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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… Read More

A First Look at the Akeneo Events API

With the introduction of Akeneo 5.0 came the new 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. Read More

Sitation Featured in WRAL Techwire

Sitation was featured this morning on the WRAL Techwire website as their "Startup Spotlight". Read More

How to Log Akeneo PHP-API Errors the Right Way

During a recent client engagement, I was developing a Connector to import Microsoft AX data into Akeneo. The connector would allow Sitation's client to easily upload CSV exports from Microsoft AX into a piece of middleware, which would then handle some light validation as well as the data transformation and import into Akeneo. However, as I progressed, I was struggling to determine the cause of several Akeneo PHP errors due to the generality of the main exception being thrown. Read More

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. Read More

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! Read More

Setting up the Akeneo Connector in Magento 2: Part 4 – Custom Product Data Mapping

Part 4 of the Akeneo Connector to Magento tutorial - Custom Product Data Mapping. Read More

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 as Leaders in the category, and Akeneo had an excellent showing as a Strong Performer. Stibo also placed well. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More