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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 14: Data Integration

In the previous chapter, you learned about the concept of Master Data Management (MDM), and how to expose Pimcore objects to third-party applications using the Datahub Pimcore bundle. After defining how to install and activate that bundle and how to configure it, you learned how to perform GraphQL queries to retrieve object data and to create, update, or delete objects.

In this chapter, you will learn how to perform data integration in Pimcore through standard import and export functionalities, when these standards are supposed to be used, and, otherwise, when the implementation of custom solutions is necessary.

The chapter is organized as follows:

  • Importing Data
  • Exporting Data
  • Limitations of Standard Functionalities
  • Implementing Custom Solutions
  • Configuring the Data Importer

We'll start by presenting how to perform simple CSV data importing and exporting using standard solutions. Then, we will explain the limitations...