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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By: Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà

Overview of this book

Used by over eighty thousand companies worldwide, Pimcore is the leading open source enterprise-level content management system (CMS) solution. It is an impressive alternative to conventional CMSes and is ideal for creating e-commerce and complex enterprise websites. This book helps developers working with standard CMSes such as WordPress and Drupal to use their knowledge of CMSes to learn Pimcore CMS in a practical way. You'll start by learning what Pimcore is and explore its various services such as PIM, MDM, and DAM. The book then shows you various techniques for developing custom websites in Pimcore based on the scale of your organization. You'll learn how to use Pimcore to improve the digital transformation of a company by implementing enterprise Pimcore features. As you advance, you'll discover Pimcore's capabilities and features that make it a faster and more secure alternative to traditional CMSes. As well as demonstrating practical use cases, Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore can help you understand the benefits of using Pimcore as a CMS solution, sharing best practices and proven techniques for designing professional Pimcore sites. By the end of this book, you'll be a trained Pimcore developer, able to create complex websites, and be well-versed in Pimcore's enterprise features such as MDM, PIM, and DAM.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Why do you need more than a simple CMS?

In this section, we will learn about how the Content Management System (CMS) has evolved in recent years and what new requirements these changes have brought up. Understanding market trends and needs is fundamental to successfully adopting a CMS platform that will support our business or our customers' business for years to come. Learning about a tool such as Pimcore without fully understanding how it can be useful could be a waste of time, and you may lose a lot of technical opportunities that could solve your or your customers' problems.

So, let's introduce the problem that Pimcore solves. Then, it will be very easy to understand why Pimcore created this product in the way that it did and why we should adopt it.

Understanding the change in requirements

The first thing to accept is that there has been an evolution in the market. We are no longer satisfied with a tool that only builds a website. That was okay 10 years...