Zorang Announces Selection of Akeneo PIM by Cosmo Music for Managing Product Content for Multiple Channels to Enhance Customer Experience
Zorang is helping Cosmo Music Integrate their ever expanding Product Catalog with suppliers and marketplaces for their B2C and B2B business
DANVILLE, CA, October 31, 2016 (Newswire.com) - Zorang a leading systems integrator of complete digital experience solutions and Akeneo a leading provider of Product Information Management (PIM) solution jointly announce signing Cosmo Music, North America’s single largest musical instruments store and eCommerce retailer of musical instruments, books and media, as a customer.
Zorang, based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, is one of the first Akeneo implementation partners in North America and a leader in Business Analysis and Systems Integration of complete digital experience solutions including PIM, eCommerce, Web Content Management and Integration.
Growing a long-tail business is challenging: an ever expanding catalog while meeting the demand that every product page should exceed a customer's expectations. Akeneo provides a central place to bulk manage product data efficiently across teams of people. Zorang, an Akeneo integration partner, facilitates the seamless data flows from various data sources along with solving challenges unique to our business.
Chris Bailey, Director of Marketing and Ecommerce, Cosmo Music
Chris Bailey, Director of Marketing and Ecommerce at Cosmo Music said, “Cosmo Music – The Musical Instrument Superstore is the single largest musical instrument store in North America. At any given time Cosmo Music is managing over 100,000 unique active SKU's while on-boarding 100's of new products every week from 100's of brands and suppliers. Growing a long-tail business is challenging: an ever expanding catalog while meeting the demand that every product page should exceed a customer's expectations. Akeneo provides a central place to bulk manage product data efficiently across teams of people. Zorang, an Akeneo integration partner, facilitates the seamless data flows from various data sources along with solving challenges unique to our business.”
Frédéric de Gombert, CEO and co-founder of Akeneo mentions, “We are excited to be working with the largest music instrument store in North America, and look forward to helping them scale their product content management capabilities. To implement Akeneo, Cosmo Music choose Zorang, one of our North American partner, with whom we're more than happy to work with.”
As companies expand their eCommerce presence and build complete Omni-Channel experiences, it becomes increasingly complex to manage their products and assets across suppliers, distributors, marketplaces, web and retail stores. The integration with legacy systems and enriching the content to provide rich product content is critical to drive sales in this competitive environment, as today’s savvy customers look for informed decision making. Akeneo provides intuitive, easy to use platform and empowers marketing users to enrich their product content and easily distribute it across multiple channels, locales and geographies.
“We are delighted that Cosmo Music, the largest musical instruments store in North America chose Zorang for this initiative and to help manage product data from hundreds of suppliers for enabling them to grow their business and marketplace presence. Akeneo, a robust open source PIM solution provides companies a powerful mechanism to enrich and distribute their content to various channels. Zorang is excited to partner with Akeneo in bringing this capability to it’s clients for providing complete end to end content solutions for commerce.”, said Anurag Gupta, Managing Partner at Zorang.
Integration with legacy systems and its supplier and distributor network is critical for successful PIM implementations. As Akeneo’s preferred systems integration partner, Zorang provides complete implementation, hosting, support and maintenance services with an expertise to provide the data integration critical for PIM projects.
About Zorang
Based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, Zorang is a leader in providing Business Analysis and Systems Integration services for Product Information Management (PIM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Web Content Management (WCM), Cloud Adoption, eCommerce and integration. With a unique methodology tailored to the customer’s requirements Zorang believes in a customer first approach. For more information, visit http://www.zorang.com.
About Akeneo
Akeneo helps more than 30,000 merchants worldwide to handle their product information management needs!
Akeneo PIM is an intuitive platform built to radically simplify catalog management processes and is designed for companies looking for efficient answers to their multichannel needs (including ecommerce, website, mobile app, printed catalog, POS, etc.). It helps merchants centralize, harmonize, translate and control the quality of the product information, leading to better SEO, higher conversion rates, shorter time-to-market, and lower return rates. Its Enterprise Open Source PIM software brings dramatic efficiencies to marketing teams struggling with excel files or inflexible legacy tools. Akeneo is the leading vendor in the open source PIM market, and has been installed over 30,000 times in 160 countries. Today, the Akeneo community includes 80+ enterprise customers and 2500 developers. Several companies including Made.com, Kurt Geiger, Market America | SHOP.com, Samsung, Five Ten, Richmond Supply Company, Amer Sports, and ePetworld chose Akeneo to improve their product information management processes. For more information, visit http://www.akeneo.com
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Zorang Inc.
Akeneo
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Tags: Akeneo, B2B, B2C, Content Management, Cosmo Music, eCommerce, marketplace, MDM, Open Source, PCM, PIM, Product Information Management
