Blog Posts / Product Information Management

Why Do You Need a PIM System in Your E-business?
Product Information Management
*Note: this blogpost was written by our friends at Ergonode in support of Commerce Days Transformation 2022. Check them both out! 👍 The implementation of a PIM system is a way to keep ahead of the competition in the future. With the expansion of the retail and e-commerce businesses, and the growing amount of product data to be managed, the...

Pimcore vs Akeneo / The Best PIM Software?
Product Information Management
E-commerce and retail companies sell products – and each product has a wealth of information that needs to be maintained. These days, Product Information Management tools are plentiful. We’re not going to tell you what they do – the clue’s in the name and we already covered it 😉 – but advise you on the next step: how to...

A Single Source of Truth / A Key Way To Eliminate Technical Debt
Repetition, inaccuracy and inconsistencies are issues every business wants to avoid. They’re also typical signs of poorly chosen – or poorly used – technologies. When used right, good technology can eliminate unnecessary repetition, ensure greater consistency and generally improve results over all. At the core of this is often the concept of “A...

PIM vs CMS / Why Use PIM?
For most businesses, a typical content management system (including traditional and headless CMS versions) will answer all essential needs – landing pages, home pages, contact details etc – with little effort. With e-commerce operations however, there are additional needs we need to consider: products. In fact, that’s an oversimplification. With...

Headless Commerce Benefits / The Inevitable Direction
We’ve talked a lot about headless. We’ve also talked a lot about e-commerce. We like to talk so – what if we throw these two topics together? Headless commerce is a very logical conclusion – and the wider industry seems to agree. Some of you already know this but for those that don’t, we wanted to give a handy primer to...

Selling in B2B / Lessons Learned From B2C
E-commerce is booming: that’s no secret. What is worth highlighting, however is the sudden B2B e-commerce growth that’s often lost in the wider story. An industry that typically relied on in-person sales is now relying on digital sales more than ever. While they may be ‘behind’ compared to B2C, this is also means B2B online...

Using Custom Layouts in PimCore to restrict the visibility of editing tabs for selected users or user groups
Product Information Management
Anyone who has worked with product data knows that not all parameters assigned to an object should be visible and available for editing to every user. When creating a custom view that includes selected parameters for a given user or user group, an error occurs in PimCore, showing tabs that are not available for those users. Read below how...

How to manage product information using PIM
Product Information Management
The rapid growth of e-commerce and the subsequent high competition have increased the standards and expectations of customers. A multi-channel presence and message consistency are just some of the challenges that need to be faced. How can you meet them? Start from ensuring high quality product information, as well as its proper presentation, and make sure...

Who Should Be Interested in PIM?
Product Information Management
Despite the growing availability of advanced systems to support product information management, not every company needs to implement them. Below we explore some of the indicators to decide whether it is worth investing in a Product Information Management (PIM) system. A large number of dynamically changing products The number of products is a relative...


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