Purpose
The Product View page helps you share the results of your product analysis based on Makersite's Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) tools with the external world. Product View is a publicly accessible website generated specifically for one analysis. Note that you can only generate the Product View page for datasets you are allowed to share.
Prerequisites
Our comparison tools allow Makersite users to analyse multiple factors such as cost, compliance, health, environment and sustainability metrics at the same time. These are based on predefined data taken from the models included in Makersite. We have the following MCDA tools in Makersite:
Before accessing Product View, you need to prepare an analysis using either of the above-mentioned tools.
Access Product View
From the home page, go to either Table View or Product Comparison tools.
Once you're done adding data sets, select Share.
Makersite shows a popup with the Choose Benchmark Perspective title. Select Equal Weights to give all your criteria the same statistical weights for the scoring. Otherwise, original weights are maintained.
3. Finally, select Generate URL. Makersite will generate a page dedicated to your analysis, provided you have the necessary sharing rights for selected datasets. Anyone can open the URL in their browser to access the Product View page.
Use Product View
The landing page explains what Multi-criteria decision analysis is about in Makersite. Select Start your comparison to proceed.
In What's important to you? pop-up, you can change the weights of criteria used to calculate the final score, which is based on a weighted average.
Finally, you can see the scoring page with the scoring of your products, with the top-ranking product presented in more detail.
Product View also shows additional information such as:
Brief information about Makersite in the About us page.
Details about scoring methodology under Methodology.
Peer comparison shows how your perspective (i.e. the weights you defined) compares against equally-weighted perspective, and whether or not it impacts the ranking of products being compared.
Study Data shows data entered in Makersite as input for this analysis.
What's Next?
Share your results with the world to showcase that your organisation cares about sustainability and backs it up with data rather than a green etiquette.