The new Pimcore Platform Version 2024.2 has been released last week. It brings refined operational capabilities with exciting enhancements to Pimcore Copilot and other core improvements. This latest release is designed to streamline workflows, boost efficiency, and harness the transformative power of AI and automation, making it easier than ever for businesses to manage their digital ecosystems. Let us examine how these enhancements streamline complex data processes, transforming them into user-friendly interactions that drive business growth. 

Enhance Your Workflow with New Automation Actions 

The new Pimcore Platform version 2024.2 has new automation actions. These actions use AI and automation to make complex tasks easier, so businesses can focus on growth. Let's look at these new actions. 

Pimcore Copilot: Revolutionizing Automation 

Pimcore Copilot is an invaluable time-saving tool that effortlessly guides users through the complexities of content creation across multiple platforms. This sophisticated system automates the generation of text variations, ensuring that each piece of content is precisely tailored to meet the unique requirements of various channels. By significantly reducing the time to market, Pimcore Copilot enhances user productivity and data quality while maintaining a consistent brand tone. 

AI Image Upscaling: Enhance Your Visuals 

The latest version of the Pimcore Platform, 2024.2, introduces a new AI Image-to-Image Action that enhances visual content. This tool uses artificial intelligence to improve image resolution without compromising quality, making it ideal for businesses that need to adapt visuals for high-resolution formats across various media platforms. Learn more about how you can improve your digital asset management below. 

  • High-quality upscaling: Magnifies images while maintaining sharpness. 
  • Batch processing: Apply the upscale action to multiple images at once, making it easier to prepare images for different channels. 
  • Works with existing workflows: It fits into your current Pimcore automation workflows, making them more efficient. 
  • Harness the New AI Image-to-Image Action Across Platforms: This action ensures that upscaled images are clear and detailed, suitable for web, print and mobile. 

Where do we need the most upscaled images? 

  • Publishing on Different Channels: Ensure high-quality images for print catalogs and digital displays. 
  • E-commerce Product Images: Improve product visuals on e-commerce sites to boost engagement and sales. 
  • Archiving and Digital Preservation: Upgrade older images for better detail and preservation. 
  • Content Management Systems (CMS): Automatically enhance images uploaded by users for consistent website quality. 
  • Social Media Marketing: Resize images to fit various social media platforms' requirements. 
  • Creative and Design Projects: Assist designers in creating high-resolution images for posters and banners while preserving aesthetic quality. 

 

AI Image to Image Tool 

The latest version of the Pimcore Copilot boasts an intuitive interface that allows users to modify images with ease, through either predefined or custom prompts. This functionality enables users to make precise modifications to images within their existing workflows, streamlining content management and enhancing the efficiency of creative projects. Please see below for an overview of the tool's capabilities. 

  • Flexible Image Manipulation: This tool offers the possibility of using structured or customisable prompts to modify your images in a way that suits your needs and requirements. 
  • Configurable Parameters: You may wish to consider fine-tuning the outcome by specifying additional parameters such as dimensions or excluding specific attributes, to ensure that the final image meets your exact needs. 

The Copilot offers a range of innovative features that can enhance the efficiency and productivity of your business. Let’s examine how these features can be applied in a practical setting: 

  • Creative Adaptations: Change the colour or style of objects in an image to match branding. Ideal for marketing and design. 
  • Content Customization: Edit images to make them more appealing, engaging and impactful. 

These actions are of great benefit to teams in marketing and creative industries, allowing rapid and flexible image modifications to keep pace with campaign developments and market demands. 

Filter data based on condition 

The new Pimcore Query Language (PQL) eliminates the need for programming skills to access tasks, making it easier for business users to get the job done. This automation action allows users to filter data objects in their database, enabling businesses to manage and utilise their data more effectively. This user-friendly feature guarantees a secure and efficient setup. Furthermore, the filtering results are automatically saved within the execution context, ensuring they are readily available for use in subsequent steps of your data processes. This streamlined approach guarantees efficiency and smooth data management. Please find below some guidance on how you can use these conditional filters: 

  • Data Quality Enhancements: You can automatically identify and update data objects that are missing certain information, with the aim of improving data accuracy and completeness. 
  • Enhanced Reporting: Create automatic notifications for critical data points, such as low stock levels, to facilitate timely responses and decision-making. 

The main beneficiaries of this initiative will be companies looking to improve their operational efficiency and data quality through targeted and automated processes. 

 

Filter Assets: Metadata Condition Action 

Have you ever struggled to find something in a big list? This action uses the Pimcore Query Language (PQL) to select assets efficiently. It allows you to select and use digital assets by filtering based on specific metadata conditions such as: 

  • Seamless Metadata Querying with PQL: PQL lets you query metadata seamlessly. Use PQL to filter assets directly through the user interface. 
  • Integration into workflows: Store the results of your filtering within the job execution context for easy access in subsequent steps. 

Where can this action be used? 

From a compliance and legal management perspective, this action enables the identification and management of images with expired rights, as well as the notification of relevant parties to update or remove them. Furthermore, in terms of quality control in asset management, it facilitates the filtration of low-quality images, ensuring that only the highest-quality assets are retained within the digital asset repository. Consequently, this action enhances asset management and operational efficiency by enabling targeted, condition-based selection, which is vital for maintaining high compliance and quality standards in asset-intensive environments. 

 

New features and improvements 

Pimcore Platform Version 2024.2 has been updated to make it easier to automate digital business operations. 

Generic Execution Engine 

The Generic Execution Engine is a new, centralised job management feature for Pimcore. Users can now run, monitor and manage background tasks more flexibly. The Generic Execution Engine is used by the Pimcore Copilot to improve its performance. It will also be used in the new Pimcore Studio for longer tasks like batch updates and exports. This will make the platform more efficient. 

Pimcore Query Language (PQL) 

Another key feature is the Pimcore Query Language (PQL), which lets users query and manage data directly through the user interface. This feature is great for setting up data filters without losing security. It's a must-have for administrators and power users. 

The first use cases of the Pimcore Query Language will be defining data pool preconditions in the portal engine and filtering objects and assets in Pimcore Copilot without custom coding. For example, you can use this query to find all green Jaguar E-Types made before 1965: 

Example: series = "E-Type" AND (color = "green" OR productionYear < 1965) 

Pimcore Platform Version 2024.2 revolutionizes digital ecosystem management with enhanced automation, AI-driven tools, and powerful querying capabilities. These features streamline workflows and boost productivity, ensuring high-quality digital content.

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