Comparing PIM Solutions: Salsify vs Akeneo

We compare the Salsify and Akeneo PIM software solutions to help you choose the best product information management (PIM) software for your business.

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Ideal Customer

Salsify

Brand manufacturers, retailers and wholesalers selling products across multiple channels including their own ecommerce sites, online retailers, and marketplaces.

Akeneo

All retailers or brands with a wide range of products or services, and who manage large amounts of product data.

Features & Capabilities

Salsify

Regarded as the most feature rich PIM software: includes PxM and PIM modules, rapid deployment, and extensive range of APIs.

Akeneo

Open Source, Feature Rich, easy to use, strong range of features.

eCommerce

Salsify

Product Experience Management (ProductXM) platform with three components: PIM, DAM, and Experience Builder: facilitates sales across retailer/distributor channels, as well as marketplaces, social commerce, and direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites.

Akeneo

Optimised processes (low time to market), SEO tagging, API integrations, enhanced and optimised product data processes for large volume of catalogs.

PIM

Salsify

Offers a trial, no free version: Easy set-up, channel-by-channel readiness alerts: governance rules applied to stored data: workflow management, user role access management and customisable brand portals.

Akeneo

Offers a trial and a free version: easy set-up, user-optimised interface (Community Edition), frequent updates and improvements, user-friendly GUI, applicable to B2C and B2B.

DAM

Salsify

Gathers and transform images and videos centrally. It also transforms various file types and stores product metadata.

Akeneo

Enterprise version of Akeneo PIM works together with its asset manager (DAM) product pictures, photos, guides, manuals, and how-to videos.

Workflows

Salsify

Enable brands to manage cross-functional processes and monitor teams’ task progress: use calculated properties, which are easy to build and use and enable workflow efficiency.

Akeneo

Uses validation workflow and collaborative teamwork assistant to easily build workflows across departments: collaborative workflow allows for approval or rejection of drafts.

Syndication

Salsify

Maps and transforms core product data to the target schema of each channel destination to ensure content remains consistent and accurate: enhanced content syndication includes 360 spins, videos, and comparison charts.

Akeneo

Industry-leading technology to syndicate product data and assets from Akeneo PIM across all unowned, first-party, third-party, and marketing channels.

Onboarding

Salsify

Enables scalable workflows for onboarding product data rapidly.

Akeneo

Rapid onboarding – offers a streamlined import process to pinpoint the precise data to be uploaded or modified.

Migration

Salsify

Akeneo partner portal ensures transparent and up to date flows of information between the technology and business sides of any migration project.

Akeneo

Serviced by specialist partner organisations with the required expertise to carry out an audit on existing product data, cleanse and normalise where needed.

Data Modelling

Salsify

Easy to understand and very flexible. The model is defined within the PIM to extract the precise information needed from each source.

Akeneo

Uses the PIM to map and transform core product data to multiple target schema for channels – that content stays consistent and accurate across every single channel.

Support

Salsify

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Phone and chat support: knowledge bank, use cases, downloadables.

Akeneo

Email/help desk, FAQs, forum, knowledge base: Akeneo deploys a team of Customer Success experts: noted for strong SLAs to guide clients around queries they have in post-go-live period

Integrations

Salsify

Strong on connectors, which provide as much information to brands as the endpoint permits: automated retail schema updates to extract attribute requirements from endpoint and identify them in an easily understandable form: detailed guides, video tutorials and other resources to enable a fast-learning curve for supplier XM integrations.

Akeneo

Relatively straightforward, as the API-centred cloud capabilities connect the Akeneo PIM easily with existing ecosystems. Connectors to major marketplaces: BigCommerce, Commerce Cloud, Shopify. Shopware, WooCommerce.

Pricing

Salsify

Salsify offers a free trial, but for its Commerce XM platform a custom quote is required. It is priced on a subscription basis. Smaller customers can expect to pay around £2000-5000 per month – large enterprise customers will pay significantly more for global reach.

Akeneo

Offers a free demo, The open source, free community edition has more limitations on features. The medium-range growth edition starts at around £25k, while their enterprise version pricing depends on client needs and circumstances

Partners

Salsify

Partners with more than thirty of the world’s top retailers, technology platforms, agencies, and consultancies (specialising in all aspects of PIM implementation and managed services).

Akeneo

Solution partners offer expertise in business and taxonomy. Technology Partners can guide clients in extending an Akeneo PIM’s functionality, with more features and third-party apps.

Reviews

Salsify

Salsify currently scores an aggregate 85/100 across various PIM review sites. This is based on user satisfaction, recent user trends (rising number of customers), and other relevant information on Salsify gathered from various online sources.

Akeneo

Akeneo PIM currently scores an aggregate 90/100 across various Product Information Management (PIM) review sites. The score is based on user satisfaction, user trends (rising number of customers), and other information on Akeneo from across the web.

Summary

Our PIM software comparison sheets will help you to get a good initial impression of the options on the market, so you can choose the best PIM software for your specific needs. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so if you want a closer look at how they work, click on the Salsify or Akeneo link to get a demo and better hone your PIM software comparison.

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