eggheads Suite
Updated on: 2024-02-16
System description eggheads Suite
Revolutionize your Product Communication, create grandiose Product Experience, and secure your competitive edge for the future — achieve all that and more with our software, eggheads Suite.
With our system, you pool and organize all product data and media (images, text, video, and audio files) in a central spot quickly and efficiently — then, you can enrich information and publish it into all marketing and sales channels, be it online shop, social media, or print outlets. eggheads Suite is a PIM software with PXM, MDM, and Publishing modules. Use it to automate processes, boost your efficiency, and provide your customers with a perfect product experience. With eggheads Suite, you pave your company’s path to the future of Product Information.
Initial installation: 1997
Reference customers
For 30 years, we’ve been empowering clients: apra norm, BEGO, Brumberg, CHRIST, Custom Chrome Europe, DELTA-V, DER Touristik, ESCHA Bauelemente, Fraefel, FRIATEC, FTI, G. Thalhofer, Hafermann Reisen, Koziol, L´TUR, MEWA, Müller Licht, OBO Bettermann, OLIMAR, Otto Graf, reichelt elektronik, Block Transformatoren, SAKRET, Steiff, STEINEL Normalien, TUI, Uponor, Wahl Agrar-Versand, WILO SE, Wikinger Reisen, etc.
Media channels (internal / external)
| Internal | External | |
|---|---|---|
| Ja | Ja | |
| Website, webshop | Ja | Ja |
| Online, Mobile | Nein | Ja |
| E-paper | Ja | Ja |
| Apps | Ja | Ja |
| E-books | Nein | Ja |
| Video/Audio | Ja | Ja |
| Nein | Ja | |
| Social media | Ja | Ja |
| Messenger | Nein | Ja |
| Office applications | Nein | Ja |
| Search engines | Ja | Ja |
| Online marketplaces | Ja | Ja |
| Internal | External | |
|---|---|---|
| Ja | Ja | |
| Website, webshop | ||
| Ja | Ja | |
| Online, Mobile | ||
| Nein | Ja | |
| E-paper | ||
| Ja | Ja | |
| Apps | ||
| Ja | Ja | |
| E-books | ||
| Nein | Ja | |
| Video/Audio | ||
| Ja | Ja | |
| Nein | Ja | |
| Social media | ||
| Ja | Ja | |
| Messenger | ||
| Nein | Ja | |
| Office applications | ||
| Nein | Ja | |
| Search engines | ||
| Ja | Ja | |
| Online marketplaces | ||
| Ja | Ja | |
Additional informations on media channels
Multi-Linguality:
Support of Unicode UTF8, manage more than 30 languages for print and online.
Print:
Dynamic templates, logic for automatically adapting to space requirements, dynamic tables, and support for multi-dimensional pivot tables.
Website:
Tailor-made data records for use in various target systems (website, shop, eProcurement, App, …) via export configurator.
Print Catalogs:
Including automatic generation of QR codes, URLs, etc.
Apps:
Web-based app for browsing and presenting content from eggheads Suite.
Digital Data Records:
Including standardized data classifications (e.g. eCl@ss, ETIM, UNSPSC, ProfiCl@ss).
Modules
Product Information Management (PIM Basis)
User-generated object types and attributes
Hierarchical data model
Editor for managing products and product attributes, including data quality management
Links and references
Translation functions
Standalone applicable
Versioning
Archive content and attribute values
Compare versioned content
Reset content
Dynamic Text
Segment text
Prioritize text segments for individual export channels
Automatically adjust text based on space requirements of individual target channels
Imports and Exports
Import and export content and/or meta-data based on BMECat, "cmiData" (XML), DataNorm, xls
Individualizable ODS, CSV, and XML imports
Individualizable XML exports
Dynamic mapping between data model of the system and import/export target
Assortments, Classifications, Pivot Tables
Group up products in assortments
Exports for assortments
Import assortment settings and new products
Create multi-dimensional pivot tables
Product classification (including ETIM, eClass, ProfiClass, UNSPC, etc.)
Print and Publishing
Manual and automatic publishing page generation
Page generator tool
Interactive page editor
Template editor (with user-generated stylesheets)
Page preview
DTP editing
DTP server connectivity
DTP update plugin (e.g. for last-minute changes to data)
Media Asset Management
Manage media assets and text modules
Organize media in folders within a dedicated data model
Editor for managing attributes and meta-data
Media Preview
Language variants for media
Media Search, Duplicate Check, and Media Upload
Full-text search for media and attributes
Put together your own shopping carts
Download media and entire shopping carts
Web-based media upload with attribute editor
Validation, file type conversion, and naming of media
Automated duplicate check
Publication Planning
Plan structure and content of publishing processes
Interactive page preview and editor
Data model for organizing projects, publications, and subordinate objects
Automatic page generation based on Publication Planning
Time management tool
Data Supplier Portal
Define data model of forms (object types, attributes, etc.)
Data collection, validation, and editing
Automatic text generation and export into documents
Definable templates
More modules
Workflows, task management, test systems for training and testing
System basis
| Frontend devices | Desktop PC, notebook, tablet PC, and smartphone |
|---|---|
| Frontend operating systems | Linux, Windows, Mac OS X |
| Frontend web browsers | Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, among other conventional web browsers |
| Frontend technology | Desktop App (Eclipse RCP), Web App (Angular JS, HTML, JavaScript) |
| Server operation systems | Windows, Linux |
| Server technology | Java |
| Webserver | Apache Tomcat |
| PDF engine | PDFlib, InDesign Server, or QuarkXPress Server |
| Database system | MS SQL, Postgres, MongoDB |
| Operating | On provider server or On customer server |
| Frontend devices | |
|---|---|
| Desktop PC, notebook, tablet PC, and smartphone | |
| Frontend operating systems | |
| Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | |
| Frontend web browsers | |
| Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, among other conventional web browsers | |
| Frontend technology | |
| Desktop App (Eclipse RCP), Web App (Angular JS, HTML, JavaScript) | |
| Server operation systems | |
| Windows, Linux | |
| Server technology | |
| Java | |
| Webserver | |
| Apache Tomcat | |
| PDF engine | |
| PDFlib, InDesign Server, or QuarkXPress Server | |
| Database system | |
| MS SQL, Postgres, MongoDB | |
| Operating | |
| On provider server or On customer server | |
Interfaces
| Pre-press and printing | Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPRess |
|---|---|
| Order systems | SAP, MS Dynamics, ABAS, SAGE, among others |
| Databases | Connectivity to any database types via configurable interfaces, DAM systems (e.g. Canto Cumulus) |
| Other | Connectivity to any digital system, such as eCommerce tools, via configurable interfaces (e.g. Magento, Spryker, etc.) |
| Pre-press and printing | |
|---|---|
| Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPRess | |
| Order systems | |
| SAP, MS Dynamics, ABAS, SAGE, among others | |
| Databases | |
| Connectivity to any database types via configurable interfaces, DAM systems (e.g. Canto Cumulus) | |
| Other | |
| Connectivity to any digital system, such as eCommerce tools, via configurable interfaces (e.g. Magento, Spryker, etc.) | |
Licence models
| Costs for system setup | Subscription licence model as SaaS |
|---|---|
| Buying license |
Ja
Purchase licence on request |
| Rental license |
Ja
Depending on the desired modules and the licence term |
| Costs for system setup | |
|---|---|
| Subscription licence model as SaaS | |
| Buying license | |
|
Ja
Purchase licence on request |
|
| Rental license | |
|
Ja
Depending on the desired modules and the licence term |
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