SPECTRA LIGHTING is a Polish company with over a decade of experience in the lighting industry. It provides comprehensive support for lighting supply projects, combined with expert advice in lighting technology. Its in-house production facility allows the company to adapt to customer requirements, from changing colors or dimensions to creating entirely new products specifically tailored to an investment.
Requirements and needs
- Ensuring maximum, near 100% consistency across current and future publication channels
- Maintaining consistency across all language versions
- Ensuring 100% consistency of displayed images across all channels
- Increasing the complexity and volume of product data presented in online media
- Providing a more efficient tool for inputting large volumes of product data, e.g., through the use of data inheritance mechanisms
- Export/import of Excel files
- Greater flexibility in both product data administration and data structures
- Integration of PIM and CMS environments
- Enhancing user experience on the product website
Applied solutions
- Product Information Management system built on the open-source PIMCORE platform
- Dedicated REST API as an interface for communication with external applications
- Integrated Digital Asset Management module within PIM for comprehensive management of digital file assets
- CMS module integrated with the PIM and DAM systems, serving as a tool for managing the company’s website
- Open-source libraries for generating PDF documents
Product database
- Integrated modules for Product Information Management (PIM), Digital Asset Management (DAM), and Content Management System (CMS)
- Full multilingual support for data in the database
- Open-source code, customizable to meet specific requirements
- Automatic creation of a complex product tree hierarchy during the import of new products
- Individually configurable bulk export and import of product data in Excel format
- Inheritance of values within the product tree, improving data management ergonomics
- Extension of the data model with new attribute types not standard in PIMCORE
- Dynamically managed dictionary values
Product website
- Full integration of the PIM system with the CMS of the website, enabling instant updates from PIM/DAM to CMS
- Full multilingual support
- Full-text search with graphical suggestions and filter-based options
- Customizable filter sets depending on the website category
- High search and filtering performance powered by ELASTICSEARCH software
- Dynamic links between products, accessories, and implementations
- Fully configurable sets of technical attributes, either globally or at the product family level
PDF data sheet
- Full multilingual support for generated PDF documents
- Automatically generated PDF catalog sheets for entire product families
- Automatically generated PDF catalog sheets for individual products
- Bulk generation of large volumes of time-consuming documents using a background process manager
- Complex layouts for catalog sheets
Custom API
- Custom-tailored REST API interface for reading product data
- Full multilingual data support
- Handling all data types: textual, numerical, relationships, and digital file assets