MAM announces partnership with Elcome to deliver web-based catalogue data maintenance

The integration of Elcome's Xchecker online catalogue management solution with MAM's Autocat+ electronic catalogue will deliver enhanced catalogue data maintenance and distribution for component suppliers.

Printable version 29 April 2005

The integration of Elcome's Xchecker online catalogue management solution with MAM's Autocat+ electronic catalogue will deliver enhanced catalogue data maintenance and distribution for component suppliers.

Following the recent introduction of its Autocat+ electronic catalogue, MAM Software, UK market leader in factor management solutions, today announced the signing of a strategic partnership with Elcome Ltd., specialists in catalogue data manipulation and publication.

The partnership unites MAM Software's expertise in the factor management software and electronic parts catalogue sectors with Elcome's extensive experience in data manipulation and publishing. It brings together MAM's Autocat+, a new web-driven electronic parts catalogue, and Elcome's Xchecker online catalogue management solution.

As a result of this partnership, component suppliers have the option of using Elcome's Xchecker to maintain their catalogue data and publish it to multiple mediums including MAM's online Autocat+ catalogue. With its integrated reporting suite and proofing tools, Xchecker provides an effective means of fully controlling all catalogue functions. Not only does it improve the quality of data, but thanks to careful structuring, data can be shared across different media types, thereby significantly shortening the publication time to market.

According to MAM's Managing Director Mike Jamieson, "MAM is focused on providing its customers with catalogue solutions that improve performance, precision and reliability. This new initiative is indicative of our commitment towards developing new technologies that return tangible benefits to our customers".

"Elcome's expertise in catalogue data management and publishing make it a solid choice of partner for MAM. By integrating contemporary IT methodologies with existing production systems Elcome has taken the publishing of data and information to a new dimension" he said.

"Teaming up with MAM will give suppliers throughout the aftermarket the ability to rapidly publish their updated catalogue data directly to the shop floor, thereby dramatically improving the opportunity to increase their sales" said Elcome Managing Director Tim Entwistle.

"As a leading vendor of independent catalogue maintenance services, Elcome is pleased to partner with MAM, a market leader in aggregated aftermarket electronic catalogues. Partnering with MAM offers aftermarket suppliers the ability to manage, update, enhance and distribute their own catalogue data. It provides them with effective control while enabling them to focus on their core business activity".

<b>About Elcome</b>
 
Based in Swindon, Wiltshire, Elcome is a leading provider of catalogue maintenance solutions. Working across multiple-media boundaries, Elcome's comprehensive range of services include catalogue production, bespoke CD development and Internet solutions.

Elcome is a highly knowledgeable and skilled company with many years' experience in a diversity of business disciplines such as sales, marketing, cataloguing, database construction and programming. Elcome takes great pride in its ability to understand data, how it can be manipulated, structured and presented.

As a respected supplier to the automotive industry, Elcome’s solutions power some of the European brand leaders. Every day multi-national companies and their customers use catalogue publications produced by Elcome.