About Pimcore
Where PIM, MDM, DAM and commerce share one data model.
Pimcore was founded in 2013 in Salzburg, Austria, and is built on PHP, Symfony and MariaDB. It started life as a GPL-licensed open-core platform and grew into the broader positioning it uses today: a single modeller for product information, master data, customer data, digital assets, content and commerce. In January 2025 the company moved the core from GPL to a proprietary POCL license with version 12, which is why the community-driven OpenDXP fork exists alongside it. Funding so far: Auctus Capital Series A in 2018 and a 12 million dollar Series B led by Nordwind Growth in 2022.
Where Akeneo is a PIM built around the product record, Pimcore is a broader data-and-experience platform where product data is one class among several. The class-and-attribute system is defined by you per tenant, which means a Pimcore tenant can hold products, customers, vendors, orders, marketing assets, 3D files and CMS documents side by side in the same object tree. That flexibility is the product. It is also the reason a Pimcore export looks different at every client, and the reason a warehouse view on top of it has to read the class definitions before it can read the data.
What a Pimcore tenant ends up asking the warehouse: where did the product record drift from the ERP, which DAM asset is orphaned from its SKU, which customer master has two linked company records that should be one, and which commerce page references a 3D model nobody has maintained in six months.