Denodo is the eponymous data integration platform from the global company headquartered in Silicon Valley.
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Pimcore
Score 8.6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
The Pimcore Platform™ is an enterprise open-source software for managing any digital data and customer experiences across any channel or device. Pimcore is used to keep single, harmonized, up-to-date versions of any corporate master data, manage, consolidate, share and transform digital media assets, and deliver personalized, headless experiences on any channel. The solution boasts users among more than 110 000 companies in 60+ countries. Pimcore solutions at a…
Denodo allows us to create and combine new views to create a virtual repository and APIs without a single line of code. It is excellent because it can present connectors with a view format for downstream consumers by flattening a JSON file. Reading or connecting to various sources and displaying a tabular view is an excellent feature. The product's technical data catalog is well-organized.
Flexible data models and every data record you connect to automatically stays up-to-date and consistent. The easy and self-explanatory handling of the system. Compared to Hubspot, we can configure the layouts much more conveniently and dynamically.
Pimcore is fully opensource and based on leading Symfony, the leading PHP framework. It has a well-developed partner network and community support.
In contrast to other systems that have a quite rigid architecture Pimcore is designed as a platform for developers. It can be used to model complex data architecture with ease and develop features tailored to customer needs.
It provides a fully integrated platform for Product Information Management, Digital Asset Management, and Enterprise Content Management. This ensures there is no duplication of assets and content and data across multiple systems.
All PIM features are also available through a REST-based Web Service allowing easy integration with other applications.
In addition to PIM, DAM and WCM features it also provides a robust eCommerce platform.
Caching - but I am sure it will be improved by now. There were times when we expected the cache to be refreshed but it was stale.
Schema generation of endpoints from API response was sometimes incomplete as not all API calls returned all the fields. Will be good to have an ability to load the schema itself (XSD/JSON/Soap XML etc).
Denodo exposed web services were in preliminary stage when we used; I'm sure it will be improved by now.
Export/Import deployment, while it was helpful, there were unexpected issues without any errors during deployment. Issues were only identified during testing. Some views were not created properly and did not work. If it was working in the environment from where it was exported from, it should work in the environment where it is imported.
Denodo is a tool to rapidly mash data sources together and create meaningful datasets. It does have its downfalls though. When you create larger, more complex datasets, you will most likely need to cache your datasets, regardless of how proper your joins are set up. Since DV takes data from multiple environments, you are taxing the corporate network, so you need to be conscious of how much data you are sending through the network and truly understand how and when to join datasets due to this.
PIMCore is Digital Platform making it single source of truth for many upstream and downstream system. Akeneo is just PIM and its doing PIM job properly but PimCore is much more than this. AEM is too costly and can't be affordable for many small and mid size companies
