Overview
What is IBM Digital Commerce?
IBM Digital Commerce is an e-commerce platform that is designed to deliver omni-channel shopping experiences, including mobile, social, and in-store. In June 2019, IBM Digital Commerce was acquired by HCL Technologies.
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Review of Websphere commerce from a developer eye
Expensive but Stable and Dependable
Very versatile and powerful commerce platfom for mid to large sized enterprises
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What is IBM Digital Commerce?
IBM Digital Commerce is an e-commerce platform that is designed to deliver omni-channel shopping experiences, including mobile, social, and in-store. In June 2019, IBM Digital Commerce was acquired by HCL Technologies.
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Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows |
Mobile Application | No |
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(1-5 of 5)IBM Digital Commerce at a glance
- Flexibility in the framework for customization and expansion.
- Includes a great set of out of the box features.
- Has a somewhat challenging technical learning curve for business users.
- Quick turnaround time on websites.
- IBM could benefit from a user community for ideation.
- Customization still has some steep technical challenges if you want to make large expansions.
- It requires a dedicated technical support team.
- Product catalog & listings
- 80%8.0
- Product management
- 80%8.0
- Bulk product upload
- 80%8.0
- Branding
- 80%8.0
- Mobile storefront
- 80%8.0
- Product variations
- 80%8.0
- Website integration
- 80%8.0
- Visual customization
- 80%8.0
- CMS
- 40%4.0
- Abandoned cart recovery
- 60%6.0
- Checkout user experience
- 60%6.0
- eCommerce security
- 60%6.0
- Promotions & discounts
- 70%7.0
- Personalized recommendations
- 70%7.0
- SEO
- 70%7.0
- Multi-site management
- 80%8.0
- Order processing
- 50%5.0
- Inventory management
- 60%6.0
- Shipping
- 60%6.0
- Custom functionality
- 60%6.0
- 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.
WebSphere Commerce developer since the beginning!
- 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.
- Business tools are quite difficult to use especially for non-technical users. The steps involved in creating promotions or loading a catalog are often difficult for non-technical users to use.
- Business tools are often very difficult to customize (Accelerator, Sales Center, Management Center). It requires a lot of steps [when] trying to make simple changes.
- Being that WCS depends on WAS, it's always behind the curb from the latest WAS version.
- Product catalog & listings
- 80%8.0
- Product management
- 60%6.0
- Bulk product upload
- 90%9.0
- Branding
- 60%6.0
- Mobile storefront
- 50%5.0
- Product variations
- 60%6.0
- Website integration
- 90%9.0
- Visual customization
- 80%8.0
- Checkout user experience
- 80%8.0
- eCommerce security
- 80%8.0
- Promotions & discounts
- 50%5.0
- Personalized recommendations
- 60%6.0
- SEO
- 80%8.0
- Multi-site management
- 70%7.0
- Order processing
- 80%8.0
- Inventory management
- 80%8.0
- Shipping
- 60%6.0
- Custom functionality
- 80%8.0
- For our clients in the apparel industry, the flexibility that WCS provides to scale up really helped their online business to grow tremendously.
- Our client in the restaurant industry can't quite leverage what WCS has to offer though as it doesn't really fit their shopping model.
- Another positive impact is that it allows our clients to streamline their commerce system in interacting with their backend.
Review of Websphere commerce from a developer eye
- Websphere commerce provides efficient contract based pricing. Contract based pricing greatly helps in handling prices for different business
- Catalog filtering is one other strength of websphere commerce, as it helps to filter the show only those products that the customer is entitled to
- Extended site model is one other strength of WCS as it greatly helps in having multiple e-commerce sites for different demographics, for branding etc
- 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
- Product catalog & listings
- 90%9.0
- Product management
- 90%9.0
- Bulk product upload
- 90%9.0
- Branding
- 90%9.0
- Mobile storefront
- 70%7.0
- Product variations
- 90%9.0
- Website integration
- 80%8.0
- Visual customization
- 70%7.0
- CMS
- 30%3.0
- Abandoned cart recovery
- 90%9.0
- Checkout user experience
- 90%9.0
- eCommerce security
- 70%7.0
- Promotions & discounts
- 90%9.0
- Personalized recommendations
- 50%5.0
- SEO
- 70%7.0
- Multi-site management
- 100%10.0
- Order processing
- 90%9.0
- Inventory management
- 80%8.0
- Shipping
- 80%8.0
- Custom functionality
- 70%7.0
- E-commerce implementation using Websphere commerce greatly helped in increasing online sales
- It greatly helps in building the brand value
- Websphere commerce license cost is a bit high compared to other e-commerce tools
Expensive but Stable and Dependable
- WebSphere Commerce Payment plugin integrates well with third party payment processors for credit card processing.
- The in build promotion engine within WebSphere Commerce can handle different types of promotions that a business decides to set up for the customers.
- WebSphere Commerce is a robust eCommerce processor for B2B and B2C channel.
- Order Capture / Order Processing available within WebSphere Commerce is highly scalable.
- The Contract module available within WebSphere Commerce is very suitable for B2B channel.
- The e-Marketing spots contain content associated with marketing activities to target customer segment - needs some improvement. The algorithm to set up the priority of each of the Web Activity with in eMarketing spot is little bit confusing.
- The catalog load can be simplified.
- WebSphere Commerce is a huge application - someone needs to spend at least 5-6 years to learn about the whole application.
- Performance/ highly scalable
- Less down time
- We process 100,000+ orders in a day during peak time
- None
- The scalability and various configuration of the product allows a wide range of e-commerce site features.
- It provides storefront to begin with so it helps speeding up development.
- It provides supporting modules for admin use of the site management.
- Moving forward with version 7 this solution is becoming more complex.
- IBM introduced data service layer to access data which is more complex to understand and use.
- Overall this solution takes sometime to be familiarize with.
- For sure increased employee efficiency when third party merchandising solutions are used.
- It makes easy to maintain site with all available admin tools