IBM Digital Commerce

We had a need to choose a next-generation commerce platform for our company and we went through an evaluation period. IBM Digital Commerce was the only product that allowed us to do light customization while working with an IBM Digital Commerce engine to provide a streamlined checkout process. We were on a deadline to get our sites modernized with IBM Digital Commerce.

IBM Digital Commerce is well suited if you need something fairly streamlined for commerce and you have a mature back end system for fulfillment it is an easy fit to put it in. If there is complexity in your system and you need to design a process around a commerce platform, this would be a challenge. It has specific use cases given your business case.

We are a consultant company, as such we provide solutions using WebSphere Commerce to our clients. We provide full services (design, install, configuration, customization) to our clients. The most common problems that our clients have is that they want to grow their eCommerce business with a robust and scalable platform and WebSphere Commerce gives them that. Some of our clients' industries are manufacturing and automotive, but the majority of our clients happen to be in the apparel and fashion industry. Using WebSphere Commerce allows our clients to grow their eCommerce business.

I think WebSphere Commerce is well suited for customers looking to sell products online that need robustness and scalability as a priority. It provides a complete order cycle out of the box, or you can integrate with your existing order fulfillment. Online shopping models like digital subscriptions or a marketplace are not well suited as it requires a lot of customization.

At my organization, we provide websphere commerce implementation to our clients. Websphere Commerce helps in implementing e-commerce solutions for any organization. It greatly helps in providing omni channel experience for the customers thereby providing the advantages like, one view of inventory, buy online pick up in store, single view of orders placed across all channels etc.

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

WebSphere Commerce is used across the whole organization to drive the company's web initiatives.

WebSphere Commerce is particularly suitable for companies processing a large volume of orders - $40 million and above in a year.

We implement features in websphere commerce site, and also customization of all supported modules. We also provide maintenance of existing e-commerce sites for our clients. Apart from this we help our clients in designing, implementing and deploying their websites.

It has good tools for site management and administration. Some companies have developed custom merchandise solutions too which are really convenient.