IBM Websphere Commerce is an e-Commerce Product marketed by IBM. It is a designed to be an unified platform that will cater marketing , sales ,customer , order capturing, order processing , inventory , payment processing needs , as a single package. The platform is built to be open ended , extensible in nature.
It offers the ability to do e-Commerce - directly with the consumers (B2C) , with other businesses ( B2B ) ( wholesalers , retailers , organizations , governments ) or indirectly through channel partners.
Channels are classified by the number of intermediaries between producer and consumer . ( The retailer becomes one of the indirect intermediaries in the channel ).
Websphere Commerce ( WCS ) uses open standards such as XML and web services conforming to OAGIS Specifications ( implemented as part of version 7.0 ) which makes is easy to integrate.
Third party applictions providing certain features ,either due functional superiority or legacy requirements or business needs , can be integrated with websphere Commerce.
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