Data Integration

Data integration is one of the most important ingredients for successful product information management. In most cases the primary source for information is a legacy ERP system, used for the management of business-centric product information.

In terms of technology, pimcore is built up in a pure object-orientated way: A content item programmatically equals an object of a certain class. Therefore pimcore as a whole can be controlled programmatically or by utilizing webservices. The import or export of objects is just a matter of using the pimcore API or using the pimcore webservices. For automatic ETL-processes (extract, transform and load) pimcore can be either enhanced by plugins or by connecting Open-Source JAVA ETL products such as Pentaho Kettle or Talend Studio with pimcore.