February 2023 Serenity updates

This month we are excited to announce the availability of Time-to-Market Insights, new analytical capabilities that identify opportunities to streamline product enrichment processes and to help bring products to market faster. Plus, we’ve released Enriched Categories and made enhancements to import/export options and asset attribute types.

Summary

Time to Market Insights

Type: New | Feature: Productivity | Available in Serenity EE only since February | đź“– Read the doc

Time-to-Market Insights delivers operational metrics and KPIs that track how long it takes to prepare products for launch in Akeneo PIM and identify opportunities to streamline the product data enrichment process to bring products to market faster. 

 

Identify opportunities to streamline product data enrichment

Enriched Categories

Type: New | Feature: Productivity | Available in Serenity EE and GE since February | đź“– Read the doc

Create more impactful experiences for your customers on your D2C site. Give customers access to more information about specific product lines, categories or sub-categories. With Enriched Categories you can leverage e-merchandising information such as images, descriptions and SEO content to better inform your buyers.

Enrich categories with e-merchandising information

Three Remote Storage Options Added for Import/Export

Type: Improvement | Feature: Productivity | Available in Serenity EE and GE since February |  📖 Read the doc

Securely transfer product data to and from Akeneo PIM by connecting imports and exports to a remote storage. Akeneo PIM now supports the ability to automate and schedule import and export jobs that connect to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Storage.

Select the remote storage type

Tailored Imports: Extract with Regular Expression

Type: Improvement | Feature: Productivity | Available in Serenity EE and GE since February | đź“– Read the doc

Extract only the desired values from a file with the new extract with regular expression operation for Tailored Imports. This option is available for Text and Text Area attributes and can be used to extract a value based on a regular expression of your choice.

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Yes/No Attribute Type for Assets

Type: New | Feature: Productivity | Available in Serenity EE since February | đź“– Read the doc

The Yes/No attribute type allows teams to create extra stages for assets beyond “complete” and “not complete.” For example, the Yes/No attribute could be used to identify assets that are ready for public use, assets that are under an embargo, or assets that have passed a quality check. Attributes may be named by the Akeneo PIM user, so there is no limit to how the Yes/No option may be used to support asset management.

Yes/No is now an attribute type