What’s new in Oracle Commerce Guided Search 11.2

Hi Followers,

When I say, I am working on the ATG migration; first question all will ask is that what is new in it. I though this will be the best forum to share what’s new in it. I described the content in very shorter way, that all can understand quickly. I have shared some important features in ATG as well.

Index Partitioning

The Oracle Commerce multisite framework allows merchants to run multiple different web sites on the same instance of Commerce; hence the indexing is also improved to support this feature. The Main Changes that were brought in oracle commerce guided search 11.2 is that, it allows for the configuration of how site data is partitioned into search indexes. Administrators can select which sites’ data will be indexed in which index, thus allowing the data to be partitioned across multiple MDEX indexes

Unified Reporting

Reporting features has been improved, from the Guided Search product with reporting from the Commerce Platform. This allows analysis of the data such as top search terms by site, by segment, or even by items purchased.

Out of the box, reports are provided to help give valuable insight into customer activity with Search. These include key analysis such as top search terms, search terms with zero results, search terms that led to the most sales, and most used facet values. Where the out of the box reports do not meet a particular need, Oracle Business Intelligence’s powerful capabilities may be used to create custom reports, ad-hoc queries, and bespoke dashboards.

Language Support

Language support is improved by adding the new languages and improving the search results and customer experience.

It supports the following languages, so totally 50 languages are supported in it.

Oracle Commerce Workbench

Experience Manager Projects

Experience Manager Capabilities has been improved a lot in this version, for example the Experience Manager has been released same like BCC with the Assets Flow.  The Experience manager allows multiple users can work on the project parallel same like the BCC. If the Conflict happened then it cannot be modified by the other user and he will be notified. A simple prebuilt approval process that allows users to make changes and commit them is being introduced. It provides the visibility to changes done before committing.

Interactive editing can be done in preview actively, without having to switch between preview and data view. A new Manifest pane provides details of the various page elements. Users can edit page elements from the Manifest pane and see the effect of their changes on the preview page.ie WYSIWYG editing mode. Business users can now also set up different form factors for different types of devices (desktop, tablet, mobile, etc.) that will allow them to preview the same page for different devices.

Site Specific Keyword Redirects

The Workbench keyword redirect tool has been enhanced in 11.2, allowing business users to add keyword redirects that are specific to a given site in a multi-site environment. IT users can add a keyword redirects group and associate the group to a specific site, allowing business users to manage keyword redirects at the site level by working with the group. A default keyword redirects group ships with the product, while additional ones can be created and assigned to other sites.

Administrators can restrict access permissions for these groups so that only certain users can add keyword redirects to a certain site.

Some Important Features in oracle commerce 11.2

To better achieve goal of Omni Channel Experience, Commerce 11.2 adds significant new capabilities to support omni-channel commerce. The new Commerce Store Accelerator (CSA) reference application provides a responsive, modern, up to date starter store to assist merchants in creating their storefront and support desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

BCC

Commerce 11.0 and 11.1 added new content management capabilities to the Commerce platform and version 11.2 continues with new functionality in this area. Media files can now be directly uploaded within the BCC and stored on the Commerce servers, without the need for external systems. With the prior investments and the new 11.2 features, more and more merchants will be able to manage all their content and commerce in a single application, Oracle Commerce

Pricing

The pricing engine has also been updated to allow prices to vary by time. This allows business users to set up multiple prices ahead of time, with the appropriate start and end times. While this is valuable for managing day to day price changes, it also makes supporting various pricing strategies such as flash sales, simpler and easier to manage.

For ATG 11.2 Migration Read my previous blog here. For Endeca Migration Read my blog here .

Happy Learning !!!!