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It’s time for a new approach to PIM: Introducing the Product Orchestration Engine by Occtoo

We’re living through one of the most exciting periods in technology history. With groundbreaking innovations happening seemingly every week—like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, and the new wave of agentic protocols—we’re catching a glimpse of how radically different the future of digital commerce will be.

Barriers that once held back innovation are vanishing. Building applications is now faster and more intuitive than ever, thanks to tools like Cursor and Lovable, which enable teams to code with creativity and speed. As we transition into the new paradigm of AI-driven experiences and adaptive user journeys, it’s clear that the foundation for success lies in how we manage and activate data.

The invisible obstacle: Product data

Despite all this progress, product data remains one of the most fragmented, complex, and under-leveraged assets in digital commerce. It’s scattered across legacy systems, stuck in silos, and too often disconnected from the real-time experiences that drive conversion and loyalty.

Modern businesses need to deliver contextual, personalized, and consistent product experiences across channels, formats, and moments. The challenge is, most existing PIM systems weren’t built for this new world. They were designed for an era when product experiences were static, linear, and largely channel-specific. That world is gone.

Why we built something different

Over the last few years, we’ve focused relentlessly on building a product that helps our customers manage vast amounts of fragmented data—with speed, accuracy, and security at the core. Along the way, we’ve seen amazing use cases brought to life using Occtoo: real-time product experiences, lightning-fast launches of new channels, and AI-ready architectures that respond to the demands of today and tomorrow.

In every customer conversation, one message has come through loud and clear:

“We need fewer tools, fewer vendors—and more agility.”

We’ve listened. We’ve evaluated. We’ve debated. And after careful consideration, we’ve reached a simple conclusion:

It’s time to redefine what PIM should be.

From product information to product orchestration

We’re not claiming to be a traditional PIM. In fact, we believe the world has changed too much for the term “PIM” to mean what it once did.

That’s why I’m incredibly proud to officially launch: Occtoo: The Product Orchestration Engine.

This is a new category—a fresh approach to solving the challenges of product data in a modern digital ecosystem.

Occtoo brings together all product-related data—not just structured attributes, but also behavioral, contextual, content, customer, and transactional data—to power the use cases of today, and the intelligent, AI-assisted experiences of tomorrow.

  • It’s built for speed.
  • It’s built for scale.
  • It’s built to empower your teams—and your tech stack.

And yes, it’s built to make sure you don’t need five different vendors to do what one orchestration layer can do with precision.

A big thank you

This milestone would not have been possible without the close partnership of our customers and community. Your feedback, your challenges, and your ambitions have helped shape what Occtoo has become.

Ready for what’s next

This is just the beginning. We’re excited to share more product news, new capabilities, and customer stories in the coming weeks.

Now, be sure to explore our Product Orchestration Engine. 

Frequently asked questions about product orchestration

What is the Product Orchestration Engine?

The Product Orchestration Engine is Occtoo's approach to product data management — and the next step beyond traditional PIM. It orchestrates all your product data: descriptions, media, customer, supplier, and transactional data. It connects to all the systems where that data already lives, enriches it into a complete Master Product, and activates it across every channel, team, and AI agent.

How is a Product Orchestration Engine different from a PIM?

A traditional PIM manages structured product attributes in a single system. The Product Orchestration Engine goes further — orchestrating all product data types across every source and activating it wherever it needs to go: product detail pages, campaigns, AI agents, and digital product passports. Where a PIM holds a partial snapshot, the POE connects, enriches, and activates a complete, AI-ready Master Product.

Why is traditional PIM no longer enough?

Product data management is broken. Traditional PIMs were built to handle structured attributes for human browsers — not to orchestrate descriptions, media, transactional data, and supplier data across multiple channels simultaneously. They cannot scale without limits, they were not built for AI agents, and they add integration complexity rather than reducing it.

Is the Product Orchestration Engine a replacement for PIM?

Not necessarily. For some companies, it replaces PIM entirely. For others, it sits alongside existing systems — connecting them, enriching the data they hold, and activating it across every channel. The goal is to reduce integration complexity and streamline the tech stack, not add another layer to it.

Does the Product Orchestration Engine scale for large catalogues?

Yes — it is built to handle unlimited product data at the highest performance, even for high-traffic websites. No matter how deep or wide the catalogue grows, Occtoo keeps up.

How does the Product Orchestration Engine support AI?

 It makes product data clean, structured, and connected — so it is ready to power AI assistants, agents, and future digital experiences. AI agents are only as good as the data they are grounded in. The Master Product gives them a complete, reliable foundation.

Who can use the Product Orchestration Engine?

It is built for the entire commerce team, not just IT. A no-code workspace means ecom managers, category managers, and buying teams can reuse and repurpose product data independently — reducing IT dependency and delivering efficiency that pays off across the business.

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