Product data is everywhere in your organization. To maximize its value, product data needs to be in the hands of many stakeholders, including your customers and employees. The activities that need to access, author, and share critical information about product data depends on your industry, but the following group functions can leverage this information: Research and Development, Purchasing, Sales and Marketing, After Sales Services, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Risk and Compliance, Finance, Human Resources, etc. Because of this wide reach and diversity of context, controlling the way that data is created, updated and replicated is difficult. Making sure that accurate information can be accessed at the right time and right place to drive the correct action is also a complicated and time-consuming exercise.