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Why InQuera?
InQuera transforms raw, "Tower-of-Babel" product data, obtained from disparate sources and different media into concise, industry-neutral, and uniformly-structured product content. InQuera delivers a single, standardized product database enabling cost-effective and efficient procurement. Download (PDF 209kB)

InQuera: The Perfect Partner for SAP® MDM Projects
As the former content division of A2i, developers of xCat (now SAP MDM), InQuera has unrivalled experience in the SAP MDM platform, ensuring that SAP System Integrators invest minimum resources and management attention while reaping maximum success. Download (PDF 63kB)

Basic Concepts of Normalized and Structured Product Data
Structured and normalized product data is essential in understanding your data. At the core of meaningful data lies the taxonomy: the categories, attributes, and attribute values. Download (PDF 475kB)

InQuera Central Repository (ICR)
ICR is the single, central, database-driven repository that contains InQuera's MRO product content, aggregated from multiple manufacturers. ICR is structured for manipulation into automated, cross-media, virtual and print catalogs. Download (PDF 189kB)

Case Studies

Mastering the Challenge of Product Data Consolidation
The project's goal was to consolidate a product inventory of about 100,000 stock keeping units (SKUs), stored in four different databases, formats, and languages utilizing DataRefiner — a high-performance data refinement solution that transforms dirty data into high-quality master data. Download (PDF 92kB)

Articles

Driving Supply Chain Optimization through Data Refinement
A supply chain focuses on moving products from suppliers to customers. But its success depends on knowing exactly what products you have in stock, where you can purchase materials, what you need to manufacture, and where they are located. Poor product data hampers SCM initiatives — and you might never know why! Download (PDF 45kB)

Data Refinement Solves Product Data Dilemma
How does a global company with disparate purchasing departments in different locations go about unifying its product data? When the data is located in different sources, consolidating data is an extremely complex, time-consuming, and labor-intensive task, especially when the product information is unclear, inconsistent, and incomplete. Download (PDF 267kB)

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