Product overview: Commerce Composer
Commerce Composer enhances the customer experience management capabilities of WebSphere Commerce and gives business users unprecedented control over page creation and design tasks.
Business users can assemble page content by selecting widgets from the Commerce Composer widget library to create new store pages. The widgets can represent native WebSphere Commerce features or capabilities from independent software vendors and system integrators.
View a quick demonstration of the Commerce Composer tool
Business benefits
The Commerce Composer tool offers a streamlined work flow that can help improve productivity and reduce time-to-market for campaigns and product lines. By adopting the Commerce Composer tool, business users can:- Take advantage of a rich set of layout templates and apps to create and build dynamic, compelling pages that offer shoppers a personalized browsing experience.
- Enjoy a more streamlined approach to managing page content by using fewer Management Center tools and screens.
- Continue to use the powerful, precision marketing capabilities that are offered by the marketing tool, such as web activities and marketing experiments. These capabilities are supported in a number of apps in the Commerce Composer widget library.
- Apply layouts consistently across categories and other page types by using the same layout template for multiple pages.
- Create layouts for specific devices (desktop or mobile) and responsive layouts that adapt to any device.
IT developers and IBM Business Partners can create their own apps and templates to customize and enrich Commerce Composer capabilities. To facilitate the development of these assets, IBM provides utilities, along with detailed instructions and tutorials, to help companies reduce the time required to get their Commerce Composer implementation up and running.
Finding Commerce Composer documentation
| Concept | Details and audience | For more information |
|---|---|---|
| Commerce Composer business functions and tutorial | Learn about the key features of the Commerce
Composer tool from a business perspective. Watch a video that demonstrates
how quickly and easily you can create a page and its layout. Then
try out a tutorial that walks you through the typical Commerce Composer
workflow by using the Aurora starter store assets. This information is intended for any WebSphere Commerce role responsible for researching Commerce Composer. |
Commerce Composer tool Video: Creating pages and layouts in the Commerce Composer tool Tutorial: Creating a page and designing a layout in Commerce Composer |
| Commerce Composer widget library | Browse through the widgets that are provided
in the Commerce Composer widget library. Find out about widgets that
IBM technology partners have developed for use in the Commerce Composer
tool. This information is intended for Management Center users who work with the widgets in the library, and IT developers who customized and develop widgets. |
Commerce Composer widget library IBM Technology Partners website |
| Commerce Composer setup and customization | Learn how to set up a store to use the Commerce
Composer tool and then develop Commerce Composer assets, such as widgets
and templates. This information is intended for IT developers who are responsible initial setup and development of Commerce Composer assets. |
Developing Commerce Composer assets |
| Storefront examples of pages managed in the Commerce Composer tool | Browse through a selection of catalog browsing
pages in the Aurora starter store that are managed in the Commerce
Composer tool. In the site flow diagrams at the link in the next column,
look for pages marked with an R(for responsive) and a C(for Commerce-Composer-managed). Then view the associated site flow page topic to see screen captures of the store page and a list of widgets used in the page. This information is intended for both business and technical roles who are interested in researching how to leverage Commerce Composer on the storefront. |
Site flows overview |