

Overview
SkuDB is a purpose-built product information design platform that includes the following features and functionalities:
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Scalable environment supports 1,000,000+ SKUs and 100+ users
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Attribute & metadata management
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Pre-configured analytics and KPI reporting
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Multi-tier data model (e.g., base-variant)
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Preview mode & data visualization
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Integrated issue tracking
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Intuitive mappings & ontologies
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High-accuracy, customizable autoclassification
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Easy exports & imports
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Data normalization functionalities
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Product description optimization
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QA & data quality management
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Thesaurus & preferred term dictionary
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Style guideline management



Taxonomy Design
Creating, deleting, copying, moving, and mapping hierarchies is simple in SkuDB. A few clicks are all that is required to create new hierarchies, categories, polyhierarchy, and metadata. Users have complete control over taxonomy design and classification in an intuitive and customizable interface, whether designing a master attribution hierarchy, an e-commerce navigation hierarchy, or both.
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Taxonomy management is intuitive and straightforward in SkuDB, whether designing a master hierarchy for ERP/PIM, a navigation hierarchy for e-commerce, or both. Quickly access hierarchy analytics, open design issues, reports, exports, or a preview mode, all from a simple drop-down.

Simple Exports + Integrations
An easy-to-use and configurable export & integration portal allows data to be loaded to target applications (e.g., PIM, DAM, CMS, ERP) in industry-standard portable interchange formats.

Configurable Layout
SkuDB makes managing attributes and related metadata easy. Global attributes, category-specific attributes, navigation attributes, product detail page (PDP) attributes and table attributes can all be managed with flexible interfaces that allow users to customize the metadata fields and values required for a project. Attribute analytics are available through a customizable reporting interface, and style guidelines and issues can be tracked at the attribute level, which makes data governance and stewardship more precise and efficient.

Attribute & Schema Management
SkuDB makes managing attributes and related metadata easy. Global attributes, category-specific attributes, navigation attributes, product detail page (PDP) attributes and table attributes can all be managed with flexible interfaces that allow users to customize the metadata fields and values required for a project. Attribute analytics are available through a customizable reporting interface, and style guidelines and issues can be tracked at the attribute level, which makes data governance and stewardship more precise and efficient.


Reporting & Analytics
The integrated reporting dashboard provides metrics and analytics about categories, attributes, attribute values, descriptions and items. A report wizard allows users to generate ad hoc reports. SkuDB includes reports on data accuracy, data completeness, and rules violations, and can be configured to report in multiple contexts (by product, by attribute, by category, by business unit, by brand, etc.).
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SkuDB provides reporting and metrics out of the box that would take months or are impossible in some PIM and ERP systems (attribute fill rates, hierarchy design metrics, data quality violations, dictionary violations, tokenized reports, etc.).
Autoclassification
SkuDB’s AI-driven autoclassification functionality is built-in and designed specifically for product classification. It's practical and provides straightforward category suggestions with probabilities. Category suggestions are color coded by probability, and users can customize indexing, exclusions, and integrate user-specified mapping rules for increased relevancy and accuracy.
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When ERP and PIM systems lack autoclassification capabilities, SkuDB can be used as a pre-ERP or pre-PIM onboarding platform.


Data Quality Management
Data quality requires a concert of workflows and analytics. SkuDB includes powerful, flexible data quality tools purpose-built for teams managing product information. Key metrics (e.g., attribute fill rates) and reports (e.g., items per category) are available out of the box, and key tasks like rules violations or classification are automated or AI-assited.
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A built-in Data Quality module allow users to define complex data quality rules, build controlled vocabularies, and check violations against specific data elements or the entire dataset.
Multi-Tier Data Model
Multi-tier data models (e.g., base-variant) enable efficiencies in data maintenance and product findability. They are often an important element of design and an important factor in onboarding.
SkuDB features a flexible-depth multi-tiered data model, and can handle product families, size variants, color variants, and three-tiered models, configurable products, tables, you name it... maintaining content and inheritance rules at each tier.


Intelligent Search
Intelligent search requires clean data structured in search-engine-specific formats, whether that is a hierarchy, navigation filters, product descriptions, attribute indexing, redirects, thesauri, or a knowledge graph. SkuDB optimizes product information for popular search platforms and helps drive increased conversion rates through search relevancy and findability improvements.
Metadata Management
Metadata allows users to meet critical business requirements and maintain key governance and reference content. SkuDB allows flexible, customizable metadata management throughout the application, including definitions, help text, customizable value lists (i.e., code sets), customizable default values, and flexible labelling and sequencing.
