pinm
'Let's make your product data searchable by making it shareable'.
Welcome
Welcome to the PINM project.
The product information network management ecosystem for small and medium-sized businesses.
The product information network management ecosystem for small and medium-sized businesses.
Managing and actively developing the pinm open source IT ecosystem.
Which is fully dedicated to optimizing the purchasing process of consumers and
the sales process of suppliers through sharing data with all added values in the
purchasing process with the consumer. With the aim of creating a symbiocene products-,
services- and consumption data ecosystem.
The pinm-dfs (Distributed File System) makes it possible to share data with all
added values in the purchasing process with the consumer. By choosing an architecture
within the open-source IT ecosystem and using the open protocols to make this
possible in a secure way via B2B2C (Business to Business to Consumer) application
software solutions. Where the owner of the data retains full control over the quality
and actuality of his product data during the life cycle of the product and/or service.
Every minute of every day, every action, reaction, decision, event and process is
expressed in the form of data – data that is collectible and yields knowledge.
The Internet has created the opportunity to distribute data, in electronic form,
more efficiently and with less energy consumption.
For consumers, it has made daily tasks simpler and easier. From knowing which movie
you want to watch to the app that provides real-time weather and traffic information.
With which data is seamlessly integrated into our daily lives.
It has made business processes more transparent for companies. However, here's the
crucial fact: only 20% of product data is accessible to consumers online - meaning
that 80% of available product data cannot be accessed by consumers in their online
purchasing process. This means that this product is not part of the crucial first
decision moment in the consumer's purchasing process.
The reason for this is that this data resides on local servers, encapsulated in
business-to-business enterprise solutions, which are designed and built pre-Internet
for internal business application areas. With the aim of integrating multiple internal
facets of a company's business activities through the exchange of data from different
business process areas and related databases.
The architecture developed for this purpose within a closed source IT ecosystem and
associated business, distribution and revenue models. Does not lend itself to sharing
the data with the application possibilities of the Internet and its
open source IT ecosystem.
Beyond that, a lot of product data, especially in small and medium-sized businesses,
is still locked up in Excel files, paper sales catalogs and physical products.
As a result, these companies are unable to make their data accessible through all
added values in the consumer's online purchasing process. And therefore cannot
directly use the enormous potential values and applications of this data. Such
as being able to communicate directly with the consumer via all added values.
And thus optimizing the consumer's purchasing process and the sales process to
this consumer. And thus realize a much less energy-consuming and cheaper sales and
purchasing process.
Marc Volmers started the pinm project in 2017.
As an industrial engineer specialized in the clothing industry and the custom-made window covering industry. With a preference for the manufacturing industry and technology. Saw early on the possibilities of the internet to exchange information in a very efficient way within the supply chain. But also saw the opportunity to share this information with consumers via the internet. And thus enter into a direct dialogue with the consumer through all the added values in that purchasing process, via the internet. And then optimize the business processes based on the needs and demands of the consumer.
As an industrial engineer specialized in the clothing industry and the custom-made window covering industry. With a preference for the manufacturing industry and technology. Saw early on the possibilities of the internet to exchange information in a very efficient way within the supply chain. But also saw the opportunity to share this information with consumers via the internet. And thus enter into a direct dialogue with the consumer through all the added values in that purchasing process, via the internet. And then optimize the business processes based on the needs and demands of the consumer.
The custom window covering industry is an industry that is particularly suited to
and in need of this direct form of communication. Custom-made window coverings are,
as it says, a product that is personally put together for the customer and must be
produced at very short notice. This resulted in a particularly administrative and
labor-intensive purchasing process from the consumer as well as a sales process
from the supplier.
However, to great disappointment, there appeared to be no companies that had
solutions that made this exchange of data possible through all added values in
the purchasing process with the consumer. And came to the realization and insight
that the existing solutions, for many reasons, did not make this possible.
And that these companies had no incentives to make this possible.
The idea then arose to develop and build such a solution within the open
source IT ecosystem of the Internet with the help of the open source community.
The pinm project started in 2017 and in 2020 the first beta version 0.5.0 was
ready for the business to business market. And product data could be shared within
the monolithic architecture. However, covid prevented the launch of this B2B version.
But the Covid period provided the opportunity and time to further develop the
B2B version into a B2B2C version, 0.8.0. And with it the creation of the
pinm distributed file system (pinm-dfs).
2024 is the launch year for pinm-dfs and its B2B2C application software solutions.
Which will be offered as turnkey solutions via IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service)
and SAAS (Software As A Service).
The pinm foundation is a foundation and owner of pinm.org and the pinm
network association. Which consists of members with a common mission.
Mission.
Managing and actively developing the pinm open source IT ecosystem.
Which is fully dedicated to optimizing the purchasing process of consumers and
the sales process of suppliers through sharing data with all added values in
the purchasing process with the consumer. With the aim of creating a symbiocene
products, services and consumption data ecosystem.