At this year's Pimcore Inspire Conference in Salzburg, our developer Jan Walther was honoured as Most Valuable Pimconaut of the Year 2019. He was honoured for his special commitment to the Pimcore community: Of the more than 200 developers who already regularly contribute to the open source project, Jan Walther has submitted the most and most influential GitHub contributions to Pimcore.
"Blackbit is the most exemplary agency when it comes to collaboration on GitHub," Bernhard Rusch (CTO of Pimcore and main person responsible for the Pimcore GitHub repository) praised us. Among other things, the fact that we submit core changes via pull request and ensure update-capable, reusable, scalable solutions was appreciated.
In an interview with Pimcore, our award-winning developer reveals how great commitment to the open source community and everyday agency life go together.
At the Partner Conference, we naturally also found out about the latest developments at Pimcore. Here is an overview of the most important news:
Pimcore is currently working hard on its Data Hub plugin. With this plugin, you can create (GraphQL) APIs via GUI without writing a single line of code. At the moment, this is only possible for the data of data objects, but will soon also be possible for documents and assets. The backend effort for API-based applications such as single-page apps (VueJs, React, etc.) as well as for imports and exports from and to other systems can thus be reduced enormously. More information about the Data Hub can be found in this Pimcore blog post.
The Pimcore roadmap also includes improving cloud compatibility, writing automated tests and integrating translation providers.
At the Pimcore Partner Conference, analysts from Gardner and Forrester spoke about current trends and developments in the areas of Master Data Management (MDM), Product Information Management (PIM) and Data Experience Platform (DXP). According to her, from around 2021, 85% of all investments in DXP projects will flow into integrations with other systems. Around 90% of large companies will then be dependent on system integrators (agencies).
Supporting agencies must therefore offer feature-rich, reusable solutions in order to fulfil customer requirements. Blackbit is already very well positioned here with the import bundle: "Due to changing and growing customer requirements, we have continuously developed our plugin for importing data into Pimcore over the past few years. This has resulted in a powerful tool that enables high-performance, automated imports, can be individually adapted to data sources and the respective Pimcore data model and minimises programming effort.