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“Delivering PIES Product Content with XML”. PIES. (and other stuff I want to talk about). Doug Winsby. <xml> blah, blah, blah, </xml>…. sby. “I'm a part number and PIES 6.2 was my idea…”. Retailers Demanding PIES Now!. ODBC. ODBC. Sample Data Sources. Find your “data gurus”.
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“Delivering PIES Product Content with XML” PIES (and other stuff I want to talk about) Doug Winsby
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A “Dirty Job” GTIN Prices Hazmat Digital Assets Descriptions Kits Interchanges Stock Status Languages Warranty Life Cycle Packaging Country of Origin
PIM ? Enterprise PIM outputs data sources
Publishing Tool PIES Publishing Tool ? outputs data sources
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DIY Some Challenges: • “Net-change” management • Customer specific outputs • Staying up with Standard
DIY Steps • Identify the data sources. • Establish direct links to those data sources extracting data to intermediate files. • Map data into PIES terminology and reformat to match PIES requirements. • Generate PIES xml from the processed source data. • Provide some means of tracking changes from every file delivered. • Each receiver has different requirements - Customer specific part numbers (brands), product attributes, pricing, languages, etc. • Some customers request flat files with PIES data in various formats.
Industry Terminology, the novel Afterword Technical Vocabulary Consumer Vocabulary B2C B2B
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Matching Data Elements *Not EXIF Tag, but can be extracted from file.