A practical approach on what it takes and what you will run into when your customer wants you to integrate their own ERP/PIM with Sitecore by using Sitecore Commerce Connect.
In this session we will dive into the many pipelines and functionalities of Sitecore Commerce Connect and show you in a straightforward demo, with the potential risks on live coding, how you can connect ERP/PIM systems with Sitecore using the Sitecore Commerce Connect functionalities without using other (non-)commercial third party modules.
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Connecting the odds in the brave world! Sitecore Commerce Connect
1. Connecting the odds in the brave world!
Sitecore Commerce Connect
Jeroen Speldekamp – MVP
@jspathome
Alex van Wolferen
@avwolferen
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2. Jeroen Speldekamp
• Sitecore MVP since 2011
• Working with Sitecore since 2006
• Thought leadership
• Outside-the-box thinker
• Father of two
• Multicopter/drone builder, gadget freak
• Runner
@jspathome
Alex van Wolferen
• 33 years; born in Nijmegen; live in Groningen
• Lead developer/architect/all-rounder at Suneco
• 5 years experience with Sitecore
• 10 years professional experience with .NET
• 3D printing enthusiast
• Gadgetfreak
• Running, indoor-cycling,
@avwolferen
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Who we are
3. Sitecore Commerce Connect
• “Sitecore Commerce Connect is an abstract service layer and
not a stand-alone solution. It is a framework and an API for e-
commerce with focus on integration and at the same time, to
track, act, and follow up on customer behavior. The goal is to
bring the unique customer engagement features of Sitecore
into e-commerce solutions, regardless of the back-end e-
commerce system being used.”
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4. Sitecore Commerce Connect
“Sitecore Commerce Connect is an abstract service layer and
not a stand-alone solution. It is a framework and an API for e-
commerce with focus on integration and at the same time, to
track, act, and follow up on customer behavior. The goal is to
bring the unique customer engagement features of Sitecore into
e-commerce solutions, regardless of the back-end e-commerce
system being used.”
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5. Sitecore Commerce Connect
“Sitecore Commerce Connect is an abstract service layer and
not a stand-alone solution. It is a framework and an API for
e-commerce with focus on integration and at the same time, to
track, act, and follow up on customer behavior. The goal is to
bring the unique customer engagement features of Sitecore into
e-commerce solutions, regardless of the back-end e-commerce
system being used.”
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6. Sitecore Commerce Connect
“Sitecore Commerce Connect is an abstract service layer and
not a stand-alone solution. It is a framework and an API for
e-commerce with focus on integration and at the same time, to
track, act, and follow up on customer behavior. The goal is to
bring the unique customer engagement features of Sitecore into
e-commerce solutions, regardless of the back-end e-commerce
system being used.”
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7. Sitecore Commerce Connect
“Sitecore Commerce Connect is an abstract service layer and
not a stand-alone solution. It is a framework and an API for e-
commerce with focus on integration and at the same time, to
track, act, and follow up on customer behavior. The goal is to
bring the unique customer engagement features of Sitecore into
e-commerce solutions, regardless of the back-end e-
commerce system being used.”
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9. Sitecore Commerce Connect
“Sitecore Commerce Connect is an abstract service layer and
not a stand-alone solution. It is a framework and an API for e-
commerce with focus on integration and at the same time, to
track, act, and follow up on customer behavior. The goal
is to bring the unique customer engagement features of
Sitecore into e-commerce solutions, regardless of the back-end
e-commerce system being used.”
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10. Sitecore Commerce Connect
“Sitecore Commerce Connect is an abstract service layer and
not a stand-alone solution. It is a framework and an API for e-
commerce with focus on integration and at the same time, to
track, act, and follow up on customer behavior. The goal is to
bring the unique customer engagement features of
Sitecore into e-commerce solutions, regardless of the back-
end e-commerce system being used.”
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12. Offline
• Started back in 1992 with 1
store and 3 employees
• Currently 23 stores in 18 cities,
200 employees
• ‘Solid’ ERP/PIM running on MS
Access and SQL Server
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Bakery Puffy Do & Co
13. Offline
• Started back in 1992 with 1
store and 3 employees
• Currently 23 stores in 18 cities,
200 employees
• ‘Solid’ ERP/PIM running on MS
Access and SQL Server
Online
• Nice website with a store
locator
• Regularly updates on new
products
• Recently adopted Sitecore XP
• No webshop
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Bakery Puffy Do & Co
14. What are the options?
• Connect Connectors available for External Commerce Systems
• Insite Software – InsiteCommerce
• eVision
• Sitecore Commerce Server
• nopCommerce
• uCommerce
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15. ‘Solid’ ERP/PIM
• MS Access / SQL Server
• Covers not 80% of the usual
e-Commerce stack
• Extendible
• Offline mailing integration
Sitecore
• Sitecore Experience Platform
• Email eXperience Manager
• List Manager
• xDB
• Sitecore Commerce Connect
• Lots, and lots more…
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The odds
16. Connect SugCon Connector
• Good old AdventureWorks database
• Products
• Stock/inventory
• Prices
• Shopping cart operations
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18. Product data in Content
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“Augmenting and Adding Presentation Data to Products
There are typically limitations to the kind of information stored in the
commerce system and the number of channels supported. Usually,
the core data is not stored in a presentable way. One of the premises
with Connect is that only the core product data is included in the
ECS. The rest of the information needs to come from other external
systems or can be added in Sitecore.
19. Support for multiple datasources
“In some scenarios, the product data is provided by multiple
sources. For example, core product data can be provided by the
ECS, and the specifications along with categorization can be
provided by a different provider.”
Example:
Two classification systems UNSPEC, CNET - Datasource
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20. Synchronization to Sitecore from multiple ERP/PIM ‘s
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“ Connect has its own product data model and a Product
Synchronization service layer for exchanging product data with one
or more external systems. The responsibility of the Product
Synchronization service layer is to manage two-way synchronization
of essential product data. The goal is to synchronize only the data
that is needed to satisfy the most common e-commerce scenarios. In
particular cases, the model can be extended. ”
35. Adding product reviews to Sitecore
• Create in sitecore a ProductReview template
• Extend the current productbranch with a ProductReviewsFolder
• Create a new ProductReview class in the domain model
• Create a new ProductReviewsRepository
• Create a new ProductRepository and Inherited from the exiting ProductRepository
• Create a RunSynchronizeProductReviews pipeline
• Create a ReadExternalCommerceSystemProductReviews processor
• Create a SaveProductReviewsToSitecore processor
• Create an include file.
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