“What is the best database for large eCommerce websites, and why?” was a question I saw on Quora. This question is important because managing data within your eCommerce website plays a pivotal role in delivering positive user experiences and providing smooth transactions. It doesn’t matter how well your eCommerce website interface is designed and how nice the products/services look. It will be worthless unless the eCommerce website has the performance to quickly retrieve, process, and deliver information. 

With HCL Commerce on Now we believe we have created one of the most flexible cloud commerce platforms on the market. Read out for more info.

HCL Commerce has supported traditional relational databases such as DB2 and Oracle for many years.  In 2021 we added support for another option, OneDB. This blog talks about why customers are asking us to do this, what features it offers and how you can use OneDB as a cloud native database with HCL Commerce.

HCL Unica Discover leverages a powerful analytics engine that can tie real-time customer behaviors to core business functions. Allowing for data-backed decision making, based on historical customer behaviour.

When it comes to B2B Commerce, self-service is key to an optimal buying experience. With our recent releases, including Sapphire, our new Headless React based / API driven B2B Reference Storefront, registering and managing your organization, buyers and approval has never been easier. To register your Organization, simply click Sign In and then select Organization Registration. You will then complete a brief registration form within which you will register your organization as well as an organization administrator account. Upon completion of the registration form, your registration request will be sent for Approval to the Seller. As the Seller, you will then login to the HCL Commerce Management Center and launch our newly designed business tools. Yes! No more need for legacy browser support to run these important tools!!!! We have overhauled these capabilities and developed modern Angular based tooling, which leverage our robust APIs and embedded them directly in Management Center. In this case, as the Seller we want to approve these organization and organization administrator registration requests. These approvals are located under Approvals. You will benefit from lots of great search and filtering capabilities to find exactly what you need quickly. For example, using filters you are able to view only those requests that are pending. Approving/rejecting these requests are as simple as clicking on the proper option under Actions. Here you can also enter in any comments we may want to be stored with each request. You’ll then see that your two approvals have been processed and they are in Approved status. Now that the Seller has approved the Organization and Organization Administrator registration requests, the Buyer can login to the Sapphire storefront. With the new Sapphire storefront, we’ve also included a variety of useful Dashboard views. One very useful view is the Administrative Tools. This provides the...

We’ve wrapped another great virtual event for our customers and partners and the feedback was better than we could have wished for! Thanks to all of those who attended and if you missed it, don’t fear! It is all available on-demand. Teaming with customers, partners and industry experts, we delivered 4 sessions where we spoke to the future of HCL Commerce and how we’re going to get there (hint: through continued investment and close collaboration with our customers and partners) and introduced our three latest WOWs. Below is a quick recap of the sessions and links to see them on-demand: A Double Play from HCL Commerce Watch our fearless leader Gary Schoch as he lays out our strategy and vision. 2020 was an exciting year for HCL Commerce with two major releases that energized our customers, partners and the market. That energy was captured in the Sneak Peek webinar for this event. Gary amps up the excitement even further as describes the future of the platform. Herman Miller talks B2B Commerce, V9 and Analytics Catch Brian Gillespie’s best Conan O'Brien impression as he talks with Rob Richardson of Herman Miller and discovers some of the unique ways they engage with customers and dealers. Rob will also share the unexpected benefits of moving to V9 and why analytics are so important to Herman Miller. To wrap up, we'll demonstrate HCL Unica Discover's ability to gather powerful insights about your customers' behavior. Hot DAM! Simplified Content Creation and Management Everyone wants more power and control of the customer experience. HCL Commerce has made it easier for business users by embedding CMS and DAM capabilities directly into Management Center. Hear from Aaron Pickrell and Avnet who have been creating engaging experiences through the use of content. The Next Generation of Commerce is Cloud...