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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
Book Image

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)

Discovering Pimcore's features

As we said earlier in this chapter, Pimcore comes out of the box with some huge features that make it the ideal platform for implementing simple and complex projects.

In this section, we will present the main features:

  • Data management
  • CMS and DXP
  • PIM
  • MDM
  • DAM
  • E-commerce
  • Customer Data Platform (CDP)

Let's take a look at each one.

Data management

Data management is the root of all features in Pimcore. The data management feature aggregates any kind of data and distributes it across multiple channels. Compared to other solutions, Pimcore has the best data management system. It allows you to define data using the UI, and this is very good because you don't have to write a single line of code. You can stop messing about with database tables, field lengths, and data queries; all you need to do is simply open your browser, create your entities, and pick the fields you want. This feature is very similar...