WebSphere Family

WebSphere Commerce

 

Integration Platform:

IBM offers a universal Java development platform to deploy all kind of e-commerce sites from a basic online store for consumers to an extended sales network for channel partners and other businesses.

Target Market:

Any company from small to large that needs to sell its products online.

Technologies:

• Business Process Execution Language

• Java technology, JavaServer Pages, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and XML

Components: 

Currently, WebSphere Portal has 3 different licenses, and each of them include both common and unique features.

Product, Component Category, Feature	Express	Professional	Enterprise
Enhanced Search & Navigation through improved integration with WebSphere Content Discovery	+	+	+
Web Content Management through integration with IBM Workplace Web Content Management	+	+	+
Web Analytics	+	+	+
SOA/Web Services support	+	+	+
BPEL support	+	+	+
Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce		+	+
Cross-channel Order Processing		+	+
Business Intelligence		+	+
Collaborative Content Management		+	+
E-mail Template Editor		+	+
Auctions		+	+
Gift Center		+
Contract Management			+
Multiple sites			+
Marketing and Merchandizing tools	+	+	+
Sales Catalog		+	+
Integration		+	+
Payments		+	+
System management		+	+
Starter Stores	+
Catalog Import	+
Wizard-like development tools	+
Rapid development environment		+	+
IBM Rational Application Developer V6.0	+	+	+
IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.0	+	+	+
IBM Cloudscape™ database	+	+	+

 Current Version:

WebSphere Commerce V6

 Hot News:

IBM continues to add new features to its WebSphere Commerce towards SOA addressing a need of more people-, process- and data- centered approaches. Now, companies have a consistent view of all customers across established sales channels and can make buying process even more personalized. Development and management of transactions is simplified and more convenient through use of Ajax technologies.

Known Issues:

Competitors:

Microsoft Commerce Server - WebSphere Commerce Express bits Microsoft Commerce Server Standard by price