AI-Powered Enrichment: Extract Information from Product Assets to Boost Your Product Descriptions!

Type: Improvement | Feature: Productivity Data quality| Packaging: Growth Advanced Premium | 📖 Read the doc

We’re excited to introduce a groundbreaking expansion of our AI enrichment capabilities in Akeneo PIM! This new feature allows you to automatically extract valuable information from product assets like images and PDF files, streamlining your product enrichment process. 

By analyzing product images and PDFs, our AI can identify key details such as color, material types, and product category, and populate relevant attributes (text, text area, simple select, and multi-select) in your PIM.

This powerful AI capability speeds up the product enrichment process, enabling you to automatically generate accurate product descriptions and populate attributes based on what’s detected from product assets. Whether you're handling fashion items, electronics, or home goods, this feature will help you effortlessly enhance your catalog with high-quality, relevant data.

With AI-powered enrichment, your product data management just became faster, smarter, and more efficient than ever before. Get ready to scale your catalog while reducing manual data entry and errors!

Secure and Streamline Product Data Access Across Multiple Channels

Type: Improvement | Feature: Governance Collaboration | Packaging: Advanced Premium | 📖 Read the doc

In today’s multi-brand and multi-department organizations, maintaining control over product data and ensuring its confidentiality is more important than ever. 

Channel-Specific Permissions for Products empowers PIM administrators to manage access to product information at the channel level, giving them granular control over who can view or edit data tied to specific sales channels. Whether it’s for e-commerce, marketplaces, or internal systems, this feature helps restrict unauthorized access, ensuring that sensitive product data remains secure and compliant. 

Offering three types of access—view, edit, and restricted—this enhancement allows admins to easily control who can interact with data across different channels. It is similar to permissions at the locale level, but at a much more specific, channel-based scope.

Stay on Track with New Email Notifications for Workflow Tasks

Type: Improvement | Feature: Productivity Collaboration | Packaging: Advanced Premium | 📖 Read the doc

You don’t want your teammates to miss any urgent action when a product enrichment needs to be reviewed? Rest assured, they will now receive an email notification whenever a task is rejected and requires action, such as a refinement or correction. 

This new feature automatically sends a daily email alert to users assigned to workflow steps, helping to keep your workflows on track and ensuring product data progresses smoothly. It’s especially useful for occasional users who may not regularly check the PIM, as they will be promptly informed when their input is needed. 

NB: To manage your email preferences, users can easily unsubscribe via the PIM’s user management settings or by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email footer.

Enhancing Product Completeness with Categorization

Type: Improvement | Feature: Governance| Packaging: Growth Advanced Premium | 📖 Read the doc

Categories now count. With this update, PIM users can set category selection as a required step before a product is considered complete. This gives merchandisers more confidence that products are not only enriched with the right attributes, but also properly classified for channel-specific visibility, governance, and downstream activation.

Categorization for Product Completeness:

• Required Category Tree for Completeness: Products must be categorized within the required category tree for a given channel (using any child category within that tree). If a product is not assigned to a category within the required tree, its completeness for the relevant channel will be affected.
• Category Tree Requirement: Only category trees can be required for completeness. Individual child categories cannot be set as required for completeness. This is defined at the Categories Setting level (see screenshot below). 
• API Support: This functionality can be read and modified via API, enabling easy integration and management.

Completeness Recalculation: Setting a category tree as required triggers a completeness re-calculation for all products. 

Shortcuts Make Daily Life Easier

Type: Improvement | Feature:Productivity | Packaging: Growth Advanced Premium | 📖 Read the doc

Last February, we unveiled a powerful shortcut enhancements designed to boost your productivity and simplify your Akeneo PIM experience:

• The Global Search aka Ctrl + K:
  Use Ctrl/Command + K (or click the new search icon) to instantly search across products, product models, families, and categories, and even navigate to almost every menu entry. 
  This innovative tool streamlines navigation and simplifies onboarding by giving you rapid access to the entire PIM data model.
• Global Search in Akeneo PIM now supports asset search, allowing you to quickly find images, videos, and documents right from the top search bar—just like you do with products.