Product data clearing center - Service portal for E-Business

In the wake of E-Business product data management is increasingly becoming important on a cross-company level. An organization's capability of making available high-quality and up-to-date electronic product and service data will constitute a crucial competitive factor. Only consequent application of standardized exchange formats and description models will allow automatic further processing of any kind of transmitted data. Being an E-Business service portal, the Product Data Clearing Center provides a decisive approach to deal with the tasks concerning electronic product information. A reference application for a practical and sector-wide realization and use of a Product Data Clearing Center is the ETIM project within the electrical industry sector in Germany.