Define Product Cockpit?

• Hybris Product Cockpit Module enables cockpit end users to manage and structure product information and catalogs in high-volume and collaborative environments. 
• Product managers can visualize their input from multiple perspectives and make product management processes more efficient.
• Several perspectives enable users to concentrate on the most important aspects of individual tasks, such as managing product data or structuring categories.

 1.    Managing Product Data:

• Organizations ideally want to administer and edit information about different product lines and multiple products with varying attributes from within a single user interface. 
• Available software, however, may offer product managers limited data management capabilities. They may not be able to customize the user interface to meet their specific needs and preferences. 
• And employees often work across multiple systems that are not integrated, which can create collaboration challenges.

 2. Use the Hybris Product Cockpit for Managing All Product Information in One Place:

• The Hybris Product Cockpit is a highly customizable graphical user interface that makes product data management more efficient, process-oriented, and user friendly. 
• Perspectives can be configured to display role-based sets of user interface elements. Mass data management capabilities support and simplify workflows and synchronization. 
• As a pre-configured application, the Hybris Product Cockpit supports customizations - such as changing the front-end configuration or adding custom front-end elements - without requiring additional implementation work. 
• You can manage all kinds of product information and multimedia with the Hybris Digital Asset Management module. 

The Hybris Product Cockpit is an ideal product data management solution that delivers both excellent usability and significant potential cost savings.

3. Benefits:
The Hybris Product Cockpit provides you with the following benefits:

• Streamlining catalog and product management through its well-structured user interface.
• Supporting typical working processes through a fully customizable user interface.
• Optimization of team work by managing even complex workflows.
• Facilitating efficient mass data management.
• Providing seamless workflow management through tracking, commenting, and status changes.
• Delivering a thin client with rich user experience, such as drag and drop, favorites, and so on.
• Support for product-related workflow tasks and synchronization.
• Validation rules to control data formats.
• Support for extensive product comparisons.

  4. Business Impact:

• Employees across subsidiaries and departments can access centralized information via role-based security profiles, ensuring that users only view or edit content that is relevant to them. 
• Access rights can be defined for various product attributes, product classes, or catalog versions. 
• The Hybris Product Cockpit is ideal for businesses with distributed product content responsibilities, as content managers can work on staged product versions, without affecting the live version displayed on the website.

  5. Features:

• Ability to view products, product categories, and product attributes in different perspectives
• Catalog perspective for working with catalog versions and categories
• List views of product result sets
• Grid views of product result sets
• Ability to set references to product-related business objects such as units, media, catalog versions, prices, etc
• Mass data editing while using the list view
• Ability to move data via copy/paste
• Customization of views at runtime, for example add or remove list columns, sections, or fields
• Switchable user roles
• User-based lists of favorites
• Easy handling of workflow actions like tracking, commenting, and changing status
• Synchronization of single products, categories, or catalog versions
• Integrated digital asset management, requires Hybris Digital Asset Management module