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.
Happy Learning !!!!
