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Boyum ITPerfion PIM · Enterprise

One version of the truth for every product you sell

Perfion PIM gives manufacturers and distributors one governed place to create, enrich and translate product information, then publish it to webshops, partner portals and print.

  • Connects to SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, Epicor Kinetic and Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • One approved record for every channel, market and language
Perfion PIM at the centre, connected to SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, Epicor Kinetic and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations, and publishing to webshops and a partner portal.
  • 4enterprise ERPs Perfion connects to
  • 4commerce connectors, from Shopify to Sana Commerce
  • 2ways to run it: Perfion SaaS on Azure, or on-premise
The problem

Product data breaks at enterprise scale

Thousands of items, many variants, several markets and languages, and more channels every year. When product information has no home of its own, every team keeps its own copy.

Perfion gives it that home: one governed record that the ERP, the webshops, the partner portal and the print catalogue all draw from.

One governed product record. Owned by the business, used by every channel.

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Illustration: one LED panel described four ways. The ERP holds 36 W, the webshop 40 W, the dealer price list 36 watt, and the catalogue has no value. With one governed record in Perfion, all four show 36 W.

Sound familiar?4 signs of scattered product data

  • Ready to ship, not to sell

    A product is ready to ship, but its web listing, datasheet and translations are still being prepared.

  • One item, many versions

    The same item is described differently in the ERP, the webshop, the dealer price list and the catalogue.

  • ERP fields stretched thin

    Marketing text, images and specifications are squeezed into ERP fields never designed for them.

  • Supplier data retyped

    Suppliers send product data in their own formats, and someone retypes it.

One governed record in Perfion addresses all four.

Before and after

Same channels, a different way of working

Your ERP does transactions well. It was never built to be a content system. Switch between the two ways of working.

ERP only

Copies drift apart between systems

  • Marketing contentIn ERP fields, spreadsheets and shared folders.
  • New product launchEach channel prepared separately, at its own pace.
  • TranslationsCopied by hand into each system.
  • Supplier dataRetyped from the supplier's own files.
  • Catalogues and datasheetsAssembled by hand for every edition.

With Perfion PIM

Maintained once, the same everywhere

  • Marketing contentOne governed record in Perfion, owned by the business.
  • New product launchPrepared once, then released to every channel when complete.
  • TranslationsHeld per language, with machine translation through DeepL or Google Translate.
  • Supplier dataSubmitted through the Supplier Portal and approved by your team.
  • Catalogues and datasheetsGenerated from live product data.

The ERP keeps doing what it does best: transactions. Perfion takes over the product content.

What Perfion manages

Six capabilities, one product record

Product data, images and files in one platform, modelled around your products rather than a fixed template.

  • Structure

    Product structure

    Your own features and categories, item hierarchies for products and variants, values inherited from parent to child, and bulk creation of items from feature combinations.

    Read the guide: Features and Configurations
  • Assets

    Digital asset management

    Images, video, audio and documents held with each item, with metadata such as validity and expiry dates. One master file gives every channel the size and format it needs. Optional Perfion Asset Cloud stores large libraries in the cloud, with image watermarking.

    Read the guide: Images, Files and Asset Cloud
  • Languages

    Every language, one record

    Localised content per language, machine translation through Google Translate or DeepL, DeepL glossaries, and spell checking across all active languages.

    Read the guide: Languages and Translation
  • AI

    AI text generation

    Generate product names, titles and descriptions from reusable prompt templates that draw on your own product data.

    Read the guide: AI Text Generation
  • Suppliers

    Supplier Portal

    Suppliers create and enrich their own items in a simplified web client. You set mandatory fields and auto-approval rules, and accept or reject every change.

    Read the guide: Supplier Portal
  • Publishing

    Reports and publications

    Design datasheets and reports, combine them into multi-chapter publications with indexes, and export to PDF, Word, Excel and other formats.

    Read the guide: Reports and Publishing
Why it lasts

Run by your business, without custom code

  • Your team shapes the data model

    Fields, relationships, variants and hierarchies are defined in Perfion by the people who own the data, not in a development project.

  • Automation without writing code

    Actions, Perfion’s low-code toolbox, runs imports, exports and validations on a schedule, when data changes, or at the click of a button.

  • Extensions that keep upgrades safe

    Changes are added alongside the standard setup rather than built into it, so the core stays standard and upgrades stay straightforward.

Perfion complements your ERP; it does not replace it. The ERP keeps transactions, stock and finance, and Perfion holds the product information. Read the guide: Actions and Automation

Perfion features

Every Perfion feature, and what it does for you

Twenty-one features in five groups, from modelling your products to connecting them to every system you run. Pick one to see what it does and why it matters.

Features and ConfigurationsGuide 01 of 21 · Model your products

Feature types, pick lists and item dependency

What it does

  • Feature TypesEleven data types, from a one-line string to a table
  • Selectable Features and Feature DataPick lists managed once, used on every item
  • Localizable, Captions and UnitsOne feature, every language
  • Item DependencyEach item shows only the features that apply to it
  • Inheritable and Allow Multiple
  • Swap Relation Direction
  • Security, Read Only and Remote

Why it matters

Model your products

  • Every channel gets one spelling of each colour, material and category, so filters and reports agree.
  • Editors see a short, relevant item card instead of a long list of fields that do not apply.
Read the guide: Perfion Features and Configurations
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Feature Data and Pick ListsGuide 02 of 21 · Model your products

Pick lists, hierarchies and filtered values

What it does

  • Selectable FeaturesUsers pick values from a list instead of typing them
  • Feature DataEvery pick list maintained in one place
  • Filtered ValuesOnly the values that make sense for this item
  • Item RelationsSee where a value is used before you change it
  • Hierarchies and Custom Order
  • Lists With Their Own Data
  • Access to Lists

Why it matters

Model your products

  • Every channel receives one spelling of each value, so filters, reports and feeds agree without a clean-up round.
  • Impossible combinations, such as a colour a range is not made in, are stopped at entry instead of found by a customer.
Read the guide: Perfion Feature Data and Pick Lists
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Item Editor and GridsGuide 03 of 21 · Model your products

Searches, grids, bulk editing and item comparison

What it does

  • Categorizers and SearchesFind the items a task is about, in a click or a query
  • Editing Many Items at OnceOne value, applied to every selected item
  • Item Editor and Item DetailsOne item, all of its data, in one place
  • Compare ItemsTwo to four items, side by side
  • Layouts and Views
  • Languages Side by Side
  • Previous Values and Recycle Bin

Why it matters

Model your products

  • Range-wide changes, such as a new finish or a corrected weight, take minutes instead of a day of row-by-row edits.
  • Variants are checked against each other before release, so one wrong value does not reach a customer.
Read the guide: Perfion Item Editor and Grids
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Item Creator and Default ValuesGuide 04 of 21 · Model your products

Item Creator, default values and staging

What it does

  • Item CreatorEvery combination of the values you pick, in one step
  • Choosing the CombinationsCreate only the items that really exist
  • Default ValuesThe right standard values on every new item
  • Staging and Compare SearchesA draft beside the active item, and what changed
  • Flat Lists or Virtual Items
  • Dimension Sets
  • Defaults Through the API

Why it matters

Model your products

  • A new range of variants is created in minutes, complete, with no combination typed twice or left out.
  • Imported data and next season’s range are prepared and checked without touching the items that are live.
Read the guide: Perfion Item Creator and Default Values
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Validation and Business RulesGuide 06 of 21 · Enrich and govern

Business rules, item triggers and comments

What it does

  • Business Rules on FeaturesLimits beyond what the feature type allows
  • Hard and Soft RulesReject the value, or warn before saving
  • Rules on Every Route InThe grid, the Item Editor, Replace, Compare and import
  • Item TriggersChanges that set off the next step by themselves
  • Pattern Rules
  • Number Ranges
  • Comments and Notifications

Why it matters

Enrich and govern

  • Data standards stop being a document people are asked to follow and become part of the product record itself.
  • Bad data cannot slip in unnoticed through a bulk update or a supplier file, so clean-up projects become rare.
Read the guide: Perfion Validation and Business Rules
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Languages and TranslationGuide 07 of 21 · Enrich and govern

Language codes, machine translation, spell checking and XLIFF

What it does

  • Perfion Language CodesOne code for each language and region
  • Machine TranslationGoogle Translate or DeepL, with your own API key
  • Spell Checking in Every LanguageLike a word processor, for all your languages at once
  • XLIFF Export for TranslatorsA standard file any translation agency can read
  • DeepL Glossaries
  • Central Dictionaries
  • XLIFF Import Back into Perfion

Why it matters

Enrich and govern

  • Short and repeated texts no longer wait for a translator, so new products reach every market sooner and translators spend their time on what needs a human.
  • Translation agencies receive only the text that needs translating, in a format their tools already read, so less is paid for and less goes wrong.
Read the guide: Perfion Languages and Translation
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
AI Text GenerationGuide 08 of 21 · Enrich and govern

Create with AI, enrichment templates and AI setup

What it does

  • Create with AIA generated value for one feature, on one item
  • Prompts Built from Product DataFeature tags fill in each item’s own facts
  • Reusable Prompt TemplatesGet the prompt right once, then reuse it
  • Apply Templates to Many ItemsOne job, a tailored text for each item
  • Images and Files in Prompts
  • Enrichment Template Management
  • AI Setup with Your Own Key

Why it matters

Enrich and govern

  • Texts are written from the facts held in Perfion, not from memory or an old spec sheet, so the description matches the product it sits on.
  • A new range of hundreds of products gets its names and descriptions in one run, each written from its own data, so the range is ready to sell sooner.
Read the guide: Perfion AI Text Generation
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Users and SecurityGuide 09 of 21 · Enrich and govern

User groups, rights, roles and login rules

What it does

  • Users and GroupsEvery person in one or more groups
  • Security Groups for FeaturesRead, write and delete, feature by feature
  • Feature Item SecurityRights by value, such as by category
  • Service Account and Access TypesA separate door for integrations
  • Language Permissions
  • Role-based Access
  • Password and Login Rules

Why it matters

Enrich and govern

  • Access is organised by team, so a new joiner gets the right access by joining the right groups, and every right can be explained.
  • Teams that own different product ranges work side by side in one record without changing each other’s products.
Read the guide: Perfion Users and Security
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Supplier PortalGuide 10 of 21 · Enrich and govern

Supplier items, exposed features and review

What it does

  • Supplier PortalA simplified web client, for suppliers only
  • Exposed FeaturesWhat suppliers enrich, see and must fill
  • Supplier RolesCreate or only enrich; review or accept automatically
  • Item ReviewAccept or reject each new item
  • Supplier Import
  • Value Review
  • Dashboards and Actions

Why it matters

Enrich and govern

  • Product data work moves to the people who know the products best, without giving them access to Perfion itself.
  • Supplier updates are used the day they arrive, and nothing reaches your channels that your team has not decided on.
Read the guide: Perfion Supplier Portal
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Images, Files and Asset CloudGuide 11 of 21 · Images and documents

Images, files, media services and Asset Cloud

What it does

  • Images and Files on ItemsHeld with the product, not beside it
  • Point of InterestCrops that keep the product in frame
  • Media ServicesImages and files out of Perfion, by link
  • Image ProcessingEvery size and format from one original
  • Image Previewer
  • Watermarking
  • Perfion Asset Cloud

Why it matters

Images and documents

  • Every image and document is found with the product it belongs to, and the same file is used wherever it appears.
  • Each channel gets the image it needs, from thumbnails to print files, from one original and with no exports by hand.
Read the guide: Perfion Images, Files and Asset Cloud
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Table DesignerGuide 12 of 21 · Images and documents

Table features, dynamic features and table styling

What it does

  • Table FeaturesA design and its queries, held in one feature
  • Context-aware Data SourcesEach place gets its own rows
  • Dynamic FeaturesOnly the features a product has
  • Tables in Reports and ExportsRendered into print and publishing
  • The Table Designer
  • Collapse, Merge and Order
  • Table Styling

Why it matters

Images and documents

  • Each table layout is built once and used for every family that needs it, instead of being rebuilt for each one.
  • One table design suits families with different specifications, without empty columns.
Read the guide: Perfion Table Designer
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Reports and PublishingGuide 13 of 21 · Publish everywhere

Reports, parameters and publications

What it does

  • Reports Built on Product DataDesign, data and visibility in one definition
  • Run From Grids, Categories and ChannelsAny selection, in the background, in ten formats
  • ParametersChoices made when the report runs
  • PublicationsMany reports, run in order, collated into one
  • The Report Designer and Templates
  • Pages, Booklets and Indexes
  • Export Report Data for Design Tools

Why it matters

Publish everywhere

  • Datasheets, price lists and simple catalogues come from the same record the business already maintains, not from copies.
  • A complete catalogue is generated from the product record in one run, instead of being assembled page by page.
Read the guide: Perfion Reports and Publishing
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
E-commerce ConnectorsGuide 14 of 21 · Publish everywhere

Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento and Sana Commerce connectors

What it does

  • Four Standard ConnectorsShopify, BigCommerce, Magento and Sana Commerce
  • Channels in the Web ClientThe shop’s structure and assortment, kept in Perfion
  • Markets, Languages and Store ViewsOne record, sold in every country and language
  • Scheduled Full and Delta SynchronisationThe shop kept up to date without uploads
  • Attributes and Metafields
  • Stock, Status, Relations and Dates
  • Sync Messages, Batches and Shared Shops

Why it matters

Publish everywhere

  • The business connects its shops with a standard, maintained connector instead of commissioning and maintaining its own integration.
  • Changes made in Perfion reach every shop on a known rhythm, without anyone exporting, uploading or checking that a file went through.
Read the guide: Perfion E-commerce Connectors
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
E-commerce API and Content StoreGuide 15 of 21 · Publish everywhere

The E-commerce API and the Content Store

What it does

  • A Commerce-Shaped APISites, categories, products and variants, ready for the shop
  • Channels for Each Receiving SystemDifferent data, in different formats, for different shops
  • A Content Store for Each AudienceTeams, partners and the public, served without Perfion
  • Find, Download and ShareSearch, collect, download and send collections
  • Products With Their Variants
  • Cultures, Images and Files
  • Branded, in Your Languages

Why it matters

Publish everywhere

  • A website, app or platform without a standard connector gets product data in the shape it needs, without a custom export to build and maintain.
  • Dealers, agencies and the sales team serve themselves with current content instead of waiting for someone to email it.
Read the guide: Perfion E-commerce API and Content Store
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
ERP IntegrationGuide 16 of 21 · Connect and automate

The ERP Add-in and Release2ERP

What it does

  • Perfion on the ERP Item ScreenPerfion product details, beside the ERP item
  • Release Product Data Into the ERPItems born in Perfion, sent when they are ready
  • Only the Items You ChooseApproved, changed and needed: nothing more
  • Scheduled, Logged RunsReleases that run themselves, with each result reported
  • Mapping, Defaults and Conversions
  • Test Before It Goes Live
  • Images, Translations and Companies

Why it matters

Connect and automate

  • A new product is entered once, in Perfion, and reaches the ERP complete and correct.
  • New and changed products reach the ERP without anyone remembering to send them, and problems are reported.
  • For SAP S/4HANA, Oracle and Epicor Kinetic, the connector comes from BPAS.
Read the guide: Perfion ERP Integration
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Import and ExportGuide 17 of 21 · Connect and automate

The Import Wizard, exports and logs

What it does

  • A Four-Step Import WizardSelect, configure, map, validate
  • Columns Matched to FeaturesEvery column to the right feature and language
  • Import Options That Protect the RecordWhat an import may change, decided in advance
  • Checked Before It RunsErrors found before anything changes
  • AI-Powered Auto Mapping
  • Saved and Shared Mappings
  • Every Import and Export Logged

Why it matters

Connect and automate

  • Supplier and team spreadsheets are brought in as they arrive, without first being reworked into a special layout.
  • A bad file is caught before it touches thousands of items, and nobody waits at a screen for a long import.
Read the guide: Perfion Import and Export
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Perfion APIGuide 18 of 21 · Connect and automate

REST, the Data Web Service and the Report Service

What it does

  • A Query Language Built for Product DataAsk for exactly the data a system needs
  • Two Ways In: REST and Web ServiceJSON or XML, whichever the system speaks
  • Signed-In Calls and an Audit TrailEvery call made as a known Perfion user
  • Actions Started from Other SystemsPerfion automation, set off by a call
  • Saved Searches, Called by Reference
  • Reports Generated on Request
  • API Query Builder in the Web Client

Why it matters

Connect and automate

  • Each system gets the features, items and languages it needs in one call, instead of a whole export to sort through.
  • Work that already runs as an Action in Perfion can be started by the system where the need arises, without anyone logging in to start it.
Read the guide: Perfion API
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
Actions and AutomationGuide 19 of 21 · Connect and automate

Actions, sub-actions and the Scheduler

What it does

  • Data In and Out, in Many FormatsOne tool for imports, exports and everything between
  • Actions Built from CommandsReady-made steps, run in order
  • Built to Fail SafelyA decision for every step that can go wrong
  • Run on a Schedule, a Trigger or a CallAutomation that starts on its own
  • Reusable Steps as Sub-actions
  • Run by Users, from the Menu or the Grid
  • An Action Library You Can Move

Why it matters

Connect and automate

  • Routine data work between Perfion and the outside world runs as one defined job, not as a person’s weekly routine.
  • Exports go out on time, imports run before the working day starts, and follow-up work starts the moment data changes.
Read the guide: Perfion Actions and Automation
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
RemotesGuide 20 of 21 · Connect and automate

Remote connections, queries and remote features

What it does

  • Live Data from Three Kinds of SourceSQL databases, OData services and web services
  • Remote Features: Live and Read OnlyValues shown, never stored
  • Single and Cluster RemotesOne value per item, or a table of them
  • Only the Data on ScreenFast because it asks for less
  • Shaped Before It Arrives
  • Remotes in Reports, with Parameters
  • Connections Named Once, and Secured

Why it matters

Connect and automate

  • Data that belongs to another system is shown next to the product record without building an import for it.
  • Every value has one owner. Nobody corrects the stock in Perfion and finds it overwritten, because there is nothing to overwrite.
Read the guide: Perfion Remotes
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary
ScriptingGuide 21 of 21 · Connect and automate

Scripts on value mappings, the script library and EXECUTE.SCRIPT

What it does

  • Scripts on the Line Where the Value Is DecidedOne value at a time, inside the value mapping
  • Dirty Values Cleaned on the Way InNumbers, spaces and file names
  • Checks as Data ArrivesPass, warn, skip or fail
  • Lookups and ConversionsFrom another table, or another language
  • Values Built from Several Columns
  • Values Carried Across Rows and Actions
  • Files, Images and Code of Its Own

Why it matters

Connect and automate

  • Every script is in plain sight, on the line it affects, so anyone can see where custom logic exists and what it changes.
  • Bad rows are kept out of the product record, and every one leaves a reason that someone can act on.
Read the guide: Perfion Scripting
Inside the guide
  • 5 Core Concepts
  • 10 Best Practices
  • Vocabulary

Every guide is based on Boyum IT Solutions' Perfion documentation, and applies whichever ERP you run.

Browse all 21 feature guides
Perfion feature guides

Every Perfion feature, explained in plain English

Each of the 21 features has its own guide, and every guide covers it in three parts: 5 Core Concepts, 10 Best Practices and a Vocabulary of key terms.

  1. Model your products

    Features and Configurations

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  2. Model your products

    Feature Data and Pick Lists

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  3. Model your products

    Item Editor and Grids

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  4. Model your products

    Item Creator and Default Values

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  5. Model your products

    Related Values and Formulas

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  6. Enrich and govern

    Validation and Business Rules

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  7. Enrich and govern

    Languages and Translation

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  8. Enrich and govern

    AI Text Generation

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  9. Enrich and govern

    Users and Security

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  10. Enrich and govern

    Supplier Portal

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  11. Images and documents

    Images, Files and Asset Cloud

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  12. Images and documents

    Table Designer

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  13. Publish everywhere

    Reports and Publishing

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  14. Publish everywhere

    E-commerce Connectors

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  15. Publish everywhere

    E-commerce API and Content Store

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  16. Connect and automate

    ERP Integration

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  17. Connect and automate

    Import and Export

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  18. Connect and automate

    Perfion API

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  19. Connect and automate

    Actions and Automation

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  20. Connect and automate

    Remotes

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
  21. Connect and automate

    Scripting

    • 5 Core Concepts
    • 10 Best Practices
    • Vocabulary
ERP and channels

Works with your enterprise ERP

Product information is maintained once in Perfion, connected to the ERP that runs your business, and published to every channel you sell through.

Read the guide: ERP Integration

Your ERP

  • SAP S/4HANAPerfion inside SAP GUI and Fiori. Live SAP material data in Perfion.
  • OraclePerfion connector for Oracle.
  • Epicor KineticPerfion connector for Epicor Kinetic.
  • Dynamics 365 Finance & OperationsPerfion on the products pages. Sales-ready products released into the ERP.
  • Other systemsLive data in Perfion from SQL, OData and web-service sources.
PerfionPIM

Your ERP runs the business. Perfion describes what it sells.

Your channels

  • ShopifyProducts, variants, market prices, images, collections and translations.
  • Magento / Adobe CommerceAttributes, categories, configurable products and multiple store views.
  • BigCommerce and Sana CommerceProduct information for your B2B and B2C webshops.
  • Perfion Content StoreA branded portal where partners download current data and assets.
  • Perfion API and Ecommerce APIFor your own sites, apps and integrations.
Governance and security

Control that holds at enterprise scale

Who can change what, which version is live, what suppliers may touch, and where it all runs.

Staging

Prepare before it goes live

Work on a draft version of an item while the active version stays live. Item triggers react to changes, for example by updating a status or regenerating an export.

Read the guide: Validation and Business Rules
Supplier Portal

Suppliers in, under your control

Suppliers submit items through the Supplier Portal. Your team accepts or rejects each item and each value before anything reaches the master record.

Read the guide: Supplier Portal
Access and audit

Rights down to the language

Role-based access for users and groups, including users from Active Directory. Password policies and lockout, a service account for API access, and an audit log with a recycle bin.

Read the guide: Users and Security
Deployment

Your cloud or your servers

Run Perfion SaaS on Microsoft Azure with 24/7 infrastructure monitoring and published monthly uptime, or install it on-premise.

EU Digital Product Passport

Selling into the EU? Get the passport data in order

Under the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781), Digital Product Passports are being brought in category by category. The rules follow where a product is sold, not where it is made, so they reach exporters from India too. Batteries come first, under their own regulation (EU) 2023/1542, with the battery passport from 18 February 2027.

Perfion holds the data a passport draws on in one governed record: materials and their origin, carbon footprint, repair and recycling information, and certificates, with version history and an audit trail.

Perfion manages the passport data. Issuing the passport itself, such as its QR code, is a separate step, and we plan it with you in the assessment.

Illustration: the passport data Perfion can hold for a product, from material composition to version history.
Who it is for

Built for product-heavy enterprises

Organisations where product information is a business asset, not an afterthought.

Who usually leads the decision

A PIM programme sits between departments. The strongest projects have a business owner, with IT as a partner rather than the sponsor.

Business ownerE-commerceMarketingProduct management
PartnerIT
How BPAS delivers

A phased programme, value proven early

Each phase ends with something your team can use, and the last one leaves your team in control.

BPAS · Perfion delivery

From assessment to adoption

Five phases, run with your product, marketing and IT teams together.

The assessment comes first. You get the findings and a business case before any licence decision.

Start with an assessment
  1. DiscoverProduct data assessmentWhere product information lives, who owns it, which channels it feeds and where it breaks.Findings and business case
  2. DesignInformation modelProduct structure, features, categories and access rights, designed with your teams.Agreed information model
  3. ConnectIntegration and migrationPerfion connected to your ERP and channels, with existing data cleansed and loaded.Connected and loaded
  4. LaunchChannel rolloutLive channel by channel, starting where the business value is highest.Live channels
  5. AdoptAdoptionData owners trained, and a model handed over that your team runs.A team that runs it
Editions and modules

Start with what you need, add modules as you grow

Perfion is licensed in editions, from entry to enterprise. Run it as Perfion SaaS on Microsoft Azure, on shared or dedicated resources, or on your own servers.

Editions are sized by

  • SKUs
  • Output languages
  • Editor and reader users
  • Storage
  • Environments

What is included varies by edition. We confirm the right edition and modules with you in the assessment, against Boyum IT’s current price list. See Boyum IT’s Perfion pricing page (opens in a new tab)

In every edition

  • Product data modelling for your own structure
  • Dashboards and workflows
  • Built-in digital asset management

Optional modules

  • Print publishing and Table Designer
  • Release-to-ERP
  • ERP add-in (included or optional, depending on edition and ERP)
  • E-commerce connectors: Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, Sana Commerce
  • Supplier Portal
  • Content Store
  • Perfion Asset Cloud storage
  • Extra test and sandbox environments
Perfion customer stories

Perfion at work in businesses like yours

Customer stories published by Boyum IT Solutions, the company behind Perfion. Each one links to the full story on Boyum’s website.

  • Boyum IT customer story

    eisenfischer

    Industrial and trade supplies · Germany

    90%of the time once spent typing up articles, saved

    Up to 5 million supplier articles available in Perfion, with a live connection to SAP.

    “With Perfion, we save 90% of the time that we used earlier to type up an article from analog data sources.”

    Manfred Scheunemann, eisenfischer
    Read the full story on Boyum IT: eisenfischer (opens in a new tab)
  • Boyum IT customer story

    Watson-Marlow

    Pump manufacturer · United Kingdom

    5 minto update a data sheet in 21 languages, down from 2–3 hours

    5,300 part numbers, 40+ websites and 9,000 data sheets fed from one product record.

    “Making the same change in Perfion takes 5 minutes – and the accuracy of our customer-facing data is much greater.”

    Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group
    Read the full story on Boyum IT: Watson-Marlow (opens in a new tab)
  • Boyum IT customer story

    CITIZEN

    Watch manufacturer · United States

    11 → 1systems and databases replaced by one source of truth

    Product data feeds the website, the webshop, Amazon and Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

    “Using a PIM system will give us better visibility and make the whole company better”

    Trish Keller, Chief Technology Officer, Citizen Watch Company of America
    Read the full story on Boyum IT: CITIZEN (opens in a new tab)
  • Boyum IT customer story

    Damstahl

    Stainless steel wholesale · 8 European countries

    PIM firstPerfion put in at the start of an ERP upgrade

    Boyum IT reports that it significantly reduced double work during the data migration.

    “get started with the PIM part as early as possible”

    Anders Jensen, Group Commercial Director, Damstahl, on upgrading an ERP
    Read the full story on Boyum IT: Damstahl (opens in a new tab)
  • Boyum IT customer story

    ILVA

    Furniture and interiors retail · Denmark

    20×faster product content, written with AI inside Perfion

    About 6,000 products and 80,000 variants; more than 3,000 variant texts generated so far.

    “Compared to when I started, we are probably around 20 times faster. And at the same time, the quality is higher.”

    Lasse Hansen, Product Data Specialist, ILVA
    Read the full story on Boyum IT: ILVA (opens in a new tab)
  • Boyum IT customer story

    Louis Poulsen

    Architectural and decorative lighting · Worldwide

    50%less manual product data work

    One record feeds B2B and B2C websites, data sheets, price lists and a 180-product catalogue in 12 languages.

    “The investment in Perfion has been returned many times over.”

    Maiken Høhrmann, Product Information Manager, Louis Poulsen
    Read the full story on Boyum IT: Louis Poulsen (opens in a new tab)

Company names, quotes and results are as published by Boyum IT Solutions. BPAS was not involved in these projects.

See all Perfion customer stories on Boyum IT (opens in a new tab)
Why BPAS

An exclusive Boyum practice, authorised for Perfion

BPAS is an authorised partner to sell and implement Perfion for enterprises. Perfion works with your ERP, so our consultants cover both sides of the project: the product data and the ERP it connects to.

Delivery fromIndia · Middle East

Perfion was founded in Denmark in 2002 and is now part of Boyum IT Solutions, whose software is used by customers in more than 130 countries.

  1. 2021India's first exclusive Boyum IT partnerA practice built only on Boyum IT solutions.
  2. 2022Fastest Growing New Partner, APJRecognised as the fastest-growing new partner across Asia-Pacific and Japan.
  3. 2024Boyum APJ Partner Excellence AwardRecognised across the Asia-Pacific and Japan partner network.
  4. 2025World-first Partner Centre of ExcellenceOn Boyum PACE, for demonstrations, testing and enablement.
  5. TodayOffices in Chennai and Abu DhabiServing enterprises across India and the Middle East.
Start here

Start with a product data assessment

A focused engagement with your product, marketing and IT leads.

  1. ReviewYour assortment, channels, languages and systems.
  2. RecommendA plain answer on whether a PIM is the right next step.
  3. PlanWhat it would take, if Perfion is the fit.

If Perfion is not the right fit, you will hear that from us too.

Speak withVipin KumarFounder and Solution Architect
Book a product data assessment

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