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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)

What is a DAM?

In this section, you will learn about the concepts of Digital Asset Management. DAM software is an integrated system designed for the centralized strategic management of media content. It is the software that allows you to create, organize, and distribute content across different channels such as websites and applications and increase the effectiveness of communication.

Now that we know the academic definition, let's see what DAM software is useful for and what its main features are. As the name suggests, DAM revolves around Digital Assets; this concept is not intended to be restricted to images or videos but involves all kinds of digital files, such as documents and audio recordings.

So, given the digital assets, let's now move on to the Management part of the definition. The management of digital assets is not just intended to organize assets in several folders like on the desktop of your PC; of course, in DAM systems, and thus also in Pimcore, we will...