Pimcore 2026.1 vs Akeneo Spring 2026: Same Blind Spot

Pimcore 2026.1 ships an Agent SDK. Akeneo Spring 2026 ships Ask Ziggy. Both miss the same upstream intake layer. PIM-agnostic onboarding decoded.

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Pimcore 2026.1 vs Akeneo Spring 2026: Same Blind Spot

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Enterprise & Strategy5 min

EU Central DPP Registry Goes Live in 12 Weeks. Are You Listed?

EU Central DPP Registry expected to go live July 19, 2026. Why the deadline matters even if your textile or furniture DPP is years away. Audit guide.

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Product & Data Management5 min

Akeneo Spring 2026 Release: The Operational Gap No One Names

Akeneo Spring 2026 ships strong AI features, but the operational bottleneck lives upstream. Five gaps the release notes will not admit, and the ROI math.

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Engineering & DevOps5 min

Pimcore just redrew the map. Read the fine print.

Pimcore Agent SDK beta makes AI agents first-class in the PIM core. Here is the intake gap Inspire didn't name, and why it matters for 2026.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

Enterprise & Strategy5 min

Pimcore Inspire 2026 Recap: What a Full Room Told Us About Product Data Onboarding

A full masterclass room, honest numbers, and what buyers actually asked. What Pimcore Inspire 2026 told us about AI product data onboarding.

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E-commerce Growth5 min

PIM Budget Breakdown: The Cost Nobody Quotes

Enterprise PIM budgets hide the biggest line item: data onboarding at EUR 14K per 1,000 products. See the real cost breakdown and how to fix it.

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Enterprise & Strategy5 min

The PIM Agentic Race: Who Solves the Data Problem?

Pimcore Studio, Syndigo Synapse, Sales Layer MCP - every PIM went agentic in Spring 2026. Compare what each actually solves and what they skip.

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Enterprise & Strategy5 min

From Excel Hell to AI Onboarding in 48 Hours: A Live Case Study

A contrarian playbook to turn supplier spreadsheets into clean Pimcore imports in 48 hours, with AI middleware.

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Enterprise & Strategy5 min

EU AI Act: The Data Quality Clause Your PIM Isn't Ready For

EU AI Act Article 10 requires high-quality training data - and your PIM sits in the middle. Understand the August 2026 compliance deadline and how to prepare.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

Engineering & DevOps5 min

Pimcore Studio 1.0 + OpenProd MCP: The First Agent-Ready PIM Stack

How Pimcore Studio 1.0 and MCP create agent-ready PIM, and why you still need AI middleware for data ingestion.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

Product & Data Management5 min

Your PIM Says 95% Complete. AI Agents Disagree.

Why data completeness metrics fail AI agents. Five PIM data quality KPIs that predict AI readiness. Operational guide for product data teams.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

Engineering & DevOps5 min

MCP, ACP, A2A: Three Protocols Your PIM Must Speak

MCP, ACP, and A2A are the three protocols your PIM must support in 2026. Architecture guide with implementation costs for product data teams.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

E-commerce Growth5 min

What Agentic Commerce Costs When Data Isn't Ready

Product data onboarding costs EUR 14K per 1,000 SKUs manually. Learn the real economics of agentic commerce readiness and how AI cuts costs 95%.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

Competitive Analysis5 min

Every PIM Vendor Now Has AI. Most of It Won't Help You

PIM vendors are racing to add AI onboarding. Compare Inriver, Akeneo, and Pimcore features - and why PIM-agnostic beats vendor-locked.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

Industry Trends5 min

The EU Digital Product Passport Will Break Your PIM

81% of EU companies lack structured DPP data per KPMG. Learn why your PIM alone won't achieve compliance and how to automate before deadlines hit.

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Enterprise & Strategy5 min

What Agentic PXM Actually Needs: Clean Data at Agent Speed

AI agents can read your PIM - but who feeds it? Supplier onboarding remains the costliest PIM bottleneck. See how AI middleware changes the math.

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Operational Efficiency5 min

Why Document AI Won't Fix Your Product Data

Document extraction tools miss 70% of product data onboarding work. Learn why PIM-aware AI beats generic parsers and saves EUR 14K per 1,000 SKUs.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

Technical Architecture5 min

Your PIM Architecture Won't Survive Agentic Commerce

Why traditional PIM architecture fails with AI agents and MCP. A 3-layer blueprint for agent-ready product data from 70+ implementations.

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Product Data Economics5 min

Your Product Catalog Is Invisible to AI Agents

Incomplete product data costs e-commerce businesses 23% in revenue. In 2026, AI agents skip your catalog if attributes are missing. Learn the fix.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

Product Data Strategy5 min

Supplier Onboarding Takes 6 Weeks. AI Agents Won't Wait.

Slow supplier onboarding kills agentic commerce revenue. Learn how to cut 6-week cycles to hours with AI-powered product data automation.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

Competitive Analysis5 min

PIM MCP Servers Are Everywhere. None Fix the Real Problem.

Akeneo, Pimcore, and Struct all added MCP servers. But vendor-locked AI access ignores the real cost: data onboarding. Compare approaches here.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

Product & Data Management5 min

Your Product Data Isn't Ready for 2026. Here's the Proof.

EU Digital Product Passports arrive in 2026. Discover why current product catalogs fail and how openProd.io prepares your data for AI agents and compliance.

By Olgierd MrozikRead

Enterprise & Strategy5 min

Why MCP Will Replace Traditional APIs in Product Data Management

MCP is quietly becoming the most important infrastructure shift in PIM since headless. Here's why it matters for product data onboarding.

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Product & Data Management5 min

The €14K Question: True Cost of Manual Product Data Entry

Manual product data entry costs €14K per 1,000 SKUs (3 months labor). Here's the math-and why AI changes it in 2026.

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Product & Data Management5 min

The Onboarding Bottleneck: 3 Reasons Your PIM Isn't Saving Time Yet

You bought a PIM to speed up onboarding. Six months later, still taking weeks. The PIM works - these 3 operational bottlenecks are blocking ROI: supplier chaos, over-engineered data models, and low team adoption.

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Product & Data Management5 min

How to Audit Supplier Data Quality Before Onboarding

A 15-minute supplier data audit can reveal whether you're looking at 2 hours of onboarding or 18 hours of cleanup. Check Completeness, Consistency, and Structure before signing contracts.

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