Akeneo

10/15/2026

Big news for the PIM market. Gartner® has published its first Magic Quadrant™ for Product Information Management Solutions, and Akeneo is named a Leader.

Shoppers now research across many channels and ask AI tools for help. The information behind every product has to be accurate and ready wherever people look. That's what we help brands, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers do.

Thank you to our customers and partners. Get your complimentary copy: http://akeneo.com/white-paper/2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-pim-solutions/

10/14/2026

Ever built a dashboard that people actually used, then watched the pipeline behind it fall apart? 🙋

That was the reality at DwyerOmega. Their product data in Akeneo was accurate, but the teams who needed it worked in Power BI, SharePoint, and other tools. As multilingual content grew, the extraction pipeline couldn't keep up.

So they rebuilt it with Akeneo MCP. Now the pipeline refreshes automatically every morning, handles every language through delta updates, and delivers trusted product data wherever teams work.

Part 1 of their story is live. Part 2, coming soon, shows how they prepare a newly acquired product line in about 40 minutes.

Read it here: https://www.akeneo.com/blog/dwyeromega-akeneo-mcp-part-1/

10/13/2026

Akeneo has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Product Information Management Solutions. This recognition is based on our Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

Complimentary access to the report is coming soon!

10/12/2026

An AI agent can write a product description in seconds. But can it tell whether that description is compliant in every market you sell in?

On its own, it can't. A model doesn't know which product data it's allowed to use, which claims hold up where, or when a person needs to approve a change.

That's the job of the AI harness: the memory, permissions, guardrails, orchestration, human checkpoints and audit trail that surround the model. It's the difference between AI that answers and AI that can safely act.

For product-related AI, that harness needs a trusted source of truth to plug into, and that's your PIM.

Models will keep changing. The environment you build around them is what lasts.

Read the full breakdown 👉 https://www.akeneo.com/blog/what-is-the-ai-harness/

Discover what an AI harness is, why it matters for enterprise AI, and how it can help turn AI agents into reliable participants in real-world commerce.

10/09/2026

When food inflation topped 15%, every supplier renegotiation meant a scramble for Franprix's five-person pricing team.

One of France's leading food retailers, Franprix runs more than 1,000 stores, sells thousands of products and works with around 600 franchisees who set their own prices. Their manual tools had reached their limits, and understanding the impact of each renegotiation on margins was getting harder.

In three months, they implemented PricingHUB and built one source of truth for internal, transactional, purchase and competitive pricing data. The result is sharper, more granular pricing and much more control in a volatile market.

Price is part of every product experience. With PricingHUB now part of Akeneo, retailers can manage both their product data and the pricing decisions behind it.

Read the full story: https://www.akeneo.com/customer-story/franprix/

10/09/2026

When L.L. Bean reopened its flagship store, The Boston Globe looked at how a century-old product found new life. Our CEO Romain Fouache was quoted on the role of personalization and on how customers sharing their creations online has kept the product relevant.

For us, that is product experience in practice. The value doesn't stop at the product itself. It carries on into what customers do with it next.

Read the full article 👉 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/14/business/ll-bean-flagship-freeport-maine/

10/07/2026

Can your team build an AI agent? Probably. 👍

But here's the question most companies skip: what happens when you have five of them?

One agent writes product descriptions. Another maps supplier data. Another validates marketplace listings. Eventually they all work on the same products, and they need to agree on which data is correct, apply the same rules, and leave a clear record of what changed.

That's when "build or buy" stops being a technical question and becomes a strategic one.

Our new guide covers when a custom build makes sense, where complexity starts to compound, and the four foundations every fleet of AI agents needs. 👇

https://www.akeneo.com/blog/build-or-platform-choosing-the-right-foundation-for-ai-agents-in-product-data/

10/06/2026

Is your product data ready for AI shoppers? 🤖

AI agents now decide which products buyers see. At Unlock 2027, you'll learn how leading brands make sure theirs get found.

Join product, digital, and commerce leaders to explore agentic commerce, AI discoverability, product experience management (PXM) agents, and MCP/UCP. You'll see real use cases, get a first look at the latest product information management (PIM) innovations, and leave with ideas you can put to work right away.

Six cities. One global community. Unlock comes to you.

🇫🇷 Paris | April 21–22 (flagship)
🇺🇸 Chicago | April 27
🇬🇧 London | April 29
🇨🇦 Montréal | April 29
🇺🇸 New York | May 5
🇩🇪 Düsseldorf | May 12

Save the date for the city nearest to you. Agendas and registration coming soon.
👉 https://www.akeneo.com/unlock/

10/05/2026

Your website says 50 cm. Amazon says 52 cm. Your distributor's catalog says 51 cm.

Shoppers notice. Only 9% trust a deal without checking it first, and more of them are comparing products across retailers before they buy.

When Amazon listings go wrong, the cause usually sits much earlier: missing attributes, inconsistent values, broken variant relationships, or product data scattered across spreadsheets and systems. Our new blog covers the six most common problems and how to fix them at the source.

👉 https://www.akeneo.com/blog/common-amazon-listing-data-problems-that-start-with-product-information/

09/28/2026

Digital Product Passports are no longer a future problem.

The EU passport database is live. From 18 February 2027, EV, e-bike and industrial batteries sold in the EU will need a digital passport, and textiles, construction, aluminium and tyres are next.

Generating the QR code is the easy part. The hard part is the product data behind it, which for most brands is scattered across suppliers, ERP, PLM and compliance tools.

Start with three steps: check whether you're in scope, find where your product data lives, and bring it into one place.

Our guide covers what's mandatory and how to prepare 👉 https://www.akeneo.com/blog/digital-product-passports/