The Data Load utility is the new enhanced business object based loading utility that provides an efficient solution for loading into your WebSphere Commerce database. Today I wanted to share a brief tutorial on the two ways you can load data using Business Object Mediator and Table Object Mediator and how Catalog, Inventory, Price, Catalog […]
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How Important is the Customer Experience?
Michael Porter, Sales Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post about a keynote speech focusing on Customer Experience at Oracle OpenWorld. Companies must understand their consumers – they why’s, where’s, when’s and how’s of the shoppers journey. Customer experience not only pertains to the actual experience itself, but everything that makes up your product or brand […]
Key Considerations for Contract Management Implementation
What are some of the considerations that need to be taken into account when deciding to implement contracts management? This is a question time and time again posed to me and my group from consumer product companies, information technology groups, and particularly health care companies alike. More and more companies are coming to market looking […]
Simple Steps to Create a Product in CMC
IBM Commerce Management Center gives complete control of your catalog. You could add/delete/modify any product description and control pricing of the product. Here i would like to show how to add a product in Aurora Store. Let us add a product under “Boys Pants” Category and see how easy to publish a product. 1. Open […]
PIM: A Backbone for Ecommerce!
In the world of ecommerce, especially in the last few years, I’ve grown to appreciate the importance of data. Every project, every implementation, and every site we have launched has proven time and again that it is most important to maintain the quality of data and to structure it well, so that it can be […]
WebSphere Commerce: Omni-Channel Experience
What is Omni-Channel? Have you heard of Multi-Channel and Omni-Channel? Why e-Commerce retailers are moving towards Omni-Channel implementation? Let’s understand what it is and why it is important. Today’s tech savvy and smart shoppers expect the same price, the same merchandise, same promotions and discounts across every channel, regardless of how they come into contact […]
A Better eCommerce Experience – Insite for Sitecore
A few months ago our VP of Sales posted an article, “But I Want Commerce and Content Management!” The post talked about the need and growing availability of combined commerce and content management solutions. Recently, two of our technology platform partners, Insite Software and Sitecore, have formed a strategic alliance to bring an even better […]
Perficient Acquires IBM Smarter Commerce Division of Trifecta
Exciting news! Today, we announced the acquisition of the IBM Smarter Commerce team from Trifecta Technologies, a business and technology consulting firm focused on IBM WebSphere Commerce solutions. Like Perficient, the Trifecta team is an IBM Premier Business Partner. They’re an excellent addition to our team, enhancing Perficient’s IBM Commerce practice by bringing exemplary IBM […]
Websphere Commerce: Returns and Refunds
Websphere commerce have Out of the box functionality of handling refunds on cancellation of an order and also returns. Here i am discussing technical details of handling returns and refunds of partial order, Like if you want to cancel only 2 items out of 50 items you ordered. Let’s say you have external Order management […]
Improve performance through Dynamic Cache – Overview
When you go to a restaurant and you come to know that you have to wait for a while to get your table, will you wait or will you go to another restaurant where you are aware that there is no wait time and have the same quality of food. You would prefer the second […]
Social, Cloud and Security | What’s Hot at #IBMConnect
If you are fortunate to be attending IBM Connect right now, you know just how exciting some of sessions are. Mark Polly and Michael Porter have been the eyes and ears of Perficient at IBM Connect and have posted several articles about the buzz around social, cloud and data security. Follow these links to get […]
The Empowered Consumer Drives 2014 E-commerce Tech Priorities
When Gartner recently asked chief exectuives to identify their five-year technology investment priorities. They rated their top three as the following: Business analytics E-commerce Customer experience I was a bit surprised to see e-commerce ranked second, but not at all surprised to see it show up in the top ten answers. The New, More Empowered Consumer We […]