SAP Hybris: Thinking Outside the Box. PART 1 [Video, Russian + English]
This is a first part of my 3-hour presentation in SAP Moscow on Sep 29, 2017. In this introductory video, I tell about hybris development in the simple, concise and clear way. No special technical background is required. The presentation is about the technologies under the hood as well as the requirements for the team to support and develop your SAP hybris system. The video is available in Russian (original) and in English (translated). The latter has subtitles to let you watch it without turning the sound on. The slides are also available for download. Read More »
On August, 30 SAP announced a new version of hybris Commerce, Release 6.5. The detailed information about the new features and changes of the release is published on hybris wiki. However, the official releases are often filled primarily with marketing highlights, so I decided to quickly analyze the data from the documentation portal to reveal important changes possibly not mentioned in the official release notes. Read More »
Wishlist Add-on For Hybris
Wish Lists (WLs) are collections of desired products saved by customers to their user account. Offering WLs is an effective way to reduce shopping cart abandonment and boosting sales. This feature gives customers the way to remind themselves of a product and also help merchants to measure  interest to it. WL sharing to friends, colleagues, etc. expands the shop audience. This concept is widely used by e-merchants and generally included into a default set of e-commerce functionality. Read More »
Hybris SOLR query builders and search relevance
In SAP Hybris Commerce, the requests for the SOLR search engine are created by Query Builders. Simply put, these components convert the user queries to SOLR queries. Certainly, it is not possible to explain the search results if you don’t know what SOLR request was generated and why it contains particular conditions in the particular form.   Unfortunately, the official documentation is very sparse and lack of examples. This article explains the differences between available query builders. You will also find a good compliment to one of the previous articles about the search relevancy.  Read More »
In this article, Sergei shares his experience with Spring Integration in the clustered environment. Spring Integration requires special configuration to avoid the concurrency issues. The article explains how this configuration can be done within SAP hybris Commerce. Read More »
Enhanced multi-word synonyms and phrase search in hybris
A synonym is a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language. In any search engine, handling synonyms is very important. In SAP Hybris Commerce, synonyms are handled by Apache SOLR, the built-in search engine. The phrase search gives the product a higher position in the search results if any of the product attributes configured as searchable contain the whole user query.  In this article, I present my PoC that demonstrates the better synonym handling and enhanced phrase search in hybris.  Read More »
Explaining SAP Hybris/Solr Relevance Ranking for phrase queries
This article began with the simple question: why the search query “camera lenses” leads to tripods in the Electronics SAP Hybris demo storefront rather than the camera lenses products? There is a relevant category named “camera lenses” and a product having “Lens” in its name. In the article, I explain all details of relevance score calculation and also show how to configure the hybris search module better. Read More »
I attempted to structure the information about SAP Hybris Commerce 6.4 features and limitations. The resulting table shows what is included and what is not. Note that there are two dimensions, accelerators and feature groups. Read More »
SAP Hybris Commerce upgrade map
This is a reference about what you get if you decide to upgrade SAP hybris Commerce to the newer version. Find your current SAP hybris version in the table and find all features you get with the upgrade. The features listed are introduced with the newer versions (till 6.4), grouped by topic. Read More »
Concept-aware search: automatic search facet discovery in SAP hybris
I would like to introduce my new PoC for automatic facet discovery. It sets up the facets based on the customer requests, the words used in the search query.  For example, “blue armada jacket XXL” will show the products with a keyword “jacket” with three facets automatically set up, color=blue, brand=armada and size=XXL. You can find a video demonstrating how it works on top of hybris accelerators.  Read More »