The customer
CECED (Conseil Europèen de la Construction d’appareils Domestiques) promotes the domestic appliance manufacturers' industry mission to increase appliance performance while reducing its impact on the environment in Europe.
One of the core activities in which CECED is involved is Product Information (PI): the Π-Certified project aims at delivering information about domestic appliances' products via electronic media.

The project
The so-called "Π-Certified" product information initiative is aiming at helping the distribution of product information to retail businesses  by allowing for “one structure for all brands”. But how to do that?

Link to the web site
www.picertified.com

The solution
The goal “one structure for all brands” has been declined in a web-based solution developed by Tinext and delivered to the PI workgroup member’s with the aim to support CECED in the project of standardisation of product information delivered through the electronic channel.

PI workgroup is regularly working with all members to reflect in PI structure all the requirements coming from market players, from production to distribution.
As a consequence, in this web based application, named DMWA (Data Modelling Web Application) the product information is definitely not depending on the brand but on the kind of product (for each major domestic appliance or small one, a specific data model has been defined).
The web-site (www.picertified.com) is part of this complex solution that really represents the new standard for the product information delivered by European household appliance manufactures to retailers.

Delivered to the customer in
2010

Strenghts
One of the main big issues resolved by Tinext solution is that the standardised data-model delivered is able to evolve, so that retail businesses can always have access to the more updated products information and most importantly to the latest product information structure. Furthermore, different languages’ versions are available for each product and each language version is based on the same structure.
The workgroup members that are allowed can modify the data model structure, while for publishing new information versions for each different language ther kind of authorisations needed are different.