The market for PIM software includes vendors that: - Provide product, commerce and marketing teams with the ability to create and maintain an approved shareable version of rich product content. - Support complex use cases, including product data syndication (PDS), PXM, product analytics, product feedback loops and the contextualization of product data for brands, markets and channels
Gartner defines Search and Product Discovery as applications that augment digital commerce solutions to facilitate navigation, filtering, comparisons, and ultimately selection of products. They provide search (keyword, natural language and visual), merchandising (automation, configuration, and curation of business rules to make a product discoverable based on business needs), product recommendations, catalog navigation (and SEO keyword automation), personalization and analytics capabilities through SaaS to enable customers (B2C and B2B) to transact. They also enable providers (merchandisers, content managers, and search specialists) to support customer experiences. With the emergence of generative AI, conversational search interfaces are now appearing. Search and Product Discovery applications use product data to facilitate navigation, filtering, comparisons and ultimately product selection. Search results can be highly visual, using engaging layouts and multimedia. Content other than product information, such as educational information, compliance materials and related news may also be included in search results to engage customers and further support buying decisions.