inriver published its six PIM market trends for 2026 and places product transparency, traceability and compliance (DPP) at the heart of the priorities, alongside AI, cloud-native and sustainability. 2026 is described as “a turning point for product transparency and compliance”.
What it changes for you
The signal from analysts and vendors converges with the regulators’: regulatory compliance is becoming a driver of PIM purchases, no longer an incidental bonus. Where the PIM was once justified by time-to-market and catalog quality, it now is also justified by the obligation to provide verifiable data — DPP first among them. Good news for anyone who has already invested in their repository: compliance becomes a by-product of good data management.