Why to use Laces for Publishing Data

With the infinite number of ways that professional content—such as product information, company standards, metadata, and classification systems—is used today, you need to take control by becoming publishers of high-quality data. It needs to be structured, easily accessible, and reusable by both people and machines.

After all, like it or not, professionals are judged not only by what they share and distribute but also by how they do that. Just as being understood is vitally important for individuals and businesses, publishing information that is easy to understand and engage with is about making sure it’s readily usable for all their internal and external audiences.

The Challenges of Publishing Data

Most data is created to be used or consumed by either yourself or by others. However, for something so fundamental, the challenges of publishing usable data are numerous.

While data must flow to the people who need it, one of the main barriers is the number of different platforms, data formats, and IT agreements. When data is published in an unstructured and inconsistent manner, businesses face the common challenge of accessing data with siloed, and disparate sources of information. Those who need to consume the data want immediate access without transforming it, searching for meaning, or restructuring data to make it usable.

The current method of storing and processing data and its exchange are not in alignment, resulting in:

• data is getting lost when consuming it,
• time is lost to refill software with the data people want to consume,
• and costs are incurred to migrate data between software.

With the wealth of data available, organizations rarely capitalize on its true worth because it is published in inconvenient, sometimes conflicting ways that are not joined up. At Laces, however, our suite of tools makes publishing professional content a breeze. And since no technical capabilities are needed, you won’t have to rely on your IT department to intervene.

Helping Professionals Publish Online

Whether it’s within your organization or anywhere in the world, with different platforms, data formats, and IT agreements to consider, we understand that it is challenging to distribute information and make it available and reusable to someone else.

We’ve developed all the solutions you need to publish and distribute data with the least possible effort so your audience can use it quickly and easily. In fact, Laces helps professionals publish online without any IT knowledge. Here’s how Laces can be applied in different professional scenarios:

• Manufacturers: If you manage product information, Laces helps you distribute it across online configurators, web shops, and customer applications—ensuring that your data is directly usable with your customers’ software. Your product information becomes more widespread.
  
• Publishers of Standards: If you’re a publisher of industry standards, you can use Laces to publish product requirements or process guidelines as structured data. This ensures that your consumers can use your content seamlessly in their software and increases your content’s marketability.
  
• Information Managers: Do you need to distribute master data like company standards, metadata, or classification systems? Laces provides a solution that makes this data readily usable by other departments’ software, saving your team time and increasing overall efficiency.

More Intelligent Data Publication

Whether you’re looking to distribute product information or master data, Laces makes publishing a breeze by eliminating the need for repetitive data exchange agreements. You can make your professional datasets available or even monetize them by offering them in a structured format that is easy to consume.

Additionally, by standardizing your data and using open standards for Linked Data, Laces helps you share information effortlessly—cutting down on IT costs and making sure your data reaches a broader audience. With Laces’ secure cloud management, you don’t need any technical knowledge to publish your data safely and effectively.

Professionals of all kinds can now distribute their data without the usual headaches. Ready to make your structured data available to others? Book a demo today and see how easy it is to publish data with Laces.