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Elastic Path

Score8 out of 10

5 Reviews and Ratings

What is Elastic Path?

Elastic Path is a privately held company that provides an enterprise level Java ecommerce platform. It is meant to integrate with many commonly used content management systems, like Adobe Marketing Cloud, OpenText, and Hippo.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Website integration

    Integrates with an existing company website or blog.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Visual customization

    Users can customize the look & feel of the storefront; storefront is visually attractive.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Personalized recommendations

    Display or recommend certain products depending on the customer’s identity or shopping/browsing history.

    Category average: 7

Areas for Improvement

  • Inventory management

    Includes tools or integrations for managing inventory.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Bulk product upload

    Admins can upload products in bulk using spreadsheets.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Product management

    Product catalog can be easily updated.

    Category average: 8

Elastic Path is easy to skin for a CSS developer

Pros

  • Easy for non-Java programmers to understand
  • Comes with a lot of built-in functionality

Cons

  • Challenging to skin with CSS when you first encounter it

Return on Investment

  • The positive impact was quick development time

Extensible and enhanceable E-commerce platform!

Pros

  • Experience driven commerce .
  • Allows functionality to experience management platforms like Adobe Marketing Cloud.Gives us a single view of your customers, and one place to manage your entire digital presence.
  • Promotion and personalization engine is simple and clean.
  • Cache framework is extensive with a 3 level approach at client side(CMS), core and cortex. - OpenJPA + EhCache.
  • Training documentation is good.
  • Cortex API architecture is well tiered and strong.
  • External feeds for catalog data load are available.
  • Logging frameworks available with Log4j
  • API can be exposed from the commerce engine as both SOAP and REST Based.

Cons

  • Product management tool should be assesible over web.
  • Versioning of catalog items would a nice feature to have.

Return on Investment

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