Content Central
Your place to create, maintain and manage product information and marketing assets.
Managing product content across systems, teams and retail partners is complex - Content Central simplifies it. It gives manufacturers a single, structured environment to centralize and harmonize marketing, sales, logistical and technical product information, and distribute it in a way that meets the standards retailers actually expect.
Whether you're looking for a standalone PIM solution or need a place to enhance and validate data from your existing backend, Content Central is designed for easy integration and adapts to your workflow.
What you can do with Content Central
- Manage product content end-to-end – Create, update and maintain product information in one place, with full control over structure and quality.
- Enrich data with ease – Import and update product attributes via Excel, no technical setup required.
- Centralize your digital assets – Store, organize and distribute images, documents and media through Asset Central, the integrated DAM.
- Stay aligned with industry standards – Content is automatically aligned with APPLIA and the TradePI standard, so your data meets what retail partners expect.
- Reduce complexity, accelerate launches – Consolidate input from multiple systems and departments into a single source of truth.
Who it's for
Content Central is designed for manufacturers who either don't have their own PIM system, or whose existing backend doesn't deliver the depth and quality of data the market demands.
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Content Central
Content Central brings together all the tools you need to manage product content efficiently. Below you'll find an overview of the core features that help you create, enrich and distribute your data - from product information management to digital asset handling.
Content Object Management (COM)
Excel Import
USP Management
PDF Data-Sheet Service
Asset Central
Asset Transformation
Content Object Management (COM)
Control every product feature, from one central location
Content Object Management (COM) in Content Central provides a structured framework to create reusable feature modules and assign them across multiple products within your portfolio. By creating content objects - each containing a mix of text, images, pictograms, videos, and graphics, your team can standardize feature information and distribute it consistently across digital and print channels.
When a content object is updated, the change is automatically reflected in every product it’s linked to, ensuring your information stays accurate, branded, and up-to-date without repetitive manual editing.
Key Benefits
- Centralized Feature Control
Manage all feature descriptions and visuals from one place, reducing duplication and ensuring consistency across channels. - Multi-Product Assignment
Assign a single content object to multiple products for scalable, efficient content management. - Automatic Updates Across Products
Edit once - update everywhere. Any change to a content object instantly applies to all linked products. - Rich Feature Presentation
Combine text, keywords, images, pictograms, videos, and other media to deliver feature information in a compelling and clear way. - Streamlined Workflow for Marketing & Product Teams
Reduce time spent on manual edits and approvals by managing features centrally with built-in consistency.
Ideal for businesses managing extensive product catalogues, Content Object Management within Content Central ensures your feature data is always accurate, engaging, and ready for any channel - boosting efficiency and brand integrity across all markets.
Excel Import
Fast, bulk product data creation and updates without complexity
Within Content Central, the Excel Import feature gives you the flexibility and speed to create or update large numbers of products in minutes. By using standardized Excel templates, your team can prepare data offline, then upload it into Content Central for instant integration. The process ensures accuracy through automatic validation, creating products directly in country-specific folders ready for review and publishing.
How Excel Import Works
- Download the appropriate Excel template for your product type.
- Fill in the required fields with your product data.
- Upload your Excel file into Content Central.
- The system validates your entries - only successful validations create products.
- Newly imported products appear in the relevant folder, unpublished until verified and launched.
Key Benefits
- Rapid Bulk Onboarding
Add hundreds of products in one action, speeding up launches across multiple markets. - Streamlined Data Preparation
Work offline in familiar Excel files before importing to Content Central, reducing training time. - Built-in Quality Control
Automatic validation ensures only correct and complete data is imported, preventing costly errors. - Market-Specific Organization
Products are placed into country-related folders for easy review, localization, and targeted publishing. - Scalable for Any Product Portfolio
Whether adding a handful or an entire catalogue, Excel Import adapts to your workload without extra effort.
Ideal for product managers, data teams, and marketers, Excel Import inside Content Central turns bulk data handling into a quick, reliable, and organized process - allowing you to focus on selling, not on manual data entry.
USP Management
Showcase your product USPs with precision and consistency
Within Content Central, the USP Management feature automatically synchronizes defined key selling points (USPs) across product records and output channels. By seamlessly connecting product data with associated content objects, USP Management guarantees that the most relevant and specific information is presented in the right order – directly in your marketing section and PDF highlights.
Key Benefits
- Consistent Messaging Across All Touchpoints
Automatically synchronize USPs between products, marketing materials, and more, eliminating mismatches or outdated content. - Time Savings through Automation
No manual copying – once configurations are set, USP data updates instantly whenever relevant content or product details change. - Highly Targeted Content Control
Apply USP rules to specific product folders for maximum relevance, ensuring only the most applicable messages reach your audience. - Clear Feature Replacement in Marketing Materials
Manage “successor” features so outdated ones don’t appear as negatives in PDF tables, enhancing customer perception and avoiding confusion. - Improved Sales Conversion through Accurate USPs
Present your most compelling product highlights in the exact order defined for your market, boosting clarity and trust in your product.
Perfect for product managers, marketers, and sales teams, USP Management inside Content Central enables you to efficiently highlight your products’ unique features with zero manual effort – making sure your messaging is always on-brand, up-to-date, and impactful.
PDF Data-Sheet Service
Always up-to-date product PDFs, created automatically
The PDF Data-Sheet Service in Content Central ensures that every product in your portfolio has a professional, accurate, and current data sheet - without the manual effort. Once configured, the service automatically generates PDFs based on predefined templates, which can be tailored for specific product groups and folder hierarchies.
Whenever product details change, the associated PDF is kept up-to-date, guaranteeing that sales teams, partners, and customers always receive the latest information. Templates can incorporate product-group-specific layouts, branding, and data fields to meet diverse presentation needs across markets.
Key Benefits
- Fully Automated PDF Creation
Automatically produce product data sheets based on configured templates, reducing manual design work and production time. - Always Current Information
PDFs update automatically whenever product details are modified, ensuring accuracy. - Flexible Template Management
Use different templates for different product groups and folder hierarchies, matching presentation to each market’s requirements. - Consistent Brand Presentation
Templates enforce your brand’s visual style and layout, delivering professional and uniform PDF outputs. - Scalable for Any Catalogue Size
Whether you manage dozens or thousands of products, the service keeps every PDF synchronized effortlessly.
Perfect for marketing, product, and sales teams, the PDF Data-Sheet Service inside Content Central turns product information into ready-to-share, compliant, and visually consistent documents - enabling you to communicate product details with speed, accuracy, and impact.
Asset Central
Your single source of truth for all media assets
Asset Central is Content Central’s integrated Digital Asset Management (DAM) service - designed to centralize, organize, and optimize every piece of your media content. Whether it’s images, graphics, documents, videos, or other rich media, Asset Central gives your team a consolidated, searchable, and secure repository that sits at the heart of your digital experience management strategy.
As an integrated DAM within Content Central, Asset Central centralizes storage and enables controlled reuse of media assets across teams and markets. With seamless integration, scalable storage, and powerful automation tools, Asset Central ensures your media is always ready for production, marketing, and distribution across multiple channels.
Key Benefits
- Centralized Asset Repository
All media files stored in one place, making them easier to find, manage, and distribute across projects and markets. - Optimized Asset Reuse
Reduce duplication by reusing approved assets, ensuring consistency and saving time in content creation. - Automated Workflows
From asset upload to multi-channel distribution, automate processes to improve speed and efficiency. - Enhanced Search & Discovery
Powerful search capabilities with metadata tagging allow teams to quickly locate the exact asset they need. - Scalable & High-Performance
Handle any type and volume of digital assets with performance that grows alongside your business needs.
Perfect for marketing, design, product, and e-commerce teams, Asset Central empowers you to manage your media with unmatched efficiency - enabling your organization to deliver consistent, high-quality content faster, everywhere it matters.
Asset Transformation
Transform, personalize, and deliver digital assets in any format
The Asset Transformation feature inside Content Central enables the creation of configurable asset variants optimized for different channels, devices, and campaigns. With its advanced transformation pipeline, assets can be resized, cropped, rotated, and enhanced in multiple steps to produce the exact output needed, all while maintaining brand quality.
For images, Asset Transformation offers intelligent thumbnail creation that automatically applies focal points, optimizes formats and ensures your visuals look perfect in every context. This means your creative team can prepare precisely tailored assets from a single source file - without repetitive manual editing.
Key Benefits
- Multi-Step Asset Transformation
Apply configurable resizing, cropping, rotation, frame, and format changes in a sequence, creating perfectly optimized versions for each use case. - Format Optimization for Performance
Dynamically deliver assets in modern formats like WebP for faster load times and better customer experiences. - Efficient Campaign Adaptation
Generate variations for different screen sizes, channels, and markets directly in Content Central, cutting production time drastically. - Brand Consistency, Every Time
Centralized asset rules guarantee every generated output meets your style, quality, and compliance standards.
Perfect for creative, marketing, and e-commerce teams, Asset Transformation inside Content Central ensures your visuals and media are always the best version for every audience - without the delay and cost of manual editing.
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