eCommerce Enabling SOA Platform for one of the world’s largest Consumer Electronics Manufacturer

Business Situation

Need for a middleware to be used enterprise wide to deliver business and dynamic eCommerce functionality to the various region specific websites

Need for cost effective solution that may be deployed on the 30+ websites world-wide

Seamless integration with the existing content delivery platform developed by the client

Solution that aligns with the organization’s move towards Open Source and infrastructure for deployment on virtualized hardware

Provide capabilities that are missing in the content delivery platform and that may be re-used in other projects inside the organization

Solution Highlights

Momentum positioned as the SOA based J2EE delivery platform that would provide the middleware for enabling eCommerce functionality in websites

Momentum is built on the same Open Source technologies as the content delivery framework making integration simple

Flexible licensing that permits client to deploy unlimited copies of Momentum on the websites and terms that allows source code customization

Solution offers multiple deployment choices on the enterprise networks and DMZ distributed across data centers

Many pre-built services that may be reused to realize eCommerce, Personalization and Admin functionality in the end solutions

Technology/Tools Spring & Mule for service framework backbone, Quartz for scheduling, JGroups and Terracotta for distributed cache, jBPM for process management , Drools for rules engine, Clover ETL and Java SSH libraries, Maven and archetypes to standardize project structure and deployment

Business Benefits Enhance existing and largely static websites to provide eCommerce functionality Ability for the company to manage promotions and integrate shopping experience with backend ERP system Personalization features that permit end user to manage profile, register products for warranty and manage personal events Features to monitor and manage data transfer from eCommerce application through its interfaces to external systems, backend ERP and CRM applications