OFS Portal launches new catalog functionality with Heiler in only 2 months

OFS Portal,LLC, a worldwide eCommerce consortium of upstream oil and gas suppliers, launched new catalog functionality with Heiler’s PCM Premium Content Manager in only 2 months.

OFS Portal is using PCM Premium Content Manager in order to electronically receive, validate, view and publish catalog product information from its supplier members and deliver it to its buyers – national and international oil companies. As part of the implementation, Heiler implemented for the first time and now officially supports the PIDX catalog schema, led by the American Petroleum Institute.

PCM Premium Product Manager is the first step in enabling both an automated catalog management process and increasing functionality when distributing catalogs from supplier’s back end through OFS Portal to buyers

In addition to purchasing PCM, OFS Portal has also elected to use Heiler’s hosting and managed service offering. Heiler’s managed service offering provides customers with a dedicated environment, ongoing support including all hosting, infrastructure, basic professional services for upgrades and access to a team of staff that is specifically trained on OFS Portal’s business processes.

“We needed a system that was both supplier and buyer centric” says Randy Dutton, VP of OFS Portal. “The Heiler PCM Premium Content Manager platform provides us with a highly scalable solution for our entire community and a very flexible partner for the future that is willing to work with us to meet the ongoing complexity of the oil and gas industry”.

The entire deployment of OFS Portal took around 2 months including design, installation, implementation, data migration of existing catalogs, testing and training.

“We are every pleased to be working with a world class organization such as OFS Portal that is driving industry standards” says Greg Wong, Chief Operating Officer, Heiler Software Corporation. “The selection by OFS Portal of our managed services offering also underpins our belief that more and more companies are looking for a turn-key solution where vendors take responsibility not only for delivering software, but for making sure it works in their environment”.

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