Meet Your New AI Product Expert

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

Built directly into your PIM, Ask Ziggy is a context-aware AI assistant that understands your catalog structure, channels, and configurations. Whether you're looking for guidance on a feature, troubleshooting an issue, or configuring a complex workflow, Ask Ziggy helps you find answers instantly—without leaving the platform.

With Ask Ziggy, your teams can:

• Get immediate answers to product and configuration questions
• Discover best practices tailored to Akeneo Product Cloud
• Resolve issues faster without searching through documentation
• Become productive more quickly, regardless of their level of expertise

By bringing product knowledge directly into the experience, Ask Ziggy helps teams work more efficiently, reduce onboarding time, and unlock more value from Akeneo Product Cloud.

And this is just the beginning. While Ask Ziggy already helps users find answers and guidance, we're continuing to innovate with Agentic Ziggy, currently in beta, which will be able to take action on behalf of users.

🧹 Keep Your Catalog Clean and Under Control

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

Maintaining high-quality product information starts with good governance. This month, we've introduced new capabilities to help you identify unused catalog resources, prevent invalid content from entering your Product Cloud, and reduce the effort required to maintain a healthy catalog over time.

💎 Unused Reference Entity Records

Quickly identify Reference Entity records that are no longer linked to products and determine whether they should be reassigned, reviewed, or removed.

🖼️ Unused Assets

The same cleanup capabilities are now available in Asset Manager. Run a usage analysis directly from an Asset Family to identify orphaned assets and remove them in bulk without leaving the DAM.

Why it matters

As catalogs evolve, unused records and assets can accumulate due to discontinued products, catalog restructuring, or import errors. Without visibility, these orphaned resources create unnecessary complexity and make ongoing catalog maintenance more difficult.

Benefits

• Improve data quality by identifying missing assignments and broken relationships
• Reduce catalog clutter and remove unnecessary content
• Simplify governance and ongoing maintenance
• Save time spent manually auditing product relationships and assets

🖼️ Prevent Invalid Assets Before They Impact Your Business

We've enhanced Asset Media Validation to ensure image and video files meet your requirements before they enter your Product Cloud.

Asset administrators can now define validation rules directly at the asset attribute level (in the Asset Family), including image dimensions and video duration requirements. Validation is enforced consistently across uploads, imports, and APIs.

Why it matters

Instead of discovering non-compliant assets after publication or during downstream processes, teams can now prevent issues at the source.

Benefits

• Improve content quality from the moment assets are uploaded
• Reduce downstream publishing and activation issues
• Enforce channel-specific media standards more consistently
• Minimize manual quality control efforts

⚡ Work Faster Every Day

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

Small improvements can have a big impact on productivity. This month, we've introduced a series of enhancements designed to reduce manual work, simplify administration, and give teams more flexibility when managing assets, automation, and product relationships.

🖼️ Reorder Asset Attributes with Drag-and-Drop

Quickly identify Reference Entity records that are no longer linked to products and determine whether they should be reassigned, reviewed, or removed.

Asset Family administrators can now reorganize attributes directly from the Asset Family configuration screen using drag-and-drop.

The order you define is automatically reflected across the user interface and APIs, making it easier to structure asset forms around your team's workflow and priorities.

Why it matters

Until now, changing attribute order required deleting and recreating attributes, creating unnecessary effort and potential risk. Teams can now adapt Asset Families as their business evolves without disrupting existing data.

Benefits

• Organize asset forms around business processes
• Improve usability for content teams
• Simplify migrations and Asset Family restructuring
• Eliminate the need to recreate attributes to change their order

📖 Learn More About Asset Attribute Reordering

⚙️ Smarter Automation and Easier Administration

We've delivered a collection of targeted improvements across Rule Engine, Product Link Rules, Asset Naming Conventions, and APIs to make catalog automation more powerful and easier to manage.

Highlights include:

• More precise rule targeting with expanded Rule Engine conditions
• Support for complex product hierarchies in automation scenarios
• Automatic Product Link Rule execution for newly created products
• Clearer, human-readable asset naming validation messages
• New API capabilities for managing Asset Family attribute options

Why it matters

These enhancements reduce manual intervention, improve automation reliability, and make troubleshooting easier for catalog administrators.

Benefits

• Reduce repetitive manual tasks
• Improve automation accuracy
• Accelerate troubleshooting and configuration
• Increase confidence when managing large catalogs at scale

📖 Explore Rule Engine and Automation Improvements

🌍 Deliver Better Product Experiences Across Every Channel

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

Selling across regions, marketplaces, ecommerce sites, print catalogs, and retail networks often requires adapting product information to different channel requirements. This month, we've introduced new capabilities that help you tailor product experiences for each market while reducing operational complexity behind the scenes.

📤 Export Once, Support Multiple Channels

Managing exports across dozens of channels shouldn't require dozens of export jobs.

With Multi-Channel Product Exports, you can now export products for multiple channels—or even all channels—in a single CSV or XLSX export. Akeneo automatically generates the appropriate channel-locale columns and completeness information, eliminating the need to run and merge separate exports.

Why it matters

Teams managing large product catalogs can dramatically reduce export administration while ensuring consistent product information across every channel.

Benefits

• Reduce export management complexity
• Eliminate manual file consolidation
• Accelerate multi-channel operations
• Improve consistency across sales channels

🌎 Adapt Measurements for Every Market Automatically

Different markets expect different units of measurement. Until now, meeting those expectations often required duplicate attributes, custom exports, or manual transformations.

With Locale-Based Measurement Conversion, you can automatically deliver measurements in the appropriate units for each locale across channels, exports, and APIs.

Whether you're displaying kilograms in France, pounds in the United States, or market-specific energy units, Akeneo handles the conversion automatically while maintaining a single source of truth for product data.

Why it matters

Deliver localized product experiences without increasing catalog complexity.

Benefits

• Support international markets more efficiently
• Maintain a single product data model
• Reduce duplication and maintenance effort
• Simplify integrations and exports

📖 Learn More About Locale-Based Measurement Conversion

🖼️ Deliver Faster Digital Experiences with WebP

Asset Transformations now support automatic WebP conversion, enabling teams to generate modern, web-optimized image formats directly within Akeneo.

WebP images typically offer smaller file sizes while maintaining visual quality, helping brands improve website performance and reduce bandwidth usage without introducing additional processing steps.

Why it matters

Create optimized digital assets directly from your Product Cloud and reduce reliance on external image processing workflows.

Benefits

• Improve website performance
• Reduce image payload sizes
• Simplify asset delivery pipelines
• Support modern web standards

📖 Learn More About WebP Asset Transformations