Pimcore vs Akeneo Product Cloud: Which is a better fit?

Our developers love the ease with which they can extend the framework and contribute to community.

Rigoberto Antonio R

Director, Sustainable Commute Programs

The data delivery channels can sometimes break down causing loss of time and information.

Many thanks to them without whom we would not have the success we have. I recommend VERY HIGHLY.

Igor I

Senior Software Engineer

That means that updates can be somewhat painful (ExtJs 3 to ExtJs 6, Zend Framework to Symfony). But I wouldn't say that they are any more painful than updates in competing products.

Ram Awadh R

Program Director

Built on Symfony, one more the most popular MVC frameworks for building enterprise application with PHP. Great support from the vendor , partners and community.

Additionally pimcore offers an ecommerce framework which I personally have no real experience with.

Ram Awadh R

Program Director

It has help them improve their data quality and greatly reduce their time to market for months to days.

Pimcore will fail if you expect to find a complete solution for your business case right off the bat. It needs professional advise for customization an implementation.

Overall, this has been a very enjoyable experience and with the ease of how Akeneo is, our Business is now dependant on how powerful and quickly we can get to market.

My biggest complaint is that we used an implementation partner; after going through the setup of our environment, it seemed to me that we could handle 90% of the tasks ourselves.

Leonardo L

Project Manager

PIM has a great flexibility to improve your management tasks and save time making your job easyer. I love the capabilities that pim offers to the user to manage the information more efficiently.

Our integration didn't go all that well, so our product families were never set up correctly which caused a lot of issues with our website. That is more of an internal problem though.

Attribution features are excellent. A lot of opportunities for improvement within the Akeneo product, e.g. its business rules feature.

URL's cannot be displayed immediately as an image in the product unless you select the "Image" which is a bit difficult to process when exporting.

Structuring our data and managing improvements to it has great improved our internal product data practices. Syndication is also a piece of cake with customizable export profiles and scheduling.

Limited customizability in the Serinity (SaaS) version.