Commerce Service Bus
Powering the Platform, Enabling Innovation
The Commerce Service Bus, a core component of the IP Commerce Platform, supports dynamic and flexible Commerce Business Rules, provides additional 3rd-party Value-Added Services to developer workflows, and extends the Federated Identity governance inherent in the Platform. The exposure of this component and features within, through the developer APIs, allow for the creation of new, innovative workflows by developers expediting their time-to-market and ensuring the appropriate services are available more rapidly than ever before.
Scenario 1) Your Solution using Open APIs
A software company, desiring to build a solution that includes payment capabilities, uses the intelligent registration and qualification process where they are immediately provided customized APIs that match their development methodology, documentation and sample code necessary for the specific commerce services and features required for their development effort, and begin the process of integration. During discussions with their customer, they discover that simple payment acceptance is not enough to meet the customer needs. Instead, their customer desires not only payment acceptance but multiple tenders across multiple channels and the ability to perform Risk Management against transactions dynamically and to manage transactional data after authorization.
Without the Managed Commerce Services Platform, their payments integration has become much more complex. The Platform, however, gives them access to all these services through the same APIs. As a result, their customers’ needs are met.
A simple payments integration; enabled to become a complex commerce solution.
Scenario 2) Your Solution using Open APIs, and Commerce Modules
During the intelligent decisioning and checkout processing offered by Commerce Lab, a Software Company discovers that their transaction management needs are solved in more than one way. If necessary, they are able to leverage APIs to build their own transaction management workflows into their application. However, they are also offered the opportunity to leverage a Commerce Module. Commerce Modules, built by other software companies, provide the unique workflows that a community of developers demand. Rather than investing time and effort in their integration, the Software Company can leverage the Module in a white-labeled, highly-integrated, secure fashion as enabled by the Federated Identity capabilities of the Platform.
The right Commerce APIs…the right Commerce Modules…One look & feel for your customers.
Scenario 3) Your Solution as a Commerce Module
Do you offer a unique or highly valuable workflow that would benefit a wide range of Software Companies?
Through an integration to the Platform, and completion of the Commerce Module Logo Program, your solution is available to an ecosystem of highly-skilled, highly-motivated Software Companies & developers. Your expertise and your workflow supplement their solutions driving single-sided network effects for Software Companies participating with the Platform.
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