Product Information Management (PIM)

The Icecat Product Information Manager (PIM) is provided as a cloud service and is designed for large-scale management of rich product catalogs. The Icecat PIM can handle millions of multimedia product data-sheets. It not only supports product and category managers for updating and maintaining product data-sheets, but is also a secure syndication platform to provide (authorized) partners with the product data they need.

Synonyms of PIM: PDM (Product Data Management) and PCM (Product Content Management). The Icecat PIM includes full support for DAM (Digital Asset Management) and MAM (Media Asset Management).

Your free vendor central
The Icecat PIM can be connected to Icecat as a source, and also to other original vendor sources. The Icecat PIM can also be the free vendor central for all your suppliers, where they can manually enter and upload product data if they don't have a standardized feed available. It can include basic logistic information from distributors and other suppliers in the channel. It can help enrich this data on the basis of original manufacturer sources. Standardization can be enforced by mapping categories, features, feature values and brand names.

Supporting multilingual editor processes
The web-based Icecat PIM is designed to support large editor teams, simultaneously working on the multimedia product database. Typical editor work involves the maintenance of mappings, entering and standardizing product data-sheets, and managing data definitions.

Open Catalog Interface
Icecat PIM's Open Catalog Interface has become an industry XML standard for the secure syndication of product data-sheets to channel partners, including etailers, comparison websites, distributors traditional retailers, etc.