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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, you learned the concept of Master Data Management and how to expose Pimcore objects to third-party applications using the Datahub Pimcore bundle.

After having defined that concept, you have seen an example of how to implement the concept of data quality, which is a key feature of MDM systems.

Later in the chapter, you learned how to activate a Datahub Pimcore Bundle and how to create a configuration for that bundle, and how to set up the configuration to expose objects and other entities with external applications.

After having introduced the GraphQL query language, you learned how to perform queries to retrieve object data through some query examples, as well as how to create, update, and delete objects through mutation queries. Then, you learned how to implement a custom mutation query function, which is useful for defining complex scenarios.

In the last section, you learned how to configure and render custom reports, which let you present and...