Pimcore has been recognized in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Product Information Management Applications for Commerce 2021 Vendor Assessment for the second time. This study provides an assessment of the globally leading PIM application vendors for digital commerce use cases. The study also focuses on criteria that are most important for enterprises to consider while choosing a PIM platform. While Pimcore was categorized a Contender in 2019, it has been categorized a Major Player in 2021!
IDC assessed Pimcore on many criteria and highlighted end-to-end commerce capability, API-driven approach, and open source flexibility as its key strengths. With end-to-end commerce, enterprises can manage product data and build digital experiences, and then sell their products and service within a single platform. Its modern, API-first architecture makes it easy to integrate with third-party software seamlessly. Customers that were interviewed by IDC rated Pimcore above average concerning necessary data and functionalities exposed with its API.
Pimcore’s largest PIM customers are managing more than 20 million SKUs and 5 million digital assets which shows the high scalability of the platform. Being included in this report confirms that Pimcore is a major player in the PIM software category with high potential – 2 years before, in 2019, Pimcore was included as Contender and has been ascending to the Major Players category this year. With the open source framework Symfony as foundation, it provides thousands of extensions and bundles for tweaking its features even further. The product has more than 100,000 customers that use its PIM application worldwide in more than 56 countries.
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Pimcore’s PIM solution has also been recognized as Customers’ Choice 2021 by Gartner and Exemplary Vendor by Ventana Research next to many more awards.