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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)

What is a PIM?

In Chapter 1, Introducing Pimcore, we briefly introduced the concept of Product Information Management (PIM). In this section, we will better explain this concept, which we will put into practice throughout the following sections of this chapter.

The concept of PIM encompasses a set of technologies and procedures that allow centralized management of product data and their distribution across different channels. In many common scenarios, information relating to products may come from multiple sources, potentially with different data structures, both due to different needs dictated by their distribution channels and through the provision of different technologies in distinct areas within the same company.

The use of a PIM allows you to integrate information from different sources into a single platform and organize it all coherently, with the possibility of redistributing this information in different ways to e-commerce platforms, websites, paper catalogs, and so...