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Service To Service Authentication

Microsoft finally introduces S2S authentication. The impact of this change will be huge for all integrations because later on the basic authentication will disappear. It is a welcome step as well, as this is the right way to make integrations between Business Central/Pimics and other applications. It also make things easier when using OAuth2.0 with an user account in Business Central. This article will describe how to set it up.

Is it really PIM vs. CMS?

CMS and PIM are only comparable for a narrow category of use cases, where product range is limited and product feature complexity is low. If product range size and product feature complexity will surpass a certain threshold, then the CMS stops being an alternative to PIM, and PIM becomes a must-have for properly managing your product data.

DAM makes PIM better

Pimics gives you all the tools you need for managing your product data inside your Microsoft Dynamics ERP, be it NAV or Business Central. This includes digital asset management (DAM) as a crucial component for enriching your product data. Yes, digital assets like product pictures, videos, or data sheets can now be managed directly from inside your ERP thanks to Pimics.

The dropshipping business: how Pimics can help

Have you ever thought about embracing the dropshipping business? How hard can it be to build a website and have others stock and ship the goods you sell online? Well, maybe the headache and the financial burden of storing and moving the physical items will be gone, but you still have to make the effort of building a comprehensive product catalogue, with a wealth of information about the stuff that you want to sell.

The BMECat advantage of Pimics

One of the most effective ways that you can populate your sales catalogue with product data using a PIM, is to employ standardized catalogue formats such as BMEcat or DataNorm, and standardized classification systems such as ETIM. Pimics supports all the mentioned formats plus others, allowing you great flexibility in effectively using data sources to your advantage while minimising manual intervention in the process of enriching the product data for the items that you sell.

5 ways that Pimics can help improve your data quality

Whether you only produce printed catalogues for your customers, or whether you sell online and your information will be seen by humans or the Google Assistant, one thing is for sure: you will have to present your products well to sell well. PIM becomes a must-have for more reasons than one, but especially for data quality reasons.

Get ready for the PIM implementation process

You have finally decided on your new PIM solution and the implementation process is ahead. The main question is how to prepare for it? We give you a few tips that you should consider and put into practice during the process.

4 Pains that lead to PIM adoption

Reality shows us that few companies include PIM in their systems architecture right from the start. Many of them realize the potential of PIM as they go along and, usually because they grow out of their initial 'shoes' they increasingly perceive shortcomings that only PIM can solve. This article highlights the most important shortcomings that companies usually face, and how they can be effectively addressed by a adopting a PIM solution such as Pimics.

What is PIM and how it enables your business

A PIM solution can integrate data from the ERP, CRM and any other product- or customer-related platform used by the business. For companies using Dynamics 365 Business Central, Pimics is special among PIM systems because it works directly on the ERP data so that it offers additional synergies, plus no data exchange between Pimics and ERP will ever be necessary. See our article for a set of compelling reasons why you should consider using Pimics.

5 Tips on Implementing a PIM System to Your Ecommerce Business

Finding an effective approach to managing product information is vital in today's digital landscape, with retailers expanding their offerings to eCommerce. This allows eCommerce businesses to communicate accurate information and consistent branding across their products and meet the increasing demand for seamless omnichannel experiences.

Pimics ROI calculation

Sometimes people do not even know if they have a PIM system in their organisation or not. Many of them assume that existing tools that they use daily for running the business, like ERP, CRM or Excel, can also handle all their product data, but the reality is that if you are serious about having an online or printed catalogue with comprehensive data about your products, you have no alternative to using a good PIM system. After all, managing your product information is the spine of your business. In this article we take a closer look at concrete benefits of using PIM, and we build a business case for Pimics.

What do you get from Pimics?

When you decide to implement a PIM system, there are a set of factors driving you to this decision. Most probably, after having the PIM in place, your company will discover additional benefits you never thought about in the first place. This article outlines a few advantages of using Pimics, seen from three different points of view within the company staff hierarchy, so you can have a picture as complete as possible from the beginning.

BMECat

The importance of e-procurement is growing and thus also the need to replace all kinds of paperwork preferably by automatic electronic processes. That is the reason why we decided to dedicate the newest article to internationally respected standard of BMECat.

How Data Quality Impacts Behaviour of Customers?

The start of a new year means some new strategies and challenges for many companies. Maybe now you are thinking about how you can improve your business more too. Then we have an interesting tip for you. We have focused on the importance of product data which is unfortunately commonly underestimated. Are you doing the same mistake? Don’t take the product data lightly. We will convince you why you should pay attention to them.

Pimics for Business Central version 2.0 released

The world is moving to the cloud and Microsoft Dynamics solutions are not different. Microsoft has been working on Business Central hard for the last several months. The Business Central October '19 release is the first version without windows RTC client. Everything runs through a web client or mobile application. So at least from my view, it is the first version which is fully cloud based. Yes, there is still an on-premise version. But the movement to the cloud is quite well visible.Also we with our PIM solution need to move forward and follow Microsoft steps. We released Pimics for Business Central in version 2.0. This version is currently available on AppSource and it is compatible with the latest Business Central version.

PIMICS is Available in Microsoft AppSource

Since today, PIMICS is registered in AppSource, which means it is available as an extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

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