Creating effective product data sheets has in the past been a choice between having something automated but with generic content and is visually dull, or having something more product appropriate in its content and is visually nicer at the expense of automation.

Our solution combines automation, product content specificity and design flexibility.

Product data feeds from a range of sources can be auto paginated to create individual product data sheet PDF’s. Data sources could be product information management systems (PIMs), ERPs, website databases, spreadsheets or a mixture.

Data sheets are typically a combination of descriptive text, images and technical specifications. For many companies the diversity of their products means they are managing hundreds of technical specification fields with each product using a different relevant selection of those. Our solution works out which fields are relevant to each product and just delivers that information to the page. New technical fields can be created in your PIM without having to configure the product data sheet template or the pagination process.

The pagination engine is Adobe InDesign meaning the design capabilities of the world’s leading page layout tool can be leveraged, whilst the automation functionality means you can produce thousands of up-to-date product data sheets in a few minutes and export them straight to PDF, or even choose to tweak a few manually first in InDesign if preferred. Completed data sheets can then be uploaded to marketing portals for partners to access or imported to your PIM and linked to your products as assets or just copied to your web server to be picked up by links from your web pages.