Some clear specific business benefits can be:

• Save time and money in internal communication; catalogue creation and distribution; product design and administrative tasks.
• Improve products and services reducing turn-around time; quickening the exchange of commercial information with clients regarding orders, invoices and quotes, etc.; enabling the immediate availability of information and reducing the errors in the management of catalogues and orders.
• Apply innovative methods with minimum disruption to existing work practices
• Share information between the different life cycle processes in product development;
• Avoid maintaining duplicate information;
• Export information from design software to use it with ERP applications
• Export design and graphical information from design software and allow your customers to import that information into home decoration applications.
• Access to new markets: publish your catalogue in foreign marketplaces;
• 'Type once, publish everywhere' paradigm.
• Avoid getting locked-in with proprietary tools and formats that may disappear in the near future;
• Get wide support from the industry;
• Ease maintenance of product information across the company.