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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 certification focuses on using the Akeneo API to access and manipulate data. Read More
What Determines the Complexity of an Akeneo Implementation?
Exploring the many factors which contribute to the complexity of an Akeneo implementation Read More
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
