A practical guide to developing, administering, and scaling content management solutions in your organization for supporting digital transformation using Pimcore
Key Features:
- Kick-start your CMS career by preparing for Pimcore developer certifications
- Create custom websites with a rich digital experience for your business users with the help of step-by-step examples
- Get to grips with Pimcore's enterprise features for product management and data management
Book Description:
Used by over eighty thousand companies worldwide, Pimcore is the leading open source enterprise-level content management system (CMS) solution. It is an impressive alternative to conventional CMSes and is ideal for creating e-commerce and complex enterprise websites.
This book helps developers working with standard CMSes such as WordPress and Drupal to use their knowledge of CMSes to learn Pimcore CMS in a practical way. You'll start by learning what Pimcore is and explore its various services such as PIM, MDM, and DAM. The book then shows you various techniques for developing custom websites in Pimcore based on the scale of your organization. You'll learn how to use Pimcore to improve the digital transformation of a company by implementing enterprise Pimcore features. As you advance, you'll discover Pimcore's capabilities and features that make it a faster and more secure alternative to traditional CMSes. As well as demonstrating practical use cases, Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore can help you understand the benefits of using Pimcore as a CMS solution, sharing best practices and proven techniques for designing professional Pimcore sites.
By the end of this book, you'll be a trained Pimcore developer, able to create complex websites, and be well-versed in Pimcore's enterprise features such as MDM, PIM, and DAM.
What You Will Learn:
- Create, edit, and manage Pimcore documents for your web pages
- Manage web assets in Pimcore using the digital asset management (DAM) feature
- Discover how to create layouts, templates, and custom widgets for your web pages
- Administer third-party add-ons for your Pimcore site using the admin UI
- Discover practices to use Pimcore as a product information management (PIM) system
- Explore Pimcore's master data management (MDM) for enterprise CMS development
- Build reusable website components and save time using effective tips and tricks
Who this book is for:
This book is for web developers and CMS professionals looking for an alternative to WordPress and traditional CMS. Enterprise application developers looking for enterprise solutions for digital transformation will find this book useful. Beginner-level knowledge of PHP, HTML, and CSS is needed to understand the code examples used in the book.
Fontani, Daniele: - Daniele Fontani is the CTO in Sintra Digital Business and has worked as a senior developer, team leader, and architect in a very large set of enterprise projects. He has a master's degree in robotic science and another master's degree in project management. His experience in technology extends to many technologies (Java, PHP, and .NET) and platforms (SharePoint, Liferay, and Pimcore) other than techniques (Agile, DevOps, and ALM). He is interested in Agile techniques, project management, and product development. He implemented DXP platforms for banks and worked in the loan industry as a team leader and software architect.
Guiducci, Marco: - Marco Guiducci is a certified Pimcore expert, team leader, and software engineer. He earned a master's degree in information science in 2017 with a thesis on AI, focused on semantic text analysis. Since then, he has taken his first steps as a developer. He fell in love with PHP and Pimcore. Now, Marco has matured with long-term experience, documented by public speaking and contributions to the Pimcore code base. Inside the Pimcore ecosystem, he is focused on the PIM/DAM/MDM strategy and has delivered a broad set of enterprise projects across the world.
Minà, Francesco: - Francesco Minà started programming in 1997 and, since that time, has followed the most important trends in digital innovation. He graduated with a degree in industrial automation in 2010 with a thesis on informatic science, in which he built a box for sending profiled marketing messages to customers on their devices, anticipating what would become the norm a few years later with modern social networks and tools. During his professional life, Francesco has worked as a senior developer on Magento, WordPress, Pimcore, and other CMS solutions.
