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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 Pimcore?

When defining what Pimcore is, the first thing to take into account is the name itself. The name suggests that the PIM is the main part, but you shouldn't be taken in by appearances. Pimcore is a lot more than a PIM product.

We can describe Pimcore as a framework because it gives us all the tools we need to implement our projects. This second definition is not much more intuitive to understand than the first, but it gives us an important hint. Pimcore is a set of tools, but we cannot think of it as a library or some snippets. Pimcore is a set of collaborative tools; each tool can solve its own problem. It is not a product but a suite of products. The combination of all of them helps to design a complete digital solution. In this sense, Pimcore is a true DXP: a platform that enables developers to implement digital projects. This definition is a little bit vague, but it tells us that Pimcore gives us a very wide range of opportunities. We cannot merely say &quot...