- Data Analysis
- Data Extraction
- Data Cleansing
- Data Classification
- Data Enrichment
- Inventory Analysis Services
- Vendor Data Collection & Validation Services
- Other Data Services
Our content services offerings encompass the broadest range of client needs ranging from content extraction and analysis, cleansing, conversion, classification, mapping, transformation and syndication. We have partnered with the leading global companies based on their capabilities and proven track record of having delivered significant business process efficiency and operational cost savings to many organizations in various industries as:
- Healthcare
- Life Sciences
- Manufacturing
- Oil & Gas and MRO
- Petrochemicals
- Automotive
- Power
- Mining and chemicals
- Electrical
- Food & Beverages
- Office supplies
- Building & Construction
- Electronic parts & Semiconductors
Hullabaloo is set up to accept any type of data as input and can provide any output format. Using the right mix of experienced content specialists and domain experts Hullabaloo’s data services can benefit any organization that needs to streamline the collection, creation, and synchronisation of commerce quality data internally and externally across the enterprise. Our collaborative web based development tools are designed to include all parties in the content build process, i.e. supplier, buyer, and service provider to ensure that content is built consistently and delivered to each customer’s specification with guaranteed accuracy and on time.
Data Classification 
Meaningful spend analysis is essential fuel for pursuing supply chain cost reduction efforts. The analysis of spend patterns depends on having accurate product information that is properly classified.
To global schema
Hullabaloo provides data classification services that classify products and services to well known global standard schemas such as UNSPSC, eCl@ss, BMEcat, NAICS, NATO, MESC, NIGP and SMD etc.
To proprietary schema
Hullabaloo provides classification services and mappings to classify the products and services to any in-house / proprietary schema of manufacturer/supplier in the domain of MRO, Life Science, Healthcare, Chemicals, IT and Office Supplies.
Taxonomy building and Mapping
Hullabaloo’s team of taxonomy experts can build a schema to a specific domain tailored to customer needs. This comes with category codes, category definition, attribute names and attribute definitions cross referenced to any existing schema. Our team of taxonomy experts are well versed with classification hierarchies and can map from any proprietary schema to global schemas such as UNSPSC, eCl@ss etc.
Inventory Management
Effective inventory management is a key to achieving cost savings for any organization. A well managed inventory can substantially reduce costs and importantly bring down the unproductive down-times.
Hullabaloo and its services partners have been helping its clients to manage their product content assets. With expertise gained over past several years, Hullabaloo offers inventory analysis services to optimize client's inventory. Analysis is done to determine the following parameters;
- Value of on-hand inventory
- Value of Excessive inventory
- Value of Inactive items
- Optimized max and min stock levels
- Optimized re-order points based on the utilization history
- Potential 'Stock-outs'
- Vendor Normalization and rankings
Content creation
Hullabaloo offers content creation services both from hardcopy catalogues as well as electronic formats like PDF, XLS, CSV, text etc. We can output in any format required by the customer, like XLS, XML, text files or any exchange specific formats like OEX XML, CUP, CIF, cXML etc. Hullabaloo specializes in providing commerce rich content.
Content conversion and syndication
Hullabaloo undertakes format conversion and publishing jobs on behalf of its customers. Any existing –e-Content catalogue data can be converted into any of the industry standard format (Ex: CSV, CUP, CIF, cXML, xCBL, BMECat etc). We can also "publish" the e-catalogue content to the supplier's participating marketplace and even maintain the content online.
Our experience and patented content management platform allows you to benefit by having your content ready for publishing to the following Oracle, SAP, Ariba and PeopleSoft environments.
Content management and maintenance
Hullabaloo can maintain product content of any manufacturer / supplier, hosted in an e-marketplace or buyside / supply side catalogue, with regular updates on price and date.
Data Digitization
Converts your paper based documents to electronic format using innovative and cost effective processes. Our clients have realized greater ROI and exceptional quality deliverables for their outsourced conversion projects. Our data conversion process assures an accuracy rate of 99.99% and higher. We undertake conversions to text, HTML, XML and SGML formats.
Image Editing
Hullabaloo undertakes Image editing jobs like scanning, cleaning, re-sizing, bordering, merging of two images and splitting of images.
Data Cleansing
Clean, accurate product and vendor data provide the foundation for maximizing the ROI of technology investments and for completing meaningful spend analysis. Hullabaloo assists in creating and maintaining clean item master and vendor master files.
Hullabaloo specializes in providing data cleansing through an exclusive panel of content service providers and, domain experts, working with operational teams to agree on correct noun-modifier combinations, attributes and the correctness and completeness of attribute values. Hullabaloo can also provide attribute extraction to any industry standard or we can develop proprietary set of attributes using internal domain knowledge.
Our complete range of data cleansing services, include:
- Data normalization and rationalization
- Duplicate part identification and removal
- Attribute extraction and population
- Abbreviation expansion
- Supplier and manufacturer rationalization
Noun Modifier / Identification
Noun / modifiers help in unambiguously identifying a product and serves to easily group products. Hullabaloo can assign Noun / Modifiers to products with the help of existing descriptions.
De-duplication
Duplicates are identified and removed by adopting various permutations of pattern matching rules, database queries and manual inspection
Re-arranging word order and Descriptions
Using our team of highly experienced content engineers, input descriptions are re-arranged in the order of "Noun, Modifier, Defining attributes, Manufacturer Name, Part Number". Hullabaloo’s also has expertise in creating short descriptions based on the limitations imposed by ERP systems to limit number of characters. i.e.; (40, 60, 80, 120 Characters for a product description)
Attribute Extraction and population
Hullabaloo can provide attribute extraction to any industry standard attribute schema and can also develop new sets of attributes by using in-house domain expert's knowledge. Our tools also allows us to look for attributes contained within a description, when identified we can extract and populate blank attribute headers with the correct value.
Normalisation
Hullabaloo can format the data entities such as Manufacturer/supplier names, attributes values, abbreviations, Unit of measurements etc to a uniform and consistent values based on a specific Style-guide.
Data Enrichment
Hullabaloo provides data enrichment services, which may involve sourcing content from various sources. Alongside web research, we do manual sourcing in order to collect all possible critical product information. Completely attributed data along with digital images, contact information, and PDF documents are sourced.
Hullabaloo can perform data enrichment by employing any or all of the below steps.
- Data enrichment by sourcing manufacturer websites
- Data enrichment by "manual sourcing" i.e. by contacting suppliers for additional data
- Data enrichment by collecting additional data by "plant walk-downs
Hullabaloo adopts the followings steps to enrich the data by using this method:
- List of distinct Manufacturers are compiled from the input data
- For each Manufacturer, his official / authorized web sources are collected. This task is performed by a separate team that is specialized in locating online resources.
- Manufacturer website URLs, Images and Data sheets are recorded.
- From the given input, descriptions are analysed and appropriate Noun-modifiers are assigned (as per the attribute schema preferred by client). If required, data classification and data cleansing is performed based on the customer's preference.
- Attribute templates are selected for the individual Noun-modifier combinations and applied to the record.
- Images are sourced, resized if required, cleaned-up if required.
- Values are populated from the input and websites for these attributes.
- Quality checks re carried out during the production process and before delivery
Contracting Manufacturers & Suppliers
Supplier sourcing or manual sourcing is the process whereby suppliers are directly contacted for product information when web scraping doesn't yield results. Hullabaloo can provide a service to engage customer’s suppliers for the purposes of obtaining product information in a time-bound and convenient manner. Suppliers are contacted by email / phone call / fax by Hullabaloo appointed representatives.
Plant Walk Downs
Hullabaloo can also provide onsite sourcing of parts information.
Using our content services panel, we have gained valuable expertise in this space with several successfully completed on-site projects. The information is compiled and analysed from various sources within the plant like Stores, Item Master, Purchase orders/requisitions, Codification rules, Tags, Nameplates, Catalogues, etc. Additionally, the items are physically assessed and measured to gather technical data.
Vendor Data Collection & Validation Services
Bad data records on your vendors cost money, time and productivity. Data is out of date, incomplete or just spread across multiple business systems.
Ensuring you have valid and current vendor information in your corporate database systems is often a challenge for enterprises.
“We think it’s pretty good” is no longer an acceptable standard.
To eliminate the complexity of maintaining accurate vendor databases and the business consequences of out-dated information, Hullabaloo has introduced an On-Demand vendor data collection and validation service.
The service consists of a tailored communication with multiple contact options, a 24x7 secure web based supplier registration platform, support services and expert resources - all designed to provide suppliers with a simple and effective process for entering information based on the format and rules you apply.
Supplier data is validated to ensure that business names, ABN’s and address details are accurate and comply to the ATO’s databases along with any other specified information. The service provides an on-going data maintenance and management capability where suppliers can log in anytime to review or update their details. The captured data is then exported in the required format for the target system, eliminating the need for manual re-keying and ensuring that data is complete and accurate.
The Vendor Validation service is ideal for organisations handling sophisicated databases, such as large Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management and Supplier Relationship Management systems.
“The service means entities that don’t have the internal resources or capability to undertake comprehensive database validation can now do so. Organisations who rely on such databases cannot afford the business critical consequences of inaccurate information can now take steps to protect themselves against inaccurate information. The service was recently used by a major NSW Government agency to collect and validate vendor information from its 3000 vendors.
Data Analysis
Using patented (ETL) Extract, Transform and Load toolset, Hullabaloo offers a capability to extract analyze and grade the quality of your ERP master data, Product data, vendor or financial data.
The service provides organisations a health check and understanding of their enterprise wide data quality issues, its impact on future software implementations and business initiatives and Hullabaloo’s approach and methodology to fixing the data dilemma.