WHAT’S NEW ON SAP COMMERCE CLOUD RELEASE 2005

In the industrial revolution, people used to go to crowdie market for shopping, but the trend has changed nowadays. The “Internet of a Thing” has changed customers shopping habit, and a vast number of businesses are s using an eCommerce platform selling their goods and services through the internet to consumers. The process of selling goods through the internet is called e-commerce. The businesses that are pulling ahead – and staying ahead in their industry – are those that consistently deliver exceptional online experiences.

Now, to manage your eCommerce business, you need to have the right technology platform that suits your business needs, providing the best experience for customers. The best experience for your workforce. The best product experiences and the best brand experiences. So, SAP Commerce Cloud is an excellent eCommerce solution with a variety of tools and Backoffice capabilities that encompasses customers’ experience and simplified business operations.

We are going to looking at what’s new on the SAP Commerce Cloud release 2005 in this article;

SAP Commerce Cloud Evolution:

SAP Commerce Cloud (previously known as SAP Hybris) is fundamental for your eCommerce digital platform; it allows customers to place an order, view prices, request services and much more. Additionally, with back-end functionalities such as Product Content Management system which will enable you to distribute product data consistently across all channels. Through integration with SAP ERP system and non-SAP products, customers can self-service.

Before we dive into what’s new on SAP Commerce Cloud Release 2005, let’s review the Release evolution of SAP Commerce Cloud in the last few years;
• Release Version 1808 – August 8, 2018
• Release Version 1811 – December 12, 2018
• Release Version 1905 – May 29, 2019
• Release Version 2005 – May 13, 2020

Few of SAP Commerce Cloud offerings;
• Targeted customer contact based on customization
• Infrastructure is a scalable and future-proof system
• Integration with SAP ERP and SAP C/4HANA (SAP Sales Cloud,
• Integrated digital business processes and greater efficiency through automated.
• Customization, Integrated functions for content management, order management and online configuration
• The modern, responsive and adjustable user interface on all terminal devices
• Fast implementation, thanks to standardized interfaces to your SAP Basis systems

What Is New in The 2005 Version and Its Benefits?
SAP Commerce Cloud 2005 includes key features to enable superior customer experience with Headless Commerce scenarios and supports end-to-end business processes for building an Intelligent Enterprise. Moreover, if we talk about the latest version of SAP Commerce Cloud, it officially released SAP Commerce Cloud 2005. The most significant changes are B2B and B2C Omni Commerce Connect (OCC) APIs, Bundling perspective in the Backoffice product cockpit, SAP Commerce context-driven services integration and SAP Cloud Platform Integration-APIs integration.

The following features of the latest versions are as follows;

• B2B and B2C Omni Commerce Connect (OCC) APIs:
Permit you to decouple your frontend storefront from back-end platform and to produce elastic headless commerce. B2B inventory display, B2B re-order, B2B order replenishment and Commerce organization. B2C OCC APIs cancellations and Returns, WCMS tool for legacy/On-Premise for customer aiming to migrate to the cloud solution.

• Bundling perspective in the Backoffice product cockpit:
Be able to bundle products in the bundling perspective, maintain rules to discount products, produce bundles that accommodate customer choices, define the product selection criteria and bundle collection of products.

• Spartacus for Release 2005:
Support for release 2005, cancellation and Returns, Support for OOC extensions, Spartacus 1.x is compatible with releases 1905 and 2005, Spartacus an open-source project is an Angular based JavaScript storefront which communicates with SAP Commerce Cloud through OCC APIs.

• SAP Commerce context-driven services integration:
The context-driven services allow SaaS integration to SAP Commerce that empowers overall of functionality that improve conversion and deliver personalized customer experience.

• SAP Cloud Platform Integration-APIs integration:
Modern and improved integration from SAP Commerce to other SAP solutions such as S/4HANA Cloud, SAP ERP, S/4HANA Service and SAP Marketing Cloud. Simplified classification attributes, API improvements, security improvements and outbound Sync improvement.

• Promotion Engine and Rule Engine
Release 2005 promotion engine permits you to generate upselling promotions to substitute recurrence customer such as Update to Drools 7.21, Drools Class loader improvement and Key session pooling.
· Context-Driven Services Integration
A/B testing and Merchandising to offer better customer experience with real-time personalization and boost conversion. It also enables capabilities such as; Spartacus integration
• Platform:
Support for Oracle 19c, Spring 5.2.3, Maintaining query Cache Region, Change Detection, Default Users and Password Disable and Delete of Cron Job History Entries.

• Smart Edit:
Release 2005 introduces to Smart Edit new features such as; Reintroduction of the WCMS Cockpit, Media Container Management in simple responsive Banner Components and Support for Single Sign-On.

The Release of version 2005, SAP has removed y2ysyncdemoelectronics extension among others.

High Standard with New Name:

Even though SAP Hybris has changed its name to SAP Commerce Cloud, however, the standards are even higher than before with new capabilities. Benefit from cloud offering, single commerce solution offering industry-specific capabilities with the ability to personalize the customer experience across all channels.

Summary

SAP Commerce Cloud is continuously evolving and improving its customer’s experience and operating model. The new version of the SAP Commerce Cloud, release version 2005, emerge with new features and functionality that were not in the previous versions. In the meantime, SAP Commerce has emerged as one of the most powerful eCommerce solutions used by intelligent Enterprises to deliver their products and services to their customers online, due to its robust capabilities and cloud offering.

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