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Akeneo was founded in 2013 as an open-source PIM. Today, Akeneo is headquartered in Nantes, France, with offices worldwide including the USA, UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Australia. Akeneo employs over 250 members of staff and provides services to over 550 customers, including Shop.com, Midland Scientific, and Fossil.
Since its inception, Akeneo has been recognized on several occasions for a variety of accolades, including being named on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA list for 2017, and being recognized as a leader in product information management applications on an IDC Marketscape report in 2019.
Since its inception, Akeneo has been recognized on several occasions for a variety of accolades, including being named on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA list for 2017, and being recognized as a leader in product information management applications on an IDC Marketscape report in 2019.
8.3
7.9Composability
6.4Head-
less
less
9.8Cloud
Native
Native
8.5API
8.7Modu-
larity
larity
Modularity
8.7
Although Akeneo’s own website speaks little of microservices specifically, the Akeneo App Store allows customers to directly plug into third-party applications. Customers can access over 150 extensions and “connectors” to enhance their Akeneo PIM.
API
8.5
Akeneo adopts and API-first approach. Akeneo’s website states that, as well as being high-performing, their containerized architecture follows industry standards and best practices. Akeneo offers extensive documentation on-site to guide customers through using APIs. As with their microservices, Akeneo’s App Store relies on APIs to connect to available extensions, and allows companies and clients to provide their own extensions via API. Both REST and Events APIs are utilized.
Cloud Native
9.8
Not all of Akeneo’s products are cloud native, with the vendor’s standard PIM hosted on-premises. Akeneo’s Enterprise Edition may be either PaaS or SaaS, but their Growth Edition is only available as a SaaS platform. Akeneo’s cloud offering is multi-tenant and utilizes the Google Cloud platform.
Composability
7.9
Although Akeneo does not directly mention composability in their offering, it is clear through their implementation of several features, such as their App Store and scalability offered through their SaaS models, that a level of composability can be achieved. Their offering of many other pre-built integrations with vendors in a range of fields further adds to the ability to customize Akeneo’s platform.
Headless
6.4
Akeneo offers connections with vendors in other industries, such as Salesforce Commerce Cloud or Spryker, to create headless user experiences.
Bottomline
8.3
Akeneo scores high overall, particularly for it’s API first and cloud native approaches. Their microservices are also expanding and improving, which, overall, adds to their ability to offer composability. Customers should adequately assess which Edition of Akeneo’s products they need to ensure they receive the features they most require.
