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Community Version

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Pacemaker Community Edition is particularly suitable for smaller projects that are looking for a solution for the catalogue to be filled quickly and reliably from an external system such as a PIM. Pacemaker Community is the basis for all other editions and is being developed further and supported by the community and by TechDivision GmbH.

Using Pacemaker Community, small and medium data volumes can already be processed quickly and reliably, which leads to a significant improvement in data quality in the shop and thus to a better user experience.

Advantages

  • Open Source and community driven
  • Covers requirements of small projects
  • Suitable for the integration of any number of third-party systems
  • Optimal for processing small and medium data volumes
  • Ideal for agencies with developer know-how
  • Easy debugging, high flexibility and expandability
  • Declarative approach (without programming)
  • CLI user interface for easy integration and operation from the console

Professional Version

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Pacemaker Professional Edition is aimed at shop operators who have to process high / extremely high volumes of data in the shortest possible time or intervals and need maximum performance. Pacemaker Professional also contains additional features such as the import of videos or custom options.

The use of Pacemaker Professional is particularly suitable if a proprietary solution such as an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is present and is intended to be used for process control.

Advantages

All advantages of Pacemaker Community plus:

  • First-Class Support directly from the manufacturer
  • Features that are mainly used in medium to large shop systems and marketplaces
  • Maximum performance allowing to process extremely large amounts of data
  • Admin UI to start and monitor imports comfortably via backend
  • Access to extensive documentation with innovative solutions and best practices

Enterprise Version

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Aimed at shop operators and marketplaces that often need to integrate not only one but a variety of systems like ERP, CRM, PIM, etc., Pacemaker Enterprise is the ideal solution. Pacemaker Enterprise ensures that in addition to fast and reliable processing of even the largest amounts of data, the processes can be controlled in such a way that no overlaps, failures or inconsistent data occur.

The processes can be modelled via the integrated pipelines in such a way that it is possible to control exactly when which process may run and/or when processes may run in parallel without collisions.

Advantages

All advantages of Pacemaker Professional - plus:

  • Process modelling based on pipelines to ensure data consistency and avoid collisions
  • Decomposition of monolithic processes into small steps that can be modelled and repeated as needed
  • Support for the integration of several third-party systems through ready-to-use pipelines
  • Provision of a workflow synchronizing orders to the ERP based on a flexible data format
  • Admin UI to monitor all running processes and if required to initiate the start manually
  • CLI user interface to allow especially DEVs to access the running processes and to simplify debugging
  • Adaptation and enhancement of existing pipelines to match your requirements
  • Introduction of new pipelines in order to be able to map additional processes not covered so far
  • Unlimited scalability due to the possibility to distribute processes on any number of servers

Benefits of Pacemaker Enterprise Edition

Right in the middle instead of just there

It's often just a nice saying - but with Pacemaker it has an apt meaning: Through the seamless integration as an extension, Pacemaker Enterprise has immediate access to the processes running in Magento. By decoupling them through so-called pipelines in combination with a message queue, Pacemaker Enterprise offers the possibility to scale the platform practically without limits, to be able to react flexibly to new requirements and at the same time keep control of all running processes such as the import of products at all times.

This alone makes Pacemaker a unique solution in the Magento ecosystem.

Integrated process know-how

With the already preconfigured pipelines, Pacemaker Enterprise provides the shop operator with the bundled knowledge from many Magento projects, ready packed and ready to use. Due to the countless processes in larger shop projects and marketplaces, collisions almost always occur. This is usually the reason for inconsistent data.

Often it only becomes clear in the course of a project which systems exchange data how and when and when this data exchange has to be interrupted or even stopped in order to avoid serious consequences such as missing or wrong prices. This is exactly where pipelines can show their strength and ensure that each process runs exactly when it should.

Modeling of processes

Processes can deviate from the standard depending on requirements and thus require adjustments to the current conditions of a system. In this case, the supplied pipelines are the ideal starting point for developing your own pipelines quickly and easily using XML.

Existing pipeline steps can be reused in other pipelines and/or extended by additional steps. The so-called conditions ensure that pipelines do not collide with each other; they can also react to corresponding events (e.g. the delivery of new files).

Visualization of processes

Just the possibility of modeling processes and drawing on existing know-how represents a significant added value. The visualization of processes is an indispensable prerequisite for operating and maintaining a shop or marketplace in practice.

Especially long-running processes, in which large amounts of data are processed, benefit considerably from a decomposition into small steps, which can be easily monitored in the GUI supplied with Pacemaker Enterprise and easily reproduced in case of errors.

In addition to a GUI in the Magento backend, Pacemaker Enterprise provides CLI functions for debugging and other features that considerably decelerate the developer's life.

Community

While Pacemaker is an open source project, its development is also driven by a constantly growing community. Below you can get an overview of the most significant libraries from the Pacemaker ecosystem and check out what functionality currently gets the most demand.

import

This is a library that provides generic functionalities for the implementation of imports. In addition to maximum performance and optimized memory consumption, Pacemaker can also be used to implement imports in distributed scenarios that place the highest demands on speed and stability.

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import-cli-simple

This the meta package for Pacemaker Community, a Symfony based CLI application that provides import functionality for products, categories, attributes, and attribute-sets. The default format is CSV, adapters for XML are also available. The application can be declaratively extended by additional operations, which can be used to reassemble and execute the existing functionalities according to project-specific requirements. But also completely new commands can be integrated quickly and easily via dependency injection.

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import-product

This library provides the basic function for the Magento 2 product import. This includes the import of simple products, their assignment to web pages and categories as well as the updating of the stock (not MSI) and the dynamic processing of the EAV attributes assigned to the product.

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import-category

This library provides the basic function for the Magento 2 category import. Besides the possibility to create root categories, the translations and URL rewrites can be imported. Similar to the product import, the Library also supports the upload of category images.

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import-attribute

This library provides the functionality for the Magento 2 import of EAV attributes. All attribute types can be created, including the Swatch types and the upload of the corresponding images. The import for the translation of option values is also possible.

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import-sample-data

This repository contains sample files for the import of attributes, attribute sets, categories and products for Magento 2. In addition to the general import files, it also contains files that only contain data for partial import, e.g. for the MSI, URL rewrites or scale prices.

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Support

If you rely on the Pacemaker Community Edition and need support, then you've come to the right place. Depending on what type of problem you encounter, there are different ways to get support. If you have an urgent question and need a quick answer, please write us in our support chat at our

For those of you who have found a bug in Pacemaker or require a new feature, please create a simple issue on Github at

We will try to solve your problem or make your feature request a reality. Last but not least, Pacemaker is of course a complex software, so a good documentation is irreplaceable:

You should definitely find something there. In any case you can always send us an e-mail to pacemaker@techdivision.com

Fragen

Are all versions open source?
Yes, all Pacemaker editions are distributed as open source solutions, so you have full access to the source code.

Can you update without problems?
Yes, within a major release you can easily switch to a higher edition.

So what should I do when my 5 support tickets are used up?
Additional support can be purchased at any time.

When is the use of Pacemaker Professional recommended?

Difficult to generalize, but significant better performance is noticeable from 10,000 SKUs.

Can I run Pacemaker in the cloud?
Yes, you can run all versions of Pacemaker on a local machine, a dedicated server and of course also in the cloud.

Do I have a money back guarantee?
Yes, in case Pacemaker does not work to your satisfaction, you can return the license within 60 days.

Is it possible to run any number of shop systems with one Pacemaker license?

No, a Pacemaker license is valid for exactly one shop.