The Sitation Blog
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Recent Sitation Blogs
Akeneo Bulk Delete: Leveraging the Power of Features in 7.0
Akeneo 7.0 further shifts the platform from limited control to allow for attribute bulk deletes; a risky but valuable feature.
5 Product Information Challenges in the High Tech Distribution Industry
The high tech industry distribution faces a number of challenges related to product data. With numerous specifications for each item in impressively large catalogs, electronic components present a complex management problem. Take a look at some of these problems and stay tuned as Director of Solution Consulting, Pramit Rajkrishna begins a blog series on how to gain the competitive edge through product information management.
E-Book: Maximizing the REST API Performance on Akeneo PIM Community Edition
Are you considering using Akeneo PIM for a very large product data set? Do you have concerns about the ability to get a large volume of data in or out, using its web-based REST API in a timely manner? Do not be concerned. When configured for performance you can update over 500 products/second and retrieve over 3,000 products/second. So Akeneo PIM can easily handle millions of products.
How to Assess Your Product Experience Strategy
Please enjoy this guest blog from the experts at Akeneo as they share the value of product experience and how to asses your strategy.
Output from AI LLMs is Non-Deterministic. What that means and why you should care.
Discover the challenges of non-deterministic language models and strategies to get more consistent results Picture this: You're using a cutting-edge large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT to generate a product description for your online store. You input the same prompt twice, expecting to...
Product Data Management for Automotive: Navigating the Challenges
Director of Automotive Solutions, Steve Bach shares some insight on how managing product data in the automotive space can be challenging but valuable.
Akeneo and Microservices: The Benefits of an Open Ecosystem Model
What exactly are microservices and how are they a value to your overall tech stack? Check out how Akeneo, built to easily connect with other solutions, easily supports a microservices strategy.
5 Ways Sitation’s Automotive Expertise Can Drive eCommerce Success
With a dedicated team of of industry focused eCommerce consultants and membership in the leading industry standard organizations, see how Sitation’s automotive expertise can help drive your online success.
Blog Archives
RoughDraftPro Content Creation in Akeneo: Why and How?
RoughDraftPro, a powerful new product content creation tool, is a revolutionary way to augment and support your copywriting team. Providing the ability to create descriptions for new offerings, update existing product information, and consistently refresh and align...
PIM vs DAM vs CMS and What to Consider
By Sitation Account Executive, Ian Wills PIM vs DAM vs CMS PIM, DAM, and CMS are all software solutions used for managing digital content, but they serve different purposes and are applied to different types of content. Product Information Management (PIM) PIM is a...
View Our Workshop: Leveraging AI to Create Content in Akeneo
Just a few weeks ago, Sitation took a team of five to Paris for Akeneo's Unlock PXM Conference. At this annual global event, full of networking and exciting industry updates, Sitation founder and CEO, Steve Englebrecht presented a workshop to display the value and the...
Getting Started with Enhanced Content: What to Know and Where to Start
By Sitation Project Manager, Billie Smith What is Enhanced Content? Enhanced content is the extra bit of information on a product page designed to draw people in and make them stay. Whether it's an array of images, product features, videos or detailed feature images...
Let’s Take a Second to Marvel at How Fast OpenAI is Moving
Mark Zuckerberg famously said that he wanted Facebook to "move fast and break things" - and I have to admit that I have stolen that line once or twice myself. It's a fun and productive way to work - especially when you're in the early stages of a project or a startup....
E-Book: Using Akeneo PIM Enterprise Edition as a Vendor Portal
Are you using Akeneo PIM as your Product Information Management (PIM) system? Do you have tens or hundreds of manufacturers (vendors) from which you need to acquire product information? If so, then consider using Akeneo PIM Enterprise Edition as your vendor portal....
Managed Services: Using Your Current Solutions to Grow and Scale
As we continue to explore Managed Services solutions, you will find that the offerings are diverse. What makes Sitation’s Managed Services unique is that while we adapt to customize a team to meet your primary needs, we are also looking for opportunities for...
Sitation Partners with Channel Engine
Apex, NC February 14, 2023 Sitation, a leading systems integrator and service provider for product information management and digital merchandising, has officially become a Channel Engine Certified Partner. Sitation and Channel Engine have previously worked together...
Introducing RoughDraftPro – AI-Generated Product Content at Enterprise Scale
RoughDraftPro is the future of copywriting for e-commerce. Generate high-quality product descriptions, feature bullets, and more in seconds, all at a fraction of the cost of human writers.Sitation is proud to announce the launch of RoughDraftPro, a powerful suite of...
Sitation to Attend Akeneo Unlock 2023 – Future-Proof with PX
As an Akeneo Gold Partner, Sitation is excited to attend Unlock 2023 - Future-Proof with PX. This March we will return to Maison de la Mutualité in Paris, France to engage with PIM and PXM industry players, meet with clients old and new, as well as learn more about...
How OpenAI is Transforming the Future of Product Content Creation
OpenAI is a technology company that is quickly shaking up the way businesses create and distribute all kinds of content; blogs, social media posts, and of course, product content. We're already seeing a rapidly changing landscape in the scale and quality of both...
PIM as a Solution to Bev/Alc Industry Three Tier Challenges
In much of the United States, beverages containing alcohol have been heavily regulated for the last 90 years. In 1933, the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution ended prohibition, legalizing alcohol sales but transferring regulations to the states. From this, the...
Managed Services: How Sitation Can Help Eliminate Administrative Ownership Concerns
While Sitation may be best known for success in Product Information Management (PIM) implementation, we also provide a number of other valuable business services. Our Managed Services segment offers solution driven opportunities, customizable to the needs of your...
Sitation Honored as Salsify’s First Platinum Partner
Apex, NC February 1, 2023 Sitation, a leading systems integrator and service provider for product information management and digital merchandising, has today been named a Salsify Platinum Partner, the first Salsify partner to be honored at this elite tier. Since...
Akeneo Implementation: Avoiding Common Bottlenecks
By Akeneo focused Project Manager Jannel McCullough The value add of Product Information Management (PIM) software, like Akeneo, gets discussed frequently. Case studies, customer success interviews, and direct product experience support impacts like faster time...
Managed Services: SEO Content Enhancements
Sitation Managed Services offers strategic analysis, data modeling, technology stack review, and the services required to help you achieve your digital shelf goals. Our certified team of experts partners with a variety of industry manufactures, distributors and...
E-BOOK: Syncing Data Between Two Akeneo Community Edition PIMs
Is it possible to synchronize the data between two instances of Akeneo PIM? Yes! In this detailed e-book, expert Don Bales shows you how to do just that for the open-source Akeneo PIM Community Edition. The following contents take you step by step through the process....
E-Commerce New Year’s Resolutions
For over 4,000 years people have used the end of one year and the start of another as a time to reflect on past wins and losses. While some of us will resolve to eat differently, exercise our bodies or minds in a new way, or adjust our work life balance, many of us...
An Ecommerce Wishlist: Top Requests for 2023 Digital Success
Holiday season is here and the end of the year is fast approaching. For many organizations, 2022 has been a year of growth and a return to normalcy. As we chart our paths and create roadmaps to 2023 digital success, let's take a look at what recent surveys reveal are...
Akeneo 6.0 – The Latest in Enterprise Content Management
By Akeneo Certified, Solution Consultant Joseph Purayidathil Akeneo Product Information Management (PIM) system is a part of Akeneo’s Customer Experience Management technology that helps businesses manage their product data. PIM solutions have become increasingly...
CASE STUDY: Sitation Led Implementation Cuts Time to Market in Half for Hudson & Canal
Upgrading the digital tech stack to accomplish ecommerce goals is on the to-do list for many companies. The talented team at B2B home furnishing company, Hudson & Canal knew exactly what type of solutions they were after to achieve this fundamental goal. Operating...
Akeneo – A JavaScript Node Programmer’s Guide to the PIM’s Web API
Overview Akeneo's Product Information Management (PIM) application: Akeneo PIM, is one of the best open-source and/or enterprise PIM's on the market. One of its greatest strengths is its REST-based Web API. Akeneo has made a commitment to keep it forward compatible....
KEM Powered SEO Drives Holiday Shopping Success
By Ben Visee, Account Executive - Products E-commerce continues to be the fastest growing area of retail. With numbers increasing to include at least one online touch point in all buying journeys, consumers are consistently showing retailers that they enjoy a detailed...
Amazon 3P Sellers Join the Migration to SP-API
Change is once again afoot with Amazon. Back in January, we explained the introduction of Amazon Selling Partner API (SP-API) and the adjustments that customers connecting to Amazon would need to make. At that time, support through the new SP-API was not available to...
A Few of My Favorite Things: Akeneo Unlock Boston 2022 in Review
Nearly a month ago, I joined several of my co-workers, as well as partners, customers, and experts from all over the world in the Seaport area of Boston, Massachusetts for Akeneo’s first US based Unlock conference. I’ve heard a lot about these conferences and even...
Sitation Wins the 2022 Salsify Partner Hackathon
Last week, Sitation brought home the gold in the 2022 Salsify Partner Hackathon with a demo of a cutting edge capability - generating long-form product content from basic product specifications using artificial intelligence. The Sitation team was comprised of Steve...
Sitation Simplified: Explaining Taxonomy and PIM to Elementary School Students
By Christi Helm, Project Coordinator Recently, non-profit Junior Achievement of Chicago gave Sitation the opportunity to participate in a financial literacy workshop for first through third grade students. The organization’s primary goal is to inspire and prepare...
Akeneo: Installing Locally for Development or Testing
By Akeneo Certified, Solution Developer, Dett Martin and Senior Director, Solution Architecture, George Dzuricsko In the process of developing with Akeneo it becomes quickly apparent that you need a local install for testing ideas and running code without the...
Sitation Establishes New Department of Data Science & Analytics
The world of e-commerce, and in particular, merchandising and search, is data and computation heavy, and rich with opportunities to apply new technologies. It's perhaps no surprise that our industry is among the first to see significant investment, progress, and...
CASE STUDY: Sitation and Champion Petfoods Partner for Retail Channel Expansion
For growing companies, the goal is often how to keep growing. Reaching new customers is the simple solution but what is the efficient way to do that? Champion Petfoods took hold of the opportunity to leverage Product Information Management (PIM) software to increase...
Reflections on Winning Recognition on the 2022 Inc 5000 List
Last week I had the privilege of sharing the news that Sitation has been honored, for the second year in a row, as a Top 500 honoree on the Inc 5000 List. The annual list is among the most well-known and prestigious awards recognizing the fastest-growing companies in...
CASE STUDY: Sitation Led Akeneo Implementation Leads to Measurable Success for Revalize
Here at Sitation, each PIM implementation is an exciting journey. Being a part of a company's growth plan means we often witness the before, during, and after of new PIM software adoption. While each time the results are an impressive scaling success story, it is...
Managed Services- Partnership to Excel
While Sitation may be best known for success in Product Information Management (PIM) implementation, we also provide a number of other valuable business services. Our Managed Services segment offers solution driven opportunities, customizable to the needs of your...
Commerce Is Going Global — Is Your Product Information Ready?
Please enjoy this guest blog from the experts at Akeneo as they share the value added to commerce by taking a global approach to product information. There’s no debate that there has been a dramatic shift in consumer behavior as a result of the past few years of the...
Support Ending for Akeneo 5.0: What’s Next?
Since launching its 1.0 Edition in September of 2014, Akeneo has carefully and consistently updated the Product Information Management (PIM) solutions software it provides. Currently offering everything from a free edition, up to an advanced Saas edition, Akeneo...
Customer Service: Letting Your PIM Solution Drive Experience
Letting Your PIM Solution Drive Experience By Christi Helm, Project Coordinator When most ecommerce professionals think of Product Information Management (PIM) Software, they think of how quality data can help improve the customer’s digital shopping experience. That,...
How to Build Trust in an E-Commerce Website – 5 Critical Investments
More so than ever, online customers have options. At the click of a button, a search on Google or other search engines can reveal countless places to shop for the same product. So how can e-commerce businesses create trust in their channel and stand out from the...
Omnichannel vs Multichannel – 3 Important Differences
There are a lot of terms that are casually tossed around in the ecommerce world without a clear understanding of what they mean. "Omnichannel" and "multichannel" are two such terms. Let's take a few minutes to understand these concepts and their implications within...
GS1 Frustrations: Identified and Resolved
After coming across a recent social media post expressing frustration with GS1, we began an internal conversation full of fact finding questions: What is the source of this frustration? Is that something we can control or adjust? Ultimately, How can Sitation help...
Outsourced PIM: 7 Great Reasons to Hire Sitation to Manage your Product Data
Managing PIM (product information management) is an incredibly important part of building and scaling a successful e-commerce practice. However, it can be expensive and time-consuming to hire, train, and manage a team of your own. Sitation offers managed services for...
Akeneo: A CIO’s Guide
How to Approach Akeneo’s Offering to Leverage the Best Practices of Composable Commerce for your Business Product data is critical to any modern commerce system. Many articles espouse the benefits of a mature product experience, but how you get there is the challenge...
The Pandemic Accelerated E-Commerce Adoption and Innovation. What Will Happen in the Post-Pandemic Era?
The pandemic has been a major catalyst for the growth of e-commerce. Online shopping was already on the rise before the pandemic hit, but the health crisis accelerated its adoption and resulted in more businesses moving online. According to a report from e-marketer,...
What is Akeneo?: A Valuable Look at the Basics
Introduction As you search the internet for answers about what product information management software can do for you, let the experts here at Sitation cut right to the chase with the answers you need. Today we will spend some time with certified Akeneo expert, Matt...
The Three Pillars of PIM – Strategy, Data Quality, and Technology
In pretty much every sales meeting I'm a part of, I share with our prospect that Sitation delivers expertise in what I have come to call the "Three Pillars of PIM" - strategy, data quality, and technology. While the notion may be self-explanatory to a degree, I...
How to Choose the Right Solution Partner for your PIM Implementation
Introduction When it comes to selecting a PIM/PXM implementation partner, there are many factors to consider. It's important to find a partner that has the experience and expertise to help your organization successfully deploy and manage a PIM/PXM solution. Here are...
What is Composable Commerce?: The Value of Flexibility
The Product Information Management (PIM) industry moves fast. There are ever improving solution platforms and ever evolving ways to approach data management. Phrases like “Composable Commerce '' and “Headless Commerce '' are appearing more frequently but what exactly...
What is GS1? What is GDSN? and Why Does it Matter?
We have been talking a lot about GS1, their standards, and GDSN lately. Those conversations have been full of fascinating information about sourcing, packaging, and best practices but they can get really complex. In an effort to clear it all up, let's get back to the...
Participate With Sitation for GS1 Standards Week
As a GS1 Gold Solution Partner, we will be celebrating GS1 Standards week from Tuesday, April 26 - Thursday, April 28th, 2022, and we would love for you to join us! What is GS1? GS1 facilitates cross industry collaboration to address supply chain and product data...
What is The Value of Product Models and Variants?
By Akeneo Certified, Solution Consultant Joseph Purayidathil What Are Product Models and Variants? Product Models and Variants have nothing to do with alternative universes. They're just one of the best ways to group your product data to improve data...
Enhanced Content: One Way to Drive A Deeper Customer Experience
Why is Enhanced Content Valuable? As digital shelf shoppers increasingly demand a personalized and interactive experience, staying competitive means finding ways to provide a satisfying customer experience. What does that look like for ecommerce retailers? According...
Taxonomy: An Intriguing Look at What We Can Learning From the Library
As a savvy businessperson, perhaps you stop by the public library one day to check out a book on investments that a friend recommended. The librarian looks up the book, writes down a number on a slip of paper, and points you in the right direction. As you browse the...
Sitation Wins Experience Award at the Akeneo Unlock 2022 PXM Champions Awards
Apex, NC– March 29, 2022 – Sitation, a leading systems integrator and strategy partner for the product information management (PIM) industry, announced today that it has won the Experience Award at the Akeneo Unlock 2022 PXM Champions Awards. The first of its kind in...
GS1 is not them, GS1 is us.
In The Future of PIM Beyond 2021, Salsify Co-Founder, Rob Gonzales suggests that the “...goal of a PIM is to help you get your products to market as quickly and optimally as possible and to assist you in keeping your products competitive over time in the face of...
Akeneo Unlock 2022: Highlights
I attended my first Akeneo Unlock Conference in February of 2020 as a brand new employee at Sitation. It was a great experience, as any trip to Paris should be. Akeneo 4.0 was released, a new development track demoed the new upgrade process live, and I met a ton of...
Reboot. Embrace. Grow. Sitation is Excited to Attend Akeneo Unlock Conference
Reboot. Embrace. Grow. This year’s Unlock theme speaks for itself! Sitation is honored to have the privilege of attending the Akeneo Unlock conference March 14-16 in Paris as a Gold Partner. What we’re excited about: A new year & new opportunities. A way to...
Sitation Wins Salsify Partner Growth Award, Named Gold Partner
Sitation, a leading systems integrator and strategy provider for the product information management (PIM) industry, has today been awarded the Partner Growth Award by Salsify in recognition of contributions to the growth and expansion of the platform and a commitment...
Sitation Becomes a GS1 US Gold Solution Partner: Joins Network of Companies Certified to Help Businesses Implement GS1 Standards
Apex, NC, February 4, 2022 – Sitation has become a gold member of the GS1 US Solution Partner Program, a designation signifying a commitment to delivering services and solutions that enable quick, efficient and accurate GS1 Standards implementation. GS1 US® is an...
The New Amazon API has Arrived: Here is What Salsify Users Need to Know
As industry leaders in digital retail, Amazon continues to improve the process for vendors to introduce their product lines to the digital shelf in the most direct, practical, and up to date fashion. This consistent drive towards efficient to market protocols has led...
How to Prepare Digital Assets for a Salsify PIM Implementation
Digital Assets are a common source of Salsify implementation project delays that necessitate more project hours and resources than originally anticipated. I’ll walk you through common asset pitfalls and how you can properly prepare your digital assets to streamline...
2021 at Sitation – A Year in Review
Unbelievably, another year has come and gone. It was another weird one, but we've continued to grow aggressively, to mature and evolve, and to help our clients grow and succeed in e-commerce. We've brainstormed on a few words that capture aspects of 2021. Enjoy!...
All I Want for Christmas is PIM
As Sitation celebrates another record year of growth, I was struck by a thought this morning: this year, more so than ever, millions of customers, and billions of dollars of their holiday spending, were touched directly or indirectly by the work we do at Sitation. To...
Akeneo – A Heuristic and Statistical Approach to Product Attribution using Legacy Data
There's this romantic notion that, data modeling, used as an Akeneo term, is something that needs to be done manually. Quite the contrary, I argue it should be done in an automated fashion using a set of rules and a small set of statistics based on the data that will...
The Challenges of Connecting Multiple Data Sources in Akeneo PIM
With all PIM Implementation there is an ideal scenario. It's simple and it follows the plan, but let's be realistic: the complexity changes based on the details and our world is less than perfect. These challenges often add steps and options but they aren't anything...
Road Ready Wheels Partners with Sitation as Salsify Product Experience Management Implementation Partner
Apex, North CarolinaNovember 10, 2021 Road Ready Wheels, the industry leader in OEM replacement wheels, based in Chicago, IL, has selected Sitation to complete the implementation, onboarding, and training for their Salsify Product Experience Management (ProductXM)...
Sitation Unlocks Year 3 of Partnership with Akeneo
Quotes and excerpts taken from Sitation’s Director of Solution Architecture, George Dzuricsko, certified both as a Functional and Technical Consultant with Akeneo, during an interview with Francois Chaix, Akeneo’s Worldwide Partners Evangelist. Additional details from...
John-Richard Chooses Sitation as Salsify PIM Implementation Partner
Apex, North CarolinaOctober 27, 2021 John-Richard, a leading luxury manufacturer in home furnishing and lighting based in Greenwood, MS, has selected Salsify as its new Product Information Management (PIM) system, and has hired Sitation to complete the implementation,...
Trademark Global Selects Salsify and Sitation for PIM Implementation
Apex, North CarolinaOctober 25, 2021 Trademark Global, a leading ecommerce wholesaler and distributor, has selected Sitation as its implementation partner for its upcoming Salsify Product Information Management (PIM) implementation. Trademark Global plans to leverage...
Creating a System Architecture Diagram for Salsify PIM Implementation
If you’re falling behind in e-commerce due to lack of product data coordination, Salsify’s Product Information Management (PIM) tool will streamline your data creation and may decrease costs and increase revenue by establishing a central source of truth company-wide....
Sitation Celebrates 20 Years in Business
Today marks 20 years in business for Sitation. Sitation was founded October 21, 2001 by CEO Steve Engelbrecht. In a winding path over 20 years, Sitation has grown into the e-commerce service provider it is today. Read more about our story here. Please read Steve's...
How to Prepare for an Akeneo Certification
Akeneo offers two certifications. These are the Business Implementation Specialist (BI) and the Technical Integration Specialist (TI) certifications. The BI certification focuses on how to properly model the data and set up business processes in Akeneo. The TI...
What Determines the Complexity of an Akeneo Implementation?
The choice to use a PIM can be daunting. Even after choosing your PIM solution it can be difficult to understand how much time it will take to get your new PIM up and running. As a certified Akeneo implementation Specialist I am frequently asked to estimate work for...
Summer 2021 Updates from Sitation
What a summer at Sitation! We've continued to grow and expand this year, with new service offerings for PIM implementation, digital strategy, and of course our platform-specific offerings for Salsify, Akeneo, and Riversand. We celebrated a huge milestone this year as...
A First Look at the Akeneo Events API
With the introduction of Akeneo 5.0 came the new Akeneo Events API aka “Webhooks” from Akeneo. After spending some time playing with the feature I’d like to take you on a deep dive into the pros and cons of using webhooks. The Akeneo Events API Brings Powerful New...
Sitation Featured in WRAL Techwire
Sitation was featured this morning on the WRAL Techwire website as their "Startup Spotlight". Read the article here!
How to Log Akeneo PHP-API Errors the Right Way
Engineer's Log, Stardate 98821.1: Our ship has made contact with an alien species known as the Error. So far, we've only been able to decipher vague sentiments from our communications with these beings. Tensions are high, and the crew is at Red Alert until we can...
How to Import CSV Files to Salsify the Right Way
Most users import data into the Salsify PIM via Excel (XLSX) and Comma Separated Values (CSV) files. While these two file formats are compatible, they are not equal. Too often I help clients resolve poor quality data in Salsify caused by a CSV file opened in Excel....
Sitation Wins the 2021 Akeneo Hackathon
We're delighted to share that Akeneo has awarded Sitation with first place honors in its Unlock 2021 Hackathon! For our official entry, we created a near real-time integratin between Akeneo 5.0 and ElasticSearch, a leading cloud-based search solution. "Why is...
Setting up the Akeneo Connector in Magento 2: Part 4 – Custom Product Data Mapping
If you've made it this far through the Magento 2 connector series you should already know how powerful the Akeneo Connector in Magento 2 can be when configured correctly. For this final installment I'll be covering the Products menu found in the Magento...
Sitation’s Platform Partners Dominate the Q2 2021 Forrester PIM Report
Yesterday Forrester released its Q2 2021 report on Product Information Management and we're thrilled to share that our platform partners dominate the leaderboard. Source: Forrester.com Sitation partners Salsify and Riversand were honored...
Salsify Buys Alkemics – Why It’s a Big Deal (and Why Sitation is Excited About It!)
Salsify took a bold step into the future this week in announcing its acquisition of Alkemics, a product data onboarding platform headquartered in Paris. Alkemics dubs itself "the supplier collaboration platform for omnichannel retailers" - in other words,...
Unlock 2021 – Integrating Akeneo with ElasticSearch
Sitation participated in the 2021 Akeneo Unlock Hackathon, where our Akeneo team was challenged to build something new and exciting using Akeneo's newest API features. Sitation chose to create a real-time integration from Akeneo to ElasticSearch, a powerful...
Setting up the Akeneo Connector in Magento 2: Part 3 – Filtering the Import Data
The Magento 2 connector for Akeneo is a powerful tool to easily integrate your Akeneo implementation with your Magento 2 ecommerce store. This article outlines some of the more advanced filtering you can do with this connector. If you are looking for information about...
Using Azure Blob Storage for Remote Asset Storage in your PIM
The goal of a PIM is to easily enrich and store product data for downstream destinations. How the data should flow to downstream destinations is a critical piece of any implementation. For Akeneo Serenity customers, the choice is an easy one: API. Extending the PIM...
An Insider’s Guide to Akeneo’s Offerings
In today's economy, presenting customers with rich product content and a superior buying experience can set you apart from your competition. Managing that rich content can quickly become a herculean effort for any growing commerce business. Product Information...
Sitation Adds Akeneo Extension to Marketplace: Version History Export Command
NOW YOU CAN EXPORT AKENEO'S VERSION HISTORY FOR ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY Sitation's first submission to the Akeneo Marketplace is here, bringing with it improved functionality to the build's version history. For a technical dive into version history, take a...
Sitation is a 2021 “Triangle Tweener”
Sitation is honored to once again be featured on Scot Wingo's "Triangle Tweeners" list of emerging companies in the Raleigh Durham area. Honorees must be headquarered in the Triangle, be technology-focused, and have 10+ employees (but fewer than 500) or $1M+ in...
Akeneo PIM for Projects of Any Size: A Guide to Data Structures
A teacher once imprinted on me that organization is the key to success. When applied to e-commerce, I appreciate the organization inherent in product information management (PIM) systems which help companies small and large become more successful (or at least more...
Akeneo: Requiring an SSL Connection with Elasticsearch using Apache
Using XPack? Visit the companion article here! OVERVIEW Akeneo PIM is a PHP/Symfony web application that uses MySQL for persistence, and Elasticsearch for search capability. From an abstract perspective it consists of three major components: · MySQL, a...
Akeneo: Requiring an SSL Connection with Elasticsearch using XPack
Using Apache? Visit the companion article here! OVERVIEW Akeneo PIM is a PHP/Symfony web application that uses MySQL for persistence, and Elasticsearch for search capability. From an abstract perspective it consists of three major components: · MySQL, a...
Setting up the Akeneo Connector in Magento 2: Part 2 – Running the Jobs
NOTES: This article assumes that you have already done the initial setup of your Akeneo Connector. If you have not yet configured the connector please follow the steps in Part 1 before returning here.This article refers to v101.0.0 and beyond of the Akeneo...
How Focusing on Copy Elevates eCommerce Strategy
LIMITATIONS INHERENT TO ECOMMERCE PLATFORMS Despite its many progressions, eCommerce today still falls short of providing an experience that encapsulates the five senses. You cannot smell, touch, or taste an online product listing, and even a product's images can be...
How to Choose Axis Attributes When Building Product Models in Akeneo
Akeneo Product Information Management (PIM) offers a simple and fast method for working with your product data. One of the software's strong suits, you can enrich the common properties of several product variations in one place by creating a product model. First, what...
How to Channel Your Inner PIM: Helpful Hints for Achieving Syndication Zen
When contemplating the Akeneo platform, there are a few considerations before deciding how many channels your product information management (PIM) system requires. What comes to mind when you think of a PIM channel? Where are you selling? Who are you selling to? How...
Setting up the Akeneo Connector in Magento 2: Part 1 – Initial Configuration
The Akeneo company has built and currently supports 2 Akeneo Connectors for Magento 2. One connector is for Akeneo Community Edition and the other is for Akeneo Enterprise Edition. Both connectors are maintained by the Akeneo company to make sure they...
Keeping It Real While Working Remotely
Strong relationships are fundamental to success in businesses of any size or market. The trust we build with our clients and colleagues allows for the open communication and collaboration necessary for fruitful engagements. We now find ourselves in a new business...
Salsify’s Powerful Channel Syndication Features – How to Deliver the Right Data to Downstream Channels
Salsify's powerful Channels feature allows you to publish some or all of your product catalog to a downstream source. This could be a website, like Shopify or Magento, a catalog, a trading partner, a reporting system, or whatever you want! The magic of this...
Sitation Earns Gold Akeneo Partnership, Expands PIM Delivery Capability
Sitation, a leading strategy and technology partner for retailers, distributors, brands, and manufacturers, is proud to announce that it has achieved Gold Partner status with Akeneo, a global leader in on-premises and SaaS product information management (PIM)...
Steps to a Successful Akeneo Implementation: Part 1 – What are your goals for PIM?
Choosing the goals and a scope for PIM is critical to the success of your PIM. Click here for Akeneo's definition of a PIM Any project's success is dependent on the expectations and definitions of success going in. Defining clear goals and setting...
A Deep Dive into Akeneo’s Product Version History
When you work on product data in the PIM, you probably have some concerns like…What happens if I make a mistake?What happens if the manufacturer changes its mind?How can I find out who changed this piece of product data? Rest easy, my reader. Akeneo has both a history...
An Akeneo Primer: Workflows 101 – How To Work the Workflows
When considering Akeneo you will hear the term workflow mentioned a good deal and for good reason. Having a solid product data enrichment workflow is essential for any undertaking involving a Product Information Management software (PIM). When most...
