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Recent Sitation Blogs
Revolutionary Image Analysis with RoughDraftPro
Sitation’s Director of Product Development, Adam Fairholm, is back to share the use cases of RoughDraftPro and AI-driven image analysis.
Easy and Efficient PDF Data Extraction with RoughDraftPro
Adam Fairholm, Sitation’s Director of Product Development, shares how RoughDraftPro, harnessing the power of AI, can be your solution to bulk data extraction challenges.
Sitation’s Debut at SEMA/AAPEX 2023: A Desert Oasis of Connections and Chapstick Frenzy
As first-time participants at SEMA/AAPEX 2023, rather than just attendees, Sitation shared space with industry giants, connected with clients, and forged new relationships with prospective customers.
Expertise in Leading Syndication Solutions
Learn how our Managed Services team optimizes product data across various syndication solutions, ensuring your business stays ahead in the digital marketplace.
Leveraging PIM and MDM Solutions for Streamlined Business Growth
As showcased through various real-world scenarios, implementing PIM and MDM solutions translates into streamlined operations, enhanced customer satisfaction, and sustainable business growth. Embracing PIM and MDM technology is not just a smart investment for today but a strategic step towards a successful future.
Maximizing the Power of Cross-Referencing in PIM for Electronic Components
In realm of electronic components, cross-referencing emerges as a pivotal element. Discover how your PIM can help you maximize this strategy.
Budgeting for Efficiency with AI
As we find ourselves well into the fourth quarter of 2023, businesses are gearing up to determine their budgets for the upcoming year. In today’s ever-evolving economic landscape, it’s paramount to ensure that every dollar invested goes the extra mile. In this blog post, we’ll explore how harnessing the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help businesses gain the efficiencies they need to make their limited resources stretch further.
Sitation Managed Services: Navigating the Complex World of Syndication Management
Syndication management can present a formidable task, often complicated by retailers’ frequent schema modifications, leading to syndication process bottlenecks. Sitation Managed Services provides businesses with a comprehensive solution to efficiently maneuver through this intricate landscape, guaranteeing a smooth flow of product information in the syndication process.
Blog Archives
Discover the Value of Sitation’s Automotive Fitment App
With a number of professionals coming from the automotive industry, Sitation has a deep understanding of the needs and thus the solution to automotive's core challenges. Product Information Management (PIM) systems can improve data completeness and management while...
GroceryShop 2023: Exciting Innovation but Still the Same Challenges
Carsten Krohn, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, shares commentary on the Sitation experience at GroceryShop 2023. The Sitation team spent a week at GroceryShop in Las Vegas, meeting with brands, manufacturers, retailers and technology partners. The show...
Sitation Honored as Salsify’s Top Regional Systems Integrator
The Sitation team is honored to be named as Salsify's Top Regional Systems Integrator for 2023, in recognition of dedication to outstanding delivery and partnership. Additionally, Sitation received the Partner Innovation Award, recognizing its achievements and...
Automotive Product Data – Overcoming Year Make Model Challenges: Part 4
In conclusion to this four part series, Sitation’s Director of Automotive Solutions, Steve Bach shares best practices for mastering year make model data management Best Practices for Successful Year Make Model Data Management A. Conduct Regular Data Audits:...
Mastering AI: The Art of Prompt Modeling for Optimal Results
In today's fast-paced business world, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become more prevalent than ever before. Most of us have, at the very least, dabbled in experimenting with AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT to streamline our work processes, find...
Artificial Intelligence & Cross Referencing for Electronic Components
Please enjoy this exploration in to the value of Artificial Intelligence and cross referencing for the electronic components industry. Pramit Rajkrishna, Director of Solution Consulting shares his insight from both this role at Sitation but also from his high tech...
CASE STUDY: Sitation PIM & Content Syndication Management leads to Improved Retailer Scorecards and Data Quality for Bush Brothers
Bush Brothers & Company, family-owned, American food group has delighted consumers with its wide range of bean products for over a century. As a leading player in the canned beans market, Bush's found themselves with few supporting resources for managing PIM and...
Automotive Product Data – Overcoming Year Make Model Challenges: Part 3
This is the third installment of Overcoming Year Make Model Challenges. Part 1 and Part 2 open this series with a deep understanding of industry challenges. Sitation’s Director of Automotive Solutions, Steve Bach shares the necessary pieces to overcoming fitment data...
CASE STUDY: RoughDraftPro Solves Product Content Creation Challenges At Scale for Havaianas
Havaianas, a renowned global footwear brand, faced the challenge of creating large-scale, localized product content to drive growth in the US market. With over 250 million pairs of sandals sold yearly, the need for precise and diverse content overwhelmed their digital...
Automotive Product Data – Overcoming Year Make Model Challenges: Part 2
Please enjoy this second installment of Overcoming Year Make Model Challenges. Part 1 can be found here. In this four part series, Sitation’s Director of Automotive Solutions, Steve Bach explains how you can overcome difficulties, as well as leverage the value of...
Sitation Celebrates a Third Consecutive Year on the Inc 5000 List
Sitation is proud to announce its third consecutive year on the Inc 5000 List, coming in at number 1,257 for 2022. The Inc 5000 List ranks the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States based on revenue growth over a 3-year period. Sitation...
Navigating Generative AI Concerns: A Commitment to Responsible Innovation
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable strides, opening up new possibilities across industries. From content creation to problem-solving, the new technology has shown immense potential. However, it's essential to acknowledge and address the...
Automotive Product Data – Overcoming Year Make Model Challenges: Part 1
Over the next several weeks, Sitation’s Director of Automotive Solutions, Steve Bach will address Year Make Model (YMM) challenges. In this four part series, Bach explains how you can overcome difficulties, as well as the value of mastering this segment of automotive...
Amazon Partner Selling API: Ensuring Compliance Within Salsify
Amazon, as a leading e-commerce giant, continually updates its requirements to enhance the overall shopping experience for customers. In a recent development, the retailer announced a significant Amazon Partner Selling API update that affects product listings...
Homegrown PIM: Why Your Company Should Upgrade and Embrace Akeneo
As companies grow and evolve, so do their operational needs. Many businesses initially develop homegrown PIM systems to meet their requirements. These are Product Information Management (PIM) solutions developed internally specifically for company usage. However, as...
How to Demo RoughDraftPro for Seamless Product Content Creation
Are you seeking a powerful and efficient solution to create accurate, on-brand, and SEO-optimized product descriptions at scale? Look no further than RoughDraftPro, an innovative AI content tool offered by Sitation. In this blog, we will walk you through the process...
New and Improved Akeneo Features for 2023
After releasing 7.0, Akeneo has been consistently rolling out new, expanded, and updated features and functionality. For those familiar with the platform, this comes as no surprise. "Deserving the highest praise I can offer, every year Akeneo fixes the biggest...
The Akeneo Advantage
Akeneo has been a strong competitor in the Product Information Management (PIM) space for the past several years. While this type of recognition is great for getting attention, for the average person it may be difficult to differentiate between the variety of PIM...
The Evolution of RoughDraftPro
In March of 2023, Sitation announced the launch of our new product, RoughDraftPro. Designed to allow enterprise ecommerce operations to leverage generative AI to create product content at scale, in its infancy, RoughDraftPro only skimmed the surface of what is...
Unused Attributes Within Akeneo Families
When unneeded or unused attributes are assigned to families, it may seem harmless, but it’s not. Unused attributes clutter up the graphical user interface (GUI) with attributes that must then be navigated past, over, and over again, to get to the attribute, for which...
Master Data Management Using Akeneo PIM Enterprise Edition
Do you need to uniformly share a set of data domains, like codes with internationalized labels across your business organization? While Akeneo may not market Akeneo PIM as a master data management (MDM) system, the Akeneo PIM Enterprise Edition has the functionality...
High Tech Distribution PIM Implementation Considerations
Implementing a Product Information Management (PIM) system in the electronics component distribution industry, for both suppliers and distributors, poses several challenges due to the complexity of the industry, rapidly changing technologies, and stringent...
Improve Your Time to Market with Akeneo’s New Insights Feature
By Akeneo Certified, Solution Consultant Joseph Purayidathil Introduction to Time to Market Insights Akeneo is a powerful platform that serves as a centralized hub for businesses to manage and enrich their product data. It helps businesses overcome the challenges of...
Akeneo Now Offers Product Activation & Syndication
Introduction In today's fast-paced retail landscape, staying ahead of the competition requires an agile and efficient product management system. Akeneo, a leading provider of product experience management solutions, has recently unveiled its groundbreaking product...
Akeneo Bulk Delete: Leveraging the Power of Features in 7.0
Bulk Delete: An Akeneo Philosophy Shift Time and time again we see Akeneo listen to users, implementers and PIM champions alike, and add requested functionality to updated editions. Akeneo 7.0 is no exception. In the past, Akeneo made critical design decisions...
5 Product Information Challenges in the High Tech Distribution Industry
In the fast-paced and hyper competitive high tech distribution industry, accurate and reliable product data plays a critical role in ensuring seamless operations and satisfying customer demands. Electronics components leaders have incredibly large and complex product...
E-Book: Maximizing the REST API Performance on Akeneo PIM Community Edition
"Are you now, or considering, using Akeneo PIM as your Product Information Management (PIM) system for a very large product data set? Do you have concerns about the ability to get a large volume of data in or out of the Akeneo PIM using its web-based REST API in a...
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. How important is product experience? It can be easy to dismiss product experience in favor of other (seemingly...
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...
Product Data Management for Automotive: Navigating the Challenges
By Steve Bach, Sitation's Director of Automotive Solutions Products for any industry have many crucial details to organize but this is especially true for the additional compatibility information needed for automotive materials. Several factors contribute to...
Akeneo and Microservices: The Benefits of an Open Ecosystem Model
In early 2022, on the heels of a near return to normalcy and a reassessment of ecommerce goals Akeneo leaned into the actual meaning of buzz phrases like “omnichannel” and “composable commerce”, highlighting the value of their microservices composition by joining the...
5 Ways Sitation’s Automotive Expertise Can Drive eCommerce Success
Sitation's automotive expertise with the industry standards already in place for online success can bring significant value to an automotive company. The automotive industry is unique in many ways. From manufacturers to distributors to retailers, meticulously crafted...
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....