Hosted Product Content Management ** FREE TRIAL PERIOD **

Apsiva launches new hosted service for its Product Content Management solutions

Chicago, IL - June, 22 2001 - Supplier product content is increasingly being recognized as the fuel and catalyst for successful B2B initiatives. But the task of digitizing, structuring and managing complex product content on a daily basis is enormous without the aid of appropriate Product Content Management tools.

Apsiva VP of Business Development, Brian Chan, highlights the current constraints: " B2B has not reached saturation or maturity levels because small to medium sized suppliers are often barred from participating in online exchanges and marketplaces due to high implementation costs and technology complexities. "

With the sharp downturn in the economy and increasing pressures on bottom-line revenues and cost savings, how do small to medium sized suppliers, with limited financial and technical resources, get access to Product Content Management tools that will allow them to maintain and structure their product content that can be shared with other online marketplaces and exchanges ?

Apsiva has addressed this problem with its APSIVA-CATALOG HOSTING service. For an initial setup cost and monthly subscription fee, suppliers get access to a powerful client application that is linked to a central hosted service at Apsiva.

Subscribers to the system get access to a wide variety of Product Content Management functionality, including:
- Product Classification Management
- Product Content Management
- Import and export between spreadsheets
- Highly scalable to millions of SKUs, hundreds of product attributes and hundreds of users

Apsiva also provides additional complementary services, such as:
- Data Digitization services to convert legacy product data (e.g. paper and text-based catalogs) to structured and classified product content
- Functionality to allow suppliers to publish their products a variety of formats like XML, to online marketplaces of their choice

Mr. Chan notes: " Our hosted solution offers tremendous strategic benefit to suppliers, including... a highly COST EFFECTIVE solution, QUICK IMPLEMENTATION, NO IT MAINTENANCE HEADACHES and automatic access to the LATEST VERSIONS. "

Depending on the customization requirements and complexities (e.g. number of SKUs, users and workflow setup), customers pay a once-off set-up fee and a monthly subscription fee.

APSIVA-CATALOG HOSTING is a solution that can also be customized and deployed for a specific online marketplace or exchange to better manage their suppliers' product content.

For a limited time, the company is offering a two month single user FREE TRIAL ACCESS to the service. To sign up, users should register at http://www.apsiva.com/apsiva_catalog_hosting.html">www.apsiva.com/apsiva_catalog_hosting.html

Should you require further information please visit http://www.apsiva.com">www.apsiva.com or send an e-mail to info@apsiva.com.