Taking control of my data

If your company and products are already on the site, it is important that you take control of that information. The site contains a feature that allows you to be linked to your information as controller, The steps to establish yourself are as follows:

Register first

You have to register as a user first.

1. Click on Join in the menu bar and follow
2. Click on register.
3. Fill out the form and you are ready to go.

My company is already on the site

Go to your company page and click on '"Is this my company?".

To protect your information we need to confirm that you work for the company. Our first level of control is to check that the domain of the company web site matches the domain of your email address. So if your site is www.xyz.com, then if your email address is somebody@xyz.com then you are good to go.

If your email doesn't match then you will need to contact us and we will sort it out for you. So the system verifies your email by sending you an email with a link in it.

Once you are linked to your company, the can manage the company information. Click on your name on the menu bar and select 'profile'. There will now be a link on the page to manage the company information.

My company is not on the site

Simply click on "Claim my company" at the foot of every page.

When you enter the company information we will check that the domain of the website of the company matches the domain of your email address. So if your email if somebody@xyz.com then we will validate the web address you enter for the company is also xyz.com.

As before we will verify your email and present you with a form to enter the company information. Once set up you can manage the company from your profile page. Click on your name on the menu bar and click on profile, you will be taken to the vendor management page..

Obviously we need to guard against spam entries, so we check all new companies and manually release them onto the site. Normally this is within 24 Hours. You can still check out your page and add products via links in the company management area.

Vendor management page

The page that you use to manage your company information is easy to get to. Log in to the site and click on profile. The profile page has a link to update your company information.

The vendor management page allows you to update the company profile and add / manage products.

To add a new product, load the vendor management page and click on "Add product". Fill out the form. You are then taken to the product management page.

Product management page

You can edit, delete, or classify the product into one or more categories from this page. You can also view the page even if you are waiting for the company to be cleared.

Adding categories

The product will not appear in any of the listings (except the search) unless you assign the product to a category. Click on "Select a category".

1. You are asked to select a business area first (Banking, insurance etc),
2. When you select a business area, you are asked to select a subsection within that business
3. Finally select a category of product within that subsection.

The click "Add category".

Product analysis

Each product category has around 100 items that should be checked to indicate whether the item is available in this product. For some items we are looking for a number (for example a throughput rate).

You now have three choices:

1. Do nothing - the link takes you back to the vendor management page. Your product page will not show a product analysis.
2. Complete the analysis for the product
3. Print the analysis items. This gives you a document that you can use to mark up the responses offline, possibly with product experts.