channels. The extracted information will
be stored in a relational database for multi-channel
publishing. Questudio is one of the leading service
providers in the industry, with solid experience in
converting and creating product information for
over 25 different industry types.

A turnkey catalog content conversion,
design, publishing printing service
for catalog owners
Key Features
• Catalogs published to Web, Print or CD
• Upload files online, download PDF’s
• Web based catalog data viewer
Catalog Publishing
Service
• Workflow enabled
• Make changes to catalog data
• Export items to Excel, CSV or PDF
• Quickly search products
• Build price lists
• Catalog page templates
Benefits to Catalog Owners
• Easy to use and requires very little training
• Lower cost of catalog production
• Significantly reduce time to publish
• Increase the number of catalogs produced each
year
• Quality checks data accuracy
• Centralized catalog data, images, templates,
PDF’s
• Expert catalog publishing consultation
• Easily scalable to Questudio’s software suite
How it works
• Quick service activation
• No software to install or purchase
• Custom conversion service
• Web interface for catalog content
• Built-in workflow management
• Free template design service
• Customers review catalog pages and provide
edits
• Questudio will generate Print-Ready-Catalog
• Option to generate supplements, mini-catalogs
or flyers
Increase sales by publishing product
information through Print, Web, and
other electronic media. More methods
reaching consumers equates to more
publicity and more sales.
It can be expensive and time-consuming to try
and put together an in-house program to collect
product information and then design and produce
product catalogs, literature, and flyers. Questudio,
with years of experience can help your business
to manage product information and help create
product catalogs, sales collateral, and simple or
complex eCommerce web sites at a much smaller
expense. It also requires fewer dedicated monetary,
personnel, and temporal resources to create and
maintain simple or complex eCommerce websites.
Questudio knows that online is more than just a
new channel - it is a source of growth and can be
the basis for a new business model.
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Web and
Catalog Design
The design of an eCommerce website is
nearly as important as its functionality.
User experience while viewingproduct
information is crucial to keeping
customers satisfied. Questudio will
help develop eCommerce enabled
web pages with advanced search, easy
navigation and store administration
– all with a custom web design that
exceeds your users expectations.
Questudio’s powerful CatalogStudio adopts a
central repository model where the web catalog is
efficiently linked, thereby bolstering the database
with price, stock, attributes, images, e-downloads,
and other forms of rich content.
User interface on the website with relevant
functionality for the following features will be
meticulously designed.
• 128-bit SSL security
• Store Administration
• Wish Lists
• Shipping Status
• Order Status
• Convenient Check Out
• Different payment options
• Shipping Calculators
• Order History
• Custom product layouts
• Member Login
• Add or delete any web content
• Change the template of your website
• Add or delete web pages
• Optionally search engine compatible
• Unlimited hierarchy levels
• Add dynamic search options
• Assign page protection for designated pages
• Traffic monitoring
While online content is becoming more prevalent,
most industries see the value of the printed catalogs
and other collateral. Many industrial catalogs
such as Grainger Product Catalog are established
standards and are commonly used. Questudio
offers print design along with web design to ensure
the product information is efficiently conveyed for
end-users to take advantage of.

Integration
Services
Open architectures allows Questudio’s
software to seamlessly integrate into
existing ERP, CRM and other systems.
We bring extensive experience
along with tool-kits to bear in all our
integration projects.
Questudio leverages existing procurement,
inventory, order and customer management
systems. Product information often resides in
multiple applications and there is a need to
keep them in sync. Related information such as
inventory and order status are also required to
be displayed on-demand within the website.
In most situations, there is no one method of
integration available. Questudio performs analysis
of customer environment and requirements and
proposes multiple options to choose from. Options
include simple file based integration to real-time
XML based integration depending upon the critical
nature of the information and the frequency of
changes.
Questudio staff have performed integration with
a variety of applications including ERP, CRM,
Inventory and Order Management systems.
Software systems integrated to our software
include SAP, Oracle, and various home-grown
back-office systems used by various customers
The DelDOT Challenge
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stored in multiple systems, PRIMAVERA for project
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all the projects and related information. The report
is created by aggregating the content from these
systems and presenting them in a pre-determined
format. There is also an internal report (long-form)
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for collaboration purposes within the department.
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Case Studies
School-uniform time is one busy season for
parents, children, and last but not the least uniform
manufacturers/designers. One of the pioneers in
School Uniforms in Rhode Island caters to the needs
of hundreds of schools in the United States for their
uniform supplies. During the uniform season, they
send out custom catalogs to their target audience
throughout the country.
Customer contacted Questudio looking for an
efficient way to customize catalogs. They wanted a
system where they would be able to select a school
from the database and within a couple of clicks be
able to generate a mini catalog containing all the
uniform details for Boys Girls from K to 12 grades.
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Clothing Company Creates Custom
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With CatalogStudio’s in-built PDF generator,
creating great-looking mini catalogs is as easy as the
snap of a finger. Once you have a master template
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can select the desired products using the PDF
wizard, choose the appropriate template, and in a
couple of clicks have a mini catalog pop up on the
screen which can be shared, collaborated, emailed,
thereby playing a role of a marketing tool.
Questudio’s Catalog Experts designed a PDF
template for Customer to be able to bind all the
data from CatalogStudio and flow it into report
which would come out in a format as desired by
the company’s marketing team.
Customer stores data in an ERP system which when
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format but in a CSV format. Nine CSV files would be
exported from the system in a data extract, which
were all interlinked. The name of schools would be
coded in one of the CSV files and the actual names
would be mapped on another CSV file. This applied
to prices, images, description as well. They also had
codes to mention whether the prices belong to the
current uniform season or the new uniform season.
This was quite challenging and in order to map
the codes with the related fields, complex stored
procedures had to be written and it went through
an exhaustive round of testing. The below image
gives one an idea of what the content looked like
when it is exported from the ERP system to a CSV
file.
One of the requirements was that they should be
able to clear out all the data from the database
anytime a fresh import was done and only retain
the data from the latest import as prices are
constantly changing. This was done in a jiffy by the
database experts in Questudio.
At the end of the project, it was a job well done
for Questudio and a step ahead for the Customer’s
marketing team.
Making Mini Catalogs Is A Simple
Two-Step Process

DelDOT
Case Study
Industry - Government
Customer
State of Delaware’s Department of Transportation
(DelDOT) provides a safe, efficient, and
environmentally sensitive transportation network
that offers a variety of convenient and cost-effective
choices for the movement of people and goods.
Technology
Microsoft .Net, MS SQLServer, Oracle Financials
System, Primavera System.
Challenge
The State of Delaware’s Department of Transportation
publishes annually, a Capital Transportation Program
(CTP) report which is a catalog with program details
related to all the Road, Bridge and Rail projects carried
out within the State. The data for these projects are
being stored in multiple systems, PRIMAVERA for
project details and FACTS for financial details related
to each project. These systems are ORACLE based
database systems that are being used to manage
all the projects and related information. The report
is created by aggregating the content from these
systems and presenting them in a pre-determined
format. There is also an internal report (long-form)
that is being generated using the same data used
for collaboration purposes within the department.
DelDOT has been using traditional methods such as
spreadsheets to create this 800 page CTP report. This
method consumed 4 to 6 months of intense effort
and there were always errors involved in aggregating
the content and performing calculations of financial
data to present in the report.
DelDOT wanted a database driven system to replace
their current manual process, which would enable
them to automate the reporting process and make it
error free. They wanted an in house system to produce
the CTP report and plan to use the same database to
effectively produce CD-based report and provide web
access to the project details in the future. The web
access when implemented will offer all interested
parties, the ability to view all transportation projects
online, thereby creating more visibility.
The project data and financial data will be managed
in PRIMAVERA and FACTS Oracle systems and they
wanted an interface to be built to load this data on a
periodic basis to create CTP and Long Form reports.
Solution
QuestudiohasimplementeditsCatalogStudiosolution
for publishing the CTP report. Plans for CD and web
publishing are under consideration. A key part of the
system is the integration of the CatalogStudio solution
with the ORACLE-based systems in-place at DelDOT.
Questudio’s technical team worked very closely with
the customer’s IT team and defined the integration
requirements, developed the interface design and
implemented the data integration necessary for the
success in producing the very critical CTP report.
Using “data loader” module, information from
different systems is easily loaded into the
CatalogStudio database. The data load can be done
on demand from the source systems. Using pre-
built templates, the entire report of 800 pages is
created with the current content within minutes.
Multiple templates have been provided to enable the
customer to create reports in different formats along
with pictures and maps of the proposed project. For
example, the long-form report provides the ability to
review the reports and make corrections, well before
the final CTP report is published.
The Result
Using CatalogStudio, the customer is now being able
to create accurate reports with higher efficiencies.
This has significantly improved the previous process
that used to take 4 to 6 months. Since all the data is
being imported electronically into CatalogStudio, user
errors are avoided and the automation of the reports
avoids calculation or formatting errors. With a central
repository of content the customer can consider
providing web access to transportation project details
in the State of Delaware.
State of Delaware’s Department of Transportation
uses Questudio’s CatalogStudio to manage
transportation project content and publish the
Capital Transportation Program (CTP) report on an
annual basis.

ICD
Case Study
Industrial Controls Distributors Successfully
Juggles Specification Schemas From Over 100
Manufacturers
Creating the first edition of a 1,200 page printed
catalog is a daunting task. Creating a technical
catalog containing a wide range of products
manufactured by over 100 partners, each with their
own unique information schemas, is even more
complex. As catalog content manager Kathleen
Lippencott described, “It seems that our products
not only looks different, but they all require a
different approach for storing and presenting the
data. Some products required configuration, some
required dimensional drawing libraries, and some
required multidimensional charts.
ICDapproachedQuestudioin2009withalistoftheir
most popular 100,000 SKUs. The specifications and
advertising materials for the products was scattered
all over the organization in engineering books,
internal and external websites, CDs, PCs, and in
loose specification sheets. ICD wanted to organize
the information into one central repository, which
would then be used to drive their catalog, website,
and internal information needs.
“Our products are engineered,” said Lippencott. “It
really takes someone with solid background in our
industry to understand what goes into selecting and
configuring a product. With Questudio’s specific
expertise in this area, we were able to simplify and
standardize our product selection data.”
Questudio’s Product Information Management
(PIM) experts were able to identify patterns that
existed across different sources of content.
During the information architecture phase of the
project, Questudio sampled products from every
product category and manufacturer. The goal was
to define the format in which data would be stored,
how the fields would be labeled with standardized
labels, and which design templates would be used
for catalog and website pages.
By assigning attributes to products, or by listing
them in an attribute table, one can differentiate
between them. When integrating products from
multiple manufacturers into one system, the
attributes and values had to be standardized. For
example, one manufacturer assigned “Feedback”
attributes to products while another assigned
“Output” attributes. Since these are essentially
the same thing, a common convention had to be
applied so that they could be combined in one
table or search.
In September of 2010, ICD delivered their first
full-line catalog to their existing customers in the
pharmaceutical, food, power, wastewater, and
commercial HVAC markets. The response from
customers was tremendous.

EDI
Case Study
A major Industrial Tools supplier situated on
the east coast chose Questudio’s CatalogStudio
(PIM) to manage its content and WebStudio to
publish the contents in their new website. One of
the requirements for the new website was that
WebStudio should have the ability to communicate
with Eclipse EDI to synchronize the ordering
system. For this Questudio had to do an integration
between Eclipse and WebStudio
Questudio’s Service team expedited the content
extraction work from various websites provided
by the customer and the same was organized
in a structured way in CatalogStudio. Once
this was completed, Questudio’s WebStudio
implementation team connected to the database
where the data was stored and created a link
between the new website and the database. The
User Interface was designed by the creative team
and handed over for implementation in
parallel.
Once the website was setup using WebStudio’s
templates and engine, the team went ahead and
configured the admin module for Customer This
is where the integration between Eclipse and
WebStudio took place.
Questudio’s WebStudio has a in-built inventory
management system which manages the inventory
of products in the website. Once customers browse
through the website, they have an option to shop
online using the shopping cart by logging in using
their unique ID. Once customers are done with
their shopping and have submitted their order,
WebStudio will generate an order in the form
prescribed by EDI and place it the FTP provided
and display the status as ‘Order Placed’ in the order
history panel.
EDI in turn checks the FTP every 5 mins and sees
if there are any new orders. On receipt of a new
order placed in the FTP by WebStudio, Eclipse
takes it for further processing. Once the order has
been accepted by Eclipse a response is sent back
to WebStudio with the status as “Order Confirmed”
and subsequently “Order Shipped”
On a run-time basis, constant interaction takes
place between EDI and WebStudio to see if any
orders are placed or processed and displays the
information in the website accordingly. Integrating
EDI with WebStudio was done seamlessly with the
support of the customer and web-implementation
team.
Questudio Integrates Eclipse EDI with
WebStudio for Industrial Tools Supplier
Eclipse EDI and Questudio’s WebStudio
EDI
Case Study

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