Communication Equipment Vendors

Product Data Management for Manufacturers

Product managers at network equipment companies work in virtual pressure cookers. A number of business managers demand innovative products that can help maximize business unit earnings that eventually contribute to the corporation’s bottom line. Sales leaders insist on enhanced product quality and new features to help their teams close new and add-on business. Manufacturing constantly requires rollout of engineering changes and product tweaks to keep costs low and to enable effective sourcing decisions. Engineering queues up hundreds of bug fixes and functionality changes to be packaged into the release plan.

Amongst these activities, the product managers have a difficult time in disseminating accurate, timely and comprehensive information about the products they offer to all the internal and external (channels and customers) stakeholders who require it.

PM iQ provides a rich workbench for performing all aspects of a product manager's daily routine. It manages the lifecycle of products from inception to retirement (end-of-life) by helping create product datasheets and roadmaps. PM iQ is in essence the conduit for generating knowledge for Sales iQ and other such application developed by Yagna iQ or other vendors. PM iQ is be fully integrated with Sales iQ through the Yagna Knowledgebase.