What is Pimcore?
Pros
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“It has help them improve their data quality and greatly reduce their time to market for months to days.”
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“With our plugins, this is the only solution that allow to manage Print draf and publications, connected to InDesign or exporting directly to PDF HD CMYK, in addition to native features.”
Cons
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“Additionally pimcore offers an ecommerce framework which I personally have no real experience with.”
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“Pimcore will fail if you expect to find a complete solution for your business case right off the bat. It needs professional advise for customization an implementation.”
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“That means that updates can be somewhat painful (ExtJs 3 to ExtJs 6, Zend Framework to Symfony). But I wouldn’t say that they are any more painful than updates in competing products.”
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“No predefined templates for CMS, Admin UI does not have any theming options.”
About Pimcore
What do you like best?
Our company likes the flexibility and scalability of the platform. We were able to customize Pimcore to our exact requirements and connect it with a wide range of external systems. Over time, the platform has continued to grow with us, and we are far from reaching the limits of its functionality.
What do you dislike?
As a flexible framework, Pimcore offers many possibilities and functionalities. This can be intimidating for beginners at first. However, once the system is set up according to your needs, you will quickly find your way around the backend. We recommend working with a Pimcore partner to ideally adapt Pimcore to your own requirements and wishes and to achieve the greatest possible added value for your own business.
PIMCORE – FEATURES
Here are the main features of Pimcore:
- Digital experience management: it is an open source software platform for the management and distribution of personalized digital experiences for each customer on each point of contact
- Multi-channel delivery: deliver experiences across any channel and touchpoint. Use multichannel distribution to automate publishing processes across devices and channels and communicate transparently with the customer
- Personalization and analytics: increase customer engagement by creating compelling and personalized digital experiences, based on KPIs provided by web analytics and business intelligence infrastructure
- Editorial printing (Web2Print): revolutionize traditional printing processes to create customized product catalogs, price lists, and marketing and sales materials.
The main benefits of Pimcore are its robust integration, unified data, and adaptable solutions. Here are the specifics:
Robust Integration
Pimcore is created to deal with any digital data to optimize data sharing, management, and acquisition. It is integrated with other systems to help eliminate the potential, time-consuming errors in data migration. It has service-oriented and API-driven architecture that can be used to integrate with third-party software such a CRM, BI, and ERP.
Unified Data
Pimcore provides a consolidated setup wherein you can manage your digital assets, product data, digital commerce, and web contents. Therefore, you can access a centralized and trusted view of data that ensures consistency. It also unifies the way you provide product experience for your customers that come from different touchpoints.
Adaptable Solution
Pimcore is a versatile solution that has over 100 solution partners across the globe, API-driven approach, and fast speed-to-market. Since the software is based on open architecture, agencies, enterprises, and developers can use it without paying for the license. Utilized by more than 80,000 enterprises in 56 countries worldwide, the system becomes one of the most reliable solutions for product data management needs.