Roadmap
Release Plan
| Extensions | Version | Release Date | BC 27.0 (2025 wave 2) | BC 26.0 (2025 wave 1) | BC 25.0 (2024 wave 2) | BC 24.0 (2024 wave 1) | BC 23.0 (2023 wave 2) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pimics PIM | 12.0 | July 2025 | No | Yes | Yes | On Request | No | No |
| Pimics - Vendor Catalog | 12.0 | August 2025 | No | Yes | On Request | On Request | No | No |
| Pimics PIM | 12.1 | October 2025 | Compatible | Yes | Yes | On Request | No | No |
| Pimics PIM | 13.0 | January 2026 | Yes | Yes | Yes | On Request | No | No |
| Pimics - Vendor Catalog | 13.0 | January 2026 | Yes | Yes | Yes | On Request | No | No |
We support both architectures so Pimics is available for Cloud and also on-premise installations. We follow the Modern Lifecycle Policy and release cycle of Microsoft, so every year two main releases of Pimics for all Business Centrals Versions in the current lifecycle., more details are available here: Product Roadmap, Releases and Supported Versions.
Next release
Re-Design of certification and checklist
We're facing requirements that it is necessary to have more complex verification during the certification process. Unfortunately, these advanced configurations are not possible to do with the current architecture (we still use the original code from Nav in these processes). We’d like to provide conditions, custom checks, and better control over related data.
Title Links Description State
In process
These features are partially done or we have Proof of Concept. It will be released in the next major release.
Connect from InDesign to Pimics SaaS
Support the full process from cloud, as is currently supported in on-premise installations
Import from PDF (powered by AI)
In many cases vendors are able to delivery only product data sheets, without any easy to import data. These days AI is able to anaylze the document get a context of data and create these products a same way as other imports from Excel, XML or others.
Printed Catalog Experience
Printed catalogues are often intensive in manual work, and details matter. Organising products into manual groups or pages, selecting and moving images or text for multiple items at once, or copying the existing publication for the new season to make the update. These features could help users prepare content for publication easier and quicker, enhancing productivity.
Visual Tables
Tables are a simple way to compare products. You just need to define columns and rows with items, features, etc. and the table will show you the most important differences. We think they will be mostly useful with InDesign or e-commerce channels, where customers need to quickly review a range of similar products. In the past, we had this concept in Pimics for NAV, but we haven't migrated it into the Business Central version. Yet.
Planned
Here are features that will be in one of the next release.
Suggest New Products (powered by AI)
This functions covert the process of transformation of generic text into structured data in Pimics. It should help with creating a new items and also updating of existing items.
Custom XML Export
All XML exports from Pimics currently need to be defined by a developer or by a consultant. We'd like Pimics users to be able to define their own XML structure in an export mapping and decide which data should go to which element. This export will be available from publications.
Ideas
Here are ideas for new features that we're discussing with our customers.
Working with Dynamics ETIM
ETIM recently introduced the concept of dynamic classification. As such, it will be updated on a regular basis and not released as official versions like 6, 7, 8, etc. In Pimics we need to be able to read the new structures (using API) and to define the processes to update existing data in Pimics instances using the dynamic ETIM classification.
Product texts
We'd like Pimics users to be able to insert dynamic macros into the product texts. A macro can be for example a value of a feature, or maybe another text. Combined with inheritance, this should speed up text preparation significantly, and also add to product data consistency. For this, we would need to make some pretty extensive changes to several data structures and background functionality. We need to also find a balance between macros in product texts and the current functionality for defining content, where users will always have more flexibility to prepare layouts for web or exporting to PDF.
Channel Overview&Categories
We would like to add the option of visualising and managing product trees according to channels, each with their own category structures and item allocations. | Idea
Price management
We would like to extend the current Pimics functionality for handling purchase prices, with additional functionality to be able to insert additional costs to your standard vendor cost, set minimum profit margins, take market prices into consideration, handle currency conversions, etc. That will make it easier for you to have meaningful retail prices, that Business Central can further use in the process of selling.
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