Overview PartsRiver-SAQQARA technologies and services address the challenges of managing and maintaining very high data quality within Internet-driven enterprises, with a range of industry-specific data services provided to clients to fit their specific needs. Our products address:

• Transferring experience, knowledge and know how from peoples’ heads to technology systems or platforms
• Reference data management and mapping
• Item master management and data mapping
• Item master or reference data integration and data synchronization (with internal data sources, suppliers, providers)
• Data services (ongoing): process development, monitoring and updating item master data, consulting, training, development, reporting

IMM Suite

The Item Master Management (IMM) Suite is core to all of PartsRiver-SAQQARA's Service Offerings. It consists of the following proprietary PartsRiver-SAQQARA components:

• Grader
• Taxonomy manager
• Reference DB manager
• Data classifier (VMRS codes, industry solutions)
• Collaborative workflow manager
• Data normalizer
• Ongoing data quality management services
• Supplier manager
• Knowledge transfer

PARTSRIVER-SAQQARA SERVICES

Data Quality Assessment Services
PartsRiver-SAQQARA can evaluate and improve the quality of product information for applications ranging from e-Procurement systems to ERP systems. Our Data Quality Assessment Service focuses on driving ultimate savings from e-procurement by maximizing user adoption and ensuring quality data. When a client engages PartsRiver-SAQQARA through our Data Quality Assessment Services, PartsRiver-SAAQARA will focus on identification of any anomalies in a client's item master data, and will also provide a suggested course of action to remedy any anomalies discovered. Our clients have saved significant sums of money through our analysis and consolidation of their supplier and item master data.

Taxonomy Development Services
A taxonomy is a structured way to organize item master data. A well-defined taxonomy has several advantages: a subject matter expert always knows where to put a part; a buyer always knows where to find a part and has the ability to do a quick, detailed comparison of similar parts; and it is the most efficient search structure for the part. PartsRiver-SAQQARA has deep taxonomy development expertise across various industries.

The PartsRiver-SAQQARA Taxonomy Development Service builds client-specific taxonomy for data classification and search, building an optimum taxonomy based on reference industry taxonomies, sourcing data analysis to identify the key areas to which the products belong (i.e., electronics, furniture, computers, office…etc.); and deciding which elements of the item master data are fields, category-specific attributes or hierarchies, and provides a collaborative technology platform to enable SMEs, buyers and data content experts to build and maintain a taxonomy on an ongoing basis.

Reference Database Development & Subscription Services
PartsRiver-SAQQARA routinely develops reference databases for clients. With this service, we develop an industry specific reference database for data cleansing and subscription use, including the following data quality management components:

• Updates to pricing and dynamic pricing
  
• Cross-reference of obsolete and superceded items
  
• Definition of business rules
  

A well defined reference database will significantly cut down on the time and effort required for ongoing data quality management.

Collaborative Data Quality Services
With PartsRiver-SAQQARA's Collaborative Data Quality Services, clients receive what we call "End-to-End" data quality management services. We cover the following components of data quality management for clients with this Service Offering:

• Supplier / manufacturer rationalization / normalization
• Taxonomy adjustments
• Database configuration, organization
• Relationships / cross-references, including supercedes, obsoletes
• Customer specific business rules
• Primary reports
• Cleansed descriptions

Ongoing Data Quality Services

PartsRiver-SAQQARA is unique in its ability to provide ongoing data quality management services to clients. This includes auditing, monitoring, profiling of data, the provision of metrics, and a client-visible dashboard, providing access to data metrics. Continuous, real-time price updates, cross-reference, superceded and obsolete item updates are also maintained, as is the onboarding of new suppliers, and the updating of business rules and taxonomies, new products and off-catalog purchases. A basic tenant of this service is to offer our clients ongoing data quality compliance monitoring and knowledge transfer.

INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC DATA CLASSIFICATION SERVICES

VMRS parts Classification services
PartsRiver-SAQQARA is an authorized provider of Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards (VMRS) codes, authorized by the American Trucking Association and the Technology Maintenance Council, and the leading provider of quality parts data and analytics services for the transportation supply chain. Other templates area available for:

UNSPSC code classification services The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code® (UNSPSC®) provides an open, global multi-sector standard for classification of products and services. PartsRiver-SAQQARA offers USPSC code classification services.

Maintenance, repair and operations parts classification services
Whether a client is developing a data quality management strategy for OEM parts, component parts, service parts, or other inventory, PartsRiver-SAQQARA can help.

Delivery Options
We deliver our technologies to our clients in the manner that is most convenient for each client, providing:

• Easy-to-use management and visibility tools that ensure content management teams work efficiently and effectively
• Workflows that rigorously enforce our proven processes
• Reference databases of product classifications and taxonomies, rationalized vendor manufacturer names, and product and attribute information
• Normalization and cleansing tools
• A Taxonomy Manager that provides a controlled environment to maintain and manage your taxonomy, including impact analysis of considered changes
• Tools and processes for the ongoing maintenance and improvement of item master data, as parts are changed and new items are added to the database

Hosted Model
The PartsRiver-SAQQARA Hosted Model consists of a subscription-based plan that allows clients to leverage PartsRiver-SAQQARA's own hosting and data maintenance capabilities in the development, management and maintenance of new data quality initatives. Our Hosting Model incorporates hosting and data maintenance fees for the term of each client contract.

The Advantages of PartsRiver's Hosted Model:

• Rapid development and deployment
• Lower ongoing internal support costs because you don't need an internal team of IT people and developers to support ongoing work. All support needs are managed by PartsRiver's hosting facility and team.
• Proven, tested, stable development and deployment environment.
• Gives you greater flexibility to make internal operational/process changes or adjustments, calibrating to a stable deployment model instead of having to create that environment using internal resources.

License Model
For clients who wish to license certain components of PartsRiver-SAQQARA's technologies, we offer a License Model.

The Advantages of PartsRiver's License Model:

• Reduced administration and operational costs.
• Legal compliance for your organization under a customized multi-user plan.
• Define support and maintenance requirements up front for the long term.

Custom Solutions Development
Custom Solutions Development is done for clients with very large data quality initiatives to deploy, manage, and maintain. PartsRiver-SAQQARA functions as both the team lead and strategic advisor to clients requiring custom PartsRiver-SAQQARA solutions, often deploying teams on-site to support client requirements for extended periods of time.

Custom Solutions are almost required for companies dealing with data quality challenges. In most companies, supplier and item master data is entered and maintained in one or more ERP, procurement, maintenance, PLM, inventory and other legacy systems. Consistency and synchronization between the various instances of the data are typically nonexistent as each system, location and user group uses different data standards, naming conventions, and classification taxonomies. The problem grows exponentially over time as underlying systems and users change and evolve. Duplicate entries, incomplete records and out of date information become too commonplace. As a result, it is difficult or impossible to manage inventory effectively, compare alternate sources of supply, analyze spend, ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, integrate new company acquisitions and implement or upgrade ERP systems such as SAP and Oracle. It requires a coordinated effort to address handling this kind of scenario, which many companies are unprepared to handle on their own.

Catalog Search Services
PartsRiver-SAQQARA offers catalog navigation and search capabilities using our unique, award-winning and patented StepSearch® technology. Thanks to the step by step technique of StepSearch, users never get a "no match" result. StepSearch allows users to quickly narrow the search results to a single product then view a detailed datasheet of the selected product, or compare a few products side by side.

Diamond Search^TM - Next Generation Product Search
PartsRiver is proud to introduce a new way to find the right product that fits your needs. Until now, you had to constantly switch between a search screen where you select the desired features and a product screen where you see the features of a product. With Diamond Search you always see a product screen and you can pick the features you want on the same screen.

The Diamond Search "diamonds" quickly rank the features you have selected. At a glance, you see the profile of the displayed product by looking at the different Diamond Ranks of its features. For example, a 400GB hard disk attribute of a laptop will have a have a higher Diamond Rank than a 200GB attribute. You can also refine your search by clicking on the diamonds or the feature names to select different options.

It's easier to browse products using Diamond Search than in the store with the added value of selecting criteria, Diamond Ranks, and comparison tables.

Sellers increase their chance of selling their products by always showing the buyer a product with its profile details and allowing the buyer to select criteria on the same screen instead of switching to a selection screen.

Click here to take a test drive of Diamond Search. We would love your feedback, so feel free to send us an email and tell us what you think.