The Kodiak Group, a leading provider of data synchronization consulting and UCCnet onboarding services, announced today that Whirlpool Corporation has selected their Quick-To-Market hosted solution for UCCnet connectivity and data synchronization. Whirlpool, the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances, will use the Kodiak service to load their product information into the UCCnet GLOBALregistry.
“We selected The Kodiak Group because of their unique ability to help us achieve both rapid compliance and long-term success,” stated Dave Cosgrove, Director eWhirlpool Group. “Kodiak’s Quick Start education program helped us better understand the long-term implications of data synchronization and to mobilize the cross functional support we need to be successful. Quick-To-Market allows us to be UCCnet compliant now and will help us to go beyond compliance and re-engineer the way we interact with our most important trading partners.”
Kodiak’s Quick-To-Market is a full-service data capture, validation, translation and message transport solution for managing and publishing product data through UCCnet. It provides large and small suppliers the tools they need to get up and running fast and to successfully manage their data synchronization program long-term including training, a variety of integration tools and robust feedback messages that are easy to manage. It is designed and supported by Kodiak consultants who have been providing data synchronization services since 1999.
Through industry-developed standards for item registry and data synchronization, UCCnet provides a foundation for electronic commerce and cost effective transaction of data among partners. By supporting global EAN-UCC standards, UCCnet delivers an open platform for collaborative commerce services, including compliance verification, synchronization of product information, registry and lifecycle management of synchronized products, user locations and user trade capabilities.
