October 29, 2026
Centric Software Named a Leader in the QKS Group SPARK Matrix™: Product Information Management, Q4 2026
Centric Software stands out as a Leader with Centric PXM, combining flexible PIM, embedded AI and workflow-led governance to enable organizations to manage growing product-content complexity across markets and channels.
— Tanuj Paulose
Analyst – Retail & CPG at QKS Group
Recognition highlights how AI-powered Centric PXM connects product information, digital assets and commerce, from product creation to market activation
CAMPBELL, Calif., October 29, 2026 – Centric Software® today announced that it has been named a Leader in the QKS Group SPARK Matrix™: Product Information Management, Q4 2026, with Centric PXM™, its AI-powered Product Experience Management (PXM) solution.
Centric Software delivers innovative, integrated, end-to-end AI-powered enterprise solutions to take products from concept to commercialization. Fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, consumer electronics, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail teams can plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.
Product Information Management (PIM) enables brands, retailers and manufacturers to deliver and scale accurate, consistent product content across markets and sales channels. Centric PXM extends this foundation by bringing together PIM, Digital Asset Management (DAM), content syndication and Digital Shelf Analytics (DSA), connecting the preparation of product content with its distribution and ongoing improvement. Teams can onboard supplier data, govern and enrich product information and localize content to accelerate launches across markets and channels.
Centric PXM customers demonstrate measurable gains in product content efficiency, cost savings revenue growth by connecting trusted product information with commercialization. Ravensburger reduced the time needed to create product listing sheets by 98%. Electrolux Group reported a 71% reduction in annual running costs compared with its previous PIM system. Aetrex reported 400% growth in marketplace revenue since implementing Centric PXM.
“Centric Software stands out as a Leader with Centric PXM, combining flexible PIM, embedded AI and workflow-led governance to enable organizations to manage growing product-content complexity across markets and channels,” says Tanuj Paulose, Analyst – Retail & CPG at QKS Group. “Connectivity with Centric PLM™ further differentiates Centric PXM, extending the value of trusted product information from product development through market activation.”
What sets Centric PXM apart
QKS Group highlights four strengths of Centric PXM that transform product information into compelling product experiences and accelerate commercialization:
Governed product information and digital assets: Teams bring supplier data, product content and assets into connected workflows to improve consistency and reduce manual coordination.
AI embedded in content workflows: AI accelerates categorization, enrichment, translation and data quality checks, scaling content preparation across markets and channels with human oversight.
Connected channel activation and feedback: Content syndication distributes product content across channels, while digital shelf analytics identifies issues after publication and informs content improvements.
Continuity from product development to commercialization: Connectivity with Centric PLM™ brings information created during development into content enrichment and channel preparation, reducing duplicate data entry and accelerating market activation.
“Product information is a strategic asset that creates value from product development through customer interactions,” says Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. “Our vision is to connect that journey, using AI and trusted product data to scale compelling product experiences across markets and channels. This recognition reinforces the value of bringing product development and commercialization closer together to accelerate growth.”
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About QKS Group
QKS Group is a global analyst and advisory firm helping enterprises, technology vendors, and investors make trusted, data-driven decisions. Our portfolio spans the flagship SPARK Matrix™ evaluation framework, SPARK Plus™ analyst advisory platform, QKS Intelligence™ for market and competitive tracking, and QKS Community™ for CXO leaders and practitioners. All offerings are powered by a Human-Intelligence-driven framework and QKS’s closed-loop research methodology, integrating expert-led insights, quantitative modeling, and continuous validation to deliver credible, outcome-focused intelligence.
About Centric Software® (www.centricsoftware.com)
From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.
Centric PLM™, the leading PLM solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and private label, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture, realizing up to 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
Centric Planning & Pricing™, a cloud-native solution powered by Centric AI that unifies planning, pricing and inventory optimization, enabling retailers and brands to increase sell-through, improve margins and optimize inventory efficiency from pre-season through in-season execution.
Centric Market Intelligence™ is an AI-driven platform delivering insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitively and get closer to the consumer, driving up to a 12% increase in average initial price point.
Centric Visual Boards™ pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.
Centric DPP, a standalone, open solution, connects and governs enterprise product data to create, register, publish and maintain Digital Product Passports at scale, with native Centric PLM™ and Centric PXM™ connections extending product transparency from product creation through commercialization, customer engagement and circularity.
Centric PXM™, AI-powered product experience management (PXM) encompasses PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA) to optimize the product commercialization lifecycle resulting in a transformed brand experience. Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins.
Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, appearing regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.