SAP Commerce Cloud Platform (previously known as SAP Hybris) enabled businesses to develop a compact eCommerce experience that streamline business processes and open possibilities for growth. To stay up to date with the latest SAP Commerce Cloud features, insights, and addressing platform defects, or maintenance in terms of the platform support. Is advisable for companies to upgrade their SAP Commerce Cloud platform frequently, every couple of years to stay competitive in the market.
Below are five practical reasons to upgrade your SAP Commerce Cloud Platform from an older version to the latest version for exponential impact:
# 1 Cloud and On-Premise Offerings:
The latest versions of SAP Commerce provide customers with the capability of moving from an on-premise computing setup to one based in the Cloud. There are many reasons to consider cloud computing over On-Premise Computing. On-premise computing is easy to access, but it’s also costly to scale and maintain. SAP Cloud Commerce has been using the Azure Cloud as a provider of infrastructure and support for end-to-end deployment and hosting in the Cloud. SAP recommends being hosted and moved to cloud with the latest version or version beyond 1905 is cloud readiness. There are different checks, validation and verification done for Cloud migration with multiple tools and framework in place by SAP.
# 2 Integration Simplification:
Benefit from the new features and functionalities, the new features bring many ways to integrate with the different SAP and non-SAP solutions. Though the integration is dependent on the capabilities and limitations of the systems that are mainly related to integrations interfaces, data formats, extensibility, non-functional requirements, costing, and other parameters associated with the integration. SAP Commerce has provided different integration options such as; SAP App Centre for point-to-point integration.
# 3 Advance and Modern Functionality:
Make use of advance functionalities and features of SAP Commerce Cloud, will help in transforming your business with new or enhanced features giving you a competitive business advantage in your market and operations. You will also be receiving automatic performance improvements, bugs and security fixes. There are different features and enhancements of the product that is available with each version of the SAP Commerce. SAP Commerce provides a quarterly update release focused in core areas of commerce improvement, data transactions and integration
# 4 User Experience and User Interface:
SAP recently released version 2005, which reaffirms their dedication to customer experience improvements, UI enhancements and a widespread of functionality that improves conversion and delivers a personalized experience.
The introduction of Spartacus 1.x AngularJS for both B2C and B2B accelerator improve customer experience, which is a Headless storefront architecture solution with templates and other features that significantly improve time-to-market, making customization more flexible and quicker to configure.
# 5 Simplified Architecture Landscape:
SAP Commerce continuously simplify and provided a better and simpler layered architecture in new releases. It has been developed and designed on J2EE technologies and Spring framework. It has many commerce functionalities that have been provided by distinct OOTB functionalities as extensions, and the add-ons can achieve additional functionalities.
These extensions and add-ons can be extended for the customized simplest to complex eCommerce system with lesser executable time. The discrete, simple and distributed system is easily maintainable in the longer term.
# 6 Security and Support:
Code features you may be relying on, could be part of deprecated code and it requires to be removed from the element that replaces it, so you no longer depend on deprecated code. Moreover, increase code maintainability and introduce new features by replacing custom functionality with tested and complete OOTB components, also plays a vital part in upgrades. Running fully and supported security patches update, and bug fixes enable performance and reliability.
Conclusion:
Your SAP Commerce Cloud platform isn’t going to stop working a couple of years post-launch; however, it will become out-of-date and less potent. It wouldn’t take long to notice that you’ve fallen behind your competition. Every six months on average, SAP Commerce releases a new version of the platform; this will give your competitors competitive advantage. A new release comes with new features and enhancements to empower your business.
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Joel Green
CXPORTAL is your award-winning AI, ML, SAP Commerce Cloud and eCommerce digital transformation solutions provider, CXPORTAL is specialised in Innovating business strategy, design and development of digital products, digital platforms engineering and data science solutions. CXPORTAL Leverage Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Algorithms, Deep Learning Models, and big data Analytics to unlock and scale your business data, and optimising the operating model for exponential business impact.
