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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about what Pimcore is, not stopping at the definition but going deep into Pimcore's capabilities. Pimcore is a very flexible platform that can deliver many solutions without reinventing the wheel. By using it, you will experience the comfort of always having the right solution for your needs.

Pimcore comes with many interesting features (PIM, CMS, DAM, and MDM), and it is ready to use with a low-friction licensing model. Once you have adopted it to satisfy a single requirement, such as a CMS, you have all the other features available, and you can activate them as your needs evolve.

Now that this chapter is finished, you are ready to start the practical part. The first step will be to learn how to install and configure Pimcore on your PC. This lesson is very important for starting using Pimcore and being ready for all the lessons that will come later.