What's new in ATG 10.1

What's new in ATG 10.1


1. New Features in 10.1
  •     External Caching – Oracle Coherence Integration
  •     Localization of Business Tools - nine (9) languages
  •     Support for International URLs
  •     Improvements to the REST framework to make it easier to use
  •     Support for HTML 5 Tags
   
2. Commerce
  •     B2B & B2C Commerce Merge
  •     Coupon Tracking
  •     Serialized Coupon Codes
3. Merchandising
    a. Catalog Management
  •         Introduces the Layout View
  •         Preview a site as it will look at a future date and time
  •         Introduces multi edit in the Flex UI using Workbench
  •         Collection Editor - Drag & Drop, Clear All, Move to Top
    b. Promotions
  •         Define rules that determine which promotions can be applied together or “stacked” in an order.
  •         Create batches of coupons that have usage limits and randomly generated coupon codes
  •         Export the batch as a CSV or XLS file
  •         Use spend in a category or group to qualify an order for a promotion
       
        Templates added:
  •         Spend Y in X Get Item Discount
  •         Spend Y in X Get Order Discount
  •         Spend Y in X Get Shipping Discount
  •         Spend Y in X Get GWP
       
  •         Get Gift w/Purchase
  •         Buy Item X Get GWP
  •         Spend Y Get GWP
  •         Spend Y in X Get GWP
       
4.  Site Administration
    a. Allows the duplication of an existing site in Site Administration
    b. The Site Administration UI supports non-Latin international URLs


5. CA
  •     Direct SQL- Bypass the Repository API and configure CA to use SQL statements for full deployments
  •     Cache Warming- Automatically reload repository items into the cache that are invalidated by a CA deployment
  •     Staggered Cache Invalidation- Invalidate caches on each instance at different times
   
6. Commerce Service Center
  •     CSC UI framework moved from repository to single XML file
  •     Uses XML-combine to determine final UI
  •     Separate the CSC UI from the backend code
  •     Decouple the UI and backend logic to enable migration of customizations
  •     Newly redesigned and streamlined Global Context Area
  •     Eliminate need to index full order or profile repository by allowing index to be broken into smaller, manageable pieces
  •     Lookup exact order number via order # (ID)
   
7. Commerce Reference Store
  •     Integration with ATG Recommendations
  •     Recently Viewed Items
  •     Gift with Purchase Promotion
  •     Sort by Price
  •     Fluoroscope Support
   
8. ATG Mobile Solutions
  •     Provide mobile-optimized version of the Commerce Reference Store (CRS)
  •     Serve as a framework to help developers build mobile sites/apps more quickly
  •     Search Catalog
  •     Personalization
  •     Mobile-specific Promotions
  •     Efficient checkout flow
  •     Shopper account management
  •     Best practices layout and design optimized for mobile form factor
   
   
9. ATG Search
  •     Indexing Performance Improvements
  •     Improved B2B support
  •     Prevent Indexing During CA Deployments
  •     Force Full Index with Multi-site Changes

10. Documentation
    http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24152_01/index.html

11. Third-Party Software
  •     Application Servers- WebLogic Server 11gR1 (10.3.5, 10.3.6), WebSphere 7.0.0.17, jBoss 5.1.0 EAP
  •     Databases- Oracle Exadata X2-2, 10gR2, 11gR2, DB2 9.7.3, MSSQL 2008R2
  •     OS- Oracle Linux 5.5, 5.6, 6.0, Solaris 10,11, AIX 6.1, RH 5.5, 5.6 Advanced Platform, Windows 2003 R2 Standard, Enterprise, 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise