IBM SG24-6320-00 manual WebSphere Commerce Payments Server, Enablement software

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2.2.5 WebSphere Commerce Payments Server

The WebSphere Commerce Payments Server is a WebSphere enterprise application that runs on its own application server within the WebSphere Application Server.

After installation, the WebSphere Commerce Payments instance must be created using the Configuration Manager. When creating a WebSphere Commerce Payments instance using the Configuration Manager, the WebSphere Commerce Payments instance application server is created and the WebSphere Commerce Payments enterprise application is deployed.

The WebSphere Commerce Payments Server can be installed on the

WebSphere Commerce node or on a remote node.

2.2.6 Enablement software

There are several enablement software components included with WebSphere Commerce that can be optionally installed. In addition, we have listed WebSphere enablement software that can be leveraged by WebSphere Commerce.

WebSphere Commerce enablement software

This section describes the functionality provided by the following enablement software included with IBM WebSphere Commerce V5.6:

Personalization

There are two personalization solutions included with WebSphere Commerce, Blaze Rules and LikeMinds collaborative filtering. The personalization software can be used to improve the customer experience by tailoring the site to a number of criteria, such as customer profile, shopping cart contents, and purchase history.

Commerce analytics

WebSphere Commerce V5.6 has improved analytics capability through the use of WebSphere Commerce Analyzer and IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner for Data V8.1, and IBM DB2 UDB V8.1 warehousing features. There are many business intelligence reports included with WebSphere Commerce, which leverage the technology of the WebSphere Commerce Reporting Framework and are accessible from the WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.

Messaging integration

WebSphere Commerce V5.6 includes messaging adapters for HTTP, e-mail, MQ, InterChange Server (ICS), and file. Inbound messaging supports the HTTP and MQ adapters and can be customized to support other protocols.

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