The global consumer product conglomerates seem to share a similar organization. For product marketing, whether Chinese or Korean, these companies rely on a few resource centers, divided by market, which collect (often painfully) information before making it “publishable” and submitting it to the sales offices in each of the countries concerned.

I love movies. When I think of automation and film, I immediately think of Charlie Chaplin’s magnificent films – has he made any bad ones? -Modern Times. Look at this scene! Charlot and his colleagues are working on a production line: the role of one is to tighten a bolt in one direction, the part of the other is to strike a heavy wall here, etc. This is a solution found to the need for strong industrialization: specialization. It was certainly modern, but was it an improvement?

Digital marketing allows a company to collect data on buying habits, dropped carts, viewed pages…. This data is then analyzed in order to learn more about the visitors and to offer them products that will inspire them to make a purchase. This technique has grown greatly during the 2010s and is now a real data analysis machine for e-merchants.

Communication agencies are increasingly called upon by their customers to implement collaborative software solutions that streamline exchanges between the various parties involved in a publishing project.

The implementation of a product information management system (PIM) or even of a master data manager (MDM) ¹ is a project that requires the participation of all the parties involved in the company. Based on our experience, we know that it is not easy for the IT department to get the businesses to adhere to the approach. The benefits obtained by the implementation of such structuring solutions are global to the company. However, despite the good practices proposed by the consultants who support these implementations, the meaning of the change imposed is not always clear to the business lines, which see it mainly as a constraint. Once the information system is connected to a production platform such as Simple Workspace, publication projects are the best way to give meaning to the work on data quality ².

On Tuesday, June 21, J2S hosted a webinar to launch its collection overview offer for the fashion industry.

What is a collection overview?

It may seem that 3D is not a 21st-century invention, but even more surprisingly, it is not a 20th-century invention. Indeed, the first evidence of 3D technology was found in the 1890s, and it was in 1898 that the first patent on 3D was filed.

The automatic generation of InDesign/PDF documents from an XML/JSON data source is one of our specialties. In this way, we can set up a data workflow between the customer’s tool ¹ and our solution, the user clicks on a button and gets an InDesign/PDF document: great!