Akeneo is named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Product Information Management
October 30, 2026
Akeneo is named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Product Information Management. As an Akeneo Gold Partner, Pivotree helps retailers and brands across North America plan, implement and run Akeneo. You can request your own copy of the report from Akeneo.
Why product data matters more every year
Shoppers now find products through AI assistants and shopping agents as well as websites, apps and marketplaces. These tools compare products using the data they can read. When attributes are missing or inconsistent, products are harder to find and easier to pass over.
A PIM gives retailers and brands one governed place to build that data. Teams model each product once, enrich it for each channel and send the right version to every destination.
What Akeneo and Pivotree deliver together
Akeneo Product Cloud brings product data, digital assets and supplier onboarding into one platform. For the retailers and brands we work with, that means:
- Merchandising and content teams work from a single governed product record, with workflows and approvals built in.
- Akeneo Activation publishes product content to more than 500 retailers and marketplaces from that same record.
- Suppliers upload and update their own product data through the Supplier Data Manager, which reduces manual re-keying.
- Customers license the modules they need and add more as their programs grow.
- Agentic Ziggy and Akeneo’s MCP server give teams AI tools to enrich product data within their own governance rules.
Pivotree makes those capabilities work in your business. We design the data model around how you sell, connect Akeneo to your ERP, PLM and commerce platforms, and support the platform after go-live.
Questions to answer before you choose a PIM
- Where does your product data originate: your own teams, your suppliers, or both?
- Who will use the system every day, and have they seen it working?
- Which channels do you need to reach in the next three years, including AI platforms?
- How quickly do you need the first release live?
Pivotree can help you answer each of these before you commit. Our AI data assessment reviews a sample of your product data and returns a readiness report within one to two business days.
Working with Pivotree
Pivotree is an Akeneo Gold Partner for 2026 and one of ten Akeneo Premier Partners across North and South America. Our team has taken Akeneo live for multi-banner and apparel retailers, including bringing three retail banners onto a single Akeneo instance.
We combine experienced Akeneo specialists with Pivotree’s AI-assisted delivery tooling for data modelling, mapping and bulk configuration, which shortens the path from raw catalog to channel-ready product data. After go-live, we stay with clients through hypercare and managed services, so the team that built your PIM is the team that supports it.
On request, we will load a sample of your catalog into Akeneo within 24 hours so your team can evaluate the platform with real data.
Contact Pivotree’s Akeneo practice at sales@pivotree.com to discuss your catalog, channels, and timeline.
Learn more about our partnership with Akeneo
Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management Solutions, Jason Daigler, Greg Carlucci, Nicholas Mortensen, 12 October 2026.
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