Content Enrichment & Taxonomy

The Data Transformation process commences with Taxonomy Development. Taxonomy generally refers to the organizational structure of categories and attributes that define how you classify, describe and manage your data. It is also commonly referred to as Data Dictionary or Data Schema. A good taxonomy is like an architectural drawing and is the basic building block for your master data. A good taxonomy will assist with sourcing metrics, enable easy searches in your parts catalog, and allow quick identification of obsolete and duplicate parts.

Unfortunately, many companies either do not have a defined taxonomy, or are using one that was implemented for historical business or technical reasons that no longer apply. Business needs change and a good taxonomy has to be able to support current business requirements.

Utilizing industry best practices, Mobius content experts will define standards and processes for your data organizing and build a taxonomy that is customized for your business needs.

Once taxonomy issues are covered, the process of building better data by correcting errors, standardizing information across tables and validating information that is inconsistent and inaccurate can begin.

Create & Classify

Frequently, the information driving the organization's business processes is incomplete, unspecific or outdated, resulting in lack of recognizing the needs of clients, customers, partners or vendors. Or it may be difficult to link some information about one piece of data, such as a person or a business, to other information in the system.

As a result, the business is left with gaps in their understanding about top customers, top selling products and more productive business partners. Data enrichment, sometimes known as data enhancement, allows generating or appending additional bits of data from other internal or external data sources to information already used in the organization. These additional data sources can extrapolate meaningful details from sketchy bits of information within the existing data sources.

Data enhancement procedures can include postal address enrichment, geocoding and demographic data additions. This additional data enables a more accurate picture about the individuals or companies in the corporate data stores and how they relate to each other. Enhancing inventory data significantly improves day-to-day operations by ensuring more accurate purchasing and better control over inventory levels. It also means customers have the right inventory available to keep operations running smoothly. With enhancement, parts are electronically matched using manufacturer name and part numbers and then reviewed and enhanced in accordance with industry standards.

Taxonomy Solutions

Mobius can help you in building customized product data catalogs. We can do this no matter what unique product mix you have and we will work within the turnaround time that you need. We can build the taxonomy to capture information in a structured standardized way.

If you have a large catalog of products that needs to be categorized to a classification structure  or if your catalog has a strong change rate with new products being added and needing to be categorized, Mobius can offer a customized categorization service that is cost-effective and timely.

If you have a product data problem, challenge, or requirement, our Taxonomy Team will work with you to put together a solution that specifically addresses your product specifications, images, categorization, mapping, or taxonomy.