Posted in 12/16/2011 12:09 PM Zobrist
WebSphere Commerce V7 Feature Pack 4 is now available and expands on 3 core themes of V7: cross-channel optimization, customer-centric commerce, and foundational leadership. FP4 introduces the latest features and demonstrates how they build on the existing WebSphere Commerce platform. Features covered include enhancements to the mobile commerce solution, Facebook integration, updates to precision marketing and a new REST services framework.
WebSphere Commerce V7.0 Feature Pack 4 includes:
- Smarter stores optimized for mobile devices
- Facebook integration allowing shoppers to click and share
- Programming model enhancements
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Retailers all over the planet are gearing up for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the legendary biggest shopping days of the year. We’ve identified the top four trends in online shopping and how retailers are getting ready.
E-commerce is no longer simply about selling things online. It’s about delivering a seamless, integrated experience across all touch points. With the introduction of Web 2.0 technologies, e-commerce is now about transforming customer shopping experiences to leverage the power of your brand, providing a rich, personalized experience across multiple channels of your business.
WebSphere® Commerce V7.0 Feature Pack 3.0 delivers new functions to create a smarter shopping experience with:
- Personalize experience based on user behavior, such as participation in social commerce activities and usage of coupons with granular precision marketing triggers
- Allow business users to perform search engine optimization (SEO) by using the Management Center tool and to benefit from other SEO enhancements to help improve page rank
- Enable business users to optimize search results using runtime statistics and Coremetrics on-site search analytics
- Allow business users to access Coremetrics web analytics reports from the WebSphere Commerce Management Center tool
- Enable selling of configurable and complex products by integrating with the IBM Sterling Configurator
- Optimize order management integration performance
- Support the administration of workspaces using the WebSphere Commerce Management Center tool
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Learn how to integrate PayPal® with WebsSphere® Commerce V7.0.0.1 or later so that you can use PayPal to process payment for online orders. You will add a new payment method for PayPal, create a new payment plug-in for PayPal, and customize several JSP and commands to support the PayPal flow.
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As requirements evolve during the course of a project, the developer may find it necessary to adjust the existing data model. In most cases, this involves adding or deleting a table column. Once the table definition is changed, the developer must also update the corresponding EJB. This is a common development task, yet there is no tutorial or documentation in the WebSphere Commerce Infocenter.
A number of files are generated automatically when the EJB is first created, so it’s not always clear which code should be updated. Follow these steps when adding or deleting fields for existing EJB:
- Take snapshot!
- Modify deployment descriptor/bean class
- Open bean class and add/delete CMP attribute
- Demote ejbCreate from Home interface
- Add/delete CMP attribute in ejbCreate and ejbPostCreate argument list
- Promote ejbCreate to Home interface
- Modify _copyToEJB and _copyfromEJB methods to account for added/removed field
- Modify data definition: WebSphereCommerceServerExtensionsData > ejbModule > META-INF > backends > {databaseType} > MALL_NULLID_{tableName}.tblxmi. Add/delete column from table definition.
- Modify EJB to RDB mapping: WebSphereCommerceServerExtensionsData > ejbModule > META-INF > backends > {databaseType} > Map.mapxmi
- If adding an EJB field, map the field to the table column.
- If deleting a field, remove it from the mapping. Note: The field may already have been removed from the mapping when the deployment descriptor and data definition were saved in the previous steps.
- Deploy. If the following error occurs, There are no enterprise beans in WebSphereCommerceServerExtensionsData, delete all auto-generated files (prefixed with the underscore), and deploy again.
- Build.
- Regenerate access bean.
We modify the _copy methods to ensure that all bean references are updated. Without this step, we found that the deployment descriptor sometimes reverted to the original bean definition.
WebSphere® Commerce V7.0 Feature Pack 2.0 delivers powerful new storefront capabilities within the WebSphere Commerce V7.0 platform to better deliver a smarter shopping experience for your customers. It enables your brand to:
- Leverage a new faceted site search solution that allow shoppers to easily locate products, services and other offers that closely meet their needs
- Build social bridges from online storefronts to certain external social networking sites by leveraging portable, online identities
- Share the shopping experience through co-shopping, by co-browsing with other shoppers or customer service representatives
- Offer shoppers the ability to purchase subscription or service-based offerings
- Help business users to manage complex product pricing by defining business rules through integration with WebSphere ILOG® JRules, a leading external business rule management solution
- Enhance content management capabilities including versioning of catalog objects and easy integration to external content management systems
- Provide powerful business user tools for store management, product attribute management and price lists and rules management
- Offer shoppers real-time product recommendations using Coremetrics analytics
Want to know more detail? click here for complete information from IBM Announcement Page.
ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ — Forty-five percent of IBM (NYSE: IBM) Business Partners are experimenting with a social media business strategy to generate new revenue streams; however, three quarters say they still are uncertain how to apply it as an effective sales tool, according to survey results from 1,000 IBM worldwide partners released today.
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The proliferation of social media outlets and the potential to capitalize on social networking trends may help boost sales in a challenging economy, the IBM Business Partners report. (more…)
WebSphere Commerce 5.6.1 will be out of support by the end of the upcoming September, which is merely 4 months away. After that, IBM will no longer answer customers’ calls for this version. For eCommerce sites that still employs version 5.6.1, we strongly recommend them to upgrade to version 7 as soon as possible. One major downside of sticking with version 5.6.1 is that version 7 would be the last version to support direct upgrade from version 5.6.1. That is, any future Commerce will be not be able to be upgraded from version 5.6.1 without going through some intermediate version. For those of you dragging your feet to the new version, upgrade can be painful, but version 7 can also present new possibilities of doing business. Beside the fact that for most companies, owning a piece of unsupported software is unacceptable per their policies, this also a great opportunity for many customers to check out some new technologies that emerged since version 5.6.1 was released. WebSphere Commerce 5.6.1 was released back in 2005. Just to give you an idea what a difference 5 years make, Youtube was found in 2005, Facebook went online a year earlier in 2004, iPhone? It did not even exist until 2007. Google was big back then, but even that juggernaut of the decade only started dabbled into (and revolutionized) online advertising with its AdSense. In summary, so much has changed since 2005 that if you ask someone what the Internet would look like without Youtube, twitter, iPhone (or new generations of smartphone inspired by iPhone)? He probably would say two words: “Stone Age.”
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Las Vegas, Nevada – May 3, 2010 –
Zobrist Consulting announces the release of a new offering – eZcommerce – based on IBM WebSphere Commerce software running in the cloud.
eZcommerce is a complete E-Commerce Solution with an online storefront, a set of simple catalog management, smart marketing and customer care tools packaged with managed services. With eZcommerce, Zobrist uses IBM WebSphere Commerce to create the online storefront, help companies populate it with products, launch and manage it 24x7x365 using cloud computing resources. Customers will then have infinite options to extend and scale their online storefront using the initial launch as a
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Positions IBM to Lead Industry in Cloud Integration
ARMONK, N.Y.- 03 May 2010:
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired Cast Iron Systems to broaden the delivery of cloud computing services for clients. Cast Iron Systems, a privately held company based in Mountain View, CA, delivers industry-leading cloud integration software, appliances and services. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition expands IBM’s industry-leading business process and integration software portfolio, which grew more than 20 percent in the first quarter of 2010. (more…)
