New SAMS apps enhance reliability, portability of catalog product data

April 19, 2012 - PRLog -- Carmel, IN — SAMS Catalog Content & Design has announced the introduction of two new product catalog applications designed for use on the iPad® and iPhone® platforms. These applications offer the familiarity of a paper product catalog along with the contemporary appeal of the popular Apple® devices. A similar product is also available for Android smart phones and tablets.

The slick, touch screen interface will enable prospective customers or field reps to access product information quickly and easily. Perhaps the greatest advantage these new applications offer over more traditional catalogs, however, is the ease with which they allow product data updates to be made. Their design encourages a business to modify its virtual catalog regularly and enables users to activate these changes painlessly.

According to David Jacobs, SAMS’ president, contacting a remote server repeatedly to pull down product information can bog down an online catalog, frustrating the user. “If I have to wait a few seconds or more every time I select a product to view, it gets pretty old, and I’m less productive,” he said. “With these apps, product information is still up to date, but it becomes completely portable and easier to use.”

This is done by allowing the user to manage when or if he/she performs the updates. When update downloads are in process, the iPad® or iPhone® must be connected to a cellular or Wi-Fi network. But once they are complete, the up-to-date product information is self contained on the device.

“It gives users the option to update their product information when it’s convenient for them,” said Jacobs. “And the beauty of this is that it provides reliable product information to anyone anywhere, even when there is no cellular or Wi-Fi signal available.”

SAMS can be contracted to research and prepare new product content and remove obsolete content on a regular basis, as well as host all data. This provides a cost effective means to get new product information out to the field without many of the logistical challenges of issuing a print catalog or maintaining the information online. Presentation of the product information can also be customized to satisfy a customer’s unique needs.

About SAMS Catalog Content & Design
SAMS Catalog Content & Design has been researching, assembling, and providing design/layout services for product print and online catalogs since 2003. SAMS specializes in the HVAC, hardware, and marine industries. Its online store facilitates the use of product catalog content in e-commerce. SAMS also builds product data sets to customer specifications for web-based and enterprise software applications, among many other uses. Its newest offering is a price monitoring service that enables businesses to target key products and track pricing fluctuations among major competitors.

Visit SAMS on the web at http://www.samsccs.com.

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SAMS creates and publishes marketing tools used by distributors and manufacturers. These tools increase revenues for our customers by making detailed product information more readily available.