Hi all, I have a question whether Concrete5 would be a good fit for ym use case:

-right now I have created a useful but rudimentary Product Information System (PIM see here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_information_management).... A PIM essentially takes product features and benefits and sends those to other places on the website where they are used.
-I am right now accomplishing this with the "Global Blocks" add-on pulling from extra areas I have added in pages. This allows a change on one page to propagate throughout many pages. This Solution is not scalable and does not do anything for reusing that information without a human manually deciding how and when to use it.

This will serve as a good example...I want to take this to the next level and essentially have:

Computer1 & 2 & 3 &4 ......hundreds of computer entries
-Processor Speed
-Memory
-Hard drive Space

Software1 & 2 & 3 .....many different software programs
-OS Supported
-Benefit1/2/3/4/5

Essentially a whole mess of products that have dimensions added to them. Once those dimensions are in there, many interesting things can be done when comparing them later on.

My question is: How is the best way to tag these products with these pieces of information?

I think that Attributes are the way to go...essentially creating a new Attribute Type for each high level "thing" (software, hardware, etc.) and then within that type have individual attributes defined for the common things between them.

From what I have seen, though, aren't Attributes assigned to pages and not the actual "thing" itself? In the eCommerce add-on there are definitely "things", but maybe I am not understanding how to do this fully in Concrete5? I was looking at the Data Display add-on but I am not sure that would do what I am looking for either.

Thanks for any advice!