Components of a Dynamics
Ecommerce Solution
The Situation Today for Many Organizations
Consumers
Web
Stores
Online Channel
Management
Warehouse
Management
Retail Headquarters
Financials
Microsoft Dynamics for E-Commerce
Microsoft Dynamics & SharePoint - Integrated E-Commerce Solution
Dynamics CRT Services
(Pricing, Sales Tax, Shipping)
Business Organizations
e.g., Retailer
Product Catalog Published to SharePoint
Online Consumer
Customer Interacts with Online Store
Order Returned to Dynamics
Dynamics
SharePoint
Order Fulfilled from Dynamics
Dynamics AX for
Retail
TCP/IP
Product Catalog
Site Collection
CDX Sync
Service
Commerce
Commerce Runtime
Run time
Services
CRT DB
SP Connector
CDX Sync
Service
SharePoint 2013 Server
Commerce Runtime (CRT)
Search Index
Net.TCP
Shipping
Commerce AJAX
Services
CDX - Real
time
Service
Publishing Site Collection
Ecommerce web parts
Consumer
An online channel can be mapped to a financial dimension for management
reporting
A navigation hierarchy can drive the browse experience for an online store
Shipping methods, price groups, customers, language, currency, store locations
Attributes framework
Ability to define engaging enrichment experience via user-definable attributes
Centralized category management
Centrally manage category hierarchies for various scenarios
Ability to specify simple, multi-line discounts, mix & match
Establish relationship between a channel, customer pricing and discounts
Comprehensive inventory management from purchasing, receiving, allocation,
replenishment, item availability and more..
DYNAMICS FOR ECOMMERCE
(Commerce entities)
SHAREPOINT 2013 Server
(Product Catalog Site)
SHAREPOINT 2013 Server
(Publishing Site)
Product attributes
Site Columns
Site Collections
Define a customizable product attribute
schema
Define the attributes of a product catalog
Primary and micro site “containers”
Product catalog
Content Types
Master Pages
A collection of catalog products and variants
Navigation Hierarchy
Defines the hierarchy of categories
Products & Variants
Create relationships between site columns
Define the shared framing elements for all
pages
Term Store
Page Layouts
Navigation and categorization structure of a
site
Controls look & feel, content based on
associated content type
List items
Content Search Web Parts
A collection of products and variants
A flattened representation of products and
variants
Functional “apps” that can be deployed on
pages
Attribute metadata
Search Properties
Display Templates
Refinable, queryable, sortable and searchable
This is about the business
content
Attribute refinement, indexing and query rules
This is about the displayable
content
Control layout and behavior of results and
layout of each result
This is about how its presented
3P
Ext.
Service Interface
3P
Ext
Presentation
(POS/Online Store ..)
3P
Ext.
AX for Retail
3P
Ext.
(Sync)
(Sync)
Customer registration
Ability for a new customer to register or checkout as a guest
Customer authentication
Ability for the customer to be authenticated using Windows, Forms, Facebook or
other custom schemes.
Prebuilt Virtual Machines
Fully functional VM’s of AX, CRT, SP and “starter” online store to support demos and sales presentations
Lightweight On Premise Deployment
Simple deployment of online store and CRT to an existing AX and SP instance to support demos and training
Developer Kit
Deployment by an ISV of all parts and code for customization, further development and repackaging
Pre-Live Deployment
Deployment of a customized online store and CRT as a precursor to going into production
Production Deployment
Deployment of online store and CRT for production “go live” use
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Rich out of the box
leverages
Commerce Runtime
Extensibility across all solution components
MySPC
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