Product Experience Solutions

Product Experience Hub (PXHub)

Boosts your Contentserv Product Experience to a new level

The Product Experience Hub is an external application, which is highly integrated into Contentserv.
It automatically fully synchronizes with your Contentserv installation and opens a completely new product experience on accessing your data with pre-aggregation and a powerful engine.
The main purpose is to have an easy interface to your products by offering powerful APIs, Exports and Imports. But it offers even more.

It is not only about Products. Also Channels and Assets can be fully handled.

PXHub offers multiple main components.

Huge acceptance in the market

More than 60 companies and 20 Contentserv implementation partners are already using PXHub

They had been integrating more than 150 different types of external system with PXHub

PXHub handles all Integrations from / to Contentserv

In the center of integrations there is the Contentserv PXC (PIM + DAM) system.

PXHub can integrate any system via Import and Export with its flexible capabilities.
Additionally it offers some Contentserv internal enhancements to do efficient Data Transformations as well as On Demand Exports and Excels.

The configurable REST API and the Flow Engine are for the typical integration scenarios better integrated and therefore more powerful then the big external ETL tools in the market.

The main components are:

The only available (configurable) near-real time (JSON) API for Contentserv:

• Easy: Easy to use and extremely flexible.
• API approach: Use a central near real-time API instead of building a specific export for every system.
• Documentation: Automatically generates the up to data schema documentation of your API.
• Performance: Great Performance to access your up to date product data.
• No limit: Supports all Contentserv datatypes even those where other standard exports are at the limit.
• One for all: Export Products as well as Channels or Assets with all the specifics.
• Complex data models: Automatically embeds all needed related objects (tables, references, files) – if needed even in multiple levels with full control about every single attribute and format.
• Push approach: Can be also used in a standard push mode to periodically push the latest product data to other systems.
• Intelligent Delta: PXH Delta Extension also offers also a clever delta detection to return or push only if any of the related objects (also in embedded ones) contain any relevant change.

Importing and distributing your data from one import file into multiple objects within PIM / MAM can not be easier:

Configure your import schema, inclusive sub objects; apply transformations and keep full transparency of all your imports with an Import Staging area.

• Flexibility: All your defined PXH Exports (JSON or Excel) can be directly reimported – just use your export as a template and change some values.
• Security: You can configure for every object / relation what is allowed to be changed and what is readonly.
• Visibility: You can use an import staging area where you can optionally review and control all the changes before they finally get imported. See also all previous imports with their changes and errors.
• Control: In the review process decide for every single object / field whether to import or ignore changes from your users.
• Consistency: Offers upfront full data type validation with fast response to your importing system.
• Performance: Great performance as only relevant changes are finally pushed in multiple threads to Contentserv.
• Independent: Define your own identifier for each object (e.g., ID, External Key, any custom attribute)
• Clever: Automatically detects /resolves any dependencies:
  • Full folder structures can be created with one JSON (PXH detects all dependencies)
  • New Products and references / table can be created and linked with one JSON
  • Even MAM Assets will be automatically downloaded and exchanged when they are changed
• Storage: Offers additional storage capabilities to import and enrich products with additional frequent changing content (like stock), which you don’t want to store in your PIM, but need in some of your interfaces.

The PXHub Flow is an ETL engine, allowing to define processes within PXHub. It enables to build direct integrations to target systems, e.g., for PUSH scenarios. All integrations can be built just within the UI without coding.
It enables to build any kind of PUSH scenarios, where all (changed) data is sent to a target system or stored in a storage. PXHub automatically takes care to detect when to push which data.
In the UI you can define various nodes, which are triggering some actions, e.g.:

• Run a PXHub Export
• Push data to a Webservice
• Call a Webservice to fetch data
• Send data to the common Message Queues
• Receive data from the Message Queues
• Execute PXHub Business Rules for ETL transformations
• Get file content from MAM
• Store file content to MAM
• Get / List files from shared filesystem (SFTP, S3)
• Store files to shared filesystem (SFTP, S3)
• Manipulate data structure before/after Import/Export with a Mapping UI
  

Each step can be fully parameterised such that you can can build cycles, define, what other steps are used as input and much more.

PXHub Flow can not always compete with a full powerful ETL tool, but in lot of scenarios where the integrations are not too complex, it is a good choice as it is already fully integrated with all other PXHub concepts.

Enable your business teams to work with your product data in their favorite tool: Excel!

Provide a configurable export of your products inclusive important relations in Excel – special formatted for humans to view or even edit all your data together.

• Flexibility: You can configure what and how to represent your data without the need of defining any Excel template first.
• Embed: Multiple ways of embedding also references and tables to your Excel (as additional columns or as separate spreadsheet).
• Translation: Multiple options to handle translations (in rows or as additional columns).
• No limit: Great solution if you want export complex data models or tricky datatypes (like number with unit) to Excel.
• Control: Keep control of your data – you can define what a user is allowed to edit or what is readonly.
• Reimport: You can automatically even import nearly all changes in the Excel file back to Contentserv using the powerful import engine.
• All in one: Edit your important tables, relations, … together with your product main data in one file and just import it back.
• Dropdowns: Possibility to offer all your value lists as dropdown (even multiple value ones).
• References: Select your product references from a dropdown.

Special use case “Onboarding”:
Efficient data onboarding – let your “Suppliers” fill your automatic generated Excel files!

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Founder

Frank Ipfelkofer

12 years experience at Contentserv as
Director R&D, Head of Product Management, Chief Architect

Main developer of the Contentserv core.
Architect of the modules PIM, MAM,
Project Manager and TMS.

7 years experience at Westwing as
Head of Development for
Navision ERP, Salesforce, BI, Logistic Services,
Customer Services and PIM teams.

Since 2019 Chief Architect of the PXHub
2020 Founder and Managing Director of Product Experience Solutions

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