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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)

Chapter 13: Implementing Master Data Management

In the previous chapter, you learned about the concept of Product Information Management (PIM), and how to properly create a Pimcore class to represent products. Through some coding examples, you learned how to create product variants and bundle products, and how to define different types of products by extending the defined class with Objectbricks.

In this chapter, we will present the concept of Master Data Management (MDM), and how to expose Pimcore objects to third-party applications using the Datahub Pimcore bundle. The chapter is organized as follows:

  • Turning Pimcore into MDM
  • Activating the Pimcore Datahub bundle
  • Exposing entities
  • Using mutation queries
  • Creating a custom mutation
  • Defining custom reports

Starting with a definition of Master Data Management, we will see how to turn Pimcore into MDM. Then, we will present the Pimcore Datahub bundle and explain how to install it. After that, we will...