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Curated for teams evaluating PIM, catalog ownership, and product-data strategy.
An independent look at how the PIM market is shifting in 2026: vendor moves, buyer priorities, and what that means for selection. Use it to brief stakeholders before RFPs, demos, and board updates, so the room argues from one shared map instead of vendor slides.
Leaders building or refreshing a PIM shortlist this year.
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How Digital Product Passports change product-data requirements, and what PIM teams need ready before regulation lands hard. The brief separates passport theatre from the attributes, ownership, and system-of-record work that actually survives an audit.
Manufacturers and brands facing ESPR, DPP, and supply-chain transparency pressure.
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A pragmatic path out of spreadsheet catalogs: what to keep, what to migrate, and how to avoid a messy cutover. Written for teams still running the catalog in Excel or Sheets and who need a migration sequence that reduces rework instead of multiplying it.
Ops and product-data teams still running the catalog in Excel or Sheets.
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The selection and rollout mistakes we see most often, and how to avoid paying for them twice. Covers shortlist traps, ownership blind spots, and delivery patterns that quietly inflate cost after the contract is signed.
Teams mid-selection or early in a PIM programme.
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How to build a credible PIM business case: cost drivers, value levers, and what boards actually want to see. Helps sponsors frame ROI without vendor fluff, and spot cost lines that get missed in early estimates.
Sponsors who need to justify PIM investment to finance and leadership.
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What AI can realistically do for product content and enrichment, and what still needs clean data and human control. Use it to pressure-test vendor AI claims before you buy the story, and to keep enrichment tied to measurable catalog outcomes.
Product, content, and architecture leads evaluating AI claims from PIM vendors.
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Where product information and digital assets should live, how the systems should connect, and when one tool is not enough. Clarifies ownership boundaries between PIM and DAM so budgets force a sequence instead of a confused dual purchase.
Teams debating whether to buy PIM, DAM, or both.
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