Content management is key to e-commerce system

By Staff -- Purchasing, 11/18/1999

SciQuest.com is an Internet-based e-commerce Web site where buyers of scientific products can quickly and efficiently purchase all their supply needs. Essentially, SciQuest.com replaces dozens--or more--of paper catalogs with a one-stop, e-commerce system that can save buyers of scientific products for the laboratory lots of time and money.

However, any online purchasing system of this type simply cannot work well without an efficient system for managing catalog content. Product data in printed catalogs is not organized for e-commerce; creating, managing, and distributing such content can be a slow, costly, and generally inefficient process. For such a system, SciQuest turned to Requisite Technology.

Requisite's content management system services rapidly and seamlessly converts data from suppliers into commerce-ready information. Requisite offered SciQuest a comprehensive suite of services that support creation, maintenance, and management of SciQuest's electronic product information. Through a mix of technical capabilities and community authoring services, Requisite created a unified catalog that combines a range of suppliers and products into a single electronic catalog.

"Requisite's content conversion and community management capabilities are unsurpassed in their sophistication and understanding of how e-commerce works," says SciQuest's Lyle Brecht.

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