San Fransisco/Zeist, September 13, 2005
CNET Channel, a leading source of technology product content, and Onetrail, a data exchange operator, today announced their cooperation in delivering rich product content to IT resellers and retailers. IT companies are now able to access CNET Channel’s detailed product content and images combined with the normalized distributor information through Onetrail’s data exchange solution to automatically feed their webshop, order- and quotation systems. Experience shows that incorporating this content into a retailer’s interactive properties will result in significant savings and facilitate sales.
Onetrail is known for delivering reliable product-, price- and “real-time” stock availability information from the leading IT distributors straight into the Resellers’ purchasing systems. CNET Channel delivers high quality technology product content, such as marketing descriptions, product images, detailed specifications, related products and searchable attributes, to over 1,000 IT companies in over 35 worldwide markets to facilitate sales.
“It is a logical step for both companies to combine their services” says Jean-Francois Guyomar, senior vice president of worldwide sales at CNET Channel. “For a reseller to make the sales process effective and at the same time deliver what has been promised it is a pre-requisite to have access to up-to-date and high quality product content” says Jeroen Moonen, General Manager at Onetrail.
Without these services a reseller is confronted with a variety of unstructured data formats, classification methods, usage of part numbers and product specifications as this information is supplied by multiple sources (some of the IT distributors and vendors) each has developed their own way of making this data available.
Through the Onetrail solution that uses CNET Channel content, resellers no longer need to spend scarce resources in creating and maintaining catalog content. A single feed from Onetrail.Net, automatically followed by daily updates, does all the work.
Using the Onetrail solution to access CNET Channel content eliminates the competitive disadvantage faced by resellers competing with vendors selling direct. Vendors selling direct have been able to seamlessly use the data stored in their own system allowing them to create a scalable and reliable service. Resellers are now able to do the same with a much wider reach and product portfolio. Together with their value added services, resellers and retailers can once again become the “one stop shop” customers like to see.
About CNET Channel
CNET Channel is a leading independent source of on-demand product information, supporting both online catalogs and traditional sales with detailed content on over 2 million technology products. More than 1,000 companies in 35 global markets including Dell, Microsoft, Best Buy, CDW, Tech Data, HP, Yahoo!, Kelkoo, Computacenter and Actebis rely on CNET Channel to power their e-commerce platforms. In addition, the company's ChannelOnline solution combines this data with sourcing, quoting, ordering and e-commerce storefront tools to automate the complete sales cycle for more than 2,500 VAR professionals. CNET Channel is a subsidiary of CNET Networks and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information on CNET Channel, visit us at www.cnetchannel.com
About Onetrail
Onetrail is the operator of Onetrail.Net, an Information Exchange connecting the internal systems of IT manufacturers, distributors and resellers through one single interface (the Onetrail.Net connector). Onetrail developed standard connectors for ERP-type systems like Exact, SAP, Navision, AccountView and Unit4 as well as for hosted Webshop environments like Drecom, Mambofive and Bitwise. Over 100 IT resellers have already achieved dramatic savings and quality improvements through the Onetrail.Net connector. Information that is available through the Onetrail.Net connector includes normalized product information, orders, order status, shipping notice, invoices etc.. Onetrail is a Dutch company specialized in optimizing inter-company processes for trade organizations that require a high degree of efficiency and scalability to process an increasing number of small orders profitably. www.onetrail.com
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