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    Salsify and IDEA: Direct product data syndication for electrical manufacturers

    Salsify and IDEA have joined forces to ensure your product data works for you. We’ve partnered to help electrical manufacturers streamline how they prepare, manage, and syndicate product information through IDEA Connector. Together, we provide electrical manufacturers a simplified path to sharing validated, harmonized product information with IDEA’s network of distributors.

    Streamline product data preparation and syndication


    Salsify's product information management (PIM) platform connects directly to IDEA Connector, giving electrical manufacturers an automated, pre-validated path from internal specs to IDEA's industry-backed distributor network.

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    Electrical product data completion rate.1
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    Distributor locations reachable through the IDEA Connection, including 80 of the top 100 electrical distributors.

    1Source: Distribution Strategy Group, The State of E-Commerce in North American Wholesale Distribution

    Turn raw engineering data into standards-ready channel content

    Manufacturers often manage product information across multiple internal systems, files, and teams before it is ready for syndication. Salsify helps centralize and prepare that information for delivery through IDEA Connector.

    • Prepare your data for successful syndication

      Use readiness reports to review product information against applicable industry requirements and identify opportunities to improve completeness and accuracy before submission. Salsify's readiness reports measure attribute fill rate and flag gaps or errors so you can fix them before you submit.

    • Complete your data with AI, not manual work

      Use Intelligence Suite workflows to improve data quality and completeness: extract technical attributes from legacy PDF spec sheets, transform ERP codes into consumable content, and route anything safety-critical to a person for review before it is published.

    • Publish through pre-built channels

      Map and prepare product data for syndication through IDEA Connector using Salsify’s pre-built channel.

    • Stay aligned with evolving industry requirements

      Salsify maintains its IDEA Connector channel as applicable data requirements evolve, helping manufacturers keep their mappings current.

    Built for how electrical manufacturers go to market

    Electrical buyers have a job to do, and they need confidence your product can do it. They need exact specifications, NEMA ratings, voltage, and amperage. Inaccurate product data is more than an inconvenience, it's a safety risk and a liability. Salsify gives product, marketing, digital, and IT teams a single governed source of truth: technical drawings, cut sheets, and your commercial catalog in one place, with clean links to CAD models and BIM files. Once data is ready to publish, Salsify's syndication capabilities let you publish channel-ready data to any partner or system.

    Using this connection is a significant improvement to our internal workflow. With Salsify’s direct connection to IDEA Connector, products that meet applicable requirements can be delivered while our team reviews and addresses any remaining data issues. The Salsify channel also helps us keep our product attributes aligned with the latest IDEA Connector requirements.

    Seth Gilbert
    Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Atkore

    “The Salsify to IDEA direct connection transforms the process of ensuring accurate, complete product data is accessible to our customers.

    Because Salsify validates data to IDEA's standards before we syndicate, we have significantly reduced errors and streamlined delivery of harmonized B8 data.”

    Adam Andersen
    Solution Leader, Product Management, Lutron

     

    Get your data IDEA-ready

    See how Salsify PIM can streamline product data preparation and syndication through IDEA Connector.