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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Integrating
Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
Analytics for HCL Commerce
HCL Commerce provides a framework that you can configure to integrate your store with an external Web analytics solution. This framework includes a tag library that you can use in store page JSP files to provide appropriate analytics information to the external analytics system.
Integrating a store with an external analytics system (other than IBM Digital Analytics)
To meet your analytics requirements, you can integrate an HCL Commerce store with any web-based analytics system that uses a JavaScript based tagging mechanism. For this purpose, HCL Commerce provides an extensible JSP-based tag library framework for analytics.

Documentation
HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
- Getting started
  HCL Commerce has different advantages for business users, administrators and developers. HCL Commerce targets each of these roles with a tailored set of offerings so that each of your users can get maximum benefit.
- Installing and deploying
  Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9.1, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Operating
  Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
  - Order management system integration
    Integrate a distributed order management (DOM) system with your store to provide comprehensive coverage of the order lifecycle across channels, from capture to fulfillment.
  - Sterling Order Management integration
    The integration between HCL Commerce and Sterling Order Management combines the industry-leading front-end capabilities of HCL Commerce with the proven, back-end order and inventory management features of Sterling Order Management.
  - Inventory Management system integration
    Integrate an inventory management system with your store to ensure that inventory availability is constantly updated to reflect your store's current inventory levels.
  - Payments system integration
    Integrate a payments system with your store to process shopper payments for your site. You can also integrate with pricing and tax service providers to manage the pricing and tax calculations for your store.
  - Tax system integration
    You can integrate HCL Commerce with a third-party tax calculation system to provide tax calculations for your store. Integrating with a third-party tax service provider can help you to build and maintain a highly secure e-commerce site with a worldwide tax calculation process. Use the available HCL Commerce tax integration extension points to create any extensions that you need for integrating with your third-party tax calculation system. The tax integration xC extensions are a set of task commands that are called by the order component to communicate with the third-party tax calculation system when the tax integration feature is enabled.
  - Integrating with back-end systems and external applications
    External systems integration is a key feature of the HCL Commerce solution. In HCL Commerce business logic is enabled for integration and built-in adapters and interfaces are provided for common integration points. Additionally, the HCL Commerce integration solution leverages integration standards by using various IBM connectivity solutions.
  - IBM Watson Campaign Automation integration
    You can integrate IBM Watson Campaign Automation with HCL Commerce so that transactional emails are sent by IBM Watson Campaign Automation.
  - IBM MQ
    HCL Commerce provides a listener for IBM MQ for inbound requests, and an adapter for IBM MQ for outbound requests, to integrate back-end, and external systems with HCL Commerce.
  - Content management integration
    You can integrate HCL Commerce with an external content management system through a punch-out window from Management Center and through the web feed utility. You can integrate HCL Commerce with IBM Web Content Manager to provide Management Center users the ability to associate IBM Web Content Manager content with HCL Commerce objects.
  - Analytics for HCL Commerce
    HCL Commerce provides a framework that you can configure to integrate your store with an external Web analytics solution. This framework includes a tag library that you can use in store page JSP files to provide appropriate analytics information to the external analytics system.
    - Analytics tag library for HCL Commerce
      The basis for the HCL Commerce analytics framework is a JSP-based tag library. By adding HCL Commerce analytics tags to your store pages, you can communicate information about site usage to an external analytics system.
    - Integrating a store with IBM Digital Analytics for HCL Commerce
      HCL Commerce provides a framework and tools to simplify the process of setting up your site to use . IBM Digital Analytics is an industry leading hosted web analytics solution. The framework is implemented as a tag library designed to act as an intermediary layer between HCL Commerce and IBM Digital Analytics. The tools include an auto tagging utility to place analytics tags in your store pages. The tools also include a utility to generate a file that contains your catalog hierarchy for IBM Digital Analytics. This solution can significantly reduce the time that is required to deploy web analytics
    - Integrating a store with an external analytics system (other than IBM Digital Analytics)
      To meet your analytics requirements, you can integrate an HCL Commerce store with any web-based analytics system that uses a JavaScript based tagging mechanism. For this purpose, HCL Commerce provides an extensible JSP-based tag library framework for analytics.
      - Creating vendor-specific tag classes by extending the base tag classes
        For each event that you must capture analytics data for, create a vendor-specific tag class that extends the base tag class. For example, if you want to capture data about product view events, extend the ProductBaseTag class. Each base tag class generates standard data for its associated event; however, the base tag classes support optional parameters you can use to send additional information to the external analytics system, if necessary.
      - Creating a tag library definition file
        A tag library definition file is used to deploy custom JSP tag libraries. The HCL Commerce analytics tags are implemented as custom JSP tags, so you need to create a taglib definition file (TLD) for the analytics system. All the tags that you create for the analytics system need to be defined in the TLD file.
      - Updating the biConfig.xml file
        All the configuration information that is used by the analytics tags must be defined in the biConfig.xml file. You must update this file to include information specific to your analytics provider.
      - Tagging your store pages for the external analytics system
        Tag each store JSP file with the vendor-specific tag library that you create. When customers browse these tagged pages in your HCL Commerce site, data is collected and sent to the external analytics system based on the programming logic in the vendor-specific tag classes. The external analytics system can then use this data to perform its analytics work.
    - Integrating a store with multiple analytics providers
      HCL Commerce provides you with the option to use multiple analytics providers for one store, allowing for greater data collection and accuracy of shopper activity. As a result, you can compare and analyze multiple sets of data from different analytics providers.
  - IBM Product Recommendations and HCL Commerce
    IBM Product Recommendations is an IBM Digital Analytics solution that you can subscribe to that automatically generates personalized product recommendations on the storefront. The recommendations are based on the browsing, shopping, and purchasing behavior of individual customers. If your site is integrated with IBM Digital Analytics, you can display recommendations from IBM Product Recommendations on your store pages.
  - IBM Enterprise Marketing Management integration
    You can integrate HCL Commerce with IBM Enterprise Marketing Management.
  - IBM Dynamic Pricing
    Dynamic Pricing is a cloud-based pricing system that analyzes real-time market data to provide suggestions on how merchandisers can react to competitor pricing and shifts in market conditions. Data can be fed to Dynamic Pricing from multiple sources, including HCL Commerce. You can configure HCL Commerce to export pricing data to Dynamic Pricing for pricing analysis and adjustment. The adjusted pricing data can then be imported from Dynamic Pricing to HCL Commerce, so the prices can be propagated to your live store front.
  - IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale
    You can integrate HCL Commerce version 9.0.0.7 or later with IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale version 8.6.1.2 or later. The WebSphere eXtreme Scale licensed program is an elastic, scalable, in-memory data grid that you can use as an advanced cache for HCL Commerce. Integrating with WebSphere eXtreme Scale can provide significant performance benefits for high volume HCL Commerce customers.
  - Apple Pay on the Web integration
    Apple Pay on the Web integration with HCL Commerce provides you with an easy and secure way to accept and process payments. Apple Pay on the Web enables customers to purchase products in the Aurora starter store with a single touch in Safari on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
  - Configuring directory services (LDAP) with HCL Commerce
    HCL Commerce can be configured to use one or more LDAP servers as the master user repository instead of the HCL Commerce database. This is typically done when multiple applications need to share a common user repository.
  - Sterling Omni-Configurator integration
    The Sterling Omni-Configurator integration for HCL Commerce enables your storefront to sell complex, configurable products, otherwise know as dynamic kits.
  - OAuth 2.0 framework for social login
    When you integrate with the OAuth 2.0 framework, your shoppers can authenticate to your storefront with their social networking accounts, like Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
  - HCL Digital Experience integration
    HCL Digital Experience is a fully-featured, multi-platform enterprise content management solution. Using HCL Digital Experience, you can easily manage your growing volume of digital content that is required to run your business and support critical decisions.
  - HCL Unica Discover integration
    HCL Unica Discover records what your customers are seeing on your store web pages and how they interact with store pages. HCL Unica Discover provides deep behavioural insights into the online journey of users who visit your store. You can use these insights to create positive experiences for the users that make them want to visit your store again.
  - Google Analytics integration
    Google Analytics helps you to understand how your customers are engaging with your store content and how they interact with store pages. Google Analytics helps you to get a deeper understanding of your customers so that you can improve customer experience and get better results.
- Administering
  Topics in the Administering category highlight tasks that are typically performed by the Site Administrator, to support daily operations of the HCL Commerce site.
- Customizing
  The topics in the Customizing section describe tasks performed by an application developer to customize HCL Commerce.
- Tutorials
  HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
- Samples
  Topics in the Samples category highlight the various samples that are provided with HCL Commerce.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage HCL Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of HCL Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
  Topics in the Performance section describe the means by which to plan, implement, test, and re-visit the optimization of HCL Commerce site performance.
- Troubleshooting
  Topics in the Troubleshooting section highlight common issues that are encountered with HCL Commerce, and how they can be addressed or mitigated.
- Reference
  Topics in the Reference section contain all of the HCL Commerce reference documentation.

Integrating a store with an external analytics system (other than IBM Digital Analytics)

To meet your analytics requirements, you can integrate an HCL Commerce store with any web-based analytics system that uses a JavaScript based tagging mechanism. For this purpose, HCL Commerce provides an extensible JSP-based tag library framework for analytics.

Integration architecture

The following illustration provides a high-level view of the integration of an HCL Commerce store with a web-based external analytics system:

Analytics integration architecture

HCL Commerce provides a JSP-based tag library framework for analytics. The tag library framework consists of a set of generic tags, one for each event. You can extend this tag library to send analytics data from your site to the external analytics system. As shown in the previous illustration, the analytics tags must be placed in each store page that requires tracking. Each tag generates the vendor-specific JavaScript with data in the format that the external analytics system requires. The Java classes that support each generic tag gather data that is required for analysis from a data bean or a service data object (SDO). Then, place the data in a java.util.Vector or java.util.HashMap object based on the event type.