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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)

Understanding the Pimcore Architecture

In this short section, we will look at a simplified outline of the Pimcore architecture, with particular attention paid to that part of the architecture that we will focus on in our discussion as we go through this chapter.

In the following diagram, we can take a look at the Pimcore architecture, and understand which part of Pimcore we will be focusing on in this chapter:

Figure 3.1: Pimcore Architecture

As you can see in the previous diagram, the starting point for our journey of discovering Pimcore is indicated by the dashed rectangle that contains the text: YOU ARE HERE.

Just to get an idea of how Pimcore is composed in all its parts, let's look at each aspect of the diagram; even if what we see is a simplified version of the Pimcore architecture, we can identify all the important parts of the platform. We won't go into detail on each part, but we can still describe them quickly.

The PIMCORE UI LAYER...