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Data Source Governance

Control the Chaos — Manage Product Data Sources with Confidence

CatalogIQ’s Data Source Governance ensures that your product content comes from the right place, flows through intelligent validation, and is published with full traceability. With dozens of internal systems, supplier feeds, and manual inputs in play, this feature centralizes control — enforcing trust, resolving conflicts, and streamlining data flows at scale.

Data Source Governance Features

Data Source Hierarchy Rules

Define which source wins when data conflicts arise—whether it’s supplier feeds, ERP systems, or manual edits. Establish cascading priority logic.

Trust Scoring & Provenance

Quantify the reliability of each input. Track origin, version history, and data quality to flag questionable sources.

Conflict Detection & Resolution

Catch duplicate, missing, or conflicting data before it reaches your storefront. Leverage automated rules and manual workflows.

Audit Trails & Version History

Maintain a full edit history for every field—who changed it, when, and why—across all systems.

Governed Workflow Integration

Plug governance logic into onboarding and enrichment flows. Automatically accept, reject, or hold data for review.

Ingest Product Data from Trusted Sources in Any Format

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Spreadsheets

Locate and extract key product details from supplier CSVs.

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PDFs

Pull specs and details from manuals and other unstructured files.

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Product Images

Pull structured and descriptive attributes directly from product photos.

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Web Resources

Find and retrieve product data from brand websites and other trusted sources.

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Manufacturer Websites

Extract product specs and details directly from supplier sites.

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Data Sheets & Catalogs

Capture structured data from PDFs and other product catalogs.

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Industry Databases

Pull verified product information from trusted industry data hubs.

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Professional Forums

Source user-contributed specs and insights from expert communities.

Our Proprietary Product Research Process

Trusted Industry Sources (TIS)

Searches trusted sources for matches and assigns a confidence score.

Exceptions

Applies any proprietary exception logic and/or knowledge into the response.

Fallback Search

Failed TIS searches optionally fallback to online sources and are assigned a confidence score.

Decoder

When available, optionally apply a manufacturer part number decoder validation.

Cross Validations

Ensure all product specs match across TIS, exceptions, and decoders; assign score.

A flexible, multi-step verification process applies confidence scoring, citation flags, and cross-checks across sources to ensure every piece of product information is accurate, trustworthy, and ready for enrichment at the highest quality standards.

Smart + Safe: Intelligence Meets Oversight

CatalogIQ uses AI-powered anomaly detection alongside your governance rules to stop bad data before it spreads. Get alerts for suspicious changes, policy violations, or content degradation — and prevent issues before they impact your customers.

Governance That Drives Confidence

With clear ownership of source data, rules-based enforcement of quality standards, and full visibility across your catalog lifecycle, CatalogIQ’s governance engine brings discipline to every stage of product data management. The result? Fewer errors, less rework, and a catalog your team — and your customers — can trust.

Take control of your data sources—and trust every field you publish.

CatalogIQ’s Data Source Governance helps you manage the complexity of product content across systems, feeds, and contributors. From defining source-of-truth fields to setting rules for validation and approval, you gain visibility, consistency, and confidence in your catalog content—at scale.

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