IBM SG24-6320-00 manual Business Models, Access Control, Collaboration, Product Management tooling

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The Product Management tooling

The Product Management tooling in WebSphere Commerce Accelerator allows you to update your catalog merchandise information directly. It also allows you to create bundles, dynamic kits and pre-built kits.

2.6.8 Business Models

Where as WebSphere Commerce 5.1 started with B2C sample store (InFashion), the Business Edition of WebSphere Commerce released a little later added B2B sample store (ToolTech) to the list. The concept of business models was introduced into WebSphere Commerce V5.5. Business models are discussed more in detail in 2.5, “WebSphere Commerce Business models” on page 22.

2.6.9 Access Control

The WebSphere Commerce’s authorization model is based upon the enforcement of access control policies. Access control policies are enforced by the access control Policy Manager. In general, when a user attempts to access a protected resource, the access control policy manager first determines what access control policies are applicable for that user and then, based upon the applicable access control policies, it determines if the user is allowed to perform the requested operation on the given resource. In WebSphere Commerce V5.6 the access control is implemented by:

Access control policies and roles: Hierarchical policy and role based system defined during site creation and then enforce during server runtime

Subscription based model: When an organization subscribes to policy groups, only the policies in those policy groups will apply to the organization’s resources. Its ancestor organization’s policies will not apply.

2.6.10 Collaboration

WebSphere Commerce supports two types of collaboration functionality. To use one, or both features, you must first install the supporting software associated with each type of collaboration.

Collaborative workspaces (Business Edition): Collaborative workspaces support asynchronous communication by way of Lotus QuickPlace. Collaborative workspaces also requires that member data be on an LDAP server used with WebSphere Commerce, not in a relational database.

Customer care: Customer care provides real-time customer service support through a synchronous text interface using the Lotus Sametime server.

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