hybris Import Cockpit

Reduce import complexity and consolidate product data scattered across multiple
repositories with an intuitive, graphical import tool.
Business Requirements
The amount, variety, and detail of non-transactional data are
growing rapidly. Organizations often store product data in various
languages and different formats in multiple repositories. This
creates information gaps for the various groups who need to use
this information including marketing, sales, finance, human resources, and IT and results in inconsistent branding, sales, and
marketing efforts. In order to ensure complete and accurate product information, companies must be able to aggregate data from
multiple sources and fill in the gaps. For organizations seeking to
implement a successful omni-channel sales and communications
strategy, this is a must.
Importing data from various systems into a central application
is, however, a complex task that requires detailed knowledge of
creating and maintaining import files. These import processes are
often handled by the IT department or even by an external service.
This means that product managers and other business users are
dependent on support from outside parties to import needed data,
which can result in delayed availability even for small amounts of
data.

Solution
hybris Import Cockpit is designed to reduce import complexity to
enable business users to create import mappings with an intuitive
GUI tool. By consolidating and validating heterogeneous nontransactional data and reducing and normalizing redundant data,
the company benefits from improved overall data quality as well
as increased efficiency in data management efforts. The hybris
Import Cockpit achieves this while avoiding extensive and complex integration efforts. The flexible and high-performing Import
Cockpit integrates with multiple data sources and supports the
easy and rapid integration of vast amounts of product data from a
central location. Import mappings enable you to easily load large
volumes of data from a variety of external sources into the hybris
application as a flat CSV file; you can also attach files and define
import parameters. The Import Cockpit enables you to manage,
configure, run, cancel, and monitor import jobs. Data mapping is
as easy as dragging data columns to the mapping area to assign
them to the appropriate hybris data structure; the mapping area
displays a complete list of mapping entries to show the correlation between the hybris type attribute and the source column.

hybris Import Cockpit includes easy-to-use wizards to accelerate

the creation of import jobs. Import status display enables you to
track your import jobs from creation to execution. This allows the
data owners business users to manage data import without
having to rely on outside parties.
hybris multithreaded import capability enables you to split large
import jobs into multiple threads and assign these threads across
all available processors. This delivers true linear scalability and
supports high-performance processing. By leveraging the multithreaded import capability, Import Cockpit can scale to satisfy the
demands of ever-growing data volumes.

Your benefits
Consolidate all non-transactional data scattered across
various repositories
Improve data quality by filling in gaps to provide
valuable and consistent information
Quickly deliver an integrated view of product
information without complex import processes
Provide accurate data across various business
functions and multiple sales and communication
channels
Control all data imports via transparent data mapping
Reduce import complexity and empower data
managers with an intuitive, graphical UI
Ensure clear and company-wide accepted data
definitions for consistent and complete data

hybris Import Cockpit

Fig. 1: hybris Import Cockpit and mapping wizard

Summary of Features
hybris Import Cockpit
Intuitive graphical user interface Enables data owners to
manage data import without having to rely on third parties.
Data mapping via drag-and-drop Mapping creation through
drag-and-drop of source data columns and target type
attributes.
Mapping validation Ensures data consistency.
Progress tracking Monitors the progress of an import job
including last started job in the current session (current
state: new, running, failed, aborted) and result of the import
displayed (last result: success, failure, error, unknown).
Import templates Saves jobs and mappings to be re-used
for similar import jobs.
Data improvement Enables you to fill in missing values,
creating consistent data.
Multithreaded processing Supports huge volumes of data.

The Import Cockpit enables the Import of non-transactional

data of the following types (including all subtypes):
- Product & Product variants (including pricerows)
- Product References
- Categories
- Classification Systems & versions (including
ClassificationClass, FeatureDesciptor, CategoryFeature)
- Media
- MediaContainer
- UserGroup
- Customer & Employee

System Requirements
hybris software version 4.2 or above

Unique key functionality Identifies and transcribes values

that are available.

About hybris software

hybris software, an SAP Company, helps businesses around the globe sell more goods, services and digital content through every touchpoint, channel and device.
hybris delivers OmniCommerce: state-of-the-art master data management for commerce and unified commerce processes that give a business a single view
of its customers, products and orders, and its customers a single view of the business. hybris omni-channel software is built on a single platform, based on open
standards, that is agile to support limitless innovation, efficient to drive the best TCO, and scalable and extensible to be the last commerce platform companies
will ever need. Both principal industry analyst firms rank hybris as a leader and list its commerce platform among the top two or three in the market. The same
software is available on-premise, on-demand and managed hosted, giving merchants of all sizes maximum flexibility. Over 500 companies have chosen hybris,
including global B2B sites W.W.Grainger, Rexel, General Electric, Thomson Reuters and 3M as well as consumer brands ToysRUs, Metro, Bridgestone, Levis,
Nikon, Galeries Lafayette, Migros, Nespresso and Lufthansa. hybris is the future of commerce. www.hybris.com | sales@hybris.com
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