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 are you getting products… Read More
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 remain up to… Read More
Product content & syndication Insight
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 tool is its ability to be… Read More
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… Read More
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 people hear the term workflow, they think of a task-based tool where they can… Read More
Help! My Products Are Suddenly Missing in Akeneo
Akeneo is designed to manage your product data, so it may cause you some panic if you log into Akeneo and suddenly see some, or all, of your products missing. Chances are your product data has not been lost. The products probably are not displaying correctly. Here are a… Read More
Why Better Taxonomy Is a Delight to Merchants and Consumers Alike
When I started at Sitation, the world of taxonomy and attribution was just as foreign to me as was my first day in French class. As someone with a literature and languages background, the inner workings of the world of eCommerce and digital merchandising were a mystery to… Read More
Akeneo: Requiring an SSL Connection with MySQL
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 relational database for storing data · Elasticsearch, a search engine for indexing · PHP/Symfony backend served by Apache2 Accordingly, you may… Read More
Akeneo: The Missing MTA Documentation
Sincerely, Akeneo has some of the best documentation available for installing their software. Here’s the main link: https://docs.akeneo.com/4.0/install_pim/index.html. Follow the instructions for Installing Akeneo Manually. And, it is well worth your time to read the requirements documentation. That will… Read More
Akeneo 4.0 Features We Are Most Excited About
Akeneo 4.0 brings several welcome changes to its PIM software. Upgrades to Symfony, Mysql, and PHP offer incremental updates to the technical stack, while performance improvements abound. I was lucky enough to be at the Akeneo PIM Summit 2020 to witness the unveiling, demos, and discussions in person. What… Read More
