In this article, I structured the main concepts, best-practices, design recommendations, interaction patterns and visual design considerations for the faceted search. I believe this work covers every aspect of the facet search UI: everything you need to know to create facet search component from scratch or using the ready building blocks from the SAP Commerce Cloud out-of-the-box search module. At the end of the article you will find a summary explaining what features are implemented in the default SAP Commerce Cloud Accelerators; for those which are not implemented, you will find my ballpark estimations of the efforts needed. Read More »
Come take a look into the 1811 release. We’ll cover cool and interesting new features, enhancements, and changes, and offer some commentary on what we like and what we like… less. Judge for yourself what SAP did well and what might warrant some extra polish. Read More »
The hot trends in e-commerce have shifted recently. Microservices, headless e-commerce, AI, voice and other technologies & designs are all the rage. In this article, we will take an extensive look at headless e-commerce, in the context of a “best of breed” solution involving the #1 e-commerce solution, SAP Commerce Cloud, and a top ranking CMS solution, Sitecore. Learn why this type of solution makes sense for certain enterprises, what the benefits are, and see for yourself the solution in action through General Electric Healthcare’s live solution. Read More »
In the various sources, the terms like Autocomplete and Suggestions are not defined clearly. They turned out to be too wide to avoid confusion when defining design patterns and software requirements. The customers use the wrong terms in the RFPs, the partners try to use the RFP language and mix that with their own terminology. In this article, I review these topics in depth. Read More »
Have you ever thought about a top 3 things you wanted to change in the platform? I guess Ant would hit almost 100% of your made-up lists. This article outlines details about an offline project done by a group of EPAM’s hybris enthusiasts who made a great step forward with migration from Ant to Maven as a primary build system for a platform.
We are the ones who work with SAP Commerce Cloud day to day. Are we the ones who can help improve platform for the best? Read More »
Writing software is easy. Maintaining it and evolving it over the long haul is hard. And the business reality around finding time and money to refactor code in support of this makes this even harder. This is the “refactoring challenge” all product companies face.
In this article, I will explore how well (or not) Hybris (now SAP) has done in keeping the Hybris Commerce codebase “fresh” and overcoming the “refactoring challenge”. Read More »
Groovy Scripting allows you to access server objects directly from your browser. It is an essential tool for troubleshooting and debugging. This article is 7th part of the series. Read More »
In this article, you will find a review of the new product from SAP, an angular storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud, known as Spartacus.
Until recently, SAP Commerce Cloud has been offering two toolsets for mobiles, a Mobile SDK (iOS and Android) and responsive storefront template. Spartacus is the next step in this direction towards better customer experience. Read More »
This article continues a series “Takeaways from SAP CX LIVE Barcelona”. This time I share my notes and thoughts based on the great presentation given by Axel Großmann, an enterprise architect for New Commerce Cloud. Read More »
v1808 introduced a new versioning feature for SAP Commerce Cloud’s CMS capabilities. But how does it stack up against industry leading CMS solutions? We asked one of EPAM’s leading CMS experts to weigh in. Read More »
