Turning Pimcore into MDM

In Chapter 1, Introducting Pimcore, we briefly introduced the concept of Master Data Management. MDM is a fundamental process used to manage, centralize, organize, categorize, locate, synchronize, and enrich critical data based on your company's sales, marketing, and operational strategies. In this section, we will explain this concept better to let you understand how easily you can put into practice the learnings from the previous chapters to turn Pimcore into an MDM system.

We have already seen in Chapter 12, Implementing Product Information Management, the potential that Pimcore has in terms of data management, but it has one big limitation: it's strictly related to the concept of products.

In many company scenarios, products are not the only kind of data that needs to be defined, managed, and shared through the company users or distributed in different channels. For example, if we think in terms of e-commerce purposes, we may want to store...