Digital Experience with WebSphere Commerce

This year during the Digital Experience Conference the integration scenarios of Commerce Server has been a hot topic. When integrating with Commerce there are 3 suggested scenarios.

Some advantages of utilizing Digital Experience for the Commerce server include:

• Single environment to author all content for either Portal or Commerce sites.
• Includes both e-spots and full pages of content.
• Can implement content approval workflows in WCM
• Security provided by WCM so can restrict content to certain users.
• In general, WCS content editors like the WCM authoring environment better.

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Portal as the Front-end

Utilize portal to aggregate all your marketing and commerce content in the same environment.  Commerce provides example portlets that can deploy to your portal environment.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZLC2_7.0.0/com.ibm.commerce.wcportal.doc/refs/rpo_mvcportlets.htm

Commerce as the Front-end

Utilize the WCM API and REST services to server content to the Commerce environment.  WebSphere Commerce environment controls the full user experience.

Side-by-Side

End users are directed to the appropriate environment depending on the requested page.  Shared resources are requested between the environments via REST.