About Akeneo
Since 2013, the French company Akeneo has been globally active with its product information management (PIM) solution for B2B and B2C retailers, manufacturers as well as brands.
Potential customers need accurate product information to make purchasing decisions. With Akeneo PIM, the overall product experience of customers is improved, ensuring your brand values are communicated.
This solution also offers a user-friendly and intuitive interface. Furthermore, redundant and tedious tasks can be automated, allowing large amounts of products to be efficiently managed.
A wide variety of third-party providers and interfaces can be integrated into the system with APIs or via the comprehensive app store.
With Akeneo's Community, Growth and Enterprise Editions, you can bring together all the product-relevant data and efficiently enrich it with the required information. This enables you to distribute high-quality, consistent, valid and complete product information.
This way, the enrichment process can be optimised and accelerated, new sales channels can be developed faster, conversion rates and revenue can be increased and product returns can be reduced.
Our experienced team will help you professionally implement your product data management project.
Comparison of Akeneo with Other PIM Systems
- In our white paper, you can learn how Akeneo stands out in comparison to other PIM solutions.
Community Edition, Growth Edition, Enterprise Edition, Shared Catalogs or Onboarder – Our Team Will Be Happy to Advise You
Akeneo offers several different versions of its software solution, thereby making it a suitable system for all companies that want central management of their product information. We are glad to assist you in deciding which solution is the right one for your business. We support you in implementing the Community Edition as well as setting up the Enterprise Edition. Our services also include the integration of Akeneo Onboarder or additional modules such as Akeneo Shared Catalogs into your PIM system.
As a full-service agency, we also provide advice on process management, change management and data governance. In addition, we offer workshops for decision-makers and training sessions for your employees.
Our Akeneo Services – Successfully Implement Your Project
- Analysis of your requirements and creation of a solution concept
- Development of data models and authorisation concepts
- Process management and consulting for workflow development
- Integration of the PIM solution into your existing system landscape
- Support with data onboarding and data migration as well as data quality assurance
- Conducting training sessions for key users
- Assistance in change management
- Implementation of your PIM system
- Technical implementation of your data governance
- System integration (connection to ERP, shop, CRM and DAM solutions)
- Technical implementation of middleware and connectors
Akeneo PIM Enterprise Edition: Benefit from the Additional Features in the Cloud and an Elevated Service Level
The Enterprise Edition, which is available as a cloud version in the SaaS or PaaS variations, covers everything that can be expected from a PIM system.
From central data management and automation options to first-class support, it even meets complex requirements.
Its extensive features, additional modules and automatic updates make product data management and daily activities much easier for your team.
The Enterprise Edition Comes with the Following Additional Features
- Rules engine for automatic data enrichment
- Extended rights management for better control of the product data enrichment process
- Teamwork assistant for more efficient task allocation during the enrichment process
- Asset management for simplifying the organisation and enrichment of product-specific assets
- Reference entities for enriching your product data with complex and recurring information
- Approval workflow for securing high-quality product information
- Enterprise support for ensuring excellent assistance directly from the manufacturer
Akeneo Onboarder
Onboarder is an additional module in the Enterprise Edition. It makes your work easier by shortening the time required to collect your suppliers' product information and entering it in your Akeneo PIM system without any reformatting or conversion of the data. Moreover, the addition of new products is drastically simplified by Akeneo Onboarder.
dotSource has extensive experience with Akeneo Onboarder!
- Find out more in our Sonderpreis Baumarkt success story.
Benefits of Akeneo Onboarder
- Intuitive and simple handling for your suppliers
- Targeted retrieval of product information that you need for your customers
- Easier onboarding of new products
- Higher quality of supplier information and less follow-up work for your data enrichment teams
- Elimination of time-consuming phone calls and e-mails to complete your product information
- Quicker time to market
- Comprehensive control and approval mechanisms
- Elimination of »copy and paste« errors
- System-supported validation and completeness check of product information means less work for your data enrichment teams
Akeneo PIM: Now Available in the SAP® Store
The Akeneo PIM system is already available in the SAP® Store. Thanks to the collaboration between SAP and Akeneo, it can also be integrated into SAP ecosystems. This offers additional benefits to companies that follow the composable commerce approach.
The seamless integration of Akeneo PIM with SAP Commerce Cloud has functional benefits and saves time. Thus, the solution connects perfectly to SAP Product Content Hub, which has not been further developed, and ensures smooth and central collection of product information.
Benefits of Akeneo PIM
- Quick and uncomplicated start with Akeneo thanks to the intuitive usability of the system
- Highly configurable, extensible and scalable
- Simple and central collection of information from different data sources (ERP systems, excel files, suppliers, etc.)
- Detailed insights into the data quality of the maintained product information in terms of completeness and consistency with numerous optimisation options
- Several features for simplifying product data management, automation of data enrichment steps and collaboration of different teams
- Clear product management interface that provides suitable product information for all possible sales channels and in different languages – beyond just your online shop
- Additional modules such as Akeneo Onboarder and Shared Catalogs
- Flexible catalogue model for easy extension to new markets and countries
- Integrated asset manager that enables assets (media files or links) to be managed independently of their data source and enriched with additional information
- Different delivery models (on premise, SaaS, PaaS)
- Comprehensive error handling and monitoring of all incoming and outgoing data flows via the REST API
Akeneo PIM – Perfect Integration into Adobe Commerce, Magento Open Source, Salesforce Commerce and SAP Commerce Cloud
The Akeneo PIM system can be connected to several well-known e-commerce systems, such as Adobe Commerce, Magento Open Source, Salesforce and SAP Commerce Cloud. This enables the software solution to be optimally integrated into your existing system landscape as well as individually adapted and extended. As a full-service digital agency, our PIM and e-commerce experts work together and keep the big picture in mind.
Akeneo PIM with Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source
Akeneo PIM can be easily integrated into the Adobe platform using connectors. This allows product data to be seamlessly exchanged between the Akeneo PIM solution and Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source. Several clients are already benefitting from this combination.
dotSource is an Adobe Solution Partner. Magento has been part of Adobe since 2018.
Akeneo PIM and Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Connecting Akeneo PIM and Salesforce Commerce Cloud enables retailers to optimise their product data processes and offer an impressive customer experience. With the Akeneo connector for Salesforce Commerce Cloud, high-quality product information can be easily consolidated, enriched, managed and exported into Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
As a Salesforce Gold Consulting Partner, we can assist you in seamlessly integrating Akeneo with Salesforce.
Akeneo PIM – From Product Information Management to Product Experience Management: What Is PXM?
Customer behaviour is constantly changing. Potential customers are active on several different channels and expect all sales channels to have precise and updated product information. This is observed in both B2B and B2C commerce. Excellent customer experience is the key to success. However, where does the effective design of customer experience begin? Each channel has its own rules. Therefore, customer experience needs to be adapted to every touchpoint.
Product experience management (PXM) is an innovative and promising approach for creating a unique customer experience on the basis of extensive product information. For this, the product data first needs to be complete, accurate, relevant and available wherever your customers might look for it. However, the responsibility of e-commerce and marketing managers goes way beyond simple product data management. The goal should be to increase brand awareness and product data consistency.
A product experience manager must create emotional experiences for customers to enhance conversion rates and reduce product returns – across all touchpoints, regions and languages. For this purpose, suitable tools are required. The Akeneo PXM solution enables your employees to collect, manage and enrich the corresponding data from internal and external sources. This allows them to design appealing product descriptions, manage associated digital assets as well as distribute enriched and contextualised product information across all touchpoints. In this manner, you can effectively increase the success of your products on the market.
Are you ready for PXM?
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions About Akeneo
How do you know whether your company needs Akeneo PIM?
- Long time to market for your products
- Delayed processes because of incomplete product data
- Shop systems reaching their limits in terms of product data management
- Product information cannot be flexibly adapted to different channels
What are the costs associated with Akeneo PIM implementation?
The costs vary based on the scope and duration of the project. Generally, the following applies:
- Those who utilise the expertise of external parties when it comes to system selection will later benefit from higher ROI.
Akeneo's licencing costs depend on the edition. There is the free Community Edition and the paid Growth Edition and Enterprise Edition.
How long do PIM projects last?
- Each project has a different scope and accordingly different project duration – we can look back on numerous successful PIM projects in recent years and tailor your PIM project with the help of our MVP approach so that you can quickly benefit from the added values of the system.
- With different concepts such as the »driving school model«, we implement your PIM project in such a manner that it fits your company and requirements.
- The time frame also depends on whether and to what extent the employees need to be trained. It is highly recommended to do so.
Why should you collaborate with dotSource for your PIM projects?
We employ a dedicated team of Akeneo-certified developers and consultants, who look forward to challenges and can already proudly look back on several successfully completed Akeneo projects.
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