Akeneo

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Jul 2021

Adopt

We continue to use Akeneo with a variety of customers to store and process product data in a standardized format. It is the de facto standard for open source PIM's and therefore an integral part of our e-commerce solutions.

In the meantime, Akeneo has been continuously developed and offers many new features that further facilitate product data collection.

The recent switch to Elasticsearch and an update of Symfony improved runtime behaviour as well as scalability for future-prove use. Support for the latest release of PHP 8 is upcoming.

Nov 2019

Assess

Mar 2017

Assess

Akeneo is a Product Information Management system (also known as PIM, PCM or Product MDM) and helps centralize and harmonize all the technical and marketing information of products.

We use Akeneo with success in our projects and products (For example in OM3), where it is responsible for:

Keeping product data separate from other applications - such as E-Commerce systems
Managing lifecycles of products and managing product portfolios with their category structures
Managing attributes and families and therefore acting as attribute master for the suite

The system has a modern and friendly user interface and product managers find things such as completeness check, translation views and mass editing very helpful.

With delta export and import capabilities and the usage of Mongo DB as persistence backend, the performance is acceptable. We miss a richer API - but the system is extendable and based on PHP/Symfony 2.