Brijesh and Pratik discuss in detail Sitecore Commerce and it's features as well as taking you through a demo which is based on a real-world Sitecore Commerce customer.

1. SITECORE COMMERCE
IN THE REAL-WORLD
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S E P T 2 0 1 9
SUGMEA

2. 1. Why would anyone want Sitecore Commerce?
2. What’s the Commerce architecture?
3. A real world example? (case study)
4. A demo of Commerce
5. 6 lessons we have learnt the hard way
AGENDA

3. Solution Architect
Twitter: @psatikunvar7
Blog: https://pratiksatikunvar.wordpress.com/
Senior Technology Lead
Twitter: @brij_baroda
Blog: http://techitpro.com/
Brijesh Patel5 years Sitecore 10 years Sitecore (Sitecore MVP 2014 – 2019)
Brijesh PatelPratik Satikunvar

4. WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT
SITECORE COMMERCE?

5. ADD TRANSACTIONS TO YOUR
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

6. SXA STOREFRONT
40+‘drag & drop’
Commerce components

7. 12
Customer Entitlements Gift Cards
Wish lists Fulfilment Orders
Payments Carts Payments
Pricing Inventory Tax
PLUG-INS
OUT OF THE BOX

8. WHAT’S THE COMMERCE
ARCHITECTURE?

9. Sitecore Experience Platform (XP)
Customer Experience
Sitecore Commerce Engine

10. Sitecore Experience Platform (XP)
Customer Experience
Sitecore Commerce Engine
Commerce ConnectCommerce
Engine
connect
Sitecore Commerce Server
eVision
connect
Dynamics AX
connect
uCommerce
eVision
Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail
Commerce
Server
connect
uCommerce
Connect

11. Sitecore Experience Platform (XP)
Customer Experience
Sitecore Commerce Engine
Commerce Connect
Sitecore Commerce Server
eVision
connect
Dynamics AX
connect
uCommerce
eVision
Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail
Commerce
Server
connect
uCommerce
Connect
Commerce
Engine
connect
Commerce Connect Engagement Artefacts
(Conditional Rendering Rules,
Marketing Campaigns, Page Events & Goals)
Commerce Connect Abstract Service Layers (APIs)
(Cart, Pricing, Products, Customers, Orders, Product sync)
Commerce Connect Product Catalog
Model

12. Sitecore Experience Platform (XP)
Customer Experience
Commerce ConnectCommerce
Engine
connect
Commerce Connect Engagement Artefacts
(Conditional Rendering Rules,
Marketing Campaigns, Page Events & Goals)
Commerce Connect Abstract Service Layers (APIs)
(Cart, Pricing, Products, Customers, Orders, Product sync)
Commerce Connect Product Catalog
Model
Sitecore Commerce Engine
Sitecore Commerce Engine

13. Sitecore Experience Platform (XP)
Customer Experience
Commerce ConnectCommerce
Engine
connect
Commerce Connect Engagement Artefacts
(Conditional Rendering Rules,
Marketing Campaigns, Page Events & Goals)
Commerce Connect Abstract Service Layers (APIs)
(Cart, Pricing, Products, Customers, Orders, Product sync)
Commerce Connect Product Catalog
Model
Sitecore Commerce Engine
CustomerScope
CatalogScope
OrderScope
Master Index
Web Index
Caching
Shared Global
Authoring
Shops
Ops
Minion
BizFx
Identity
Helix = Feature
Commerce = .Plug-in.
Plug-in Plug-in Plug-in
• Entities
• Components
• Policies
• Commands
• Lists
• Minions
• Lists
• Membership
• List Minions

14. COMMUNICATION AS A UNIT

15. COMMERCE ENGINE - VISUAL STUDIO

16. PLUGIN - VISUAL STUDIO

17. A REAL WORLD EXAMPLE?
(CASE STUDY)

18. A SINGLE BACK-END
COMMERCE ENGINE
BUILT PLUG-INS TO
RETRIEVE COMMERCE
DATA FROM LEGACY
SYSTEMS

19. MULTIPLE REGIONS,
PRODUCTS & PRICES
SO MULTI-TENANCY
ARCHITECTURE

20. SCALING

21. A DEMO OF COMMERCE
(ASK US IF YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING)

22. 6 LESSONS WE LEARNT

23. Had to extend Commerce storefront
components to achieve specific commerce
functionalities.
No Direct Navigation for Product/Category
Categories and products pages through
wildcard separate from catalog items, until 9.2
Multisite + Multiple Themes + Multiple Teams
Multisite and multiple theme development
with multiple BED + FED.
Multiple Environments not fully supported
Multiple environments not supported in
Sitecore content editor
Performance
No central cache management, until 9.2.
Minion getting executed twice
Minion was getting executed twice without
waiting for first to complete ignoring
Wakeupinterval, until 9.1
Commerce SXA Components Extension
LESSONS LEARNED

25. THANK YOU