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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)

Turning Pimcore into MDM

In Chapter 1, Introducting Pimcore, we briefly introduced the concept of Master Data Management. MDM is a fundamental process used to manage, centralize, organize, categorize, locate, synchronize, and enrich critical data based on your company's sales, marketing, and operational strategies. In this section, we will explain this concept better to let you understand how easily you can put into practice the learnings from the previous chapters to turn Pimcore into an MDM system.

We have already seen in Chapter 12, Implementing Product Information Management, the potential that Pimcore has in terms of data management, but it has one big limitation: it's strictly related to the concept of products.

In many company scenarios, products are not the only kind of data that needs to be defined, managed, and shared through the company users or distributed in different channels. For example, if we think in terms of e-commerce purposes, we may want to store...