CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
10 January 2012
Product News
Tribold Begins 2012 With New EPM Product Release
Tribold announced the latest release of their Enterprise Product Management software solution: Tribold EPM version 5.1™.
As Tribold continues to acquire more customers, and now manages over US$64b of products and services on the Tribold EPM platform, offering the most advanced product management capability continues to be a company imperative.
Tribold EPM v5.1 is feature rich release to further extends the application’s footprint around the operational management of products as they change through the lifecycle and the impact those changes have on downstream environments and systems.
Examples of key Tribold EPM v5.1 enhancements include the following:
Product Data Publishing
• The Tribold Product Data Publisher (PDP) capability, new to v5.1, allows one to configure a number of target destinations to which data in the catalog can be published before it is ready for launch. For example, if the user has multiple environments for Development, Test and Production, he/she can choose to publish to each of these environments at any given time. One can also configure which types of entities can be published to which targets and by whom. The objective of the PDP is the ability to test changes before they are formally launched.
Rules
• Configurable Workflow, introduced in the Tribold EPM v5.0 release, now formally underpins the Tribold Rules solution in v5.1, providing the following added benefits:
o Perform XPath validation at more points in the workflow
o Visually design more complex validation logic
o Call Web services for validation against external data and the triggering of external processes
o More targeted messaging to help identify problem data
• New Abstract Class has been introduced to improve rules definition and management, establishing reusable data patterns for Configurable Attributes and for a wide range of Rules Categories, including availability, cross-sell, up-sell, dependencies, compatibility, serviceability
Mass Data / Change Management
• Changeset Groups and Bulk Status update functionality have been introduced to support change management on a global scale in the catalog, streamlining and simplifying changes across projects
• Users are able to manage and coordinate changes across marketing programs/promotions, IT release cycles and parallel product change / launch initiatives
Catherine Michel, Tribold CTO and co-founder is justifiably enthusiastic about the release: “We put so much time and effort into making sure our solution is in tune with CSPs’ critical product management requirements. V5.1 represents some of our best work to date, addressing key pain points in our customers PLM and product MDM operations.
Tribold EPM™ is based on a Centralized Product & Service Catalog (CPC) and a Product & Service Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Dramatic improvements in product management performance enable CSPs to drive increased profit by reducing time to market, decreased cost to market, increased quality of the product management process and increased ability to support product and service innovation.
Today, Tribold EPM manages over US$64b of products and services for our customers. Headquartered in London, and with offices in North America and Asia, Tribold was founded in 2003 and is privately held.
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