inriver: a cloud-based PIM system that scales with your needs

With inriver's PIM solution, you can focus on centralizing and organizing product data to ensure consistency and efficiency throughout the supply chain. This means that you do not have to spend resources on thinking about operations, maintenance of hardware and IT security.

A well-configured PIM system should be a so-called "single source of truth" for product data. This is where your salespeople, marketing department, product managers and e-commerce team work with product data - whether it is enrichment, structuring or publishing product data.

An inriver solution will always be an empty, unconfigured shell when you first log into the system. To support different business needs, inriver has a number of add-ons and features that you can activate as needed.

In other words, your use of inriver can be customized to your business needs, and you are never forced to decide on or use features you don't need.

Featured features and add-ons in inriver

Many of inriver's add-ons and special features are only relevant in special cases. Of the most noteworthy, we would like to highlight:

• Syndicate: inriver makes it easy to map your data model with the most common marketplaces (e.g. Amazon and eBay). This is done in the Syndicate interface, where you create data mappings for the channels you want to use.
  • Syndicate can also be used to publish data to FTP, Azure blobs, and other common formats
  • Syndicate makes it possible to deliver your inriver data to your partners from a structured data source
• Planner: With the Planner tool, you have the opportunity to do campaign planning directly in inriver. Planner is a visual interface for organizing and scheduling products by campaign. In the tool, you can involve members of your teams at relevant points in the process.
• SupplierOnboarding: With SupplierOnboarding, you get the tools to support a process where your suppliers are given the opportunity to upload data directly to inriver. The SupplierOnboarding tool has a built-in validation flow that makes it easy for you to control what data is loaded into your PIM system
  • SupplierOnboarding allows both uploading of product data and files (e.g. images and documents)

• Content Store/Brand Store: inriver's Content and Brand Store concept works as a "mini-marketplace" that is built directly on top of your product data in inriver. With Brand and Content stores, you can design and create tailored quick views of selected product data directly in inriver.
  • Content/Brand Stores can help your sales reps make sharp presentations of relevant data
  • With Content/Brand Stores, you can quickly select and present a limited amount of product data, without building new channels, catalogs, etc.
• Print (EasyCatalog): At PicoPublish, we have developed a print module that makes catalog production with data from inriver easy. Our print module displays data from your inriver publications (channels) in a feed that EasyCatalog (indesign) grabs. This means you can to update ALL your product data in the catalog with a single click - completely automatically.

Implementing additional features in inriver helps improve your data quality, reduce errors, increase productivity, and strengthen your ability to deliver consistent product information across all your sales channels.

In 2024, the company with the best product data wins the sale.

Inriver's PIM solution helps you stage your products in the most attractive way to your customers. Inriver's PIM system is a modern cloud solution that supports efficient management of product data.

Inriver's ambition is to be the leading SaaS solution in the PIM category. Inriver recently joined the MACH alliance, which means that inriver is committed to delivering a product that can be part of a forward-looking IT architecture.

Whether you sell your products in an app, to private consumers via a webshop, to other companies, or via catalogues, your customers expect to be able to access a sufficient amount of information for them to make an informed purchase decision.

Therefore, if your competitor has better pictures, more comprehensive product descriptions, a better presentation of the product's features and they generally tell the best story about the product - well, then you risk losing the sale to a competitor.

A PIM solution from inriver gives you the freedom to build the data architecture you need to market and sell your products.

No matter what type of products you sell, inriver's flexible architecture allows you to import, enrich, organize, and publish product data in the format and quality that your customers demand.

A flexible and "elastic" data model that supports your needs

In inriver, all your product data is stored and structured in a structure that inriver calls "the elastic data model".

The model is built up of flexible data building blocks, each of which can be customized with the fields, lists, categories and mutual dependencies between each other that constitute your product catalog.

No matter what product types and variants you sell, and no matter what data fields, media and file types these products and variants contain, inriver can be configured to meet your processes and needs.

This allows you to work in a structured and efficient way with your product data in a user-friendly interface.

Onboarding and sharing of product data usually requires the development of a number of integrations to other IT systems (e.g. ERP systems, e-commerce systems and various supplier data sources).

inriver is born with a number of standard connectors for systems such as SAP, Magento, commercetools and DigiZuite, as well as standard feeds (also called Syndications) for major shopping channels such as Amazon and eBay.

Onboard your products automatically, manually - or get your suppliers to do it

With inriver's PIM solution, you can onboard your product data in many different ways.

Manual, hand-carried onboarding of product data takes place directly in the inriver interface, where enrichment can be done product-by-product, in bulk or via the import function in inriver.

If you need to retrieve data from your own IT systems, we typically develop one or more integrations that transfer your product data data via inriver's API.

Let your suppliers deliver data directly to inriver

If your suppliers can provide structured data, inriver has a standard feature called "SupplierOnboarding portal" that makes it possible to create enrichment forms that your suppliers can fill in and upload directly to inriver.

Before the data is published, you will have the opportunity to validate the uploaded supplier data directly in inriver.

Once you have achieved the desired level of enrichment and data quality on your products, it's time to organize and distribute your products in your channels.

Whether you publish your products to one or more webshops, in a catalogue, in an app or something completely different, inriver supports your work with the distribution of product data.

Organize your product data in custom channels

With inriver, you have the opportunity to create as many channels and data streams as you need - no matter what platform or format you need to publish to.

Each channel you create allows you to set up special business rules for when the contained products should be published (e.g. conditional on enrichment) and to link metadata feeds to the channels that your channel contains.

Fit the data output to the selected channel

A typical example of the diversity of channels can be seen when we look at a catalogue versus a webshop.

The catalogue typically needs a very high quality image (300dpi), but only a few data fields, as the printed medium has a physical limitation.

The webshop, on the other hand, will be able to manage with a lower quality image (72 dpi), as speed and data consumption are important parameters for the good user experience. The webshop, on the other hand, will be able to present much more data, as there is no physical limitation on the display format in a browser.

This allows you to reuse the same products and product data across channels, while at the same time setting up filtering and rules for approval and publishing of products in one place.

With PicoPublish as your inriver partner, you get the necessary advice to ensure that you reach your e-commerce ambitions.\nWe help you with:

• Building a data model that supports your needs in your work with product data
• To provide the necessary integrations that move data in and out of your inriver solution
• To make the necessary transition in your organization that ensures good processes for working with product data
• To build a data engine that ensures your customers the best possible experience of your brand and products.