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