IBM Digital Commerce vs. Sitecore OrderCloud

Websphere commerce is well suited if multiple sites are required based on geography, for branding, large customers. It is well suited for B2B model to handle different pricing and catalog filters for each business. It is not well suited if there are multiple external systems that drives the pricing an d promotions. WCS should be the master for pricing and promotion

Incentivized

As a global organization we needed ability to have different and dynamic pricing based on Geo-Location. OrderCloud Architecture with Locales and User Groups allowed us to use a Single Buyer and easily manage all our use-cases. In the few scenarios where we had feature requests or improvements, the team was very highly responsive and many new features or changes were added to the Products based on these discussions.

Incentivized

• Scalability. Since WebSphere Commerce is based on WebSphere Application Server, it's fully scalable just like WAS.
• Support. Their support team is a pleasure to work with. They get back to you quickly and are knowledgeable of their product, so I learn a lot from them about things that are not covered in detail in their documentation.
• Robust. The software is robust once it's up and running since it depends on WAS.
• Sample store & sample data. It's really fast to get a store up and running based on the sample store & data they provided.

Incentivized

• Flexibility over Features
• Great Product for both B2C and B2B
• Fantastic Support
• Great Documentation
• Accessibility: Free Sandboxes for everyone.

Incentivized

• It still uses EJBs, need to move to latest technologies for persistance
• Promotion module customizations needs to more easy
• Grouping of products based on the shipping methods/shipping dates etc functionality needs to be added

Incentivized

• Ability to create custom objects/entities

Incentivized

The scalability and various configurations of the product allows for a wide range of e-commerce site features. It provides a storefront to begin with so it helps with speeding up development.

Incentivized

Great Documentation, Intuitive APIs, Additional SDKs and Accelerators to help boost development cycles.

Incentivized

Compared to some other software that our clients have considered, a lot of them choose WebSphere Commerce because of the ability to scale easily. Some of our customers are coming from a PHP based ecommerce platform that doesn't allow them to scale up and they're hitting the limit of their ecommerce system

Incentivized

• We were able to roll out Commerce in record time thanks to a good understanding of the tool and our required processes.
• We were able to roll it out on several websites in quick secessions due to the platform's features.
• We were able to plan a solid road map given repeatable projects.

Incentivized

• Azure Hosting Costs divided by 3
• Content Delivery number of instances needed down from 10 to 4. (And with better performance as a result)
• Lighthouse Scores from D to A to reach above 95.
• Development velocity increased significantly due to OrderCloud's flexibility and its easier learning curve for new developers, allowing for much faster progress.

Incentivized