WebSphere Commerce - Enterprise

Features and benefits

IBM WebSphere Commerce Enterprise, Version 7.0

Enhanced Search & Navigation through improved integration with WebSphere Content Discovery for easier search-based merchandising and natural language search.

Web Content Management through integration with IBM Workplace Web Content Management for improved handling of structured and unstructured content (for example. how-to guides, news articles).

Enhanced Web Analytics with auto-tagging and custom reports by analytics vendors for marketing promotions and campaigns, B2B transactions, Sales Center, Gift Center and A/B Testing.

SOA Enhancements such as packaged Web Services for integration to external order management and ERP systems and the ability to model WebSphere Commerce processes in BPEL.

Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce gives call center representatives the functionality they need to service and upsell cross-channel customers.

Cross-channel Order Processing provides cross-channel business processes to efficiently serve customers, contact-center representatives, gift registrants, distribution channels and others. Interfaces integrate with external systems such as POS, kiosk, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and fulfillment systems.

Business Intelligence capabilities provide insights that help you understand your customers and your business better.

Workspaces and Attachments give business users end-to-end control over the creation, management and publishing of product information, Web content, promotion rules and campaign information - without help from IT.

E-mail Template Editor provides an easy-to-use interface to control the e-mail campaign process without help from IT. Campaign managers use a graphical interface to create and preview the text and imagery used in an e-mail campaign.

A standards-based, rapid application development environment that uses and extends the award-winning WebSphere integrated team-development environment.

WebSphere Commerce Server and WebSphere eXtreme Scale work together to provide overall consistently faster response times with up to a 25% improvement in average response times (IBM internal testing) . Supported configurations:

• WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment6.1.0.25 and later
• WebSphere Commerce Server 6.0.0.7 and later
• WebSphere eXtreme Scale 7.0.0.4 ( iFIX 4 ) and later

Other product capabilities

• Auctions
  Provides an ideal environment for implementing small to moderate-scale auctioning as part of your e-commerce solution, and for conducting auctions simultaneously.
• Contracts and Entitlements
  Automate unique, complex business-to-business (B2B) contractual agreements and business relationships online.
• Extended Sites
  Enables you to create multiple, unique sites to serve different brands, regions or targeted groups of customers all on a single instance of the software
• Marketing and Merchandising Tools
  Delivers enhanced targeted e-mail campaigns, advanced rules-based discounts and or promotions and improved tooling for merchandising associations such as cross sells and up sells.
• Sales Catalogs
  Allows you to maintain an unlimited number of catalog hierarchies and product assortments for seasonal purposes, targeting specific customer segments or business customers.
• Collaborative Content Management Catalog Management
  Gives business users end-to-end control over the creation, management and publishing of product information, Web content, promotion rules and campaign information without help from IT.
• Integration
  A framework and tools for integrating data, processes and systems across and beyond the enterprise, ensuring you can leverage all of your existing assets and investments.
• Payments
  Provides a secure electronic payment process for Internet merchants through a single, unified interface. Based on open standards-based technology, WebSphere Commerce Payments plug-in framework to easily integrate with payment service providers.
• System management
  Comprehensive tools for site administration, problem determination and performance monitoring along with simplified clustering, which allows you to easily configure and manage hardware and software to achieve higher levels of performance and reliability with potentially less cost and complexity.
• Web services
  WebSphere Commerce can be the service provider by enabling its business functions as Web services, which can be accessed by external systems. Also, WebSphere Commerce can be the service requester by enabling it to invoke Web services hosted by external systems. The integrated development environment supports rapid development of new Web services.

*Pricing:  Catalog prices are exclusive of tax and subject to change without notice. Passport Advantage customers will see their Relationship Suggested Volume Pricing during checkout.

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