Maintaining an extensive portfolio of current and discontinued products can cause unnecessary complexity for sales people. Add to this the need to have different groups of sales people handing different markets and products, though field sales, phone sales, service personnel and web - all with potentially different requirements - and you will understand why Enterprise 6 introduces the concept of catalogues.

Catalogues present a specific portfolio of products and pricing. You might have trade and retail catalogues, or one for your major accounts team; you might have a parts catalogue or one for charities. It's a great and effective way to manage what might otherwise be a very unwieldy database.